Frank R. Haig, S.J.

Inducted: Wheeling Jesuit - 1966

Reverend Frank R. Haig, S.J., is currently Professor Emeritus of Physics at Loyola College in Maryland and has been the long-time faculty advisor to the ΑΣΝ Chapter at Loyola College.

Father Haig was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on September 11, 1928. He entered the Jesuit Order after high school in Wernersville, Pennsylvania, and went through the regular course of studies in the Jesuit Order. He received a Ph. D. in physics from the Catholic University of America in 1959 and was ordained a Catholic priest in 1960. He taught physics at Wheeling College serving as its president from 1966 to 1972. He spent a semester at the Johns Hopkins University in the department of physics and taught thereafter at Loyola College. He served as president of Le Moyne College from 1981 to 1987. He then returned to Loyola College, Department of Physics, and has been there ever since.

Father Haig was a National Science Foundation postdoctoral fellow at the University of Rochester, Rochester, New York, in the academic year 1962-63. He spent a sabbatical year at the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics in Heidelberg, Germany, in 1993-94.

Father Haig has been president of the Washington Academy of Sciences in Washington, D.C., and chairman of the board of the Syracuse Opera Company in Syracuse, New York. He is currently president of the Maryland Conference of the American Association of University Professors and Vice President of the Scientific Advisory Council of the Maryland Science Center. He is active with Spanish apostolic work in the diocese of Baltimore having spent a summer at the Cochabamba Institute of Languages in Bolivia. He has published some fifty articles on physics, educational theory, and biblical studies.

Father Haig has been president and then treasurer of the Washington Academy of Sciences. He is currently member-at-large of the Board of Managers. He served as president and then chairman of the board of Syracuse Opera Company in Syracuse, New York. He is president of the Maryland Conference of the American Association of University Professors. He is active in the Hispanic ministry in the archdiocese of Baltimore and a staff member at the Basilica in Baltimore.