* Rev. Laurence J. McGinley; Former President of Fordham

The Rev. Laurence J. McGinley, 86, president of Fordham University from 1949 to 1963 and a prime force in the creation of the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts. Son of an accounting executive for New York City, McGinley entered the Society of Jesus in 1922 and did graduate work in Rome, receiving his doctorate at Gregorian University in 1939. Just before the outbreak of World War II he was director of the Vatican’s radio station. He returned to the United States and taught at Woodstock College where his administrative abilities became evident. He moved to Fordham and was credited with establishing a Fordham campus in the plans for Lincoln Center. On Saturday in the Bronx of the complications of age.