Submitted by: Dan Rich
Rev. Thomas Oddo CSC
About 1944 - Oct. 29, 1989
South Bend Tribune 10/30/1989 (Excerpts)
Rev. Thomas Oddo CSC, president of
the University of Portland and a board member and former
professor and student at the University of Notre Dame was killed
in a car accident. He was returning from a board of trustees
meeting at Notre Dame this weekend, when a trailer swung in front
of his car on the way home from the airport. He had been elected
to the board of trustees in May. He was a candidate during the
1987 search for the successor to former Notre Dame President
Theodore M.
Hesburgh. He was a member of the Holy Cross Provincial Task Force
on Higher Education and the Provincial Council.
A native of New York, he was president of
the University of Portland, one of the colleges affiliated with
the Holy Cross Province since 1982. He came to Portland from
Stonehill College, North Easton, Mass., where he was an assistant
professor of religious studies. He also served as a trustee at
Stonehill College and St. Edward’s University in Austin,
Texas. He was ordained in the Order of Holy Cross in April 1970
at Notre Dame. Rev. Oddo graduated from Notre Dame in 1965, He
holds a masters degree in theology from Notre Dame, and a
doctorate in theology from Harvard University. At one time he
taught theology at Notre Dame
South Bend Tribune 10/31/1989
Services for Rev. Thomas C. Oddo CSC, 45, president of the University of Portland and a board member and former professor and student at the University of Notre Dame who was killed Sunday in an automobile accident, will be conducted Wednesday in the Chiles Center at the University of Portland. The body will be brought to South Bend for services at 3:30 p.m. Friday at Moreau Seminary with burial in the Holy Cross Community Cemetery on the Notre Dame campus. Friends may call after 3:30 p.m. Thursday in Moreau Seminary Chapel, where a wake will be held at 7:30 p.m.