The Stan Turner Show 12-13-2014

Ignatius Aloysius O'Shaughnessy a mouthful of a name and a past to back it up. Doug Hennes, former reporter and now professor at St. Thomas, is on the show to talk about I.A O'Shaughnessy and his years at St. Thomas and beyond. That Great Heart, a biography of legendary St. Thomas benefactor I.A. O’Shaughnessy, has been published and will be available at three campus events the week of Nov. 3.

That Great Heart The biography chronicles O’Shaughnessy’s rise as the 13th child of a Stillwater boot maker to become the largest independent oil refiner and largest benefactor of Catholic higher education in the United States. Four buildings at St. Thomas bear the name of the 1907 alumnus, who died in 1973.

Doug Hennes ’77, vice president for university and government relations at St. Thomas, is the author. The book is published by Beaver’s Pond Press of Edina and sponsored by the I.A. O’Shaughnessy Foundation, which O’Shaughnessy established in 1941.