1970s - Meagher

Lawrence V. Meagher Jr., M.P.H. ’76, of Garland, Texas, president and CEO of International Hospital Corporation, was selected as a 2001 Wheeling Jesuit University (WJU) Distinguished Alumnus for his work in bringing health care to Third World countries. He is co-founder of the Dallas-based company, which specializes in developing and managing acute-care hospitals and other health services in Mexico and Latin America. Meagher said “lessons learned at WJU were central to [his] approach today—a concern for people and energy, persistence and integrity, in an atmosphere of constant challenge to the status quo.”