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Eugene (Gene) McGovern - 1940-2026
Eugene McGovern was born in Brooklyn, New York to Eugene Vincent McGovern and Mary Reimer on July 15, 1940. He earned a degree in mathematics at Niagra University where he met his future wife, Weslee Ann Neary. They married in 1964 and raised 3 sons: Eugene, Christopher, and Andrew. Gene taught mathematics at Bishop Loughlin and Stepinac High Schools, then at Good Counsel and Marymount Colleges as he earned a master's degree in mathematics from NYU. Gene began work as an actuary in 1975 and continued in that field through 2000. From 2000 to 2008, he taught actuarial sciences in Cairo, Egypt through an appointment from the London School of Economics under a USAID program. Upon retiring, he continued to teach math to inmates at the Sing Sing Correctional Center in Ossining under a Mercy College program from 2011 to 2018.
Gene was a founding member of the New York C.S. Lewis Society and the editor of the CSL Bulletin from 1969 to 1980. His contributions of time and talent through the years are inestimable.
Society members remember him fondly and gratefully. RIP.
Three founding members of the Society at our 50th Anniversary Weekend (2019).
(left to right: Bill Dawson, James Como, and Gene McGovern.
The New York C.S. Lewis Society
was founded in 1969 for
the appreciation and discussion of C.S. Lewis.
The Society holds Meetings
every second Friday of the month (except August).
Subscribing members receive a bi-monthly bulletin -
CSL: The Bulletin of the New York C.S. Lewis Society.
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