About J. Raymond Trainor

J. Raymond “Jit” Trainor was one of the first students to enroll, in the early 1920s, in Georgetown’s newly established School of Foreign Service. Jit Trainor graduated from Georgetown’s School of Foreign Service in 1927 and became Assistant Secretary of the School while working on his master’s degree, which he completed in 1928. He became School Secretary in 1935 and, as such, was a key figure in the School’s administration, acting as coordinator between its Regent, Edmund A. Walsh, S.J., and the student body. During his long association with SFS, Jit was both friend and counselor to the scores of students who entered the School. At the end of World War II, he served as acting dean, but declined an offer to become dean because he preferred his duties as secretary, a position that put him in daily contact with the students he was so interested in helping. In 1956, the year he left Georgetown to join the Overseas Service Corp, he was awarded the Georgetown Medal of Merit. After his death on January 13, 1976, School of Foreign Service alumni established the annual Jit Trainor Award and Lecture Series to honor the very warm and human relationships that Jit established with his students.