Leadership Awards Dinner to Honor Anthony Carfagno ’60

Shaped by the Jesuit values which were instilled in him as an undergraduate at Saint Joseph’s College in the 1950s, giving back comes easy for Anthony Carfagno ’60. For more than six decades, he has dedicated both time and treasure to moving his alma mater forward and will be recognized with the Shield of Loyola, the University’s highest honor, at the Leadership Awards Dinner on Thursday, Oct. 24 at the Loews Hotel in Center City.  

“We were constantly told here at St. Joe's that we’re being educated as men for others,” Carfagno said. “I tried to carry that concept through my entire life.”

The founding chairman of the Erivan K. Haub School of Business’ Board of Visitors and its chairman for 22 years, he was instrumental in the School’s growth and development into the largest Jesuit business school in the nation. He also served on the board of SJU’s Pedro Arrupe Center for Business Ethics.

“I am eternally grateful to the Jesuits who educated me here at St. Joe's,” Carfagno said. “I had courses back then that somehow don’t exist today. … Fr. Mike Smith was an incredible teacher and taught me ethics that I’ve used my entire life.”

In addition to his work with the Haub School of Business, Carfagno and his wife, Evelyn, are the chairs of the Ignatian Society, the University’s legacy giving society, and charter members of SJU’s Magis Society. Their generosity is also evident across campus from the Carfagno Ticket Office in the Michael J. Hagan ’85 Arena to the Carfagno Seminar Room in Mandeville Hall. Carfagno was also the driving force behind the establishment of the Class of 1960 scholarship and set up the Chandu Patel Scholarship in Pharmaceutical Marketing.

The Carfagno Lecture Series, which promotes civic engagement and thought leadership through informative engaging discussion has brought the likes of former Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice and former Vice President Joe Biden to campus in the past year.

As a student on campus during the heyday of Dr. Jack Ramsay, Carfagno’s passion for the Hawks runs deep and he is a longtime member of the Coach's Circle for his support of SJU Athletics.

“I’ve always tried to spend my life doing whatever I can to help other people. When I left here, I was truly ready to set the world on fire,” Carfagno said.

Professionally, he used his degree in biology to launch a long and successful career in the pharmaceutical industry. He is the former chairman of the New Jersey Pharmaceutical Quality Control Association and also served as the international chair of the American Society for Quality. He chaired numerous educational conferences with the United States Pharmacopeia, Food and Drug Administration, and the Drug Enforcement Administration and lectured extensively across the country and in Europe.

Carfagno previously received awards for dedication and loyalty to Saint Joseph’s men’s basketball, the Distinguished Service Award from the Haub School, and the Brother Bartholomew A. Sheehan, S.J. '27 Award from the SJU Law Alumni Chapter. The proud parents of a Hawk, he and his wife currently reside in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. 

To register for the Leadership Awards Dinner please click here.