Professional Affiliations
He returned to Assumption College to teach. Between 1959 and 1964, he was also its tennis coach. In 1962, he visited Chicago and worked with Leo Strauss for almost one year. In 1971, he moved to the department at Boston College, where he soon helped to found the Perspectives Program.
In 1997, he suffered a stroke and retired from active teaching.
Father Fortin's personal library can be found at the Emmanuel d'Alzon Library at Assumption College. In 2006 Assumption College renamed its Foundations program "the Fortin and Gonthier Foundations of Western Civilization Program" in honor of Fr. Fortin and his Assumption colleague, Fr. Denys Gonthier.
Shortly before his death in 2002, he received the festschrift in his honor. On October 22, 2002, he sat up in bed, said "I see something beautiful," and died shortly thereafter.
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