Bellarmine College Preparatory - Carillon Yearbook (San Jose, CA)

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cARlLLoN Bellarmine College Preparalory San Jose, California

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Bellarmine is one hundred-fourteen years old, through those years it has developed steadfast traditions and earned a reputation for greatness. These traditions, this greatness, lie in the students of the past and the present, these traditions, this greatness will grow, fostered by the students of the future. But the student body alone is not responsible for Bellarmine's importance, their efforts are guided and co-ordinated by the faculty, most especially the rector. We owe much to the rectors of the past, men responsible for the ad- vances we have made. And in a sense we are indebted to the rectors of the future, the men who will assure continued progress. This year a new rector has shouldered the burdens of Bellarmine, accepted the challenge to lead us. Fr. Roland P. Dodd, S.J. was first introduced to education in a Burlin- game bungalow, the early location of Our Lady of Angels Parochial School. First grade was held in the kitchen, and Father's first scholarly ambition was to reach the third grade, held in the luxury of the living room. Despite such inauspicious beginnings, Father Dodd did well, and went on to enter Bellar- mine in l934. One of the hardy group who commuted each day, Father was an active student. He participated in baseball, and received blocks as forward on the basketball squad and as an end in football. ln 1938, at the conclusion of his high school years, Father Dodd entered Sacred Heart Novitiate at Los Gatos, As a scholastic, he taught both Algebra and Greek here at Bellarmine, coaching golf, J. V. football and J. V. basket- ball. He left Bellarmine in i949 for further studies until his ordination in San Francisco in l952. Father's next teaching assignment was in Phoenix, Arizona, at Brophy Prep. Again he instructed in Algebra and Greek, and for the past 8 years served as Athletic Director. Father Dodd has now returned to Bellarmine, returned to further the progress of past years, to preserve old traditions and to aid in the institution of new ones, to guide us towards the greatness that is ours, ln appreciatin of the tasks that face him, we, the students of Bellarmine College Preparatory, respectfully dedicate to Fr. Roland P. Dodd, S.J., the i965 Carillon. Page 3