Seattle University - Aegis Yearbook (Seattle, WA)

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[ ‘DedieaticM •I THE REV. FRANCIS JOSEPH McGARRIGLE, S.J., was bom August 8, 1888, at Vancouver, 15. C, Canada, the son of Elizabeth Sharp and Edward James McGarrigle. Father McGarrigle received his higher education at Seattle College from 1903 to 1905 and at Gonzaga University, from which he was graduated in 1906. He entered the Jesuit novitiate at Los Gatos, California, on July 30, 1906, and remained there until the completion of his classical studies in 1911. Until 1914 he made his philosophical studies at Gonzaga University, and from 1914 to 1919 taught at the University of San Francisco and at Santa Clara. On July 30, 1921, Father McGarrigle was ordained at Ona, Spain, completing his theological studies at Valkenberg, Holland, in 1923. Graduate work in theology was done until 1925 at the Gregorian University in Rome, from where he went to Florennes, Belgium, for a year of Ascetical Theology. Father McGarrigle pronounced his last vows at Mt. St. Michael’s, Spokane, Washington, in 1926. The next eleven years were full ones for Father, during which he taught at Mt. St. Michael's, became librarian of Oriental Theology at St. Mary’s Thcologate, Kansas, was Dean of Studies of the Oregon Province, and filled the post of Assistant to the Provincial of the Province. Four of these busy years, from 1928 to 1932, were spent building and organizing the Library of the Pontifical Oriental Institute in Rome. It was at this time, also, that Father was sent by the Vatican on a diplomatic mission to Lithuania. Since 1937, Father McGarrigle has taught philosophy at Seattle University. Besides his teaching duties, he writes scholarly articles on philosophy and theology which are published regularly in professional magazines. In 1944, Father published a book called “My Father’s Will’’ which is considered a classic treatment of its subject.

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... To one who this year completes a golden half century of service in the Society of Jesus to God and his fellowman ... the 1956 AEGIS is respectfully dedicated.

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In use for the first time at the beginning of winter quarter was a newly-revised version of Seattle University’s official seal. The Rev. Harold O. Small, with the Rev. Vincent M. Conway, worked many months to reconstruct the lower half of the new seal while striving to maintain the spirit of the old. The traditional devices of the House of Loyola, comprising the upper half of the seal, have been retained. In the lower center of the revised seal is an evergreen tree, suggesting the great Northwest. The tree, as a recognized sign of Christ, of man, and of knowledge, signifies the aim of Seattle University: “To develop the full Christian man.” At lower left, the crescent represents the Immaculate Conception, under whose patronage the school was established. Included in this symbolism is the fact that the Church of the Immaculate Conception was for years located in what is now the Science Building. Representing Chief Seattle and the development of the Northwest is the tepee on the lower right of the seal. Thus, the revised seal symbolizes, in beautiful and correct heraldic manner, the country, the Society, the aim, and the location of a great Christian educational center- -Seattle University.