St Augustine High School - Saintsman Yearbook (San Diego, CA)

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THEME Twenty-three years ago, Bishop Cantwell invited the Order of St. Augustine to establish two high schools in his diocese. One of these was St. Augustine l-ligh School of San Diego. Since that time St. Augustine's has been a part of the life of this city. The school has contrilruted to San Diego many outstanding citizens, members of the professions, civil servants, and worlcers in the various trades. From the patio have come priests, secular and religious. Not least among her graduates St. Augustine's numbers the three hundred servicemen who answered the call to arms in the nation's most critical hour. Especially cherished are the fourteen Patiomen who gave their lives in that conflict. Because the life of a school is lived in a community, it was thought fitting to marlc that fact in this annual. Each section of the book, there- fore, is introduced by a picture of some familiar landmark of the city. Representing the Catholic community in San Diego we reproduce on the opposite page a picture of St. Patriclc's church, connected from the be- ginning with this school, and staffed by the same Augustinian Fathers. si? x, I.

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FACULTY lt was Augustinian priests, just as those pictured on the next pages, who introduced the Catholic high school for boys to San Diego in l923. These men with their higher degree of education undertook, without any outside support, the task of erecting a center to implant knowledge into the younger generation. As San Diego rapidly expanded, St. Augustine with an increase in students and faculty also grew and is still growing today. At the present time, the faculty, under the direction of Father Wilbert R. Kirk, is composed of ten members. Each is a master in his own special field of study. Each, while his life is devoted to serving our Dear Lord, has dedicated himself to instructing the Catholic youth both intellectually and spiritually: to make them morally good, intelligent citizens of society. While performing this important job these educators also find time to aid the pastors of San Diego in their parish work. ln the fullest sense, these men are builders of society. No tribute we could pay. no praise we could write, would ever sum up our profound gratitude and appreciation for the things they have done fo-r us. Their friendship will always remain dear to us. May God bless and preserve these our faculty members' of 46. Photo courtesy Boren Studio