St Ignatius College Prepatory - Ignatian Yearbook (San Francisco, CA)

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A Dedication to a Dedicated Priest At the beginning of this school year, in an article flattened between Polaris subs and Safeway pork loins, the San Francisco Examiner saluted Father Charles B. Largan, S.J., on the completion of his 50th year in the Society of Jesus. Somehow, it suggested that here was another case of someone that is great, who stuck out fifty years of dreary routine. But S.I. students, S.I., the Jesuits, and Fr. Largan's life are all very unroutine; and these fifty years, like virtue, have been their own reward: they have presented Fr. Largan with a rich panorama of change. S.I., for instance. Though the circa-1929 building and the curriculum of studies remain their invincible selves. Father has seen a gymnasium and school attendance go up, R.O.T.C. and fad shoes go out, and an entrance examination come in. The recent dominance of S.I.'s football teams was also unknown to Father during the lean years before. (In fact, as a boy, he remembers when rugby was the game played on the field.) In the classroom where for 20 years he taught Religion, Father I.argan was the lucky possessor of the status-y view window where he could see out to the blue waters of the bay. Like many uninspired students even now. Father confesses to occasionally seaward-wandering eyes. The scene before him reminded him of the changes of an ever-changing world. The sand dunes which, in his bovhood, had rolled from 10th Avenue on, had been developed into the neat blocks of community. The Golden Gate, now spanned by an orange bridge, was the first sight of his parents when they wiled into San Francisco, — around Cape Horn. The seas and ships he saw from the window were Father Largan's great hobby. When the words unchartcred waters carried an adventurous reality with them. Father had sailed to Alaska over just that. In his many sea voyages before and since, he has acquired a deep knowledge of the sailor's idiom. His classroom commands (“Batten the hatches! ) bore traces of this. But back to the classroom: in it he charted Course for future Jesuits O'Brien, Spinetta, Roche, Collins, Capitolo; for Misters Simpson, Kennedy, Morlock, and Kavanaugh. (Unfortunately, Father Largan reports no Modern Screen-type scandals: even describes former pupil Leo Hyde, now S.J., as pretty orderly. ) Other members of his classroom crew died in World War II, in the Korean War, and in Viet Nam. These past fifty years, memorable though they must be, have not made Father Largan live in a past tense: he is interested in and keeps up with the advances and changes of today, is ever-enthused about new ships and trips, is a familiar spectator at the game on Friday. Nevertheless, for the fifty years in the Order, Father does feel what he calls a great gratitude to God. As he celebrated his Golden Jubilee Mass September 13, his deacon, Fr. John Preston, S.J., was a student in his first class; the altar boys. Greg Kolar, John Malloy, Ken Eggers, and John Breslin, were members of his last. It was a union, a climax, of Father Largan's half century of service. For some people (like our S.I. students) fifty years is about as turbulent and exciting as the controversy over whether Cert’s is a candy or breath mint. For others, for Father Largan, it is an unknown sea, offering a vast variety of experience, and waiting to be charted toward God. It is in return for so great an attitude toward us that we in a small hut very heartful gesture dedicate to Father Largan this 1965 Ignatian. 4

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DA WN TO DUSK If S.I. somehow is beaten in sports, in aca- demics, or in some other field, a great show of jubilation rises from the victors. This is because they have beaten a supe- rior foe. But, though they may have won the battle, they know they can never win the war. They can never be bet- ter than S.I. because S.I. is made up 100% of Ig- natians. An Ignatian is first, one who attends S.I. But he does more than go to 5.1. —he is S.I. Every ac- tion that he performs during his four year stay is done because of the pride he has in his school. He not only takes ad- vantage of the oppor- tunity for a fine educa- tion that is being ex- tended to him, he also feels that he must par- ticipate in other ways for 5.1. And whether this sincere desire becomes reality on a football field, in the Spring mu- sical, or in some other activity, he finds help, courage, and loyalty in the constant practice of his religion. Even here he docs not stop radiating his school. In his social life, wheth- er he be at a teen club dance or at the beach playing football, his ac- tions always show he is conscious and proud of being an Ignatian. Each day’s activities for each Ignatian is what makes Saint Ignatius High School what it is. It is for this reason that we the staff of the Igna- tian feel that our theme From Dawn to Dusk” is the most appropriate theme that could be chosen for S.I.’s 1965 yearbook.

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ADMINISTRATION 'Dear Graduates-. St. Jgnatius has attempted to transform you from Catholic boys into Catholic men. Jts job has been to convince you that character is something inside — in fact Someone inside. St. „Augustine once said that 'The times are evil but live nobly and you will change the times. ” Chat is the Catholic gentlemen we expect to see being graduated from St. Jgnatius. Js you take leave of St. Jgnatius that should be your promise to yourself to your parents and to your school. Whether the times be evil or not, whether you can effect a change in these times or not. you do promise to live nobly. ' after the fashion of the God-man whom your parents, and your teachers have given you as a model of manhood and the one perfect gentleman who ever lived on earth. God bless you. Rev. Harr 77 V. Carlin. S. J. President