University of San Diego College for Men - Hilltopper Yearbook (San Diego, CA)

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Across from the Presidio and its park, above the valley of the San Diego Mission and overlooking the Pacific Ocean, is the site of a University under construction: the University of San Diego. Many of the impressive white buildings — in Spanish Renaissance Architecture — have been completed, and the rest are rapidly taking shape to form a campus in Alcala Park. Sharing together the one hundred and sixty-seven acre campus are four schools.- the College for Women, the College for Men, the School of Law, and the Seminary. Until the year 1949, the idea of a Catholic university in San Diego was only a dream of the Most Reverend Charles Francis Buddy, Bishop of the San Diego Diocese. That was the year when the University was chartered by the State of California and empowered to confer degrees. The dream has developed and grown, and now offers great opportunities for learning as well as an imposing view for all. In nineteen hundred and fifty-two the first unit of buildings was completed, the College for Women being the first school of the University. The College for Women is operated by the Religious of the Sacred Heart, and was founded by the Reverend Mother Rosalie Hill. At the present time the college has approximately three hundred students who enjoy its facilities, including the College Chapel, the audior-ium which seats a thousand persons, and the library of 25,000 volumes. Every room of the College for Women faces an outdoor patio or garden, the main patio being used for various social events. Across from the College for Women will eventually rise a girls' high school, presently functioning on the College's campus. To the East of the Women's College is the newly finished Major Seminary. The Seminarians and their instructors, under the direction of the Right Reverend Monsignor William Bergin, occupied their new quarters in February, 1957. The Major Seminary is the tallest and largest of the completed buildings, being four stories high. Adjacent to the Major Seminary will be built the Minor Seminary. 105