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

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In between the Major Seminary and the College for Women rapid progress is taking place in the construction of the largest Church in the San Diego Diocese — the ‘‘Immaculate. If undoubtedly will be one of the most beautiful Churches in all of Southern California. The Church will have twenty side chapels, ten on each side. Keeping in style with the rest of the campus the Immaculate will be of Spanish Renaissance Architecture. The Campus Church will scat eleven hundred parishioners. It will not only serve the professors, students, and others of the University of San Diego, but will be used as a Parish Church and a second Church for the Holy Family Parish in nearby Linda Vista. The Church will be connected to the Major and Minor Seminaries by a covered arcade. Completion date for the Church is set for August, 1967. The only finished building on the south side of Marian Way is the University's Administration Building. Besides being the center of the combined colleges it contains the offices of the President of the College for Men, the Right Reverend Monsignor John Lewis Storm, and other campus officials. The Chancellor of the University, the Most Reverend Charles F. Buddy also resides there. It is also the headquarters for the Southern Cross, San Diego's Catholic newspaper, and for the chancery of the San Diego Diocese. Taking shape to the East of the Administration building are three two-story structures. The Arts and Science building, eventual home of the College for Men, and next to it the School of law and Library. This library will be put to use by both the School of Law and library. This library will be put to use by both the School of Law and the College for Men. 106

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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

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The College for Men, which has been operating since 1954, has at present approximately two hundred students and is temporarily located across Linda Vista road from the rest of the University. Its existing buildings include a lecture hall, library, and laboratories. The College will move into the Law Building when it is finished in September of 1957 and then into the Arts and Science Building. The College’s present campus will then be used for a boys' university high school. When finally constructed, the University of San Diego will be the largest private school on the West Coast, accommodating five thousand students. It does now, and will continue to bring much prestige and credit to California’s third largest city. 107