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

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Jose Robledano and Dave Koller wo MUIU student on the basis of his major field. The aims of the guidance program are as follows: 1. To assist students in realizing the maximum value of their college education. 2. To help students in choosing proper courses in the light of their major fields. 3. To assist students in understanding and working through academic problems arising from personal and social maladjustment. 4. To aid students in the solution of their moral and spiritual problems. The Guidance Center is the central office of this program. From this office a battery of tests is given to each student regarding his mental ability or intelligence, scholastic aptitude, interests, achievement and personality. The results of these are made known to the students during personal advisement interviews, and a copy of the results is retained. In this office is kept a file on each student which contains his cumulative 69

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Fr. Mac with Frank Wehrly One of the most significant developments in education during the past quarter century is the guidance movement. It is now an accepted fact that a Guidance program is a necessary part of all education and is therefore a requisite for every school system. As a result of changing economic and social conditions, it is necessary to give serious thought to the guidance of every pupil. For the Catholic college, an interest in organized guidance is auite natural because the very idea of this movement is linked with the Catholic idea of education, namely the training of the whole man. In view of that we have at the College our own guidance program, which is under the supervision of a Director who is assisted by five Counselors appointed by the President. This group is distinguished from the registration and departmental advisers, who are assigned to each 68 Frank Wehrly and Dave Koller

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record and any other pertinent information. Besides academic advisement, vocational counseling is available to all students. In the Guidance Center there is also a pamphlet rack and literature shelf which affords the student an opportunity to obtain guidance service manuals, newsletters, and other reading material. This literature is for the students own personal use and pertains to any particular kind of guidance that he might need. The students of USD can be grateful that their guidance program is in the capable hands of a well-trained director. An alumnus of St. Mary’s Seminary in Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University, and Loyola University of Los Angeles, Father Francis J. McKeown brings to his job a thorough understanding of guidance and a keen interest in the problems of the men whom it will help. Like any true educator, Father Mac believes whole-heartedly in his work. That work is to help the men of the University of San Diego achieve the spiritual, psychological, vocational, and social adjustment which should be the crown of a Catholic, humanistic education. None of this could have been possible without the able assistance of these men: Ed Brown, Tom Faherty, Paul Mulhern, and Paul Reynolds. The student body thanks them for their work for USD. 70