University of San Francisco - USF Don Yearbook (San Francisco, CA)

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I GRADUATES . ■

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CLASS HISTOIIV (Continued) Mmt and Jrff—Hcrrorias and Lofgran—made national headlines and sports-magazine covers as basketball season opened . . . Big Joe McNamce broke bis wrist . . . Frankie Kuzara polished up bis two-banded push shot from mid-eourt . . . and the men of Newell went on to win 19 out of 25 . .. Rene Herrerias refused to grow, ami a TWA stewardess took him for the team mascot . . . which was OK. too. since Gil dc la Mora, an expectorating image of the Mouse, was signing Rene’s autographs for none-tbe-wiser kids after the St. Mary's football game. SIGHTEMS AND DATA FOR ’49 and ’50 included . . . Phil Gastincau’s bruised, battered and scabbed nostrils . . . the Minestrone Four, the North Beach Vagabonds . . . Pancbo, the mongrel mascot who may not have been the best of bis kind, but surely was the only one of bis kind . . . the announcement during the play, “Night of January 16.” that a ear on Fulton Street bad fallen through a sewer, and the audience thought it was part of the show (what talent!) . . . the overflowing “Drag Section,” much to the chagrin of “the boys' . . . the new mustard-dipped band uniforms . . . Sarge MaeKen .ie’s ever-ready smile ami hello . . . Mr. Schuler's corduroy coat and haircut (?) ... the unveiling of the new altar in St. Ignatius . . . and the cries of the insurance companies as steps were built down to Anna and Tony’s Green and Gobi room . . . the soft-spoken voice of the assistant librarian when she answered the phone . . . the night that Dons went from referees to chaperons, in top bats and tuxs, so that they could attend both the USC game at the Cow Palace and the Junior Prom at the Penbisula Country Club . .. the “chicken ’ smile (in)duccd by our distafT yearbook photographer, for same . . . one of S.F.'s Finest. Jack Kerrigan, and his bad dreams of dead bodies which weren’t, and the lack of svmpathy from his comrades-in-arms Steve Spellman. Joe Kane, Jim Rohm and Tim Richardson . . . and the annual Christmas tree sales by “The Three Dons.” THE SOCIAL CALENDAR listed such events as . . . Fathers and Sons Night in November . . . the Soph Drag at the St. Francis Hotel . . . the half dozen or so rallies, not the least of which was the one for the San Jose State basketball game, which featured Slim Gaillard ami his “mcllo-rooney voutness” . .. the Winter Carnival in Januarv. and the traditional Frosh Fandango on March 17 . . . Philippine Night in April . .. receptions at Domincan. Holy Names, and “the Mountain” . - - climaxed by the Senior Ball in Slay and the Senior Exclusive at the Claremont Hotel on June first. CLUB ACTIVITY boomed that year, too . . . Joe Laharty headed up the Col'ege Players, and Hugh Visser the Sanctuary Society . . . the St. Ives Law Club was chanccllorcd by Dick Gravelle and Joe Kuccra was Foghorn Editor... Roy Barni was the capital letter in the Block Club . . . while Bill Knill focused the Camera (dub on school happenings . . . Bill Hughes relinquished his long-time position as Intramural Commissioner to Joe Mocha, and the Foghorn beat the Sodalitv for the football championship . . . O’Brien, Slavieh and Spellman were headliners for the journalists, while Kearney, Kilday and Rolandi were Sodality standouts . . . The Ski Club was again set up at Kingsvale, prexied by Bill (Knud) Walters . . . and the ROTC was showing weekly noon-hour movies . . . Harry Murphy’s IRC was kept up to date on current world happenings by a series of guest speakers .. . and the Scabbard and Blade crossed swords in their yearly ball at the Presidio. 2130 FULTON STREET ... was the scene for such gue«t speakers as Mortimer Adler, the thinker . .. Dean Prosser of Cal. the briefer .. . F. Joseph Donahue, the schemer . . . West Point cadets, debaters . . . and Judges Devine, Cronin, and van der Zee. “College Players” for the “Night of January 16th” . . . saw the beginning of a Fine Arts course, and Ron Miguel won the Luekman Oratorical Contest . . . and one of its history profs. Father McGloin, had his “Eloquent Indian published by the Stanford Press . . . and fourteen nurses set precedent, as the first women graduates from the Day Division of the University. SPRING SPORTS . . . found the launching of a swimming team, while the golfers teed off at Lake Merced . . . Connie Cation and Harry Roche were top-seeded on the tennis team . . . John Dunn and Pete Maloney were doubling the opposition off at second base, while John Vick and Mike Searpelli handled the “big-stick” work . . . Tom Pagee and Don Townsend were moundsmen of note . . . Ollie Matson and Joe Scudero were dashing USF thinclads. Merill Peacock hurdled, and Burl Toler handled the discus . . . Terry Healey hustled through the two-mile . . . while the old perennials, Alan Crowe and Tom Bendorf. were still 280-plus deadeyes on the Rifle team. And so it is that we, the Class of 1950, take leave of our University, leaving behind many memories, many of which are pleasant, a few indifferent, but none discouraging. Ours liave been the years of growth and development, of readjustment. but just as we liave profited from its ninety-odd classes of alumni, so too will future classes gain from us; but all will take from this University more than they can ever return. As we have profited, so will others, for the educational aims under which we have been guided will forever remain the same—“to mould manhood, to develop the entire man, mind and heart, body and soul.” Such then is our heritage, and for this we thank you. Adios! 10

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ALFRED A. AFFIMTO Marketing I’ll I-Imru- Army. ALFRED P. ALESSANDRI (ieneral Huskiess Redwood Oily. Kappa Lambda Sigma. Arrhon (President . Si. Ivc Club. Msrasrhi Club, Scabbard Blade. Game Cominlllee. Rally Commit-lee. International Relations Club. Business Administration Club, Kappa Alpha I'bi. JOHN B. AI.I.KN. JR. II istory San Francisco. Army. JOHN J. AI.MERICO Economics San Francisco. Army. FITZGERALD AMES. JR. H istory San Francisco. Navy. Foghorn. James M. Sullivan Post. Srabburd X Blade. Ski Club. CECIL J. ANDERSON Biology San Francisco, Wosiuann Biological Society, Sodality. Bio-Chemical Club, Intramural Football. JOSEPH E. ANTHONY English San Francisco. Navy. WILLIAM M. ANTONI Philosophy San Francisco, Army. Wastnann Biological Society. JOAQUIN J. ARAGO American Literature San Francisco. Army. Foghorn Managing Editor, Basket ball Intramural s. BARNARD II. ARCH BOLD History San Francisco, Naval Reserve, Education Club Chairman MH-’ WI. STEVEN G. ARGYRIS Accounting McCloud. U. S. Coast Guard. LOLLS F. ARNONF. Marketing San Francisco. Army. EDMUND A. BACIGALUP1 English San Francisco. Marasclii Club. Scabbard Blade. DONALD F. BADARACCO Political Science San Francisco. Army. Pi Sigma Alpha (Senior Yoari ALFRED R. BALDOCCHI English San Francisco. Marasehi Club.