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

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Reverend Francis J. Callahan, SJ. considers the state of the school's financial needs.

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REVEREND FRANCIS J. CALLAHAN, S.J. Fr. Callahan. S.J.. vice president in charge of development, is a modest man with a deep personal dynamism. Perhaps he might best be described as a man who calls a spade a spade. He is straightforward and unpretentious in his manner. Born in San Francisco on April 29th, 1913, Father Callahan attended St. Ignatius High School before receiving his A.B. and M.A. from Gonzaga University. Subsequently, he was awarded degrees from Alma College, Catholic University, and the Pontifical Gregorian University. After teaching at Santa Clara University and Alma College, Father Callahan joined the USF faculty in 1952 as Law School chaplain and assistant professor of jurisprudence and canon law. Two years later he was appointed associate director of development, and in 1956 he was appointed director of development and alumni moderator for the University. Perhaps the growth of the University during these past five years speaks best for the accomplishments of this man: the USF Memorial Gym, the new wing of Phelan Hall, the Kendrick law school building, and the projected science center. In all of this, Father Callahan has remained in the background, working hard and asking little. No doubt he shall continue to do so. He is truly one of the men ‘‘behind the scenes.”

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REVEREND JOHN F. X CONNOLLY. SJ. Father John Connolly, President of the University of San Francisco, is a mature man of penetrating insight. This man alone bears the ultimate responsibility for the University. This, in itself. would be enough; yet more than this, he is the representative and spokesman of this institution to the city and to the state. Father Connolly succeeded Father William Dunne as President of the University on Monday. August 16th, 4954. He was the youngest president the University had ever had. being just 39 years of age. Prior to his appointment as President. Father Connolly was Rector of the Jesuit Novitiate at Los Gatos for five years. He attended St. Anne's Grammar School and St. Ignatius High, graduating from the latter in 1933. He entered the Jesuit order that same year and was ordained in San Francisco in 1946. Father Connolly has distinguished himself as an able administrator, integrating and relating the various departments of the University into a well-functioning, organic whole. His administrative reign has been marked by the most remarkable success, both in terms of material development and academic advance. Such progress can only be the result of a thorough knowledge and understanding coupled with appropriate action. Father Connolly has given direction to the present, he has strengthened the past, and he has secured a place in the future for this University. To this man, the students are humbly grateful.