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

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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.

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

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Reverend John F. X. Connolly. SJ the University president.