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

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STAFF 7 ;■ Editor-in-Chief ...............................................Leland I). Vandendale Assistant to the editor...........................................Silvano Votto Special assistants to the editor..................................... David Kuty Dennis Lucey Alma Merlo Managing editor........................................................George Devine Executive editor...........;........................................ Eduard Stephan Assistants to the executive editor................................liarry Johnson Judy Mills Associate editors: Senior section.......................................................Leo Pasco Faculty and Administration section.............................. Merle Simpson The Year section.................................................. Boh Lawhon Religious section............................................. Teri Gillespie leadership section........................................................ Boh Chantelope Organization section...............................................Pete Montez Sports section.......................................................Boh Guy Class section.................................................... Mary Chester Art editors..............-...........................................Jack De Govia Dan O’Neill Larry MacKenzie Photography editors.....................................................Boh Lawhon Charles Houck Vince Saponara Business Manager......... ...............................................Ben Hanley Advertising Manager...............................................George Rouan, Jr. Portraiture......................................................Tom Collins' Studio Publisher.............................................Taylor Publishing Company Moderator................................................Rev. John E. Fischer, SJ. Special Advisory Board................................. Rev. Eugene SchaUerl, S.J. Rev. Edmond Smyth. SJ. Rev. Francis J. Callahan, SJ. Rev. John F. X. Connolly, SJ.. Rev. Raymond Feely, SJ. Mr. Carl Nolle Mr. Thomas Jordan Mr. William J. Dillon

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DEDICATED TO REVEREND EDMOND J. SMYTH. S.J. THE REVEREND FRANCIS J. CALLAHAN, S.J., AND THE REVEREND JOHN F. CONNOLLY, SJ. The i ast decade has been a decade of progress for the University and the student body. While practically doubling its attendance and facilities, the University has achieved an academic advance unixtralleled in the Bay Area. Undoubtedly, numerous factors, economic and otherwise, might be enumerated to account for this phenomenon. Yet. all in all, after all has been said, the advance of an institution is not self-generative: IT MUST NECESSARILY BEGIN WITH MEN. In this, USE has been fortunate. This institution calls forth great men — men of commitment who have placed the interests of the University above their own: men whose dedication and perseverance have made possible what the city and the student body too often take for granted. To these men, the University shall ever be grateful. REVEREND EDMOND J. SMYTH, S.J. Few men at this University are more respected than Fr. Smyth, S.J., Dean of the Colleges of Arts and Science. Fr. Smyth was bom in San Francisco on May 21st, 1919. He received his A.B. degree from Gonzaga University in 1942 and his M.A. from the same institution in 1943. From 1943 to 1947, he attended the Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies. In 1951 he received his S.T.L. from Alma College and in 1953 his Ph.D. from the University of Toronto. In the Fall of 1955, Fr. Smyth was appointed to his present position. Since that lime, he has been the personal counsel and guide of unknown hundreds of students. He is an educator of the Eastern Tradition. His sentences are measured, his manner is reserved, and his thought is precise. His overall bearing and appearance is that of a scholar. Fr. Smyth’s deep interest in the individual, reflected in the long and sometimes tedious hours spent in his office discussing with, talking to, admonishing, and encouraging the undergraduate, manifests an attitude of sincere humanism. He is an administrator who has not forgotten, who will not let himself forget, that the student is the foundation of the University.