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

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My Dear Graduates: You are soon to put on cap and gown, walk onto the stage of the Opera House and receive your degree and congratulations from Father President. What does it all mean? What have you gotten out of your four years here? 128 semester hours of work accomplished? Innumerable library assignments done and papers turned in? Answers and formulae memorized and dutifully given back in examinations? Of course not. Many of the facts you learned you will soon forget. But you know where to find them again. And more, you have been trained, as the catalogue says, to analyze rather than memorize,” to have the grit to practice virtue and reject vice, to cultivate the heart that it may lQve the worthwhile things. You have been taught to look at this crazy, confusing, turbulent and bewildering world of 1962 steadily and as a whole; to take in the disparate and even opposed elements in the kaleidoscope of life around you and to integrate them; to sec science, art, language, literature, sport, business, love, military service, earning a living, space-man in orbit, war, geo politics — all this and more — as parts of a meaningful whole; to view all this as philosophers and theologians, seekers after and practitioners of the noblest science and art known to man, Christian wisdom. This is wisdom whose origin is Wisdom Incarnate, Who tells you, You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.” May God bless you and keep you always so free and so wise. CHARLES W. DULLEA, S.J. Rector, University of San Francisco

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My dear Graduates: Every University lias its own wonderful treasure of memories and each senior class leaves within its hallowed walls a varied and rich history. The Class of 1902 has left memories on the Hilltop. Good memories. Friendliness and loyalty, and scholarship and devotion not just to each other, to the faculty both Jesuit and lay, but, most important, to God. It is my earnest hope that your respect and devotion to God, and to the University, ever grows deeper and shapes your life and touches those around you. The world has never been in greater need of sterling Christian leadership, and one of the greatest responsibilities that you. as graduates of the University of San Francisco, will have as you enter your new life will be the personal mark you make toward world peace. You may not send a satellite into the sky. but it sometimes takes a stronger and different kind of frontiersman to live well, day by day. Loyally to family and country, uncompromising principles in business. the subtle influence exerted on others for good, an ever alert mind to any ideology that would deny us our God-given rights, a full understanding that our mission in life is to obtain eternal happiness— these are the deep and unwavering inner beliefs that must be an integral part of the vigorous frontiersmen this era needs, if civilization is to endure. I hope that your lives will be a reflection of the solid principles that you have learned from your Alma Mater, and that your memories will be a source of inspiration for good always. My blessing goes with you all. Father John F. X. Connolly, S.J. President, University of San Francisco