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

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Dedication Dr. Augustine P. Donoghue

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In Memoriam 'There is an appointed time for everything ... A time to be born and a time to die, a time to plant and a time to uproot the plant ... a time to weep and a time to laugh, a time to mourn and a time to dance ... a time to love and a time to hate, a time of war and a time of peace. No one had a more delicate feeling for the times and no one left such a sensitive imprint on recent times as Pope XXIII and President John Fitzgerald Kennedy. One was very old and the other young, but both were uprooted within the same year. For all of us their departure was a time to weep and mourn just as their presence among us had been a time to laugh and dance. Perhaps most important of all, their life and death has been a time to love, a time to dispel the hate that tears men apart and to replace it with a bond of genuine affection that transforms every aspect of human life. Thus a heritage of love is passed on to us by an aging Italian Pope and a vigorous American President. Unfortunately the warmth of real love demands great sacrifices and total commitment. It means that the I gives way to the Thou and that the Self finds its fullest perfection only in the Other. It means that we must open ourselves to the loved one in much the same way as Angelo Roncalli opened himself fearlessly to his Lord until cancer terminated what fear could not. It means that we must expose ourselves to every type of harm in much the same-way as John Kennedy strove day and night that his country and the world might realize their proper historical stature until an assassin's bullet turned the full light of his bright days into a premature darkness and night came at noon that day in Dallas. We all recognize the greatness of these men, but very few of us are willing to pay the price they so gladly did. They left us a genuine heritage of love but hate follows as the avenger of things that disrupt the unity and good of man. The danger is that while we may find real inspiration in their life and actions, we will not allow their force to strengthen the course of our own lives. For this reason we now live in a time of war rather than a rime of peace, a time of hate rather than a time of love. Pope John died believing that we must respect another's right to be what he is and to live according to the inspirations he truthfully receives from God. And yet we persist in fashioning people according to our own ideals without regard for the individual involved. Similarly President Kennedy died in the South as a symbol of the equality of all men. And yet we persistently segregate people according to our own whims and desires regardless of their intrinsic value. It is one thing to tell a tale of praise in honor of two great men. It is quite another to let these men be our caders and follow them down the crooked paths and into l,e recesses of the world around us so that, streng-t icned by their determination and bathed in their light, we, too, may get in step with the times and leave our mark somewhere under the heavens.

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A Loyal Alumnus A Dedicated Coach An Excellent Administrator Dr. Augustine P. (Gus) Donoghue For the University of San Francisco the time is the Second Century—a time of development and change. The changes have involved more than the physical addition of new halls of learning. There has been an influx of a new breed of student drawn from a wider geographic area and armed with superior academic qualifications. The mood of the University has settled and become more serious. It is axiomatic that, more than books and professors and classrooms, the quality of a university is proportionate to the quality of its students. In this university the high caliber of students is, in large measure, the result of one man's dedication. Dr. Augustine P. (Gus) Donoghue, director of admissions, has been associated with the University for more than thirty years. Soon after coming to this country from Glasgow, Scotland he graduated from St. Ignatius High School and entered the University with the class of 1936. He distinguished himself as a student with his selection to Alpha Sigma Nu, the National Jesuit Honor Fraternity, and as a leader through his office of student body president. He returned to the University in 1941, teaching in the Department of History. After four years in the Navy as a physical training officer (he presently holds the rank of Commander in the Naval Reserve), he returned to the Hilltop at the end of the war. Appointed Director of Admissions in 1952, he spent a busy first year in that capacity, while at the same time coaching the USF soccer team and commuting several times a week to Stanford to do work on his Ph.D, which was awarded him in 1953. He coached soccer from 1946 to I960, when he resigned to devote full time to his activities as Director of Admissions. During those years the term Soccer Champions came to be synonymous with ''USF' and Coach Donoghue.” It is in grateful recognition of his many significant contributions to the University of San Francisco as a student, a coach, and an administrator that we dedicate the 1964 DON to Dr. Augustine P. (Gus) Donoghue. Page 9