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

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Patrick Snowden In Memoriam The beginning of the school year was marred by the death of Patrick Snowden, senior accounting major. Pat was. to say the least, one of the most popular students on campus. In addition, he was one of the most active members of our student body: he was the president of his freshman class, and. in his junior year, he was elected treasurer of Alpha Delta Gamma. Yet it was Pat who so enjoyed life, whose life was so soon cut short. For our part, we can only add that each second is too valuable to be wasted: that, like Pat Snowden, we must try to fill every moment with the zest and love which make life meaningful. In 1962. the University's students dedicated their yearbook to Father Raymond T. Feely: 'To Speak of the excellence of the University of Son Francisco ... is necessarily to speak of this man who has given his life to that commitment. This man is overwhelming in stature . . .an inspiration and guide. It was Father Feely who. as Academic Vice-President, had seen U.S.F. through the period of postwar growth in enrollment and curriculum revision. It was this same man who had distinguished himself as a professor emiritus of political science. Father Feely was one of the pioneer writers nnd foremost experts on such subjects as Communism, Nazism, and Fascism. In his desire to give each student a fundamental knowledge of the purpose and operation of Communism.” Fatncr Feely initiated U.S.r.'s Political Science HO course on the philosophy and Tactics of Communism, the first collegiate course of this nature In America. The legacy that Father Feely left us. then, was a pervasive one that epitomized the achievements and aspirations of our university community. It was only fitting that Father Feely was the author of U.S.F.’s Credo. When Raymond Feely died on November 17. 1965. we lost a man who not only had helped to make U.S.F. what it is today, but who. more importantly, had the courage to tell us what we had to strive for in the future. 8 Rev. Raymond T. Feely, S.J.

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Francis Filice... An imaginative Scholar An Exemplary Christian Dr. Francis P. Filice In 1947 the faculty of the University was expanded by the acquisition of a rather tall, unpretentious biology instructor by the name of Francis Filice. At first, his was simply another name in the U.S.F. Faculty register, but his students and his colleagues gradually came to realize that Francis Filice was both on extraordinarily stimulating teacher and an imaginative scholar. Due largely to Dr. Filice’s untiring efforts. U.S.F.’s pre-medical curriculum is now perhaps the best on the West Coast. Moreover. Dr. Filicc’s research has won him not only the assistant editorship of The Wasmann oumal of Biology, but the respect of the heads of the Jnited States Radiation Defense Laboratory, the Cali-omia Department of Fish and Game, and the Public dealth Service, who have repeatedly awarded him important research grants. His work has been a significant contribution to both U.S.F.'s academic excellence and the welfare of the Bay Area. But Francis Filice is more than a distinguished scholar: he is an exemplary Christian. Somehow. in addition to shouldering bis responsibilities as a leader of our Biology Department. Dr. Filice makes the time to serve os a leader in the Christian Family Movement. an associate of the Student Western Addition Project, a Bov Scout Advisor, and campus moderator for the St. Vincent de Paul Society. Dr. Filice’s Christian commitment is a reality that makes others understand the meaning of Christian charity. He is. in a sense, a living refutation to those who question the relevance of Christianity to modern life. The members of the 1966 Don staff are indeed privileged to be able to dedicate this yearbook to as fine a man as Dr. Francis Filice. 7

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Like Father Feely. Senior Durwood Dalka was one of the more unassuming persons on campus. He was a mathematics major with a real interest in his subject, an interest that his classmates both recognized and respected. This year he was to have served as president of the Mathematics Club. From Durwood. too. wc can all learn something: namely, that we need a goodly amount of sheer perseverance to sustain us in a life that all too often will be saddened by failure and the tragic prospect of what might have been. Durwood Dalka In an age in which anonymity is prized by few. Father Leo Simpson was remarkable for his selfless, unheralded service. For over fifty years. Father Simpson had willingly performed every task that his superiors had assigned to him. Like Saint Paul. Father Leo had been all things to all men” for the sake of charity. He had been a teacher, a dean, a rector of a Jesuit novitiate, and an administrative assistant to four Jesuit provincials. In his time. Father Simpson had even served as a nightwatchman and a janitor. But those who know him best will remember him not as a dedicated teacher, not as a conscientious administrator, but rather as a compassionate and sympathetic confessor. Laborers and housewives, teenagers and the aged—they all came to Father I.co. On Novmber 11. 1965. Father Leo passed away. He died as he had lived. Many of us will remember his habit of referring to himself ns the hired man. for we all know that this humble priest was in God’s employ. Then driven by the fierce scrutiny Of heaven to their election in the vast breath. They souqh the rumor of mortality. Allen Tate 9 Rev. Leo S. Simpson, S.J.