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

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Table of Contents Administration and Faculty Students Activities Sports 5 Highlights 344

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Theme A cosmopolitan center without a fine university is a contradiction in terms: a metropolis without an eminent institution of higher learning is the mere shell of a cultural center. It is universally recognized that the city of San Francisco is such a cultural center, and San Franciscans willingly admit that the city's only university has contributed importantly to San Francisco's unique attainments. For its part, the campus on the Hilltop” has always been aware of its responsibility to be San rranclsco's university in more than name only. Of right and of necessity, our university has assumed an influential role in the vibrant cultural, educational, and social community that is the fog-laced city of Saint Francis. San Francisco has understandably come to rely upon our campus as a source of prudent and imaginative municipal leadership. For over a century, our university has provided San Francisco with the wherewithal of civil excellence: educators. lawyers, doctors, and businessmen—all these have comprised only a small portion of U.S.F.'s human contribution to the fabled city by the Golden Gate. The graduates of U.S.F. have helped to make Son Francisco the city that all of its residents are so justly proud of. If you were to take away U.S.F.’s contributions to San Francisco, you would find that San Francisco was simply something other than herself. But the Hilltop campus would have been appallingly disloyal to its most dhcrished ideals if it had merely preferred San Francisco technically competent professionals. The leadership that our university offers San Francisco is. above all. Christian leadership. The graduates of this university have learned the decisive truth that morality must regulate the life of man if civilization is to endure and prosper. The legacy of the University of San Francisco is on activist Christian humanism that discloses the profoundly religious dimension of service to one's fellow men. The University of San Francisco has kept alive for both its graduates and its city the lessons that San Francisco’s patron saint expressed so inspiringly: It is in giving that we receive, it is in pardoning that we are pardoned, and it is in dying that we are bom to eternal life.

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Dedication 6 The entire Bay area is a research laboratory for Dr. Filice and his students.