University of Santa Clara - Redwood Yearbook (Santa Clara, CA)

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Entered Dec 18, 1902, at Santa Clara, Cal., as second-class matter, under Act of Congress of March 3, 1879 VOL. XX SANTA CLARA, CAL., OCTOBER, 1920 No. 1 California OY ere lingers round your Kills, California, Song the air with gladness fills, California, Seem the skies so bright and clear And our lives alight with cheer, In a land without a peer, California. Let my heart be ever true, California, May I always be with you, California, Be your sunshine ever nigh; And at last when I must die, In your bosom let me lie, California. EDWIN E. PRISCOLL ' 24

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The Passing of Charles M. Lorigan, ' 82 Martin M. Murphy, ' 22. In the passing of Charles M. Lorigan Santa Clara has lost one of her most loving sons, one of her most loyal and intelligent champions, and one of her truest and most unselfish friends. Ev- erything in any way connected with the College and later of the University was dear to him. As her legal adviser he was as careful, nay more careful than if he were looking after his own per- sonal property. For almost a quarter of a century he was connected with the University in this capacity and in latter years served Alma Mater as a member of the Board of Trustees and Advisory Board, a distinction which no other layman ever before enjoyed. He was proud of his associations with Santa Clara and attributed to the training received within her walls the great measure of success that came to him in his legal activities and in his domestic, civic, and political life. Mr. Lorigan was born in New South Wales, Australia, on January 1, 1861, but at an early age his family moved to California and settled in Santa Clara on the property which has until re- cently been known as the Lorigan Block. As a youth he attended the public schools in the Mission town, and later entered St. Mary ' s, at that time situated in San Francisco, and obtain- ed from there a commercial degree. Charley , as his best friends knew him, then entered Santa Clara College. With the same enthusiasm and devotion to duty which marked his career throughout his after life, the young stu- dent pursued his course here until awarded the degree of Bachelor of Sci- ence in 1882. Soon after graduation he secured a position in the law office of Moore, Delmas and Leib, and so fasci- nated did he become with the legal pro- fession that he devoted all his spare time to a study of law. After four years of preparation with this firm, Mr. Lorigan passed the bar examination and was admitted to prac- tice in 1886. He became associated with S. F. Leib in San Jose shortly after and the partners opened offices in the Farmer ' s Union Building, where he re- mained until the erection of the First National Bank. At that time he moved into the modernly equipped building, in which, up to the time of his death, he made his headquarters. In 1903 he married Ena Bohlman, a member of one of the pioneer families of the state and the union was blessed by the birth of a daughter. This, in brief, is the life his-