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

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REVEREND WILLIAM C. GIANERA. SJ. President F ESIDENT ' S MESSAGE . . . When Jesuit pioneers founded this University a century ago, the difficulties they faced were enough to try the faith of any man. Their material resources were so meager — some tumble-down adobe buildings, a few paltry dollars, a mere handful of students. But they were rich in faith, trusting in God ' s watchful providence, confident that their goal was worth every effort and sacrifice — to help raise up generations of youth to be strong, cultured, Christ-like Catholics, a credit to their families, their country, their God. Today at the close of her first century the University of Santa Clara stands as the monument to that faith. Hers is a success not to be measured in impressive buildings that will eventually crumble back into dust, but rather in the ever- living souls she has helped to stamp with a Christ-like character, in the lives of thousands whom she has helped to mold into better citizens and Catholic men of culture who have left a lasting impression of good upon their fellowmen. You students now are facing uncertainties that may tax your faith in God ' s providence. Godless communism and selfish materialism seem bent upon wrest- ing from you the opportunity to plan and achieve your future in peace and security. You need that same strong faith in God and conviction of the lasting worth of your Catholic ideals. You face a struggle for bare survival that is going to demand the same keen-eyed vision and faith, prayerfulness and sacri- fice. The University looks to you, her sons, to hold fast to those primary prin- ciples of selfless faith she has summarized for you in her motto — A.M.D.G. — For the Greater Glory of God. As Christ-like Catholics in the world, you will be her proud joy, the proof that her first century of faith and effort has not been in vain.