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

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Reverand Herman J. Hauck, S.J. PRESIDENT ' S MESSAGE Achievements in life generally come by installments, the periodic mile-stones of public honors, and even the final totalling of a man ' s life, ore summations of all that hos preceded. The climaxing event does not make us; it declares what we are, what we have made of ourselves by the myriad deeds of each post day. Commencement is on achievement, a mile stone honor, of this kind; into it ' s arrival have gone the daily work and prayers of parents and students, of Faculty and Administration, and the interest and support of many University benefactors. We can be proudly happy at Commencement, and our happiness and pride are not for this day only but for all the days that led to it, and for all who gave of them- selves to achieve them. As the present is thus compounded out of the post, so will the Great Assizes be a complation of the future. Aware of the fuller values and deeper gifts expected of men endowed with Christian education, we know the Graduates face a complex judgement; that for them, as Browning says; Not on the vulgar moss Called work ' must sentence pass. Things done, that took the eye and had a price; O er which, from level stand, The low world laid it s hand. Found straightway to it s mind, could value in a trice But all, the world ' s coarse thumb And finger failed to plumb. So passed in making up the main account. To this main account they now go forth — to the religious, professionol, political, social and cultural responsibilities for which their Alma Mater hos prepared them through the years past. To this doy-by-doy Achievement of the Future, Santa Clara now sends them. . with her blessing.

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PRESIDENT PAGE 13 VICE PRESIDENTS PAGE 14 DEANS PAGE 16 ADMINISTRATORS PAGE 17 FACULTY PAGE 18

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While most of the members of the student body, sooner or later, come in contact with the Vice-President for Student Affairs, only a relatively small number have direct ■dealings with Santo Clara ' s Aca- demic Vice-President. Yet, this is one of the most important posts in the University Administration. It is the Academic Vice-President who must ultimately decide on one ' s admission to Santa Clara. This is the office from which come decisions of all sorts affecting the scholastic side of college life. It is this office which announces teaching appoint- ments, which in turn effects changes in teacher ' s assignments, coordin- ating class schedules and the academic calendar with the Registrar and the Deans of the respective colleges. It is this office which has the unhappy tosk of dealing with those students whose grades indicate either lack of, or inability to, study It is the Academic Vice-President who talks with these students, who helps them with their problems, who tries to straighten them out scholasticolly. It is also the Academic Vice-President who must notify students that their performance is not of college callibre. What type of a man does it take to perform a job like this? It takes o dedicated man. We are fortunate at Santa Clara in having such a man — Rev. Joseph C. Diebels, S.J. REVEREND JOSEPH C. DIEBELS, S.J. ACADEMIC VICE-PRESIDENT VICE PRESIDENTS RAYMOND KELLEY, S.J. VICE-PRESIDENT FOR STUDENT AFFAIRS The pages of history marked 1955, 1956, ore charred by the flame of anti-colonialism. From Morocco to Algeria to Cyprus to Singapore, subjects became conscious of their identity and lashed out at their colonial masters. Kindled in the friction between ad- vanced and backward cultures, the torch of self-determination was held high over the darker portions of the earth. But history will record that in these years, under the enlightened administration of Rev. Raymond J. Kelley, S.J., Santo Clorans pro- gressed peaceobly along the narrow road between the extremes of paternalism and individualism toward a measure of self-government. From Nobili Hall, Fr. Kelley directed the groduol transfer of power into the hands of the students themselves through a four year process that culminated this year in a partial relinquishing ot the sacrosanct police power to the student court and a vigilante group that hastily unmasked the guilty but left the punitive measures to the Lord.