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

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BURSAR ' S OFFICE Yes, This one still owes the school $685.00 B.A.A. OFFICE Nice Shoeshine, Wilber. REGISTRAR ' S OFFICE You ' ll need at least 17 units more.

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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.

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Under the direction of Rev. James A. King, S.J. the College of Arts and Sciences guides its many students through some of the most important years of their lives so that those years v ill also be the most fruitful. Pother King, who has been at Santo Clara since 1945, has the wide experience and deep personal interest in the students which has enabled him to contribute so much to the success of liberal education at Santa Clara. DEAN JAMES A. KING, S.J.,M.A. College of Art and Sciences With the end of the 1956 school year. Dean Dirksen can look bock and justly be proud of the accomplishments of the post year. The case method of instruction patterned after that used in the Har- vard Business School has became the principal type of instruction for General Business majors. Two accounting majors won first and third place in the national cost accounting contest. Graduating seniors were provided the opportunity to speak with personnel directors from 48 companies concerning job opportunities. Arrangements were made to secure additional professors for the business faculty who will moke their appearance during the 1956-57 school term. Included in the future plans of the Dean is a Graduate Business School which should be in operation within the next few years. Texas ' loss was California s gain as Warren P. McKenney de- parted from St. Mary ' s University, San Antonio, Texas, to become Law Dean of the University of Santa Clara. In the short time of the one year in which Dean McKenney has been at Santa Clara, he has formulated a number of new plans for student academic activities. His plans place an emphasis on the practical aspects of law practice. Por Senior students, a briefing service has been Inaugurated which should prove beneficial for the students, the school, and prac- ticing attorneys. Por second-year students, he has replaced the former appellate moot court with a more interesting, trial moot court. Dean McKenney finds his new low school unique in many woys, ond states that he was immediately impressed by on outstanding spirit of cooperation. ' Two years ago, an effort was exerted to obtain a man of suf- ficient stature to fill Dean Sullivan ' s position. This man ' s task would be to prepare young Catholic men for a professional career and to further the name of Santa Clara in the engineering world. This effort proved fruitful. The personality selected was Robert J. Porden. He arrived at Santa Clara in 1954 and assumed the duties of assistant Dean. Upon the retirement of Dean Sullivan in 1955, he was given full responsibility of the College of Engineering.