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

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The year 1958 marks a year of jubilees for Father Bernard Hubbard, S.J. His will be the grace of celebrating his Golden Jubilee as a Jesuit. It brings as well, the thirty-fifth anniversary of his Ordination to the Sacred Priesthood. He attains his seventieth birthday. And with his trek to Alaska this summer, he closes a thirty year career of geological explorations which merited him the name of the Glacier Priest of Santa Clara. Anxious to be the first to proffer congratulations to Father on his jubilees, the Student Body of the University anticipates these golden hours by dedicating the Redwood 1957 to this son of Santa Clara, Father Bernard Rosecrans Hubbard, S.J. No one more illustriously carried the name of Santa Clara across the world. As an explorer and lecturer; as a geologist and educator; as special consultant and chaplain to the Armed Forces in Alaska, and as a missionary of the Faith, Father ' s labors of fifty years write a record of distinction. Best known as the Glacier Priest, Father began his explorations in 1919 in the Alps while studying in Europe. But his major contributions to science began when he started his explorations to Alaska in 1927. He was assigned to his Alma Mater, Santa Clara in 1926 and from this base of operations, he wrote his thirty year record of achievement. In the Jesuit tradition of St. Francis Xavier, of Kino and De Smet, Marquette and Ricci, he crossed unexplored frontiers along the Aleutians; he made valu- able contributions to the science of geology; executed several special mis- sions to the Orient and to Europe for the Society of Jesus; and aided the Jesuit Missions of Alaska, building shrines and chapels that sanctify the land of the ight sun. Indeed, the two happiest of his life, says Father Hubbard, as the day he was graced by a special audience with His Holiness, Pius XII, and the day he dedicated his Shrine to Christ the King on King Island in Alaska. On and on reads the record, and this record is not yet complete. But on this occasion, we rejoice and are proud of Santa Redwood, 1957 to Father bard, S.J.