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

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1 ■ H ■ ' --t v -% H Rev. James P. Morrlssey, S.J. Alumnus and fourteenth president of Santa Clara College, Father James P. Morrissey, S.J., might well be called its second founder. January 12, 1777 marks the humble beginning of the Mission School under the Fran- ciscan Padres Tomas de la Pena and Jose de la Murguia. Great work for God was continued by such sons of St. Francis as Padres Rafael Moreno, Diego Garcia, later first Bishop of California and by Magin Catala. But in 1845, Padre Jose del Real witnessed the secularization of the Mission by Mexican decree. In 1851, Father John Nobili, S.J., a true nobleman of Rome was commissioned by Right Reverend Joseph Sadoc Alemany, O.P., Bishop of San Francisco, to rehabilitate the Mission and found the College of St. Clare. With one hundred dollars to his name and a gift of fifty dollars from the Bishop, Father Nobili started his work. He dedicated the college to St. Joseph, opening its doors on his feast, March 19, 1851, with a faculty of five, a student body of twelve and a staff made up of one nurse and an Indian cook. The progressive administrations of such men as Father Nicholas Congiato, S.J., Father Burchard Villiger, S.J., Father Aloysius Varsi, S.J., who built The Ship in 1870, and Father Robert Kenna, S.J., all contributed to the spectacular growth of the little college. But it was Father Morrissey more than any other who broadened and reordered the campus, revolutionized the curriculum and changed the status of Santa Clara from college to University. Fifty years ahead of his time in administration, he sketched a campus blueprint for Greater Santa Clara and he built the Faculty Residence and O ' Connor Hall. He opened the College of Law and the College of Engineering and Architecture, reorganized the arts courses and improved the pre-medical program. Thirty thousand alumni and friends attended the Jubilee Year celebration of Santa Clara when the twin buildings Father Morrissey built were blessed. A man of courage, he spoke out clearly and boldly on that occasion. We have asked your help and you are here thirty thousand strong to nerve our hearts and strengthen our arms. This is a cause to which no sane and enlightened man can long be indifferent. . . . During the yea r just past, we received for this work from our devoted friends approximately $50,000. We are grateful. During the same period, the University of California, richly subsidized by the State, received in addition to all this assistance, donations by private individuals amounting to more than $800,000. If the Catholic people of this community would but contribute as liberally to Santa Clara . . . Catholic university students would be prepared for life in a Catholic atmosphere. We invite you, then, to contribute your energy and your resources according to your ability to our work which is God ' s work that the Catholic peopl e of the West may possess their own university on a spot where higher learning- first lighted its torch in Western America! 16

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Ut ' X C;v i ' lit ' iliiiiiiiMiiiiiiiiaifir ill m -iii; :: O. Robert Anderson M.B.A., Washington, 1942 Business Administration ill i Franklin J. Barry M Sgt Military Science n . lip Rev. Louis I. Bannan, S.J. M.A., Gonzaga, 1938 Education, Philosophy W0i Tn, ' ,, V k. n .( I James M. Becchetti L.L.B., Santa Clara, 1950 Law mm ■:u i mr ' Edwin A, Beilharz Ph.D., California, 1951 Lloyd L. Bolton Ph.D., Cornell, 1932 . ;i :i: Chairman, Biology Dept. Ii f£ l i, ,r . „ .-WWk Chairman, History Dept. JK:: ;k-..„ v ,r-.•- -tv-.-. ..--■- .v-- jm m- (I . ' .? I J : iil Edwin J. Brown Ph.D., Stanford, 1928 Education Rev. Joseph S. Brusher, S.J. Ph.D., St. Louis, 1943 m m :. ' , .rir;s:-.:. Michael Buckley, Jr. M.S.E.E., Purdue, 1933 Mathematics •iuv .