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

Page 12 text:

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Page 11 text:

Mr. Benjamin Swig, to ivhom The Redwood is respectfully dedicated, a man of whom it is difficult to be in to speak, but once begun, far more difficult to stop. His personal financial contributions have given much impetus to the new dynamism of Santa Clara. But his generosity is more profound. He is a director of the California Safety Council and the late President Kennedy ' s National Committee on Traffic Safety, a director of the American friends of Hebrew University, a member of the board of trustees of Brandeis Uni- versity, a member of the board of governors of Mary ' s Help Hospital and of Hebrew Union College, a member of the education advisory council of the Lincoln Educational Foundation, and currently chairman of the Board of Regents of the University of Santa Clara. He is a member of the board of the National Conference of Christians and Jews and has done much work in the Boys Clubs of America. Always accessible, Mr. Stvig is manifestly energetic, personable, and generously considerate, spearheading the drive for further physical ex- pansion at Santa Clara and yet taking the tirne to personally answer a note of thank you from the women who reside in the dorm named for his late wife, Mae. Working without a secretary from a typewriter on a card table in his suite in the Fairmont Hotel, Mr. Swig is engendering a Santa Clara that will not only meet the challenges of the times, but make some chal- lenges of its own. Truly he ivould foster in Santa Clarans the spirit of our late President who prophetically said in his inaugural address . . .

Page 13 text:

ii monm Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a neiv generation of Americans — born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a cold and bitter peace, proud of our ancient heritage — and unwilling to witness or permit the slow undoing of those human rights to which this nation has alivays been committed, and to which we are committed today . . . In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility — welcome it.