Bishop Buddy Scrapbook 1941-1945

acred Heart Siste To Found College For Women In San Diego Society Famed For Learning and Higher Education Accepts BL,hop·s Invitation. esuit Fathers Consider Plan To Inaugurate New Catholic Men's College His Excellency Has Petitioned Salesian Fathers To Open Vocational School For Boys In San Diego. During. this jo yful season come additional glad the announcement from the Most Reverend Bisho effect that the Religious of the Sacred Heart who con Fr~nci~co Collc~e for Women, will inaugurate a sim t_utton tn San Diego. Several sites have been under c bon for the proposed new college of arts and science, . l\Iuch de- pends on whether a change of

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t e ubon• of earn rg for both men and women. The Dio~e e i~ b1e, ed with a num- ber of Hi h ..:ehools and cad- emie•, whi h make it po~•1hle for Grade chool graduate o pursue their studie under Catholic aus- pices where both moral and intel- lectual denilopment move in par- allel lines. But the mo ·t urg-ent need are Catholic College:,: where I men and women can qualifr for liberal arts degree~. O\·er· four years a~o in a personal visit to Lone - fountain, San Francisco the l\Iost Reverend Bishop, long devoted friend of the Socieh· •of the Sacred Heart and an alu~nus of one of their parochial schools in the 1Iiddlewest, petitioned the Provincial Superior to congider San Diego for a new foundation. Three months ago at the im·i• tation of His Excellency, :Mother 'r\ 1' _ TT'l1 T'I, • , -. ,,. L eed of h. her · 1

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San Diego, City Extraordinary

ALONG THE WA By Rev. Daniel A. Lord. S.J.

send their children to o as re8ident students to Yantages which San Di€ give. Outstanding in schola Socetr of the Sacred Jesus, which was founde in the year of 1800 bv leine s·ophie Barat, ha: main purpose, the high tion of young women. houses the Society has t the world include acade me.ntary and high scho llfother House is situated The Religious who stafJ leges, hold high degrees nation's lcadng universit Diego will be privi]eged these distinguished edu, charge of an institution ing.

where my family and 1 can live." Often the one who told him was the person who also rented the room. .Almost every house takes boarders. And apparently everY, house has a large and perma- nent sign: No vacancies. The food situation as a consequence is pretty difficult too. You never get with a group of people who do not immediately start talking about the shortage. 'l'hey brag about the piece of beef they secured as in prohibition days people bragged of the Scotch that had just come off the ship. Butcher ~hops clo~e early in the day. Candy shops offer a few pieces of one or two kinds of candy. And tran portation ! 1 returned to Los Angeiei!; perforce 011 Saturdil~· afternoon. The edge of the platform was packed with a mMs of people five deep running the entire length of the i:;tation; the ' waited pati1rntly for almost two hours for the de• layed train, and packed it in a way to make a , ... 'ew York subway guard during rush hours feel ashamed. Bishop Buddy, the first bishop of the newlJ· created diocese, is setting a standard his successors will find difficult to maintain. Ilis cathedral, re- built from a parish church, is in exquisite tast~'. He has put into his own house one of the loveliest small chapels in the country, rebuilding a garage for the purpose. (That's a variant on the classic• stable of Bethlehem; Mass in a former garage.) He is the sort of bishop v.ho loves to talk to his people: so Sunday after Sunda,v he preaches in his cathrclral. 1hon~h, ·hecaui::e of the presi::ure of tht> thousands of i.enicemen in the vicinit:·-he has to pla~- a constant part in their religious ~are-it is 11 hea\'~· ta1,J{. Incidentally, l<'ather James Keane, that splendid Ser-vite who gave to the nation the Xovena of tbe Sorrowful :Mother, is now editing the Southern Cross, the diocesan paper. If you want to st>e California climate exactly the way the press agents and chambers of commerce assure us it is, visit San Diego. But you'd better wait until there is standing room once more. Right now you '11 find it difficult to get into a hotel, motion picture theater, church, or market. The pleasant, quiet people who retired to San Dii,g-o to liw happ_\·. sunny years, 1:ire a litt Ir s1111'1 led 1 h;,t thr t·nrn d has ru:-hed in and turned their lowJy t'it~ into Hnom To\\n.

zone can be obtained, which will make aYailable a sit!\,. conYenient for _both present and future gen- erations of young women in San Diego a'. 1 d the surrbunding cities, who desire these superior adYan- tagcs.

• T reached San Diego by the single traek that till carries a lone spur of the Santa Fe into the city, e.·peeting to find a small town. I found one of the boom cities of America, a town that in about

three yea1·s has doubled its population from 200.000 to somewhere in advance of 400.000 ... 1111d that does not include the senicemen. Those sen·icemen repre- :-en t a Yariety of unifoi;m 011 '11 not :-ee anywhere else, and11wwideRt pos.·iblet~pes of wal'fare: Marines, sail- nrs.snldiers,airmen-. ·orth I. land with its planes, enormous training fields, I he g-rrat new Marine base, ,;; 11 h mar in efi, destroyers, lia rnige balloons ...

~k for three American cardinals as soon as the war is ended. We don't have any inside dope on what ~he pontiff is contemplating, but it would not ~rprise us to live o see. our old guide, philosopher and friend wear the red hat some day. We refer to Bishop Charles F._ Buddy of the diocese of San Diego, former St. Joseph priest. That man !s a go-getter. He n:ade monkeys out of some of hi~ Colleagues when he was in this man's town because he was so active While they were taking / their siesta. But Archbishop Spellman ls a '_'natural" for the red hat. We JUS t hope F. D. R., his personal friend, keeps his nose out of it. Franklin should learn from T. R. Old Archbishop Ireland of St. P_aul was headed for the car• dmalate until Rome learned that Theodore Roosevelt was sort of self-appointed Cilmpaign man- ager for him. That cool,ed his goose. We're not trying to tell any pope how to run his church b~t if we had been pope Arch~ bishop Glennon , ranking prel- ate in America, would have been a cardinal these past 40 years. That man in St. Louis has been a bishop since 1895, an arch- • bishop since 1903. two or

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But it's the ~onsolidated Aircraft factories that knock your eyes out. They seem to stretch mile 11fter mile, all the buildings magnificently camou- flaged. A ehange of shifts is like the flow of gi- gantic armies, for up·wards of 42,000 people work in the plants. eem odd, by the way, that ,vhen onee upon a time publicists announced that indus- tries wonld be moYed inland, this enormous bomber plant lies as clo. e to the ocean as it can be put ... 1 rl.ouht j f it is starting rumors to repeat the legend in ::;an Diego that at least t"o Jap Aubmarines got tai1gled and 1•auirht in the harbor\ protective nets. :-;an Diego i~ one city ·where nohod~- bothers to lnok up nbm a giant bomber skims the topR of tlw hon,;cs. That goes on all the time, and if ;mu happen to be phoning at the moment, you ,rnit until the bomber ha" passed. It do(':,;n 't take muclf imagination to grasp what ha~ happened to housing facilities as a consequence of the 100 per cent rise in population. Though the government has built fine quarters for many of the service units, most people on arrival wish they had brought a tent along. The rent ceiling proYed flexible ... for people who had never rented before had no ceiling to restrain them: and "hen an unfurnished room \\°a. furnisht>d. the price could he diangrd ad lib. Be~·ond that. it mis eommnn f'1w11gh fm· a de,perate room seeker to Rthertise: '' l will pay :t:100 to an,rnue telling me of a pla.ci.>

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