News Scrapbook 1958-1961

arks Universi~y

San Diego . Units Dot Hill, Barren 7 Years Ago ED/fOll'S - Step by

Tlw 1',ulrrs nn11ou111•1"d a total altl'nda,wl' or :!!11,71:! for lhi, i•ason, thrir largt-st in yrar . Ila wv\r, w~ile ~tll the Cigures haven't b en to- !alrd, IL 1s qu11e l1kel.v the opf'ration will show a light lo or nruund $23,000. One o( lh rc't ons ls th,1t Cleveland no longer • <1 • hc1rc or the ~. Jary of the players it sends Th P 1r?1 • now have to Foot thf' entil'e hill and O(tlf' (?f thl" hu·pd hands last sf'a~on ~ot some pretty r a· l1[)<'11cl , u ·has infieldet· Fred Hatfield.

c!ep, Son Diego is moving to- ,;,,ord reolizot,on of i!s dream of becoming the educo/1onof cen- ter of r~e Southwest. A port of this is oevelopmenl of the Uni- ~e;sity of San Diego. funds for. the Arts and Sciences Building needed lo complete the basic compus wilf be sought in a pub- ' loc campaign shortly For the first /1mEc the story of its de- velopment •is told in o series of ort,c/es, of which lhis is one. From a barren hill in 1950 to a rapidly expanding campus dotted with impressive build· 1ngs in 1957-that. in a few words, is the story of the rapid development ot the University of San Diego on the Alcala Park campus. It was in 1950 that work was for \Vomen. But the story of the Uni\'ersity of San Diego really began long before 1950. Bishop Sees Need It all began some 15 years ago when the Most Rev. Charles Francis Buddy, bishop of the Catholic Diocese of San D\ego, expressed the desire to give to San Diego an outstand- ing institution of higher educa- started on the university's first unit-the College

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Women, Seminary, and University Boys High School are compl1;te. Law Building will be finished next monih, Library in December, and Church

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one whit 11traig Pion •point • • Babe Pocatello• , 33-0 and three. Although Caccia denies a e1 in which the "dissension" rumor about his ore than 40 squad, the team looked much better In its last start as he ch of the replaced two letterman backs defending with freshmen. The freshmen, quarterbiick h I Chuck Kilkuskie and fullback e d revamped ,back!Jeld when the Bengals Keith Berry, were the blg ,sea,on mark stood at 3-3 and men as the underdog Bengals 11 Rocky Mountain Conference ehamploos,

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The des.re posed a mom1- mental task, to be sure; the the first buildings that were dents are pursuing their edu- Col!'ege for Men will be occu- odds seemingly beyond con- to house the College for Wom- cation on the Alcala Park pied by the new University quest. But to make his dream en. campus this month. Boys' _High School, which ':"ill a reaiitv became Bishop And on February 11, 1952, Buildings Needed open its doors for the first Buddy's goal. the doors of the College for The unexpected response of time this month. There followed years of Women were opened to the students, both Catholic and .The Immaculata, university planning, years when many first students, 33 of them. non-Catholic, spelled the need chapel now under construe- times the goal appeared im- From that start of 33, the for construction of buildings tion, and the Library Build- possible o! achievement. college became known far and to provide facilities to meet ing are expected to be com Sile Seleded 'wide. the high educational stand- pleted early in 1958. A major step finally was I Entering the College for ards set for the university. InvPstment Heavy taken with the selection of the Women this month at the With the near completion of When the major· phase of sit.e, the hill overlooking the ,start of a new school year will the Immaculate Heart Sem- the building program is com. west end of Mission Valley, be students from many states inary Building, work was pleted at Alcala Park, it will the bays and t} i ocean. ,and foreign countries. started on the Law Building. represent an investn:,.eot of The hill, km:, n as Alcala nen's College Opens Then the start of r-onstructlon approximately 20 milllon do). Park, already h;,.s become one Bishop Buddy turned to was rushed on the Library lars. of the "places to see" in San plans for the College for Men. Building. Bishop Buddy has sti;essed Diego. Here, too, the problems and Gro11nd B1·ok.-n !rom the beginning that the Bishop Buddy then succeed- delays were many, but finally Now the need of the College University of San Diego was ed in interesting the Religious in March, 1954, the doors were for Men Is the Art~ and Sci- established tor Catholic and of the Sacred Heart, a re- opened to men students. ences Building, for which non-Catholic alllce, that no nowned order ot teaching And in April, 1954, the third ground has been broken and student will be barred be. nuns. in staffing the College unit o! the university became for which a fund drive will cause o! creed or color. tor Women. a reality-the School of Law be launched this fall. No non-Catholic student Is Construction Begins was opened. Estimated cost of the build- required to take part in any That paved the way for the The great need of a univer- ing is 3½ million dollars. religious ceremoniP~ oo the start of construction. Ground- sity in San Diego quickly was When the Law Building Is campus. breaking ceremonies on a day shown in the surprising completed this fall, classes in And thus the University of In 1950 marked the start of growth of the student body. both the College for Men and San Diego grows as one of work on a road up the hill, From a start of 33 students the School o1 Law will be of- the bright beac011~ ln tbe cuJ. 1 now know as Marian Way. in the College tor Women five tered th.eN tural and artistic achiev~- Then work was started on years ago, some 1,000 stu- Buildlfl&'I now used for the ment~ of San Diego.

ground out a 14-6 victory over highly favored Colorado State in their last start. The Bengals drew a week off last Saturday and Caccia reports his charges are well rested and In "comparative- ly" good health tor the sc:rap with the Pioneers,