News Scrapbook 1958-1961

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San Diego University co11tin11ed from page 42

terprise and the 9ualitr of its facilities and purpo ·, \X 1 ould the am:d Hearl rdu rnn,ider buildin,g a rnllcge for women in • n Diego! I( the Dioc s provid d a satisfattory site, Mother Hill would be delighted to consider. In a period of depressed land values, 167 acre which were home lo naught but cottontails and rattlesnakes, and which wue mad<: doubly repellent by a shroud of mcphitic odors wafting up the canyon from an abbatoir (Cudahy's) a mile downwind, carte s<.:cmcily planned to locate there could ha"c made both \'is1onarit·s and hard-driving bargainers out of far-sighted properly owners. With so much ndmg on the outcome, the Bi hop knc" he must acquire the par el without tippin).: his hand and inflating the land nlucs beyond hi reach . He induced friends of the University to purchase lot m their own names and hold them until the complete acreage was thus appropriated At that time the m- at lht College hold d0ttor.1tes) , attrcd1• tat,on follm, <:

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Dc·.111 of the C ollt:gc ,ind Profc.:ssor of M1(rob1ology, p.traphrascs Kt.th . "Truth 1s beauty,' sh<: s.iys, "ith ,1 Jilt of hrnily tlut is a s1g11U of her Ordc.:r, "and ,1JI bc.:.tuty pnxceds from God. The pnn up.11 fumlion of tlK College 1s lo pro duce lht most rntdltg<.:nt C.hnst1,1n wom- anhood possible· Mothn l ltll those Sp.umh Rc11.1is- s.1m <: Jrt htlt-tlure for the College for \X,orncn .111d thus s<:l the patt~rn ror all Uni,<:r,ity butld,ng,. he based hc:r de · ,i,ion on fa\'or,1ble 1111prcss1ons of the style gamed al th<.: University of Akal.t Ill pain, but sht: ,1lso incorporated \'Jfl,t• t1ons ohsc.:nc.:d 10 other butld,ngs on the conlinLnt .u1d 111 • outht:rn Cailforn1a missions. Whrlc pus c.:ssc:d of no form.ti trammg Ill either a1th1t<:clurc or en g111cu111g, she df(:w the original splufi- tal1011s for the: C.ollegl ,ind painstakingly moth,rcd c.:, Lry stage.: of the ,1clual rnn strud1on The but!d,ngs of the College l'or Men ,kmonstralt mutations that arc the r<:sult of llishop 13uddy s r<:sourccful concun. Muth of the frdwork, f ri<.:zt:s, and other uockdcd ornam<:ntat,on on the College strudurc.:s arc the fruits of his cxtcns1vc.: rcs<.:Jrch rn Chnsllan symbolo).:y and ar- d11tctlurt while planning the.: c,1111pus In the case of either College, no w nstiou~ .itlempt was made to produtc an actual co111i1111ed

Hr it) would buy back the land from the 111d1, adu b and transf r tat It to ahclf. I nfortunatcl)', \X'orld \X!ar Il inkn enc.:d, nd th maior proJ.!rcss of the plan "a mt rrupt d until 19· 7. Bi 1919, how- qua 1t1on wa, compktc. The lar •e par d, throu1sh c.:xthangc:s of property and ,omc punha,c , "as ac- quired from owners Frank Faust and Herbert Kcllr. Anothc.:r 62 aero on the hill were· obtamcd from the Federal o,<:rnm<:nt, which s<:ttkd an anti-air- craft battery thcrc during the war. An imletcrmmatc portion of the rc::mamckr, reportedly 20 acre • was donat<:d out- nght to the OI\ erst!). The Ciry of rhc find Cvun mg .... artune 111terrupt1ons, ,t took almo t t\\el e )car for Mothu Hill to rc.-ady plan, for the first u111t of the Unher ti) th Jll Diego College for ornc·n hut the r ult < f I-Kr fnttmg is a , enturc th t ha lx:cn de nl d b) one \\Cll•tra~el d cClu• tiful olle th nit d ates." on th north side of the camp , at w completl-d m fay, 19~2. and admitted tudent th folio"· ng term 1th library de 11sned to house l'i0,000 , olumc,;, a I 000-,cat th trc, and a fa ulty whose rcputataon h d Ir ady been established 111 the Bay area (all hut t"o of the kathmg nuns

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