Alcalá 1964

SENIOR MEMORIES

The San Diego College for Women, founded and sustained on a tradition of ex

cellence and integrity in education, beholds the timeless, mystic tradition of the sea.

Spanish Renaissance windows frame the vast spectrum of the water's blue: brilliant

concerts of blue-green, subtle gray-brushed tones, periodic turquoise hues. . . The vital

renewing movement of the changeless sea. . attended by the precise architecture of classi

cal Europe . . and witnessed by a generation of the time. Currency — immediate, ani

mated, intense — within the shadows of an abiding culture.

Traditions — strong, clear, decided. Traditions continuing as the metaphor and

framework of vital growth . . as they were four years ago for a new group of freshman

girls . . and as cumulative meaning for a graduating senior class of young women.

The patterns of the sea are endlessly varied . . complex and simple . . with aspects

spanning the sublime and the ordinary . . the eternal and the transient . . the memorable

and the forgotten. . .

And so our college years . . a pattern of four years . . varied and complex in ac

tivities, events and experiences . . and yet, with the simplicity of one in faith, tradition

and purpose . . and above all the unique growth of each and all:

Individuals . . of the quiet gifts: their warm smiles lending serenity to those days

that were always crowded, often hectic and sometimes unhappy . . of dedication: the

devotion of those who expended time, effort and talent in the million necessary tasks

in the smooth operation of student-body and class affairs . . of laughter: the indispen

sable characters, rich in humor, who turned disappointments and failings into an amusing

appreciation of human foible and who added an enriching light-heartedness to accom

plishments . . of imagination: the easy-going students who managed midterms, term-

papers, mixers and movies in the same comfortable stride; scientists who organized and

formulated everything from titrating to dating, announcing their engagements in the

same short conversation in which they announced the solution to a difficult math problem

. . of starry-eyes and visions: rainbows riders who came down to earth long enough to

display their rings and announce the date; personnel people who dated the most eligible

men that sail the seas . . of understanding: the eager ones who wrestled with Aristotle

until they knew what "pers se" and "per accidens" really means; the special friends who

listened and what is more, endured; the politicians, opinionated and articluate in every

thing from Havana to Aadack; the philosophers, pragmatically, ideologically, scienti

fically, poetically and historically versed in the wisdom and ways of life . . . Individuals

. . the laughable, lovable, elegant, profound, amazing, intelligent, ingenious . . the good

and the gracious, the pretty, popular, the promising, the sad, smiling and shy . . . indivi

duals whose gifts and singularity formed the most important and enriching pattern of

our four years together . . and whose influence and ideals will be a meaningful force

throughout our lives . . .

Our Faculty . . patient, helpful, exacting, encouraging and probably disappointed

at times . . but always hopeful and always vital with the excitement and discovery of

ideas — projected and illustrated . . History professors — alive and intrigued with the

destinies of Henry VIII and Frederick Barbarossa . . Philosophers — explaining for the

tenth time why the final cause is the cause of all causes . . Social and Political Scientists

— grimacing, when reminding after the midterm that a nation is not a state and a com

munity is not a society . . Language instructors — surviving anglinized versions of their