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REV. JOHN E. BAER
Father Baer was named President of the University of
San Diego, College for Men on June 17, 1967, by Most Rev
erend Francis J. Furey, Bishop of the Diocese of San Diego
and Chancellor of the University.
Father Baer, as fourth president of the College for Men,
succeeds Very Rev. John Paul Cadden, president since
1961, who resigned because of ill health.
The new President was born in Streator, Illinois, in 1930
and received his elementary and secondary education in
Elsinore, California. He attended San" Diego State College,
and in 1949, entered St. Francis College, then in El Cajon,
to study for the priesthood. He completed his theological
studies at the North American College and the Gregorian
University in Rome, where in December, 1956, he was
ordained to the priesthood and earned the Bachelor and
Licentiate degrees in Sacred Theology.
He was named assistant pastor at St. Anne's Church in
San Bernardino and taught at Aquinas High School there.
In 1960 he completed his Master of Arts in Education at
Loyola University in Los Angeles. He also fulfilled the re
quirements for a secondary teaching credential in the
State of California. He was appointed the first principal of
Marian High School in Imperial Beach. Father Baer re
turned to the Gregorian University in Rome in 1961 to
take his doctoral studies which he completed in 1963.
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