Alcala 1969

SISTER NANCY MORRIS

Sister Morris, a native Californian, was born in Piedmont, California, a residential area near Oak­ land, California. She graduated from Piedmont High School in 1945, and later from the University of California where she majored in English. She was a member of Kappa Gamma Sorority at the Univer­ sity of California at Berkeley. She entered the novitiate of the Religious of the Sacred Heart, then in Albany, New York, in 1951. She taught at the Convent of the Sacred Heart at San Francisco and in Menlow Park,' California. Her final Profession was made in Rome, Italy, in1959. Sister Morris received her M.A. in English at the San Francisco College for Women in 1962 and has done graduate work at Stanford University and at the University of San Francisco in the Theology Program. She was the Principal of the Convent of the Sacred Heart in San Francisco for five years, and assumed the office of President at the Univ­ ersity of San Diego, College for Women, in 1966. Sister Morris has been pursuing an M.A. in Theology at U.S.F., interrupted by her appointment as Pres­ ident of S.D.C.W. Sister Morris was chosen one of the "Women of Valor" for the year 1967, an outstanding profession­ al woman. She is now an Urban League Board mem­ ber for the County of San Diego. She was the only woman among some twenty "outstanding Alumni" to speak at the Centennial Celebration at U.C. Berkeley in March of this year.

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