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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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