U Magazine, Spring 1990

' es The Most Rev. Leo T. Maher, bishop ofSan Diego, reflects on two decades ofservice to USD

By John Sutherland

As most San Diego area residents may know from news accounts, Bishop Maher underwent surgery April 25 to remove a brain tumor. Numerous caUs and inquiries from concerned well wishers have reached the campus, and the USO communiry has joined San Diego coadjutor Bishop Robert Brom, who wiU succeed Bishop Maher July I, in praying that God will grant him renewed health and strength. As this story went to press, Bishop Maher was recuperating at his home. He was discharged from Scripps Clinic and Research Institution April 30.

If all the world's a stage, then Bishop Leo T. Maher is one of the principal backers ofAlcala Park's hitproduction. The production? The University ofSan Diego.

have played a part in building a first class Catholic university in San Diego. But every successful production needs a sponsor, someone who nurtures and inspires others to bring an idea

The plot?A university born of ----------–

humble origins in the 1940s grows to become one ofthe Pacific Southwest's leading institutions ofhigher learning during the 1980s. The stars? The faculty. The students. The administrators. The alumni. And all the other thousands ofmen and women who

to life. The original sponsors ofUSD's story were Bishop Charles R Buddy andMother Rosalie Hill, RSC], who breathed life into their dream to build a great university on a mesa overlooking San Diego's Mission Bay. Bishop Leo Maher has remainedfaithful to that course. U Magazine