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Fr. Pedro Arrupe & the Call to Action
Fr. Pedro Arrupe, SJ, the Jesuit Superior General from 1965 to 1981, gave SI another reason to move in this new direction. He visited SI in 1971 where he told students that if we have “suicidal blind irresponsibility and lack of courage, we will have no right at some later date to mourn the passing…
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A New Kind of Retreat
The senior retreat in the 1960s wasn’t much different from retreats of decades past. In the early 1970s, the retreats changed to reflect the Preamble and Vatican II. Teachers such as Frank Kavanagh and Charlie Dullea told stories from their lives of how they lived out Gospel values, and students had opportunities not only to…
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Christian Life Communities
The Christian Life Community movement traces its roots to 1563 when Fr. John Leunis, SJ, founded the first Sodality of Our Lady by “gathering a group of young lay students at the Roman College to help them unite their lives.”2 The first Sodalities at SI were among the 80,000 Sodalities that prospered around the world…
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Jesuit Education Redefines Itself
The social activism of the 1960s carried over into the new decade and led to the birth of SI Outbound, which had taken the place of the student Sodality of the Blessed Virgin. Students in this organization worked as tutors in grammar schools throughout the city, visited the elderly and did other acts of community…
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Changes in Leadership
SI students, well into their first year in their new quarters, held a dance in the Carlin Commons on April 15, 1970. The school then opened its doors to the public on April 18 and 19 for an Open House, drawing 7,000 to inspect the still unfinished structures. Then, on June 6, 248 members of…
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Redefining Jesuit Education: 1970-1979
The 1970s saw SI complete its first decade at its brand new campus at 2001 37th Avenue, built atop some of the last inland sand dunes San Franciscans would ever see. Rising from the grains was a modern facility and a new name — St. Ignatius College Preparatory. Inside the new buildings, tensions flared amongst…
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“There are places I remember . . . ”
By Curtis J. Mallegni ‘67 The sharp ring of the alarm clock cut through the quiet stillness of the early morning air. It was a typical start of a fog-infused summer day in San Francisco: 6:30 a.m. in June of 1963. Today was my maiden voyage to the fortress at 222 Stanyan Street known as…
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Chalk-Dust Memories: The 1960s
Michael Shaughnessy ’67 (Michael Shaughnessy is part of the Campus Ministry team at SI. He has taught religious studies at SI since 1980.) Some students considered resisting the draft, but most would have gone willingly had they been drafted, including Michael Shaughnessy ’67. “Had I been drafted straight out of high school, I would have…
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Remembering Paul Medlin ’63 and the legacy of Vietnam
Over the years, SI has honored alumni who have died in service to their country, with the exception of one of its best: Army 2nd Lt. Paul Charles Medlin ’63. Medlin’s name was inadvertently omitted from the 150th anniversary book, Spiritus Magis, which named 10 who died in WWI, 96 in WWII, one in Korea…
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Vietnam
Many SI alumni served in the armed forces during the Vietnam War and six are known to have died: John Santos ’51, Robert Reed ’51, Denis O’Connor ’58, Richard Bloom ’60, Richard Arthur Timboe ’62 and Paul Medlin ’63. In addition, one other grad, Frederick John Riley ’51, a retired Navy pilot, served in the…