[Congressional Record Volume 147, Number 71 (Tuesday, May 22, 2001)]
[Senate]
[Page S5437]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




      IN CELEBRATION OF SANTA CLARA UNIVERSITY'S 150TH ANNIVERSARY

 Mrs. BOXER. Mr. President, I would like to take this 
opportunity to share with the Senate my thoughts on the 150th 
Anniversary of Santa Clara University.
  Santa Clara University, located in the heart of California's Silicon 
Valley, became California's first school of higher learning in 1851. 
The college is celebrating its sesquicentennial this year on the same 
Santa Clara Valley campus it has occupied continuously since its 
founding. At the center of campus is the beautiful Mission Santa Clara 
de Asis, the eighth of the original 21 California missions.
  Santa Clara University brings the intellectual rigor, respect for 
scholarship, and spiritual vision of its Jesuit founders to students of 
all backgrounds and beliefs. In the fall of 1961, women were accepted 
as undergraduates and Santa Clara University became the first 
coeducational Catholic University in California. The college is 
committed to the diversity that distinguishes California and the United 
States throughout the world and its student body includes more than 35 
percent minority group members.
  Santa Clara University's unique community events, undergraduate and 
nationally recognized graduate programs greatly inform and enrich 
communities in the Silicon Valley and the State of California. The 
sesquicentennial of Santa Clara University is a time for celebration by 
us all. 

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