[Congressional Record Volume 155, Number 34 (Thursday, February 26, 2009)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E499]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




     TRIBUTE TO THE UNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO ON ITS 60TH ANNIVERSARY

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                          HON. SUSAN A. DAVIS

                             of california

                    in the house of representatives

                      Thursday, February 26, 2009

  Mrs. DAVIS of California. Madam Speaker, I wish to pay tribute today 
to the University of San Diego, which celebrates its 60th anniversary 
this year.
  The University of San Diego (USD) can trace its roots back to 1496 
and the Spanish town of Alcala de Henares, home and resting place of 
Saint Didacus (or San Diego). However, it was in 1949 that the Most 
Reverend Charles Francis Buddy, first Bishop of the Diocese of San 
Diego, and Reverend Mother Rosalie Clifton Hill, Vicar Superior of the 
U.S. Western Vicariate of the Society of the Religious of the Sacred 
Heart of Jesus, obtained charters from the State of California to 
establish San Diego University and the San Diego College for Women, 
respectively.
  The San Diego College for Women opened its doors in February 1952 
with 33 students, seven faculty members and 16 courses on a campus 
still under construction. Shortly after, the College for Men welcomed 
39 students and the School of Law enrolled a co-ed class of 30. In 
1972, the two colleges and the School of Law merged to form a single, 
Catholic coeducational University of San Diego.
  Today, the 180-acre campus enrolls nearly 7,500 undergraduate, 
graduate and law students and is known for its commitment to teaching, 
the liberal arts, the formation of values and community service. The 
addition of the Joan B. Kroc School of Peace Studies now brings the 
university's total number of schools and colleges to six. Other 
academic divisions include the College of Arts and Sciences and the 
schools of Business Administration, Leadership and Education, Law, and 
Nursing and Health Science.
  On May 2, 2009, USD will recognize several of its alumni by bestowing 
the Mother Rosalie Clifton Hill Service Award on L. Douglas Robert, the 
Bishop Charles Francis Buddy Humanitarian Award to Sandy M. Cassell 
Farrell. Zuzana Lesenarova, four-time NCAA All-American and 1999 
Division I NCAA National Singles Champion of Women's Tennis, will also 
enter the Pagni Athletic Hall of Fame. In addition, seven outstanding 
alumni will receive the Author E. Hughes Career Achievement Awards in 
recognition of their outstanding humanitarian and professional 
achievements. These honorees are Heather Raffo (College of Arts & 
Sciences), Denise M. Boren (Hahn School of Nursing & Health Science), 
Judy Ann Kamanyi (Kroc School of Peace Studies), John M. Cappetta 
(School of Business Administration), Richard M. Bartell (School of 
Law), and Leona Makokis and Patricia A. Makokis (School of Leadership & 
Education Sciences).
  Please join me, Madam Speaker, in wishing these alumni, as well as 
the students and administration, continued success and academic promise 
during USD's diamond anniversary and in the decades to come.

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