back to the future: 75 years of jst history

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In recognition of the 75th anniversary of the school’s founding, the 40th anniversary of its move to berkeley and its integration with santa Clara University last spring, the Bridge celebrates 2009 as an historic year . here follows a poignant then-and-now photo essay, capturing snapshots of the life of the school and the church; an article by rev . rob mcChesney, s .J ., editor of the Bridge, chronicling key moments from the institution’s founding through the recent integration with santa Clara; and an article by rev . paul Crowley, s .J . (s .t .l . 1992), Chair of the religious studies department at santa Clara, on the integration from santa Clara’s perspective . the editors owe a huge debt of gratitude to rev . thomas e . buckley, s .J ., professor of modern Christian history, for contributing the archival photos, his unpublished history of the school, and hours of consultation . any errors are ours . we would also like to thank rev . t . howland sanks, s .J ., professor of historical and systematic theology, and br . daniel peterson, s .J ., archivist of the California province, for their generous assistance in helping us cobble together pieces of the history of the institution . although the faces, names and locations may have changed over the years, the mission of the school to prepare leaders to serve the church and the world remains constant and vibrant . we hope you will enjoy celebrating how god has been and continues to be at work — then, now and on into the future .

Top to bottom: Alma College chapel with original crucifix on far right; JST’s Gesù Chapel with Alma College crucifix on far right; Jesus Window and tabernacle in JST’s Gesù Chapel.

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Faith Doing Justice

Clockwise from top left: While at Alma College, Jesuit scholastics taught catechism and donated blood; After the school moved to Berkeley, students tutored at inner city schools among other outreach activities; JSTB stu-dents joined the Anti-War Protest in spring 1971; JSTB students and then-President Rev. Joseph Daoust, S.J. protest at the School of the Americas (now known as Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation) at Fort Benning, GA in 2007; Jesuit deacon and priests, all students at JSTB, preach at San Quentin State Prison 2008; JSTB students at SOA protest 2008.

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Back in 1934, it was common for the mothers of Jesuits attending our theologate to take a leadership role in fundraising for the school. Gone are the days of yesteryear but we still need mothers, fathers, brothers, and sisters to raise funds to support the students and life of the school. We continue to rely on the generos-ity of “family” like you to support our programs and scholarships so that we can prepare leaders to serve the church throughout the world.

Locations

Top to bottom left: Aerial view of Alma College c. 1937; JSTB Alma House 1969; JSTB Academic Center and Gesù Chapel 2007; Gesù Chapel 2007. Top to bottom right: Alma College classrooms (left) and additional 35 rooms for scholastics (right) built in 1935; View of the Santa Clara Valley from the Dr. Harry L. Tevis Estate which became Alma College.

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SPRING 2009 “Well, it finally happened……about 8:00 last night when all the signature papers had finally been exchanged and duly recorded by the various attorneys……..the [ Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley-Santa Clara University] JST-SCU integration agreement is finally completed and official. Lift a glass with me in a virtual toast!” In an electronic message to the Executive Team of the Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley ( JSTB) dated April 18, 2009 at 10:42 A.M Pacific Time, Acting President Kevin F. Burke, S.J. could barely contain his excitement. “.……I am notifying our Board members of this and I’ll send out an email to all our faculty and staff after I have finished this one.”

Minutes later Fr. Burke wrote to all JSTB faculty and staff of his pleasure at the “virtual signing” of official papers conducted electronically by himself for JSTB, Michael Engh, S.J. as President of Santa Clara University (SCU), and Thomas Smolich, S.J. as President of the U.S. Jesuit Conference (ex officio Vice-Chancellor of JSTB). “Tom Smolich is on his way to Rome today and he will deliver the Integration Agreement and all the supporting documents to the Jesuit Curia early next week. I expect the agreement to make its way to the Congregation for Catholic Education very quickly……..we have the go-ahead to close the agreement as planned on June 30, 2009……..Please join me in offering a prayer of thanks.”

For approximately the last three years the Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley, led by former President Joseph P. Daoust, S.J. and Santa Clara University, led by for-mer President Paul L. Locatelli, S.J., were engaged in deliberations regarding a proposed affiliation between the two Jesuit institutions. The respective boards of trustees and representatives from both schools partici-pated in the complex series of conversations. As noted above, last spring a formal integration agreement was signed, bringing JSTB under the leadership of Santa Clara University as one of its professional schools.

Recognizing this historic occasion, as well as the 75th anniversary of the founding of JST as Alma College in 1934, the Bridge presents this overview of key institutional developments during those years. What follows is not meant as a thorough history but simply as an overview of the “three incarnations” of the one institution.

The integration agreement was publicly announced in an official press release jointly issued by JSTB and SCU on May 4, 2009. “Under the new arrangement, JST will remain in Berkeley and become a school of Santa Clara University known as the Jesuit School of Theology of Santa Clara University. Degrees granted by JST eventually will bear that name……School officials say that many prized facets of JST and SCU will remain unchanged after the integration. For instance, JST will remain a member of the nine-school ecumenical Graduate Theological Union, which operates a world-class theological library and the largest doctoral program of theology in the United States….Both schools will retain the academic freedoms they currently enjoy. The Vatican Congregation of Catholic Education in Rome will continue to set standards for the granting of JST ecclesiastical degrees.”

On June 25, 2009, Fr. Burke again wrote to all JST faculty and staff with “good news to share”, alluding to working approval of the new Statutes approved by the Vatican’s Congregation of Catholic Education in Rome. “Mike Engh and I received word from Tom Smolich that the integration agreement between our school and Santa Clara has been approved........The surprising thing is that we received this approval so quickly (we only submitted the paperwork in late April).”

Five days later, on June 30, 2009, Fr. Burke announced electronically to all JSTB faculty and staff, copied to Joseph P. Daoust, S.J., former president of JSTB: “I just got off the conference call with Mike Engh, Tom

Back to the Future:Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley Affiliates with Santa Clara University

Rev. Rob McChesney, S.J. Editor

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&Curriculum

Community

Other students will be required to take: • Canon Law (3) • Preaching or Lay Presiding (3) • Pastoral Counseling or Spiritual Direction (3) • A pastoral elective (3) • Field Education (4 1/2 units) • Inter-religious dialogue / Ecumenism (3 units) • Third Year Integration Seminar (3 units) MINISTERIAL FORMATIONYear One Integration Seminar: Ministerial IdentityYear Two Integration Seminar: Pastoral InternshipsYear Three Integration Seminar: Theology and MinistryComprehensive ExaminationSpiritual PreparationFor more information, please see our website: http://scu.edu/jst/academics/degreeprograms/divinity.cfm

Clockwise from top left: Alma College Jesuit Community 1934; Alma College Curriculum 1936–1937 in Latin; JST Jesuit Community 2009 — for the first time in history, the majority of the members were born abroad; 2009 Master of Divinity Curriculum.

Master of Divinity Degree

Requirements

Credit Distribution for Course Work

YEAR ONE

• Introductory Courses (24 units total)

• Bible (6)

• Society and Christian Ethics (6)

• Systematics (6)

• History (6)

• Ministry Seminar and Immersion

(4 1/2 units)

YEARS TWO AND THREE

• Bible (9)

• Systematics (9)

• Religion and Society (3)

• Electives (9)

Candidates for ordination will be required to take:

• Canon Law (3)

• Preaching (3)

• Celebrational Style (3)

• Confessional Counseling (3)

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Smolich and the attorneys. The closing of the integration agreement has been finalized and will take place legally at 11:59 pm this evening. John Ottoboni (SCU General Counsel) is filing the paperwork with the State of California as I write. …..My resignation as ‘Acting President’ takes effect this evening as well and, as of tomor-row, Mike Engh will be signing a number of support documents in the name of the ‘Jesuit School of Theology’. It’s finally official.”

And so, as of July 1, 2009 and in its 75th anni-versary year, the Jesuit School of Theology has officially begun its third incarnation.

AlMA collEGEOriginally founded as Alma College in the Santa Cruz Mountains on property purchased from the Estate of Dr. Harry L. Tevis in 1934, the name was taken from the nearby village of “Alma”, located in the valley below the Tevis property. Alma served the lumber trade, which flourished in the mountains during that period, and was a train stop for the railroad over the mountains to Santa Cruz. The property comprised 950 acres, and held four artificial lakes and 27 miles of road. The price was $85,000. From April to September 1934, Jesuit Fathers William E. Donnelly as Vice-Rector and William L. Rice as Minister directed the work of remodeling. The Tevis home was converted into the faculty building and his library became the chapel. They supervised the construction of a library and a dormitory building with 52 rooms for Jesuit scholastics. Donnelly began begging for faculty from other Jesuit provinces. Eventually New York-Maryland sent two men, and New England “loaned” one. Alma College opened as a theologate (seminary) for Jesuits of the Oregon and California Provinces in September 1934.

By 1937, there were 98 men in the Jesuit Community.Alma College became a pontifical faculty in 1945.

The academic program was standardized for all Jesuit theologates around the world. Emphasis was on Dogmatic Theology taught in the thesis method. All courses were taught in Latin. Exams were oral and in Latin.

Interestingly, in 1958, the theologate was affiliated with Santa Clara University as its School of Theology. In 1959, the Jesuit Community of Alma numbered 135 Jesuits from seven Provinces. School records from that year list 680 alumni from 31 Provinces.

In the early 1960s, both the church and school were in ferment. The Second Vatican Council was on the eve of its third session in 1964 when the Alma faculty asked permission to join the Graduate Theological Union

Top to bottom: Two of the key players in the decision to establish a theologate: Most Rev. Wladimir Ledochowski, S.J., Superior General; Most Rev. Zacheus Maher, S.J., California Provincial, with dog; Directions to Alma College for the 1934 Dedication; In 1964, Alma College Dean Rev. Harry Cor coran, S.J. contacted Graduate Theological union (GTu) Dean John Dillinberger and Jane Dillinberger to discuss joining the GTu.

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(GTU), an ecumenical consortium of theological schools located in Berkeley. By January of 1966, the Vatican Council had ended and Alma College had become a member of the GTU, but the school remained in the Santa Cruz Mountains. The province was divided over its location. Most faculty and students wanted to move to Berkeley; some Jesuits wanted it relocated at the University of San Francisco (USF) which had a fine department of theol-ogy; and the California Provincial, John F.X. Connolly, S.J., preferred that Alma go to USF or remain where it was. The wooden buildings at Alma, constructed in the 1930’s, were in need of a major capital investment.

The matter remained at an impasse until Jesuit Superior General Pedro Arrupe, S.J. intervened and appointed SCU President, Father Patrick Donohue, S.J. as the new provincial. In April 1969, he announced to the Alma Community that the school would relocate to Berkeley in the summer. A grand celebration ensued that evening. Thirty-five years after its founding in the Santa Cruz Mountains and 40 years ago, the institution was headed to the East Bay and its second incarnation. There was no time to lose, just five months prior to the opening of a new semester.

jESUIT School oF ThEoloGy AT BERkElEyHappily, many properties were available on the north side of the campus of the University of California, Berkeley. Between April and August, David McDonald, S.J., the Community Minister, purchased Alma (part of the current Academic Center), Claver, Shalom, the LeConte Street apartment house (today’s Hagemann), and the two Virginia Street apartment houses (today’s O’Hanlon and Arrupe) at prices that would be unheard of today. When, in September 1969, Jesuit leaders opened the academic year in Berkeley, the school officially became the Jesuit School of Theology of Berkeley, a member of the GTU. Being a member of the GTU opened up cross-registration and ecumenical opportu-nities, an advantage that continues to this day.

Upon joining the GTU, JSTB ended its affiliation with SCU and sought independent accreditation for the first time from the Western Association of Schools and Colleges and the Association of Theological Schools. JSTB’s first president, Fr. Richard Hill, S.J., called the visitations of teams from those two accrediting agencies the most important event of JSTB’s second school year.

In the 1970s, JSTB announced that it would open its enrollment to all qualified applicants. With an outstanding reputation for theological expertise, teaching and religious formation, there were many applications from Claretians, Salesians, Piarists and Oblates, as well as from lay men Students

The faces of the students studying at JST has changed over the years from just American Jesuits to Jesuits, religious and lay persons from all continents. Clockwise from top left: First-year Jesuit theologians at Alma 1968; Lay Minister Sending Forth 2008; Graduation 2009; Instituto Hispano 2008.

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and women. Increased enrollment meant new faculty, both Jesuit and lay. The first woman on the faculty, Sr. Dorothy Donnelly, C.S.J., arrived in fall 1971. By 1988 there were 197 students, including 85 Jesuits and 55 women. In the 1990’s, significant numbers of Jesuits from abroad began to matriculate to take advantage of ecclesiastical degree programs. Many have returned to home countries and provinces to staff local seminary programs, for example at Hekima Jesuit School of Theology in Nairobi, Kenya.

When T. Howland Sanks, S.J. was asked to take the president’s job in October 1995, the mandate from the board was to lead the school through a strategic planning process. He posed the following questions to the broader JSTB community: “What kind of a school? For what kind of Church? For what kind of world?” The result of over a year’s discussion became the primary stra-tegic initiative: JSTB would become more intentionally an international center for the culturally contextualized study of theology and formation for ministry. For two more years, faculty then deliberated the practical implications of this strategic priority, resulting in significant curricular reform.

In fall of 2009, the Jesuit Community in Berkeley marked an historic watershed in a globalized church and Society of Jesus — for the first time more than one-half of the community members are foreign-born.

BAck To ThE FUTUREAnd now, in the wake of the July 1, 2009 affiliation agreement, the wheel has come full circle. As was the case with Alma in its later years, JST will again be affili-ated with SCU. Back to the future: the third incarnation has begun. Fr. Engh is now the president of JST, and Fr. Burke serves as executive dean. As such he is a member of the Council of Deans of the broader SCU, which includes the deans of the Leavey School of Business, the Law School, the School of Engineering, the College of Arts & Sciences, and the School of Education and Counseling Psychology. Fr. Burke will represent JST on the GTU Council of Presidents and the GTU Board of Trustees. JSTB’s former Board of Trustees has been reorganized as the JST Board of Directors and continues to play a key constructive role in the ongoing process Students

Sr. Dorothy Donnelly, C.S.J., the first female faculty member, arrived in 1971.


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75JESUIT SCHOOL OF THEOLOGY1934-2009 yearsLeft to right: The Jesuit

community dining in the refectory at Alma College. Waiters served all the meals (see them standing at right) and a scholastic read aloud to the community from the pulpit in the left rear; Jesuit scholastics grilling for Mass of the Holy Spirit barbecue 2007.

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Presidents:1969–Present

of affiliation. SCU’s Board of Trustees’ purview now includes JST along with the other schools at SCU.

On September 22, 2009, JST and SCU formally celebrated their integration in an Academic Convocation in the Gesù Chapel. The new Bishop of Oakland, the Most Rev. Salvatore Cordileone, offered a greeting to the community as well as the Final Benediction. In his presidential address, Fr. Engh spoke “not only as presi-dent of Santa Clara but as an alumnus of JST, one whose

priesthood was formed and enriched here.”

Fr. Engh lauded the outstanding faculty that

he studied under, including current JST faculty member Sr. MaryAnn Donovan, S.C., Professor of Historical Theology and Spirituality. He cited three faculty members from the GTU who had had a major personal formative impact, one at Church Divinity School of the Pacific, one at Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary, and in particular, Eldon Ernst at the American Baptist Seminary of the West. In the courses of Professor Ernst, he noted, “I formulated the approach to American religious history that I later developed in my dissertation, my first book and various articles.” Present for the historic festivities, GTU President and Professor of Ethics, James A.

Donahue, and several presidents of individual GTU schools beamed.

Calling JST “a jewel in the crown of Santa Clara University”, Fr. Engh pointed out that the integration “will enable the university to work even more fruitfully with the local and universal church. We shall be better able to assist the church in the preparation of men and women from all over the world for ministry. We shall also continue a strong tradition of theological scholar-ship at the service of the church.”

Concluding his presidential address, Fr. Engh emphasized the essential animating presence played by theologians in the Catholic Church and university. “For these reasons I welcome the Jesuit School of Theology to augment the fine work of the Department of Religious Studies on the Santa Clara campus. Together, this new school and this department energize the Catholic intellectual tradition that is Santa Clara’s proudest heritage.”

Top row: left to right: Rev. Richard Hill, S.J. (1969–75, 1977–82); Rev. Joseph Tetlow, S.J. (1975–77); Rev. Lyndon Farwell, S.J. (1982–85); Rev. Thomas Gleeson, S.J. (1986–95). Bottom row: left to right: Rev. T. Howland “Hal” Sanks, S.J. (1996–97); Rev. Joseph Daoust, S.J. (1998–2008); Rev. Kevin Burke, S.J. (Acting President 2008–09, Executive Dean 2009–present); Rev. Michael Engh (2009–present). The school has had several acting presidents who are not captured here.

JST ‘a jewel in the crown

of Santa Clara University’ essential animating

presence of theologians

in the Catholic Church

and university

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Visits by Fathers General

Clockwise from top left: Most Rev. Pedro Arrupe, S.J. greeting scholastics at Alma College 1966; Rev. Richard Hill, S.J., JSTB president, Most Rev. Pat Donahoe, S.J., California Provincial, Bishop Floyd Begin of Oakland, Rev. Michael Buckley, S.J., rector, and Most Rev. Pedro Arrupe, S.J. at JSTB 1971; Most Rev. Adolfo Nicolàs presiding at Mass at JSTB February 6, 2009; Santa Clara university President, Rev. Michael Engh, S.J. with Most Rev. Adolfo Nicolàs, S.J. and then-Acting President of JSTB, Rev. Kevin Burke, S.J. February 6, 2009; Most Rev. Pedro Arrupe, S.J. at Alma College 1966; Most Rev. Peter Hans Kolvenbach, S.J. (second from left) visiting JSTB October 9, 2000 with Board Chairman, John E. Kerrigan, Jr. on far right.

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Beginning in 1973, the school offered sabbatical programs for those in ministry. Originally created as the Institute for Spirituality and Worship (ISW) with Rev. Don Gelpi, S.J. and Rev. Jake Empereur, S.J. as its first coordinators, it later evolved into the New Directions Sabbatical Program. Left to right: First ISW class 1973–1974 and most recent New Directions class on retreat, May 2008.

Sabbatical Programs

Clockwise from top left: Archbishop Edward J. Hanna dedicating Alma College, October 20, 1934; Most Rev. Zaccheus Maher, S.J., California Provincial, Archbishop Hanna, and Most Rev. Walter Fitzgerald, S.J., Oregon Provincial at 1934 Dedication; Most Rev. Thomas Smolich, S.J., President of u.S. Jesuit Conference, Bishop Emeritus John Cummins, Rev. Joseph P. Daoust, S.J., then-President of JSTB concelebrate Mass at September 29, 2006 Dedication of Gesù Chapel and JSTB Academic Center; Choir leads congregation in song at 2006 Dedication; Bishop Emeritus John Cummins dedicating Gesù Chapel.

Dedications

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Two weeks later, the celebration shifted south to the main campus in Santa Clara for the traditional Mass of the Holy Spirit inaugurating the new academic year. With Fr. Burke and Fr. Anthony Sholander, S.J., Rector of the JST Jesuit Community, alongside, Fr. Engh pre-sided over this centuries-old Eucharistic tradition in Jesuit colleges and universities. The Mission Church at SCU overflowed with students, faculty, staff and friends. Fr. Engh warmly welcomed the large contingent from Berkeley, and in his homily again addressed the theme of the essential role of theology in a Catholic university.

Adapting the Opening Prayer from the Roman Sacramentary’s Votive Mass of the Holy Spirit, Fr. Engh led the congregation in worship. The prayer echoed from

the South Bay to the East Bay: “God our Father, you taught the hearts of your faithful people by sending them the light of your Holy Spirit. In that Spirit we beg you now to bless the efforts of the Santa Clara community to educate and form leaders of competence, conscience and compassion as we begin our 159th year. We ask this through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, forever and ever.” In its historic 75th anniversary year, let the JST family say “Amen”!

“What kind of school?

For what kind of Church?

For what kind of world?”

Clockwise from top left: Priestly ordination at St. Mary’s Cathedral in San Francisco in 1930s or 1940s; Diaconate ordination 2006 at St. Augustine’s in Oakland; Diaconate ordination 2007; Diaconate ordination 1969.

Ordinations

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over three years ago, representatIves from the faculties of the Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley ( JSTB) and the Santa Clara University (SCU) Religious Studies Department met over lunch at Adobe Lodge on the Santa Clara campus to discuss the idea of an affiliation of JSTB with SCU. At that time none of us had a clear idea of what “affiliation” would look like or how the faculties would formally interact. But from the beginning, both faculties insisted, “Let’s talk about mission.” How would JSTB fit into and enhance the mission of Santa Clara as a whole, and how might Santa Clara’s mission as a Jesuit Catholic university enhance the mission of JSTB as a professional school of theology and ministry? This question drives to the role of theology in the mission of the Jesuit university, and of the univer-sity in relation to theology. As the dream of affiliation matured into a systemic project of the integration of the many parts of JSTB into SCU and vice versa, this academic concern has remained the heart of the matter.

There are, of course, certain differences between the specific mission of JST and the wider mission of Santa Clara University. There are also differences between the JST mission and the mission of the Religious Studies Department, which includes the 25-year-old Graduate Program in Pastoral Ministries. And this is as it should be, for every school and department within the univer-sity has a distinctive mission. At the same time, there is a shared mission that derives from the fact that Santa Clara is a Catholic university, a mission that is specified in its Jesuit foundations and animating principles, its academic life, and its commitments to the wider world. It is this aspect of Santa Clara’s mission that gives the university its distinctive identity, even as a Catholic university. And this is where the addition of JST to Santa Clara as a school of theology and ministry prom-ises to specify further that identity and to strengthen its mission. It all gets down to the role of theology in the life of a Catholic Jesuit university.

A View from the “Main Campus” on Integration

Rev. Paul Crowley, S.J. (S.T.L. 1992) Jesuit Community Professor and Chair, Religious Studies Department, Santa Clara University and Board of Directors, Jesuit School of Theology

Intercultural Theological Immersions


In an Academic Convocation speech at JST on September 22, 2009, at which JST and SCU formally celebrated their integration, Santa Clara President Father Michael Engh, S.J. summarized well how the-ology serves as a kind of “synthesizing center” for the university. He was referring not to theology as an arcane discipline standing in splendid isolation from other dis-ciplines, but as a vital intellectual enterprise in dialogue with other disciplines and ways of knowing. Why is this important for the university? As Father Engh said so well, “by the integration of JST into the life of Santa Clara, the university now becomes just that much more fully the Catholic, Jesuit university that it most certainly already is.” Indeed, there is already vigorous theological life at Santa Clara, not only within the Religious Studies Department, but through an array of interdisciplinary programs such as Catholic Studies and new Core Pathways, as well as the Ignatian Center for Jesuit Education and the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics. But we have not had the benefit, until now, of a whole set of colleagues engaged full-time at the graduate level of theological studies, or of a theological school that shares so centrally in many of the values of Santa Clara itself as a Jesuit institution.

How is this integration taking shape at Santa Clara? First, the faculties have been coming together in con-versations for quite some time. While the project of integration has required the generosity and expertise of administrators and staff from all sectors of the University, frank discussion among faculty about both possibilities and potential pitfalls have been crucial to integration, and will continue to be so as the process unfolds over time. The result of these conversations and contacts has been a growing list of plans and projects that are drawing JST faculty and graduate students into working relationships

with Santa Clara faculty. This year, for example, the Religious Studies Department is adding two JST doctoral students as lecturers in the Department. JST faculty have been regular contributors to Santa Clara undergraduate classes as guest lecturers. And, with pro-jected new video-conferencing capabilities, we will be able to “drop” a visiting lecturer from JST directly into a Santa Clara classroom. In the future we expect to work out arrangements for JST faculty to spend a full quarter on the main campus, working either with our majors or with graduate students in the Graduate Program in Pastoral Ministries.

Of course, it works the other way, too. During academic year 2009–2010, two SCU faculty, Michael Buckley, S.J., from Religious Studies, and Gerdenio Manuel, S.J., from Psychology, are giving graduate courses at JST. There will doubt-less be more faculty exchanges in the future, which is a benefit to both faculty and students.

The Religious Studies Department has a particular interest in the integration, because we have a superb faculty and research projects that we are eager to share with our Berkeley colleagues. Theology today calls for interreligious and intercultural dialogues, and the SCU Department specializes in this kind of contextual shaping of theology. Our experts in Judaism, Islam, Buddhism and Hinduism, in African and Latin American religion,

An important part of the current curriculum is studying theology in particular and diverse cultural contexts. First-year students are required to participate in a theological immersion trip to Mexico and upper-level students have the option of participating in theological immersions to India, Nepal, Indonesia, Guatemala, and elsewhere. Opposite page and this page, left to right: Students on immersion in Mexico, India, and Nepal.

“..a shared mission...

specified in its Jesuit

foundations and

animating principles,

its academic life and

commitment to the

wider world.”



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Rectors

Many dedicated men have served as rector of the Jesuit community for the School. Here we show one from 40 years ago and one today. Left to right: Rev. Michael Buckley, S.J. 1969; Rev. Tony Sholander, S.J. 2009

indigenous religions and spirituality, as well as in scripture, history, ethics and systematic theology itself, will provide JST theologians a natural set of academic partners. And our “Local Religion Project”, which surveys the local manifestations of global religions throughout the Bay Area, can play a key role in this partnership.

In fact both campuses have already begun working together on various joint projects. Last May, even before the integration agreement had been signed, JST and SCU co-sponsored on the

Berkeley campus an international conference, “Many Tongues, One Spirit: Local Ecclesiologies in Dialogue”. That conference brought together people from all conti-nents into open and constructive dialogue around issues facing the church. Several other projects are in the works, including a conference on Teilhard de Chardin and co-sponsorship of the National Hispanic Pastoral Institute, to be held on both campuses. We are also working together to build professional relationships with theologians on the Pacific Rim, most recently with scholars at Fudan University in Shanghai, China. We hope to build a distinctive approach to theology on the West Coast, one that is shaped in part by the world we inhabit and which we are called to serve.

There is so much more that could be said from the perspective of the “main campus”. What is evident is that with the arrival of JST, Santa Clara University is embarking on an exciting and historic journey.

“theology serves as a kind

of ‘synthesizing center’

for the university”

Welcome, New Directors. Farewell, Departing Trustees.With the affiliation of the Jesuit School of Theology at Berekley and Santa Clara University, the School welcomes Rev. Paul Crowley, S.J. and Rev. David Suwalsky, S.J. to the Board of Directors. Thank you, Paul and David, for joining the board and offering your knowledge, resources and expertise to our school.

The School wishes to express its deepest gratitude for the generosity, wisdom, and years of dedicated service of the trustees who recently completed their terms: Rev. Thomas Feely, S.J., Rev. Walter Modrys, S.J. and in a special way, to long-time board chair and friend of the School, John E. Kerrigan, Jr.

ChristmasTop to bottom: Jesuit scholastics at Alma during Christmas holidays. Before the 1960s Jesuits did not ordinarily visit their families over the holidays. Instead they remained in community and all the entertainment was there. Some of it was extremely creative as, for example, when a classroom was transformed into a casino! Students dressed as the Angel Gabriel, the Virgin Mary and Saint Joseph for Las Posadas at JSTB 2007.


Extracurricular

Activities

Clockwise from top left: At Alma: playing pool, playing baseball, fishing at Santa Cruz summer villa, post-Vatican II open air Mass; Celebrating on JSTB’s back patio after Mass of the Holy Spirit 2007; Jesuit scholastics performing at JSTB Music Night 2007; lay students at JSTB Music Night 2007; Hagemann II Jesuit community 1981 including current SCu President, Rev. Michael Engh, S.J. rear row, second from left.


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Faculty

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Rev. Don Gelpi, S.J.

Sr. Sandra Schneiders, I.H.M.

John E. Kerrigan, Jr., first and long-time lay chair of the board of trustees

Rev. Bill O’Neill, S.J. (as student in 1981 and now as professor)

Sr. MaryAnn Donovan, S.C.

Rev. Hal Sanks, S.J.

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