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USF President Stephen A. Privett, S.J.
presented USF Chancellor John Lo
Schiavo, S.J. with the Lo Schiavo
Lifetime Achievement Award. A mayoral
proclamation also named April 24
“John Lo Schiavo Day.”
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Chancellor Receives Lifetime Achievement Award
John Lo Schiavo, S.J., chancellor of USF and a well-loved and respected figure in the university and San Francisco community, received the USF Alumni Association’s first Lifetime Achievement Award, named in his honor, at the association’s annual spring gala April 24. More than 700 people attended a dinner and dance at San Francisco’s St. Francis Hotel to honor Fr. Lo Schiavo, who has been associated with the University of San Francisco for 43 years as a teacher, Jesuit, administrator, trustee, president, and now chancellor.
?He is a warm, compassionate, and elegant person whose grace, humor, and humanity have touched the hearts of thousands,? said USF President Stephen A. Privett, S.J., who conferred the award on Fr. Lo Schiavo.
As president, Fr. Lo Schiavo built USF from a small, financially struggling institution in the 1970s into one of the most dynamic Jesuit universities in the country. It was under Fr. Lo Schiavo’s leadership that USF acquired the Lone Mountain campus, built the Koret Health and Recreation Center, started the first Judaic Studies program at a Catholic school west of the Mississippi, founded the College of Professional Studies and the Center for the Pacific Rim, attracted some of the region’s most respected business leaders to USF’s board of trustees, and completed the largest capital campaign in the university’s history in the early 1980s.
“I am most grateful that as president I had the opportunity to meet and work with so many wonderful people,” Fr. Lo Schiavo said during his acceptance speech. “I have been blessed and very fortunate to have spent so many years on The Hilltop.”
The Lo Schiavo Lifetime Achievement Award, created by a group of alumni from the ’60s and ’70s, will be conferred on individuals who exemplify Jesuit ideals of courage, integrity, and selflessness and have acted on their convictions for the benefit of others without regard to personal sacrifice.
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