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DECEMBER 2020

Future

Golden Gate Bridge set in urban area

Read the Features

Where is San Francisco headed? How do we end racism? What is the future of transportation? What is the future of faith? Join us as we look at life in 2030.

Dining center

Get the News

See the new residence hall. Meet the new engineering cohort. Meet a graduate who donates masks in the Mission.

Katie Flynn

Catch Up With Alumni

Katie M. Flynn MFA '05 launched her debut novel, about a pandemic, in the middle of a pandemic.

Alumni Spotlight

John “Jack” Gibbons ’42 and wife Mary Ann Gibbons

Education is Where the Heart is

A $1 million legacy gift supports students in the School of Management.

Newsom Family

Making Tomorrow a Better Day: Newsom Scholarship

Joe Cotchett didn’t know it then, but as the events of this last winter and spring unfolded and the COVID-19 pandemic spread, the importance of creating a new endowed scholarship is crucial.

St. Ignatius reflected in USF's science building

From the Desk of Carl Nolte ’54

On the last week B.C.—Before Coronavirus—I went camping with some friends at Steep Ravine on the Marin County coast. We were lucky we went when we did. Only days later we were all ordered to stay home and the world shut down.

Dear USF

I really appreciate all the pages filled with examples of alumni who did something to help others. It inspires me to pursue ways to help my community. It is also very different from the tone of success from the newsletter of my other alma mater. The essay by Dean Radar (“The Case for Liberal Arts”) was also powerful in its expression and thoughtfulness. I rarely read anything like that these days. It makes me want to reconnect with values started and yet to be explored from USF.

— Roderick Lisam MS ’15

That was a great article you wrote on Gordon Bowker and Jerry Baldwin (“Coffee Kings”).  What a story, those two! 

— Neal Cabrinha ’64, MA ’67