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By Ronald Eugene Isetti

the unique fog-soaked Saint Mary's university campus in San Francisco enrolled either boys and younger males and was once born in 1863 from the tutorial imaginative and prescient of Archbishop Joseph Sadoc Alemany. In 1889, the campus moved to Oakland and was once affectionately dubbed the "Old Brickpile." via fires, earthquakes, global wars and financial ruin, the school persisted and matured, ultimately relocating to its current place in Moraga Valley. From usa military cadets and "Slip" Madigan's Galloping Gaels to the Latin query and iconic cell sales space stuffing, historian and retired Saint Mary's collage professor Ronald Eugene Isetti bargains an in depth examine the college's legacy. sign up for Isetti as he chronicles the educational imaginative and prescient, institutional demanding situations and scholar traditions of 1 of California's oldest institutions of upper learning.

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