Fr. Tony Sauer to be honored at President's Cabinet Dinner

President Edward A. Reese, S.J., is pleased to announce that Fr. Anthony P. Sauer, S.J., who served SI for 27 years as president between 1979 and 2006, will be this year's honoree at the Oct. 8 President's Cabinet Dinner. 

SI Annual Alumni Wine Classic

Sign up for the 6th Annual St. Ignatius Wine Classic on Saturday, Sept. 17, 2016, at the Boschetto Private Estate in Kenwood. More than 20 wineries will be represented at this breathtaking location. Sign up early as this event will sell out.

Archival Videos now online: See SI through the ages

We recently digitized reels and reels of old film from our archives and found a treasure-trove of images from days gone by. See the entire collection here. 

Here are some quick picks for general videos that we think you'll enjoy:

• Father Carlin viewing around 1967 or so the site of our Sunset District campus from atop Twin Peaks and on the site.
• School activities from 1938 and 1939.
• Another collection from the 1930s and '40s showing mass, track, intramurals, ROTC and a senior breakfast.
• A video from the early 1981 showing a variety of activities & even a few current faculty.
• A review of Annual School Activities from 1939 & 1940.
  

Support SI through the Compass Campaign

Last October, SI announced the launch of the Compass Campaign to add $50 million to the SI Scholarship Endowment Fund by 2020. We are a quarter of our way toward our goal. To learn more about this important endeavor, please visit our Compass Campaign site where you will see a series of videos, including the one above of former regent John Jack '73. If you'd like to help with this grand endeavor, use the form on this page.

Check out bonus content for the Summer Genesis

In case you haven't seen it, here's the summer issue of Genesis magazine. We also have some great bonus content that isn't in the magazine. We asked many of the authors for three quick tips or facts that don't appear in the issue. We are running them weekly, one by one, on our Facebook page, but you can also check them out here on our Quick List page.

Local parishes & schools celebrate 75 years

St. Gabriel Parish, located in the Sunset/Parkside District of San Francisco, is gearing up for a gala 75th Anniversary Jubilee Celebration Sept. 18 through 25. The Roman Catholic Parish came into being when Archbishop John J. Mitty, on June 28, 1941, appointed Father George J. Bedford its founding pastor. All friends, alumni, former parishioners, current parishioners, and neighbors are invited to attend the festivities that are planned for September 18-25, 2016. Festivities will start on Sunday, Sept. 18, with a Parish Picnic to be held at Pine Lake Park. The festivities will continue with a dinner to be held in Bedford Hall (at 41st Avenue and Ulloa) on Saturday evening, Sept. 24, at 6 p.m. with dancing to follow, and a silent auction. (Cost: $75 per person. Tickets are now on sale.) An Anniversary Mass will be celebrated on Sunday, Sept. 25, at noon at Saint Gabriel Church, with a reception to follow in Bedford Hall. For more information on these events please, contact the Parish Center at (415) 731-6161.

Holy Name School is celebrating its 75th Anniversary on Sept. 24. All former alumni and community members are invited to join in the school's celebration!  The event will begin with a Mass at 1:30 p.m. and a celebration following at 3 p.m. Register here for the event and/or to join our Alumni Association. If you have any questions please email the school principal, Natalie Cirigliano, at ncirigliano@holynamesf.com. We hope to see you there!

SI in the News & Photos of Events

Photos of games and events are now on siprep.slickpic.com. 

• James Houghton ’76, founder of NY's Signature Theatre Company and head of drama at Juilliard, dies at 57.
• Zarina Wong '16 wrote about being a Muslim at a Catholic school. .
• Military expert James Corum '71 weighed in on hybrid warfare.
• Dem VP nominee Tim Kaine referenced his Jesuit roots at the DNC. 
• Gov. Jerry Brown '55 spoke & Darren Criss '05 sang at the DNC in Philadelphia.
• ESPN hired Molly McGrath '07 as college sideline reporter & host.
• Fr. Tom Reese, S.J., former SI teacher and brother to SI President Edward Reese, S.J., testified before the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom.
• Michael Cosman '11 helped Katie Wolf add edible plants to her Art and Nature Intensive site.
• Watch a video of SI students on a trip to China.

 Click here to read more about these stories and many, many more.

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