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8 unusual facts about Santa Clara University


Alvord Wolff

Alvord Wolff (born c. 1918) was an American football player who played for Santa Clara University was selected as a consensus All-American at the tackle position in 1938.

Aniakchak National Monument and Preserve

Father Bernard R. Hubbard was a Jesuit priest and professor of geology at Santa Clara University in California, who had been exploring Alaska's volcanoes and glaciers every summer season since 1927 and writing about them in best-selling books and in publications such as National Geographic and the Saturday Evening Post.

B. T. Collins

Upon returning to the United States, Collins enrolled at Santa Clara University, earning a B.A. in 1970 and a J.D. in 1973.

Consumer Electronics Association

Fry holds a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering and an honorary doctorate degree from Santa Clara University.

Lloyd Bacon

Bacon attended Santa Clara University, and would later include highlights from the Bronco Football program in the end of his famous film, Knute Rockne, All American.

Master of Engineering Management

Santa Clara University - Master of Science in Engineering Management and Leadership

Paul Halmos

From his 1985 retirement from Indiana until his death, he was affiliated with the Mathematics department at Santa Clara University.

Turn Records

Turn Records is an independent record label founded in 1999 in Santa Clara, California by Jeff Walsh, who was a DJ at KSCU (Santa Clara University) at the time.


Dan Dion

He attended Santa Clara University, where he was the campus comedy director, producing shows such as The Second City, P. J. O'Rourke, and Greg Proops.

Golden Coast Conference

The new league, which will be called the Golden Coast Conference, will feature Azusa Pacific University, California Baptist University, Fresno Pacific University, Loyola Marymount University, San Diego State University, Santa Clara University and University of the Pacific.

Jeff Dowdell

Born in Cooma, New South Wales, he is a product of the Shoalhaven Tigers basketball program which has produced several NBL, WNBL, and NCAA players including his brother Ben who spent 2007–2011 attending Santa Clara University and playing for the Santa Clara Broncos.

Laurence Spitters

He served on the Santa Clara University Board of Trustees, and on the Board of Directors of ALZA Corp., The Children’s Health Council, and The Embarcadero Publishing Company, publisher of the Palo Alto Weekly.

Leavey Center

Leavey Center, also known as the Leavey Activities Center or occasionally by its old nickname the Toso Pavilion, is Santa Clara University's indoor basketball arena in Santa Clara, California.

Loyola, California

The name comes from a 1904 plan by the Jesuits of Santa Clara University to build a new university named for their founder, St. Ignatius of Loyola, in the area.

Mahesh Kale

Mahesh holds a Bachelors in Electronics Engineering from University of Pune (India) and a Masters degree in Engineering Management from Santa Clara University (United States).

Michael Engh

Father Engh was appointed president of Santa Clara University in 2008, succeeded Father Paul Locatelli, who had served as president from 1988 until 2008.

Thomas J. Reese

Following his resignation, Reese spent a year-long sabbatical at Santa Clara University before being named a fellow at the Woodstock Theological Center in Washington, D.C. The center is scheduled to close on June 30, 2013 due to a lack of Jesuit staff.

Young v. Facebook, Inc.

Eric Goldman, an internet law professor at Santa Clara University, noted that Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act could well apply to at least some of Young's claims from the second complaint.


see also

Ayn Rand Institute

In January 2000, Berliner retired as Executive Director, replaced by Yaron Brook, then an assistant professor of finance at Santa Clara University.

Ignatian Center for Jesuit Education

The mandate of the Arrupe Partnership program is to establish a mutually beneficial partnership between Santa Clara University and the Eastside neighborhood of San Jose, California in order to emphasize the Jesuit concern for justice within the University’s curriculum.

Locatelli

Paul Locatelli, American Jesuit and the former president of Santa Clara University

Murray Dry

Murray Dry has taught many leading scholars of American government, political philosophy, and law, among them Suzanna Sherry (Vanderbilt University Law School), Dan Kahan (Yale Law School), James Stoner (Louisiana State University), Peter Minowitz (Santa Clara University), Paul O. Carrese (United States Air Force Academy), Ayse Zarakol (Washington and Lee University), James Morone (Brown University), and Barry Sullivan (Loyola University).

Richard Mounce

Mounce attended Santa Clara University and graduated in 1981 with a BS in Chemistry, he received his D.D.S. from Northwestern University Dental School in 1985, and a certificate in Endodontics from the Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) Endodontic Program in 1991.

Shu-Park Chan

In 1984, during a period when China was establishing cooperative ventures with Western countries, Chan took a leave of absence from Santa Clara University and moved to Shenzhen, China, to establish a university there.

Thomas and Dorothy Leavey Foundation

The Leavey Activities Center at Santa Clara University is an indoor basketball arena which also houses athletic department offices and an academic center