Tokyo Olympics 2020/2021 The Olympic games are an international spectacle that showcase some of the best athletes in the world. Viewers from all over the world watch in support of their country’s representative athletes as they strive to make the Olympic podium, which is one of the highest achievements an athlete can reach in their […]
Earlier in the year, I looked into the history of Hispanic students at Santa Clara College during the 19th century. It was easily one of my favorite blog posts I’ve written so far because of how much I’ve learned about Californios and early California. However, during my research, I came across the story of Jesús […]
His name was Joseph K. Hobo, and as far as I can tell, he was the first Asian student to attend Santa Clara. But some evidence points to Asian students before him—who were they? And how do we find out? When Santa Clara first opened its doors in 1851, a majority of the male students […]
On March 21, 1961, Santa Clara University President Fr. Patrick Donohoe announced that SCU would be breaking its 110 year tradition by allowing women to enroll as full time students. Fr. Donohoe supported his decision by explaining how college institutions across America were now accepting female applicants, and he thought it be best for SCU […]
“They were of all ages and nationalities and opposite creeds, but they were Santa Clara boys, and whether native or Eastern, Mexican or South Americans, English, French, or Italians, Catholic or Protestant, Jew or Gentile, they were Santa Clara Boys.” A.D. Spivalo ’59 [1859], The Redwood, October 1908 As the earliest educational institution in California, […]
As a keeper of historical records, it’s not often that I take advantage of the opportunity to not only watch but be an active part of our campus history in the midst of its creation. Usually, I’m focused on contextualizing current events with information from our past. Recently, however, my family and I decided to […]
It’s too soon to tell if the Santa Clara tree still lives, but we have no reason to not hold onto hope that it survived. Fire Erupts due to Lightning Storm Many of us were shocked to hear late last week that the CZU Lightning Complex fires had tore through Big Basin Redwood State Park […]
Across the United States, in the weeks following the death of George Floyd, social protests brought renewed scrutiny of statues and monuments in public places in nearly every state, particularly the memorials to Confederate generals, such as Robert E. Lee, or individuals involved in colonizing America, such as Christopher Columbus or Fray Junípero Serra, O.F.M. […]
One Story of a Mission Santa Clara Indian Arguably the most famous Mission Indian of Mission Santa Clara, Lope Inigo of Rancho Posolmi is an Ohlone person whose life spanned the Spanish, Mexican, and American colonial period in the Santa Clara Valley, having lived from 1781-1864. Inigo held the relatively high post (available to an […]
I wrote the following essay as a final research project for Dr. Andrew Keener‘s CTW 2 class in Winter 2019. I also created an online project about James Alexander Forbes, which you can access if you wish to learn more about James Alexander Forbes and traces of him in Santa Clara University Archives & Special […]
