An Introductory Note:
Click on any title to view these newsletters. The familiar "click here" prompt is not needed on this page. These newsletters will open up, in your browser, using Adobe's (pdf) Reader product. Due to some questions and comments, I have created a page for you that contains: Three Tips for viewing these Newsletter files. Enjoy!

Alumni Association Newsletter: Spring 2011
News from Alumni Day 2010, Rhet 1965 reunion, great pictures and more!

Alumni Association Newsletter: Summer 2010
Pop's Rock Planted!
Saint Joseph's bonfires, and more

The Blow, June 10, 1953
   (Sent to the Alumni Assoc. by Loren Dwyer, R’53)
The September Affair, Fr. Rock (by Thomas Dowling)
Vacation (by George Crespin)
High Society (by Arthur Strange)
The Unsuspected (by David Pettingill)
The Snoop (by Robert Quigley)
The Blow Staff and a “Thank You”
Here And There (by Michael Keating)
Sports review
   (Note: The above named writers are all R’56)
   (A tip: The quality of these pages is poor, faded and blotchy. It might help the viewer, after opening this file, to enlarge your window to full screen.)

St. Joseph's and St. Patrick's Collide on the Basketball Court, 1960
by Philip McCrillis, R'55
   From “The Patrician,” Vol. XXIX, No. 2, page 17, Spring 1960

The Blow, 11-24-1960 (Part 1)
   (Sent to the Alumni Assoc. by John Owen, R’65)
The Blow Staff
Opening Day Statistics
Seminarians and the Word of God
Interview with a famous Yogi (by Bob Carroll, R'61)
The Father Braun Story (by Mike Joyce, R'62)
Chapel symbols
A Definition (by Mike McAlister, R'62)
   (Notes: I scanned this Blow in two parts because of its size. Large files (and photos) tend to open very slowly and frustrate the readers. Part 2 is the next item on this page. I did not scan several pages that were unreadable. Even the faintest pages have historical value, so I did scan some very poor pages. Tip: Set your reading window to full screen - it helps a bit.)

The Blow, 11-24-1960 (Part 2)
   (Sent to the Alumni Assoc. by John Owen, R’65)
Election year (1960) art artwork
Dear Santa (by Iggie, R'64 and Pete Ferrai, R'63)
A King Has Fallen (by Martin Freitas, R'62)
A Study in Latin (by Bob Nixon, R'62)
   (Notes: Part 1 is the item just above)

The Blow (Vol. XIV, No. 2), Christmas 1961
   (Sent to the Alumni Assoc. by John Owen, R’65)
The Lark by Joe Harrington
A visit with Fr. Girard by Gil Meta
Langlais Mass by Bill McClure
T.V.’s Newest dilemma by Van Hagen, Ed.
The decline of boxing (part-1), by Bill McClure

The Blow (Vol. XIV, No. 2), Christmas 1961
   (Scanned and shown in 2 parts because of the large file size)
The Pirates by Brian Cahill (includes 2 pictures)
Low Noon by John Riley
Quotes by Riley & Ringrose
The only good Christian… by John Riley
My most embarrassing experience at Saint Joseph’s College by Peter Higgins

A note about the organization of this Newsletter Section at our school's website:
The above newsletters are at the top of this page because (1) they are most recent, and (2) they posess significant historical interest for our Alumni. For example, the issues of The Blow are rare. I do not have any other issues. I would certainly appreciate some more copies to post and share.
The newsletters below are sorted by age from the oldest to the newest. So, as I scan, encode and upload additional newsletters, I plan to insert them in this section by date.

Alumni Association Newsletter: November 1986
Alumni day – 1986
College chapel renovation (per Vatican II)
Enlightenment in the desert (Bob Kaelin, C’87)
Older but better, Fr. Andrew Forster and Fr. John Franey

Alumni Association Newsletter: November 1988
Alumni Day – 1988
Alumni Board greets new members
Alumnus brings 28 Morgan Hill school children to the seminary
New faculty and new development director at St. Joseph’s

Alumni Association Newsletter: Summer 1991
Alumni Day – 1990
St. Joseph’s College closes, 1924-1991
Alumni President’s Corner – Transitions (C. W. Sweeney, R’40)
From the Rector, Fr. Cale Crowley, S.S. “Earthquakes tend to put things into perspective…..”
Don Carroll, R’58 receives St. Thomas More award
A Russian Experience (Jim Hansen, HS’69)
A Tribute to St. Joseph’s College (Erwin Ravago, C’92 and Edward Taylor, C’89)

Alumni Association Newsletter: December 1998
End of a chapter – the demolition of St. Joseph’s (by Fr. John Olivier, S.S.)
New alumni coordinator, Jim Murphy, R’64
Reminiscences in purple prose (James Marchiano, R’63)
Photos from our first day of recollection

Alumni Association Newsletter: Winter 1999
Frank B. Norris, S.S., R’1944 (1925-2000)
Catholic Worker House, Redwood City, CA (by Larry Purcell, R’64)
Your Alumni Board (1999)
Alumni Day 1999 - snapshots

Alumni Association Newsletter: Spring-Summer 2000
Record numbers at Alumni Day 2000
Celebrating the Rhet Class of 1950, or the Laments of a Sixth Latiner (by Walter J. Falconer, R'50)
Nostalgia Lane: Drama and Sports (by Jim Marchiano and Barry Bissell, R’63)
Y2K Quiz answers

Alumni Association Newsletter: Fall 2000
John H. Olivier, S.S., A Gentleman of Saint Sulpice
Catholic charities (Brian Cahill, R’60)
Hearing aids and St. Joe (Larry Ratto, R’54)
A day in my life at St. Joseph’s in 1958 (Bill Wall, R’63)
A country to be grateful for (Ed Gaffney, R’61)

Alumni Association Newsletter: Fall 2001
September 11, 2001 – A View from Hanover Square (by Jim Murphy, R’65)
Alumni Day 2001
A Salutation to the Rhet Class of 1961 (by Edward McGlynn Gaffney, R’61)

Alumni Association Newsletter: Fall 2002
Alumni Day 2002 (by Dr. Robert S. Gorman, R’52)
Come to the Soccer Reunion on Alumni Day, 1972 Varsity team picture
Alumni updates and in memoriam pages

Alumni Association Newsletter: Spring 2005
Alumni Day 2004 coverage, with lots of pictures
Alumni Scoops
Sunshine Camp, Russian River

3 Notes:
Ed Gaffney's Salutation has been removed because it is contained in the Fall 2001 Alumni Newsletter.
Likewise the next three articles (below this note) will be deleted as soon as the Spring 2001 newsletter is scanned, encoded and uploaded.
Why? Because I have figured out how to use some software for my newish Canon scanner that can scan pages into pdf (Portable Document Files). It's ideal for this task and I have plenty more newsletters here at home to scan. If anybody out there can send me copies (originals not necessary) of the old Blow newsletters, I would love to scan them too. Thanks.

Buzzy Is Back
by Rev. John Cloherty, R'54
   From the Spring, 2001 newsletter

General Information For Young Men Entering St. Joseph's College
by Wally Nicholas, R'65
   From the Spring, 2001 newsletter

THE ROAD NOT TAKEN?
by Lawrence P. Percell, Ph.D., R'67
   From the Spring, 2001 newsletter