Saint Mary's Magazine

The Phoenix: Rising from the Ashes
A Grand Celebration

"After 150 years, Saint Mary's has a lot of reasons to celebrate, and it pulled out all the stops on Gaelebration, the signature community event of the college's sesquicentennial year..."
Brothers
Transformational

"Saint Mary's College of California has been honored in the prestigious 2013 edition of Colleges That Change Lives: 40 Schools That Will Change the Way You Think About Colleges. The newly revised guidebook praised Saint Mary's educational approach as 'powerful' and 'a mechanism of change.'..."
Environmental History Pioneer
Poetry Reading

"The contemplative world of poetry and the frenetic world of basketball seem like an unlikely pairing, but they came together with surprising ease recently at a special sesquicentennial reading at Saint Mary’s College by two renowned alumni..."
Alaska Fellowship
Olympics

"For the three Gaels who took part in the Games of the Thirtieth Olympiad in London, the experience is still fresh in their minds..."
A Learned Man

This year marks the 150th anniversary of Saint Mary's College. We celebrate this sesquicentennial by focusing on the many visionary, determined Gaels who have dedicated themselves to a great idea — providing a life-changing Christian education to anyone with the will to learn.

Saint Mary’s Sees Big Jump in International Students

The College began a new academic year with double the number of international students compared to last year.
Reunion Bridges the Gap Between Generations of Gaels

A record number of alumni — from as far away as London and Japan — flooded the campus on July 20-22 for Reunion Weekend 2012.
The 5th Quarter Football Alumni Chapter Reunion

More than 150 alumni, family and friends gathered in July for live music, games and memories.
New Alumni Board and Board of Regents Members Appointed

Five SMC alumni joined the alumni board, while five new regents — including alumni, friends and a professor emeritus — were appointed.
In Memoriam

Crooner and alumnus Tony Martin, whose singing career spanned 80 years, was a Gael before making a name for himself in Hollywood musicals and TV in the 1940s and 50s. He died on July 27, at the age of 98.
Maxwell’s Equations

Rather than publish a poem as we usually do, we decided to share instead the compact elegance of an important mathematical equation that serves as the basis of many of the technologies we rely upon today.