Paul Locatelli held the post of Secretary of Higher Education for the Society of Jesus in Rome.
23 Facts About Paul Locatelli
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Paul Locatelli grew up on a ranch in the town of Boulder Creek, California, in the Santa Cruz Mountains, the second of three sons.
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Paul Locatelli's family had come to Boulder Creek from Italy in the 1890s.
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Paul Locatelli's father ran Locatelli Brothers Lumber, where Locatelli worked.
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Paul Locatelli was the first member of his family to attend college.
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Paul Locatelli received a bachelor's degree in business at the University of Santa Clara, now Santa Clara University, in 1960.
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Paul Locatelli obtained a doctorate in business from the University of Southern California's Marshall School of Business.
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Paul Locatelli enlisted in the United States Army and decided to enter the Jesuits after leaving the armed services.
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Paul Locatelli entered the former Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley.
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Paul Locatelli began teaching at Santa Clara University as a professor of accounting in 1974, the same year in which he was ordained a Jesuit priest.
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Paul Locatelli rose from Dean of the School of Business, to Academic Vice-President.
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Paul Locatelli was named the 27th President of Santa Clara University in 1988 after 14 years at the university.
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Paul Locatelli phased out Santa Clara's fraternity and sorority houses, which lessened the influence of the Greek system on student life.
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Controversially, Paul Locatelli eliminated the school's Division II football program in 1993.
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Paul Locatelli spearheaded the effort to reroute The Alameda, which had previously run through the center of Santa Clara University's campus.
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Paul Locatelli had a new entrance road, lined with palm trees, built which leads to the Mission Santa Clara de Asis, a 1777 Spanish mission which is the centerpiece of Santa Clara's campus.
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Paul Locatelli offered Santa Clara as a refuge to the lone surviving Jesuit of the 1989 massacre at the Universidad Centroamericana, in which six Jesuits, their housekeeper and her daughter were killed by the Salvadoran Army.
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Father Paul Locatelli implemented a program where Santa Clara students volunteered and worked at a women's center and urban schools in El Salvador.
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Father Paul Locatelli was awarded the Spirit of Silicon Valley Lifetime Achievement Award from the Silicon Valley Leadership Group.
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Paul Locatelli was a recipient of the David Packard Award in 2009.
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At the time Father Paul Locatelli took ill, he was preparing for the fiftieth anniversary celebration and reunion of his classmates in the class of 1960 at Santa Clara University, and had already sent out invitations, including one to Leon Panetta.
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Paul Locatelli was moved to the hospice at Regis Jesuit Infirmary in Los Gatos on July 8,2010.
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Paul Locatelli died from pancreatic cancer on July 12,2010, at the age of 71.