San Francisco Catholic

After breakfast at Torrefazione I embarked on a constitutional hike up the 88 degree hill to Pacific Heights. (Note the incline has become 1 degree less difficult than yesterday.) Today I turned on Broadway the most spectacular view street in the area. After a few blocks I was stunned by a beautiful collection of buildings filling a complete city block. Upon closer inspection I found that this was the venerable campus of the Sacred Heart Schools.

The friendly policeman out front told me that the Broadway campus consists of 3 buildings for girls and 1 for boys plus library, science laboratory, etc. The SH boys attend high school on a separate campus in San Francisco and there is a new campus for boys and girls in Atherton, the crown jewel of Silicon Valley.

After a few days exposure to the secularity and sleaze of the city, I was reminded that San Francisco was once a bastion of Catholicism. Lee attended St. Vincent de Paul grammar school on Green Street near John's place and high school at Saint Rose Academy. The Academy was the city's premiere girl's school as evidenced by the hideousness of their uniforms. When I was picking up Lee from school, I could spot the St. Rose crowd from many blocks away, their uniforms were so "stunning."

On the way back to John's house I stopped at the Golden Gate Valley branch of the San Francisco Library. The exquisite building dates to the 1880s. It was Lee's favorite place as a child. The children's section fills nearly half of the tiny library, and the 3 computers are a gesture to modernity.

It's time for me to leave for lunch with John and a meeting with his financial advisor. Later on the garden store people are delivering trees and giant pots for his condo. Tonight we are having a dinner meeting at U Street with the San Francisco Young Republicans. How about that, Republicans in San Francisco!