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[email protected] Notre Dame Archives: Alumnus THE NOTRE DAME ALUMNUS 99th Year Begins (Page 3) Alumni Board Meets (Page 5) Atom Smashing at Notre Dame (Page 7) Memorial Entrance to Sacred Heart Church Vol. 19 OCTOBER. 1940 No. Courtesy. N.C.W.C. News Service Frank C. Walker, '09, Becomes Cabinet Member Francis Comerford Walker, LL.B., '09, LL.D., '34, on Sep National Emergency Council, in 1935... Commencement speaker tember 11, 1940, became the first Notre Dame alumnus, in and recipient of the Doctorate of Laws at Notre Dame's 1934 course, to hold a portfolio in the Cabinet of the President of Commencement.... member of the Board of Lay Trustees of the United States, succeeding James A. Farley as Postmaster the University. General. In the picture above Mr. Walker is shown receiving his commission from President Franklin D. Roosevelt, LL.D., '35. So it is that Notre Dame men herald the recognition of Frank C. Walker to the high post in the United States Govern Frank Walker's career has risen to its present merited peak ment. Coming to a vital office during a period bordering on through steps familiar to the alumni of Notre Dame: practicing national crisis, his fellow alumni borrow advice and look at lawyer in his boyhood state, Montana assistant district the record, and are confident that Notre Dame, as well as the attorney and legislator in his district first lieutenant in the people of America, are well represented by this new Cabinet World War association with the theatrical enterprise in member.