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The Archives of The University of Notre Dame 607 Hesburgh Library Notre Dame, IN 46556 574-631-6448 [email protected] Notre Dame Archives: Alumnus Vol. 34 No. 2 March-April 1956 James E. Armstrong, '25, Editor John N. Cackley, Jr. '37 Managing Editor m. mr' h t 'ip w Four licciii]!^ of 5ro»'lIi at Notre Dame are represented by w\ these Holy Cross priests %%ho [have serted as president. The .Most Rev. John F. O'Hara, CS.C. ..^M ^eatcd left), x\rchbtshop of Phila- iiclphia, was president from 1934 to 1940, and Rev. Matthew Walsh, CS.C. (seated right), now retired, *& m 1922 to 1928. Uev. Theodore .M. Hcsburijh, CS.C, is the current president, while Rev. John J. ^avanaugh, CS.C. (standing right), pleaded the University from 1946 to 1952 and is presently Director of the Notre Dame Foundation. Class 34lli observance Notre Dame Placement Reunion of Univcrsial being considered Bureau under Weekend Notre Dame Night for location direction of scheduled for to be held of world's most Father Mendez June 8-9-10 by Alumni Clubs powerful offers senices on campus. on April 9th—or atom smasher to Alumni See program within the octave. research center. Association. on page 2 See page 3 See page 9 Sec pages 10-11 ALL OF THIS FOR ?20 Class Reunion Weekend June 8-9-10 Class of 1906 Howard Hall Class of 1931 Lyons Hall Class of 1911 Howard Hall Class of 1936 Morrissey Hall Class of 1916 Howard Hall Class of 1941 Dillon Hall Class of 1921 Howard Hall Class of 1946 Badin Hall m Class of 1926 Morrissey Hall Class of 1951 Dillon Hall GEN. ALFRED M. GRUENTHER. Friday, June 8 General Registration—Law Building. One fee, $20, will be collected at GRUENTHER NAMED. registration, which will cover the general and class expenditures. LAETARE RECIPIENT' Class Registration and Room—registration will be in the halls as listed above. General Alfred M. Gruenther, Su Weekend Golf Tournament (beginning Friday). preme Allied Commander in Europe, has been named recipient of Notre Class events scheduled on Friday night: Dame's Laetare Medal for 1956. He 1906—Informal class supper, Morris Inn, Golfers Lounge. is die fourth militarj- figure to receive 1911—Class supper, Morris Inn, Golfers Lounge. the award which has been presented annually since 1883 to an outstandin 1916—Buffet supper, Morris Inn, Golfers Lounge. American Catholic layman. 1921—^Buffet supper, Morris Inn, Golfers Lounge. Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh, C.S.C., 1926—^Evening buffet. Donor's Room, Morris Inn. president of Notre Dame, in announc 1931—Twenty-five-Year Silver Jubilee Reunion Dinner, University ing the selection of NATO's command Dining Hall. ing general, said: 1936—^Dinner, Rockne Memorial Lounge "General Gruenther exemplifies to a 1941—Buffet, Mahogany Room, Morris Inn. superlative degree tlie devotion, integ 1946—Class dinner. Lay Faculty Room, University Dining Hall. rity and resourceful leadership that thci United States expects of its milita: 1951—Reunion supper, Vet Rec Hall. men. His brilliance, evident even in his student days at West Point, has long been recognized throughout our defense establbhment. In Europe, Saturday, June 9 where he commands forces representing fifteen nations, he is respected as a Class Masses, Class Pictures. statesman as well as a soldier. The University of Notre Dame, in confer Golf Tournament, all day. ring its Laetare Medal on Gene; Father Hesburgh's Luncheon for the 25-year Class, Lay Faculty Room, Gruenther, honors him for all these Dining Halls. things but especially for his virile spir Box Lunches for all other reunion classes Saturday noon. itual life. He personifies the militarj' power and tlie spiritual strength which Tours—^I. A. O'Shaughnessy Liberal and Fine Arts Building, Nieuwland are the western world's bulwark against Science Hall, LaFortune Student Center, Saturday afternoon. the Communist tyranny." Movies, Washington Hall, Saturday afternoon. General Gruenther was appointed Annual Alumni Banquet, University Dining Halls, Saturday night. Supreme Commander of all NAT' ' forces in Europe as well as Commander- in-Chief of the U. S. European Com Sunday, June 10 mand in July, 1953. For the previous; two-and-a-half years he had served as^ Chief of Staff at SHAPE (Supremi' Low Mass, Sacred Heart Church, with a Sermon for Notre Dame Men. Headquarters Allied Powers Europe) first under General Eisenhower ancS later under General Matthew Ridgwayi Notre Dame Alumnus, March-April, 1956 O'Neill, New Alumni Head Joseph I. O'Neill, Jr., '36, Midland, ^exas, was elected president of the ^otre Dame Alumni Association by the Board of Directors at their Winter meeting held on campus during the weekend of January 20. O'Neill, for mer Irish grid star and currently an independent oil operator, succeeds Dr. Leo D. O'Donnell, Pittsburgh, Pa., burgeon. The latter will remain on the Board for another year as Honorary President. Newly elected vice presidents in clude: John E. Mclntyre, '31, general manager and executive vice-president of the Sibley Machine and Foundry President Joseph I. O'Neill, '36, outlines a few plans for fellow officers of the Alumni Asso Corp., South Bend, Ind.; Robert H. ciation at the Board of Directors' annual Winter meeting. Left to right: John £. Mdntyrc, Ipore, Jr., president of the Governors '31, first vice-president; Dr. Leo D. O'Donnell, '17, retiring president, and current honorary Xilub and Sea Ranch Hotels, Ft. Lau president; O'Neill; Robert H. Gore, '31, second vice-president; and James E. Armstrong, '25 derdale, Fla.; and James L. Ferstel, (standing), secretary. James L. Ferstel, '48, third vice-president, was absent when photograph was taken. '48, Chicago, 111., attorney. James E. Armstrong, '25, was re-elected execu tive secretajy of the Alumni Associa Board the major aspects of the Uni tlte President's Council to be held in tion for the 31st year. versity's programs, particularly as they June several days before Reimion Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh, C.S.C., affect alumni. Weekend. Local club presidents will .addressed board members at the open- Considering club activities to be a be invited back to the campus for a ,9ag session of their three-day meeting. vital asset of the Alumni Program, the "workshop" on ways and means of Father Hesburgh outlined for the Board approved the 1956 meeting of bettering the annual club program. The Board re-affirmed its emphasis on Prestige and Public Relations as one of the three major areas of alimmi activity, and the need for alumni clubs, UNIVERSAL NOTRE DAME NIGHT classes and individuals to do all they can to identify and advance Notre APRIL 9th Dame Men in these areas. The Rev. Louis J. Thornton, C.S.C., LOCAL LEADERSHIP is the theme of the 33rd Universal Notre Dame Director of Admissions, pointed out to Night. Alumni Clubs have been urged to spotlight the leadership contribu the Board the excellent response of alumni to the Fall mailing for pros tion which Notre Dame has made through the local community. Alumni pective student names. He also an leaders in spiritual life, in politics, in business and industry, in the professions nounced a substantial increase in appli and in various organizations will be honored by many clubs on this significant cations for September, 1956, as of occasion. January 1, in comparison with the pre MAN-OF-THE-YEAR AWARDS again shape up as one of the outstanding ceding year. features of UND Night programs planned for alumni clubs from coast to Board members Ibtened to the Rev. coast. Alfred Mendez, C.S.C, Placement Di rector, and Professor Herbert Bott, his UND NIGHT MEETINGS in 1955 were held by 115 clubs according to assbtant, discuss the present program reports received by the Alumni Office. (SPECIAL MEMO TO AIL CLUB of the Placement Bureau. The Board PRESIDENTS: LET'S BREAK THAT RECORD THIS YEAR!) recommended that facilities be extend THE HISTORY OF UNIVERSAL NOTRE DAME NIGHT dates back to 1924 ed for the services of alumni needs as when the late Mr. John H. Neeson, '03, of Philadelphia, Pa., proposed to well as those existing for graduating the then 26 alumni clubs that on an agreed night in the Spring, Notre Dame seniors. Men everywhere should gather to pay a simultaneous tribute to their alma The Board of Directors will hold their annual summer meeting on campus just mater. prior to Class Reimion Weekend on Jne 8, 9 and 10. iVotr* Dame Alumnus, March-April, 7956 Was he perhaps a martyr who died for some great cause, a patriot win ROCKNE KILLED laid down his life for his country, a statesman, a soldier, an admiral of the fleet, some heavenbom artist, an in ventor, a captain of industr)' or fi 25 YEARS AGO nance? No, he was Knute Rockne, director of athletics and football coach at Notre Dame. He was a man of thijjj A T?-ibute to the Memory of a Great Man people, a husband and father, a citi zen of South Bend, Indiana. Yet, had he been any one of these personages that have been mentioned, the tributes March 31st will mark the 25th anni- of admiration and affection which he versar)' of the tragic death of the im has received could not be more uni mortal KnuteK. Rockne in an airplane versal or more sincere. crash. To generations of Notre Dame men who came after him the name Funeral in Sacred Heart Church "Rockne" is still revered and respected We who are here are but a handful at Our Lady's University. The Rockne of his friends, come to pay our last Memorial, housing modem facilities tribute of devotion to his mortal re for swimming, handball, wrestling, mains, to give some token of our affec gymnastics and odier intra-mural tion that so be his dear ones, his loving sports, will always perpetuate the mem wife and children, his venerable mother ory of Notre Dame's great coach on and his sisters, may in their sorrow btS^ the campus he loved so well.