Notre Dame Alumnus, Vol. 15, No. 01 -- October 1936

The Archives of The University of Notre Dame 607 Hesburgh Library Notre Dame, IN 46556 574-631-6448 [email protected] Notre Dame Archives: Alumnus / 7 THE XOTRP: DAME Oi o^:^- "\- y^ •-^^•' ^ IN THIS ISSUE: « bU''.' . ' -J ii' 3---.3 ••} • H. -;"c; '. •,;:; °;o.: • 3J „3.-=. P -og:,"!-- • ::.::-:iD" . !~i • i--::-;r i D^i.:-i5-- i 0'':r jb Nov.; •f V %: ,».. • ;• <5 • • • • * •• ^ C' V* "'• v^ :f- o. ^' ''. .'•'' V—v• <«• 50R' 15 October, 1936 No. 1 Notre Dame on the Air! The famed Notre Dame Band and Glee Club ... on the Columbia Network from coast to coast! Broadcast originated by WSBT! The Inter-Hall Talent Contest . every Hall producing a radio show . broadcast by WSBT! St. Edward's is the 1936 winner! Day after day, through the whole school year, you can hear a Notre Dame student announcer saying: "From our studio in the John F. Cushing Hall of Engineering, located on the Campus of the University of Notre Dame, we bring you . ." Educofiono/— Sixteen series of weekly 15-minute broadcasts, educational in purpose, planned, prepared and produced by interested students. A series of weekly broadcasts by faculty members. The full scope of Notre Dame instruction pre sented to the radio audience under the direc tion of Father Eugene Burke, C.S.C. Ecc/esfosfico/— The most impressive ceremonies of the year broadcast in their entirety from the Church of the Sacred Heart. Special religious events of the University likewise broadcast. Sporfs— The only station which broadcasts every Notre ': : : Dame Football Game regardless of where it is [• :..: played. All sports are on the air . basket- . ball, baseball, track! ,, •••••••• wiBT-WFAM "The South Bend Tribune Stations" South Bend, Indiana THE COLUMBIA BROADCASTING SYSTEM i^%%3-^.. The Notre Dame, Alumnus JAMES E. ARMSTRONG, "25 The magazine is published monthlthiyy durin< g._ the scboI^u(r yea_ r by. the Aluznnt Association Member of the American of the tfniversity of Notre Dame, Notre Dnme, Indiana. The subscription price is $2.00 Editor a year; the price of single copies is 25 cents. The annual alumni dues of $3.00 include Alumni Council. •9£ a year's subscription to THE ALUMNUS. Entered as second-class matter January 1, WILUAM R. DOOLEY. •^" 1923, at the post office at Notre Dame. Indiana, under the Act of March 3, 1879. All Member of Nat*l. Cadiolic Managing Editor correspondence should be addressed to The Notre Dame Alumnus, Box 81, Notre Dame. Ind. Alumni Federation Vol. 15 13192G OaOBER. 1936 No. Year Begins With Restricted Enrollment Many Students Forced to Live OfF-Campus Temporarily As Registration Reaches Highest Point in Several Years; Rectors and Prefects Named; Cavanaugh Hall Opened With an enrollment approximating Of large interest, to returning stu C.S.C, and Father Howard Kenna, 2,950, the largest since 1931-32, the dents and new students alike, was the CS.C, prefects. University opened its 95th academic new Cavanaugh Hall for Freshmen Dillon: Father Francis Cavanaugh, year on September 17, after registra erected next to Washington Hall, par C.S.C., rector; Father Norbert Hoff, tion on the two previous days. tially on the site of the old Brownson- Father Robert Woodward, C.S.C, Fa Because residence accommodations CarroU gym. This hall was, of ther Edward Keller, C.S.C, Father on the campus had been exhausted course, named for the late Father William McNamara, C.S.C, and Pro enrollment was officially halted in John W. Cavanaugh, C.S.C, former fessor Thomas Madden, prefects. president of the University and, will mid-August so that a minimum group Howard: Father Peter Forrestal, of new students would be required on that account, have the particular affection of large numbers of alumni. C.S.C., rector; Father J. T. Purtill, to reside off-campus. The present S.S.E., Father Joseph Corcoran, group of oif-carapus new students Construction work on the hall was completed just in time to permit oc C.S.C.. Father Charles Over, and numbers some 100, but these are be Professor John Whitman, prefects. ing moved to the campus just as- fast cupation by the Freshmen assigned as the necessary arrangements can there. Morrissey: Father George Holder- ith, C.S.C, rector; Father James Mc be made. University officials planned Rectors and Prefects Appointed to have no new students off-campus Donald, C.S.C, Father Philip Moore, longer than a month with the excep Father Henry Bolger, C.S.C, has C.S.C, and Professor Francis O'Mal- tion, of course, of those who regular been named first rector of Cavanaugh ley, prefects. ly live near the University. Hall, with Father Stanislaus Lisew- Lyons Hall: Father Thomas Kelley, ski, C.S.C, Father James Trahey C.S.C, rector; Eev. John Kelley, The 1936-37 year was officially and Father Maurice Eigley, C.S.C, as CS.C, Father John Reynolds, C.S.C, opened on Sunday, September 20, prefects. and Father John Reddington, C.S.C, with solemn Mass, following an aca prefects. demic procession. Father John F. Other rectors and prefects have been appointed for the year as fol Badin: Father Joseph Mucken- O'Hara, C.S.C, president, preached thaler, C.S.C, rector; Father Joseph at this Mass (and at all the other lows: student Masses on that Sunday). Fa Luttman, C.S.C, and Henry Hickey, Sorin: Father John Farley, C.S.C, prefects. ther Hugh O'Donnell, C.S.C, vice- rector; Father Charles Doremus, president, was celebrant of the Mass, C.S.C, and Father Edwin Schneider, St. Edward's: Father Leo Gorman, Father J. Leonard Carrico, C.S.C, S.S., prefects. C.S.C, rector; Father James Kline, director of studies, was deacon, and C.S.C, and Father Bernard McAvoy, Father Charles Miltner, C.S.C, dean Walsh:Father George Marr, C.S.C, C.S.C., prefects. of the College of Arts and Letters, rector; Father -Eaymond Murray, Freshman: Father John P. O'Con- was subdeacon. Frather Francis J. C.S.C, and Father Cornelius Hooy- nell, C.S.C, rector; Father John Wenninger, C.S.C, dean of the Col boer, C.S.C, prefects. Molter, C.S.C, prefect lege of Science, was master of cere Alumni: Father Henry Glueckert, Carroll: Brother Maorilius, C.S.C, monies. C.S.C, rector; Father James Stack, (Continued on Page 14) The new Cavanaugh Hall. Left to right: a south view, a corridor and a close-up on the north. The Notre Dame Alumnus October, 1936 Distinguished Scholars Join Faculty Vogt in Charge of W.W. Turner,' 16, Teaching Architec Research ture; Many Holy Cross Priests Return Succeeds late Father William W. Turner, '16, teacher chemistry staff. Others added to the Julius N i e u w I a n d of drawing in Central High School chemistry and chemical engineering in South Bend for the past 15 years, staff as graduate assistants include Professor Richard Rockhill Vogt, has joined the staff of the Depart six Notre Dame graduates: Arthur '15, member of the Notre Dame fac ment of Architecture at Notre Dame A. Baum, Edward A. Bried, Marcel- ulty since 1916, has succeeded the as one of a group of 40 new men who lus J. Geerts, Alfred J. Kolka, James late Rev. Julius A. Nieuwland, C.S.C, have been added to the faculty of the F. McKenna and Frederick C. Weber; as director of organic research at also Patrick A. McCusker, for the University for the present school the University. year. past six years professor of chemistry at St. Edward's university, Texas, The work of Doctor Vogt will con After finishing at Notre Dame in Charles J. O'Boyle, of St Joseph's sist in coordinating research work in 1916, Mr. Turner did graduate work college, Philadelphia, Pa., and Hobert the department or organic chemistry, at the Catholic Universitj', Washing J. Thomas, of Lowell 'Textile insti and in furthering the projects which ton, D.C, and at the University of tute, Massachusetts. he and Father Nieuwland had under Pennsylvania and later studied in way at the time of the latter's death Prance. He is the author of several New Radio Course in Washington on June 11. texts on mechanical drawing and ar Professor Vogt was associated with chitectural drawing. Courses in radio script written Father Nieuwland in the study of under the direction of Richard T. the chemistry of acetylene, which re Dr. Arthur Haas, formerly of the Sullivan, will be an innovation among University of Vienna, Austria, inter sulted in the development of syn Catholic universities. Mr. Sullivan, thetic rubber. He was the co-author nationally known lecturer and author a Notre Dame graduate of 1931, who of standard texts in the field of theo with Father Nieuwland of a mono has done considerable literary and graph on acetylene which is now retical physics, is a new member of radio writing during the last five the staff of the Department of Phy ready for publication by the Ameri years, is a member of the English can Chemical society. sics. During the past school year staff. Doctor Haas was a guest professor In addition to his studies and lab at Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Me. Professor John P. Turley has re oratory work at Notre Dame, Doctor turned from a year's study in Italy Vogt spent a year in research as a Another noted addition to the fac to resume teaching in the Depart fellow of the E. L du Pont de Ne ulty is Arnold Lunn, the outstanding ment of Classics. Professor Willis mours corporation at Wilmington, English author, lecturer and apolo D.

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