The Archives of The University of Notre Dame 607 Hesburgh Library Notre Dame, IN 46556 574-631-6448 [email protected] Notre Dame Archives: Alumnus •^•.^jL^ti^^jmv^^wwiiBgw.l. ••, ..^j^ iwtaw^*t.v). mM^« if1iiMiiifi'iirHn»iii ^akon froi. tbe LibrarT THE NOTRE DAME ALUMNUS 15th Annual U. N. D. Nieht April 25 NSC Coastto-Coast Program from the Campus 9:15-9:45 P.M. (Central Standard Time) Spring at Notre Dame Vol. 16 March-April, 1938 No. 5 Kg*«»g»V^fe«!r-!lWii!gB8VPJJy5Sii,^^ The Notre Dame Alumnus eiTTS The University acknowledges with deep gratitude the following gifts: From Joseph P. Grace, LL.D., '37: For the President's Fund -$5,000.00 From John E. Moor^ os. '07: A gas analyzer for the Department of Aeronautical Engineering From Prof. Stanley Sessler: An oil painting, by tlie donor. For the Rockne Memorial Bendix Pioducts Corp. 41.500.00 Mark Storen. '22 5.00 George L. O'Brien, os. ^ - _ 1,000.00 Ralph S. Penney, Walkill. U I. 1.00 South Bend Clearing House . - 1.000.00 Wilson BrofKers. Soulli Bend - 250.00 Total -$ 4.426.00 F. W. Lloyd. Notre Dame _ 200.00 Aclmowledged in January ALUMNUS - 2.000.00 Howard J. Rohan. '15 . 200.00 Acknowledged in February ALUMNUS - 6.923.00 Richman Brothers. South Bend . - 150.00 Previously acknowledged, through the original Mrs. AX'illiam E. Donahue. Chicago . 100.00 solicitation - 153.948.49 Rev. A. Sund, Tonsberg. Norway - 10.00 James McKee. "93 - 10.00 Grand total to date, March 1, 1938- -$167,297.49 For the Nieuwiand Memorial In the February issue of the ALUMNUS, the gifts to the Nieuwiand Memorial Foimdation by the following donors were erroneously reported as to amount. The proper amounts of the gifts are: Dr. George B. Eusterman. Rochester. Minn. -$100.00 J. Fendall Froning. '37 _ 15.00 Henry D. Hinton. '30 _ 50.00 Additional Gifts: Anonymous ". , This particular gesture of 2,000.00 Dr. Charles M. A. Stine, Wilmington 250.00 building a field house in his beau­ Dr. William S. Calcolt, Wilmington - 200.00 tiful memory has made a profound Mr. E. R. Bridgewater, Wilmington 200.00 Dr. Cesare Protto, Wilmington 150.00 impression over the entire country. Dr. Edmund G. Robinson, Wilmington 150.00 In this busy world of today people Thomas B. Dorris, '33 - 100.00 as a whole forget too easily the Carl J. Senger, '37 100.00 George F. Hennion, '32 50.00 great men of the past whose great Robert J. Thomas, Notre Dame . 50.00 accomplishments arc generally for­ Lawrence A. Baldinger, *33 50.00 P. A. McCusker, "30 40.00 gotten a year or so after death. I Eugene J. Paylon. "23 25.00 am glad to see that two wonderful Edward A. Bried. 35 25.00 men such as Rockne and Will Dr. John M. Cooney. Ph.D., '17 , 10.00 James S. Danehy, Chicago 10.00 Rogers were remembered with such A. B. Kinzel, New York City — 10.00 grand memorials. America needs James McKee. '93 10.00 Dr. James P. Danehy, '33 . 5.00 more men like the two above in­ William B. Dreux, '33 „. 5.00 stead of the great number of rad­ Mark Storen, '22 . 5.00 icals now trying to run the coun­ William H. Sheehan, '35 5.00 Dr. Joseph A. Becker, Mt. Lakes, N. J. 2.00 try."—From a Uller turiHcn b^ a recent suhscriher to the RocJ^tie Total _$ 3,617.00 Memorial Fund. Previously acknowledged ._ 20,427.05 Grand total to date. March 1, 1938 -$24,044.05 /^idu ^ (^T/C'COtA.^'J.C. The Notre Dame Alumnus JAMES E. ARMSTSONC. "25 The nmirazine is published from October to June inclusive by the Alumni Association Member of the Americaa of the University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana. The subscription price is 92.00 Editor a year; the price of single copies is 23 cents. The annual alumni dues of ¥5.00 include Alunmi CauBcU. WnxiAM R, DooLEY, 76 a year's subscription to THE ALUMNUS. Entered as second-class matter January 1. Member of Nal1. Calholic Afanagittg Editor 1923, at the post office at Notre Dame, Indiana, under the Act of March 3, 1879. Alumni Federation Vol. 16 MARCH-APRIL. 1938 No. 5 Four Generations of Notre Dame Coquillards Grandson of First Student is Present Sopho­ more; Will Receive Notre Dame Degree in Centennial Year of 1942; History is Told. Coming events cast their shadows Alexis is to be a C.P,A, accountant He received the degrees of LL.B. in before them. Is it a coincidence, or and la^vyer. One hundred years ago, 1881, B.A. in 1886, and in 1891 he is it the completion of a pattern in the saintly Father Sorin planted the was awarded the degree of Master of the history of an institution and that seed of the great institution of Notre Arts. Mr. Clarke was for some years of a family, that Notre Dame, antici­ Dame when he took the grandfather connected with this institution as a pating the celebration of its first hun­ of this lad, whose name was Ale-^ds professor of mathematics, history, dred years in 1942, finds the name of Coquillard also, and unfolded to his and oratory, and later taught in the Alexis Edward Coquillard among its mind the rudiments of a practical School of Law. prospective graduates for that year? education. The College of Commerce For more than a hundred. years The young man of whom we speak is looked upon as being a recent addi­ Notre Dame and men bearing the is a sophomore in the College of Com­ tion in the curriculum of the Univer­ name Alexis Coquillard have been merce. He is 22 years old, having sity, but here again if we go back to walking hand in hand. To imder- been bom October 1, 1915. He is six the beginning, we find that Father stand this one must turn back the feet tall, blond and blue eyed like Sorin began his University with' a pages of history even before Notre that first Alexis, one of South Bend's School of Commerce. Father Sorin Dame itself had a being and the site founders, typical Frenchman and his was a famous teacher, and his pupil, of the present University was known great grand uncle. Yoimg Alexis is Alexis Coquillard, developed into a no as the mission on St. Mary's Lake. an ardent football and basketball fan. less famous business man; the Uni­ About 1832 Father Badin's mission He was graduated from the South versity has developed beyond its was taken over by Father Louis De- Bend Central High School and won founder's dreams, and so to the pres- • Seille, who ministered to the Chris­ several junior tennis championships ent Alexis, good luck! tian Indians and the French families in the northern Indiana territory The young man's other grandfather living in the vicinity, among whom during his high school career. was also one of Notre Dame's illus­ was that of Benedict Michel Coquil­ History has a way of repeating it­ trious sons. He was the late Honor­ lard and his wife, Sophie Andre Co­ self. The ambition of the present able George E. Clarke, a noted orator. quillard, parents of Alexis Coquillard, ALEXIS COQUILLARD, I ALEXIS COQUILLARD, II ALEXIS COQUILLABO, m First Student. Later Student. Present Student. 136 The Notre Dame Alumnus March - April first student, who lived on the south dict Michel (or Benjamine as he was who performed the ceremony, and bank of St. Mary's Lake, not far known) who had been Father De- later when their two sons, Alexis and from the present log chapel. It is Seille's neighbor and friend. Joseph were bom, it was Father needless to say that there was a Sorin who • baptized them acting as strong bond of affection betiveen the The pioneer priest. Father Sorin, godfather and giving him his own pioneer French family, who had come name to the older. Thus the name of to this vicinity from the settlement Alexis Edward Coquillard was given of Detroit, and the young missionary to the son of Father Sorin's first pu­ from far off France. So much so pil and friend. When still more years that the artist who has depicted the had passed and the first pupil lay death of the pioneer missionary on dead in 1890, it was Father Sorin the walls of the Log Chapel, depicted who said the requiem Mass and the the devotion of his friend, Benedict beloved Father Thomas Walsh, presi­ Michel Coquillard, father of Alexis dent of the University, who preached Coquillard, who was to be Father the funeral sermon. Sorin's first student, showing him supporting the dying priest in his In 1888, at the age of six. Father arms. Sorin's god-child and namesake, Alexis Edward Coquillard, Sr., altmi- nus (class 1903), entered the institu­ It is not easy to follow the story tion in the minim department under of the Coquillard's and what was, at Sister Aloysius and Brother Cajetan one time, known as Father Badin's and remained at the University until mission or merely the mission on St. 1901. Since 1905 he has conducted Mary's Lake. To do so one must re­ a general insurance agency in South vert to the last of the great French Bend and was president of the Indi­ fur traders, namely Alexis Coquillard ana Association of Insurance agents of Detroit, who came to the vicinity in 1932.