The Archives of The University of Notre Dame 607 Hesburgh Library Notre Dame, IN 46556 574-631-6448 [email protected] Notre Dame Archives: Alumnus S# * 0t> <^^ #' I IS • l^f^^T"! i II i StaSJ NOTRE DAME list Charley Phillips, John Cooney, Aiunmi Ask Knute Rockne, Dave Campbell, Paul Fenlon, Act Haley and Jim Arm­ "/ well remember the shock . I saw not only students but strong among many, many others. priests openly smoking cigarettes on the campus." Each did something special for me that was to become a part of my sword and buckler. ABOUT REUNION SEMINAR such as the "President's Letter" be I managed to miss the five-year Class sent to each Alumnus monthly. For instance, one of my annual de­ Reunions with relative ease. Last My amusement came from the fact lights is dining with Father Hebert year my 35th was on deck and I that an Alumnus can get so exercised at the Morris Inn. He always seems realized my future choices were nar­ about a disciplinary change which he amazed when I recall so many of the rowing down. However, there was probably rebelled against when a stu­ incidents and so much of the sub­ still some reluctance, bom of thoughts dent. I well remember the shock I stance of his 1925 Latin class. What like "WiU I know anybody?" and "I received when returning to the Cam­ he doesn't realize, or perhaps has don't like beer." pus in September, 1919. I saw not modestly forgotten, is that he freely gave me so many of the tools that The clincher in making the deci­ only students but priests openly smok­ have helped me to survive. But I sion to go was the announcement for ing cigarettes on the Campus. Then know it, and my memory of it will the Alumni Seminar. It wasn't the too, when you consider the telephone ever be vibrant and green. He was topic ("Has Change Run Away with was relatively new — no television, willing to smoke community stogies so the Church?") that intrigued me so etc. — you begin to appreciate the I could one day puff a Cburchillian much as the opportunity to be ex­ wonderful benefits God has given our cigar. Isn't this concern of the rarest posed to the current tliinking of generation. It seems to me our prob­ kind? And isn't it typical of the men people outstanding in their fields of lem is we have not taken the time to who have labored at ND from Father theology, history and religion. Had understand what is happening. Sorin and Father O'Hara on to the seminar dealt with some other Just another fact which might start Father Hesburgh? topic of interest presented by equally a little reconsideration — the superla­ capable people, I would have been tive job a majority of the Alumni So, you see, my "concern" is only drawn to attend. have done since 1945 when "Kid" a feather in the wind compared to Through attendance at the seminar Ashe, Ed Bailey and I persuaded the ND's compassion for a boy with stars all Thursday and through Friday new President of the Alumni Associa­ in his eyes and only coppers in his noon, I found a kind of acceptance tion, Tom Byrne, to reorganize the pockets. I tell people that if I live and renewal of my contacts with ND Association along corporate lines just to be a thousand and could give ND that made the subsequent Reunion as we had done in NYC. Would you a million, I should be making only a seem especially pleasant. believe the income of the Alumni paltry down payment on a huge debt. Few of us have the time and in­ Association the previous year was Many don't seem to understand this. clination to explore in depth the great about $19,000 whereas the next year I tell them that, after praying for my issues or changes in our time. We under the new concept it rose to family, I pray first for ND because are increasingly reliant in every area $57,000-plus? it and the men mentioned above de­ of knowledge on the capabilit)' and Then we set up the Foundation serve so much of my gratitude. They good will of the specialists. At the and you know the record of the past don't understand this sometimes, seminar it was evident the specialists 20 years! either. were devoting their lives to consider­ I mention this material change to It's been said that every man sooner ations of our relations with God in suggest to the disturbed critic that a or later comes to love a person, a this changing world. There was a comparable intellectual advance has place and a thing. Perhaps this is great sense of exploring together, taken place, but this advance has been what John of Gaunt was talking both in a new world and in a very so rapid the Alumni have not been about in Richard II. He had found old one. The simi of my reaction to able to cope with it. The answer, it his blessed plot — a precious stone set the seminar on change and the seems to me, is the expansion of the in a silver sea. Well, ND is my place Church is a feeling of gratitude and "Continuing Education" program. and if I have finally written a love confidence that, out of the probing May I congratulate the man or men letter that long needed writing, so and searching of such talented men who conceived this program so the be it and women, a more vibrant Church ND graduate will not use his diploma FgANKLYN DOAN '29 will arise. for a crutch but rather as a ticket to WUmetle, III. WailAM C. J. JONES '32 a "commencement" in the great gifts Rochesler, NY God has given him. ABOUT JAM SESSIONS JOHN T. BAiFE '20 Let me have my two cents' worth con­ EDITOR'S NOTE: The seminar, NYC cerning the controversial conduct of "Has Change Run Away with the students during football weekends. Church?" will be repeated for re­ ABOUT ND'S COMPASSION I try to attend at least two or three turning Alumni Saturday, June S, of My concern for ND began more than games each year and I find the situa­ Reunion Weekend in the Center for 40 years ago when priests and laymen tion growing worse each weekend. I'm Continuing Education. expressed care for me, a stranger. certainly no "square," but it's at a They were solicitous about my learn­ point where I'm embarrassed to take ABOUT "CONTINUING ing enough to make something of a friend to see the beautiful, peaceful EDUCATION" myself. They were even concerned Campus I try to brag about. Oh, I I was first amused and then very about where my next meal was com­ don't mind an occasional stereo play­ concerned by the January-Februarj- ing from. And they did something ing fidl blast on a window ledge or editorials of Dr. Tom Carney and about that, too. various signs or slogans in front of "Bud" Dudley. When I think back to the solici­ every haU. This is all part of the big The reason for my concern is the tude, for me, of Fathers Charles and weekend. Alumni apparently have not kept in Hugh O'Donnell, Peter Hebeit, But these so-called jam sessions at step with developments at ND and George Marr, James Stack and Pat­ Badin and Sorin are the sort of things the need for "Continuing Education" rick Carroll, I feel a token of appre­ I must protest What frame of mind or "Continuing Progressive Educa­ ciation is the very least I can offer in can one be in visiting the school for tion" has been late in developing. return. At the risk of sounding like the first time when standing in front May I suggest that a progress report the chanting of a litany, I add to the of the school's most inspirational land- marks and then hearing the less in­ spirational jam session at Sorin, some In This Issue 200 feet away? Cover Story page 12 My recommendation: Have one band only conduct a jam session each These days anyone looking for religion on the Notre Dame football Saturday and keep them as campus will not find the traditional exercises in the traditional far away from Sacred Heart as pos­ places. That we can say for sure. And there are other things, sible. I want to be proud in every too. But full explanation of the Alumni's favorite subject, nicely respect of the school I love so much. packaged in one feature article, is impossible. Religion on the Campus today has its roots in the years before O'Hara came to JOHN S. COBTZ '62 Toledo, Ohio Notre Dame. And it has a fervor and momentum that will carry it well beyond the present era of the guitar Mass. Our story has no beginning, no end. It's a continuing thing we hope to dis­ ABOUT WAR AND PEACE cuss in other issues of the ALUMNUS. This time we've merely Lt. James Emil Pavlicek '65: another tried to find it. life squandered in the Great Ameri­ can Adventure in Southeast Asia. I don't remember a Pavlicek from my Lactare Medal page 8 tour at ND, so I can't claim to One staffer who helped in our search mourn him. But maybe those who do was Dick Riley '68.