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---------------- - --- ~-~ ~- -------------- Sondej to end food collections; called 'most effective teacher' by Peter Arndt Notre Dame graduates. He lived based in New York City committed ! Staff Reporter modestly off-campus, simply work­ to grass roots lobbying for the ing in the dining halls and doing hungry. Steve Coats, assistant to The most effective teacher on odd jobs. the director of the organization, campus, according to Fr. Robert His influence has not been said Sondej is a "phenomenal Griffin, C.S.C., is not one with a confined solely to the students of person." Coats continued, "For Ph.D. or any other degree. He's Notre Dame. According to Ed one person to collect so much in not a paid member of the faculty Wilson, Director of the Food Action two years by himself is a phenom­ t staff, and yet he's taught so many. Center at the National Student enal thing in itself. Al's work has He has taught the difference a life Association in Washington, D.C., been what I think was a successful can make. "He's showed that the U.S. educa­ attempt to bring together people to We've all seen him. He used to tional system, which is the richest work for hunger." 1stand outside the North Dining Hall and biggest in the world, can give Fr. William Toohey, director of at lunch and at the South Dining so much without knowing it. It Campus Ministry. when asked Hall during dinner, every day, rain takes a lot of guts to do what AI about Sondej's departure. said: or shine. The word "used" is Sondej is doing." ''At first, you feel an immediate employed because after today, AI Of the 1,000 college campuses in impulse to say. 'Thank God. he's Sondej will leave his money collect­ the nation with food coalitions, going; now we won't be bothered ing posts where in the past two Wilson said that Notre Dame has any more by having to give money .. years he has collected over $25,000 one of the first and one of the best. every time we enter the dining •, for the hungry of the world, to go to and "AI Sondej is the embodiment hall.' But then you realize how ·~ Worldwatch, an organization which of that coalition. He's acted as the false this reaction would be; and works on feeding the hungry on a moral conscience of all the hunger you acknowledge how important it global scale. coalitions.'' has been to have him standing Sondej graduated from Notre Sondej is also known at "Bread . (continued on page 2) ~- Dame two years ago and stayed for the World," an organization I close to the University to work with AI Sondej, the now·-- familiar figure in front of ND dining halls, will b~ the hunger coalition. He did not go collecting lor the last time today. During the past two years, Sonde) on to the good life after leaving ~ hti(ll'l:$itu of ~ 11ft1' Ilam1' has collected over $25,000 to aide the hungry. Notre Dame as is typical of most (Photo by Chris Smith) ~Lllrr Jilmnr, ~ln11imut 1Li556 Cllffirt of tfr• :j!Jreeibrnl <Cnbf• l'obbuu ",Dnfnc" April 2, 1976 Mr. Thomas O'Neil The Observer Notre Dame. Indiana Dear Tom: I would like to join my voice to so many others who are saying a word of gratitude to AI Sondej. It's no small thing for someone to give up two years of his life to be a constant reminder of world hunger, a symbol of concern about it, and a means of doing something to bring food to the hungry. For having been and done all of that, I think all of us at Notre Dame and our alumni as well owe AI a sincere word of thanks. I like to believe that what is past is prelude and what we have seen ol AI thus lar is only a prelude to a long life of fruitful service to the forgotten, the suffering, and those in need. May unrversrty of noire dome sl mary "s college we all join him in this concern and, as much as we can, Vol. X, No. 114 Tuesday, April 6, 1976 In this kind of service, too. Ever devotedly in Notre '">ame, Stan Lee delights student crowd cAL) cl~ #,~ 7!_ ---. (Rev.) Theodore M. Hesburgh' .:.S.C. President with insights into comic books The above letter from Fr. Hesburgh was sent to by Pat Cuneo Observer editor Tom O'Neil for possible publication in this Senior Staff Reporter issue in light of Sondej's last day of collection. Stan Lee can be best described a' MAHVELous. Howard Hughes expires, The famous neator. writer and arti't of several well-known super­ h~·roe' such as Spi<krman, Fantas· leaves $2 billion empire lie hmr. Thor, Captain America and Sergeant Fury entertained a ddightcd crowd of 200 students al HOUSTON, Tex. (AP) - Howard Hughes gained financial success as Washington llall last night. Hughes, the pnantom financier a manufacturer of aircraft and oil ".Ju,t what arc comics'!" began who ruled a business empire drilling tools. a major stockholder the current publisher of Marvel valued at more than $2 billion from in an airline. owner of a brewery comics. "Well. they're the oldest a series of secret hideaways, died and a movie producer. · form of communication since the en route to a hospital here for His contribution to the advance· time when cave men used to hit treatment Monday. ment of aviation. such as new each other over the head with Hughes, 70, was being flown designs and speed ranked him rol'ks,' · Lee answered his own from Acapulco, Mexico, where he with the outstanding air pioneers. l]lll'Stion. had lived since early February. He left Nevada Thanksgiving Lee went on to offer several "Today at 1:27 p.m. en route Eve 1970 after four years of aspects ot the comic book business from Acapulco to Houston by air, residence in a guarded Las Vegas in addition to relating the insight of Mr. Howard Hughes expired," hotel room for a similarly guarded several of his superhuman crea­ Methodist Hospital Vice President t suite in the Bahamas, leaving tions. Ed McLellan said. behind orders to fire the boss of his The youthful looking Lee broke McLellan said Hughes was being gaming operations. into the comic business in 1939 at rushed to the hospital for treatment An ensuing court fight in which the tender age of IS. However, the when he died. The hospital his will prevailed and the firing big break in his career came in I 960 spokesman said he had no further was upheld provided a rare public when he revolutionized the stag­ information to release. glimpse of his life. Aides testified gering comic magazine world by Stan lee touched on the creation of Spiderman along with Hughes built a family oil-drilling that Hughes lived in almost total introducing a new type of super several other of his comic strip characters during his speech bit business into a diversified seclusion, seen when necessary by hero. last night. lee entertained an audience of 200 in Washington complex that over the years includ­ only five persons--young.dedicated Putting all outside interests hall. ed manufacturing of planes, heli­ Mormons. aside. Lee explains. "We needed ship to Reed wasn't of the Batman­ strength of 100 men, can jump over copters, spacecraft and electronics They relayed his orders to something more than the static Robin type fame because Lee buildings, and if he doesn't" feel devices. others. Even loftiest executives of hero and villain. The result was insisted, "at the very least, people like jumping over the building he He produced movies and owned some of his major firms had never heroes with superhuman powers would begin to talk." Lee main­ can just pick it up,'' emphasized studios, owned airlines and became seen him. The one-time boss of his yet set in the real world." tained that it was necessary to Lee. He added, "Bruce Banner a major economic force in Nevada Nevada operations said he had The Fantastic Four had been make his teenage creation a "real may not be the most well-adjusted with purchase of hotels, casinos, never met him. horn out of Lee's brainstorm, yet it teenager," and so he made him the individual, but fans liked his land and mines valued at $300 Hughes was married secretly in remained unresolved as to how he million. pesky-brat type. style." 1957 to actress Jean Peters and she could make them super but still The last but most loved of the Lee insists that Marvel does not He began building his financial announced in 1970 that she was "human." characters, "The Thing," entered operate in the same way its empire in 1923 when he inherited seeking a divorce. Theyhad no Reed Richards, the leader of the the scene. Lee believes that competitors do. "In the beginning, three-fifths interest in the Hughes children. In 1971 she announced Four. was therefore given at everybody deep down loves a I was writing all of the stories (for Tool Co., founded by his father and that she had remarried, having intelligent, stuffy. boring air abou monster. "He's a combination of all the different new characters) valued then at $500,000. obtained the divorce. him. However. he came full• Jimmy Durante, W.C. Fields and and soon it just became too big a Two years later, when he was 21.

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