Notre Dame Alumnus, Vol. 28, No. 05 -- September-October 1950
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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 ike Notre Dame Alumnus CERTAINTY VoL 28, No. 5 September-October. 1950 (An Editorial) lames E. Armstrong. '25, Editor lohn P. Bums. '34. Managing Editor John N. Cockley. Jr.. '37. Associate Editor Uncertainty is too often called the keynote of our time. This magazine is published bi-monthly by the University of Notre War? Depression? Draft? Inflation? Dame, Notre Dame, Ind. Entered as second class matter Oct 1, 1939, at the Postoffice, Notre Dame, Ind., under the act of Aug. 24, It would be ridiculous to say that a college campus has answers 1912. that are seemingly inaccessible to the brains of the world. But we believe that at Notre Dame we have the answers — not inaccessible to the world, but inadmissible by the world, a world that Table of Contents has followed the tragic cycle from God, through His Church, to pro test, to neutrality, to militant opposition. THE 1950-51 FOUNDATION DRIVE 3 Because we know the answers, and arc convinced that the only JOHNNY MANGAN PASSES 4 solution to our problems lies in these answers, we move ahead with EDDIE MAHAN HONORED 5 a paradoxical calm in chaos. THE RACONTEUR 6 Notre Dame's work has been summarized in the concept of train PLACEMENT 7 ing young men as moral responsible leaders. A $7,893,300 QUESTION 8 How can wc conquer war without morality, without responsibility ATHLETICS 9 :n our world leaders? CLUBS : 10 How can wc avoid our damaging economic cycles without a re CLASSES 18 sponsible leadership that recognizes the obligations of man's stew ardship of God's resources? .\ni in a world that is snuffing out the lives of too many of tomor BOARD OF DIRECTORS row's leaders, the urgency of Notre Dame, and its work of creating this moral responsible direction of the destinies of our coming decades, OFFICERS multiplies. FRANXIS WALLACE, '23 Honorary President LEO B. WARD, '20 President Disaster is not solved by acceleration. But vision in disaster is REV. VINXENT P. BRENNAX, '32 first Vice-President essential to the salvage of those things from which the good destroyed JOSEPH M. BOLAND, '27 Second Vice-President can be restored, and from which the prevention of similar disasters .•\RTHUR D. CRONIN, JR., '37 Third Vice-President may be derived. DIRECTORS TO 1951 That is how we feel about Notre Dame. .ARTHUR D. CRONIN, JR., '37 2632 Buhl Bldg., Detroit 26, Mich. Wc arc not immune from the effects of war, of the draft, of in LEO B. WARD, '20 JI4 Rowan Bldg., Los Angeles 13, Calif. flation, of the changing plans of a world which deified change. JOSEPH M. BOLAND, '27 Radio Station WSBT, South Bend, Jnd. REV. VI.NXEXT P. BREXNAN, '32....408 Baldwin Rd., Pittsburgh, 7, Pa. • But wc feel that every alumnus and every friend of Notre Dame — no matter how deeply drawn into the chaos of our time — con DIRECTORS TO 1952 tributes to the salvage of the era and to the only course by which a WILLIAM J. SHERRY, '21 804 Kennedy Bldg.. Tulsa, Okla. care can come, when he continues to give, unselfishly as in the past, WILLIAM B. JONES, '28 7102 Meadow Lane, Chevy Chase 15, Md. to the development of the University. R. CoNROY ScoGGiNS, '24. 480 Humble Bldg., Houston, Tex. EDW.ARD J. BECKMAN, '16 40 South Dr., Plandome, N. Y. Notre Dame itself may not hold the destiny of the world in its hands. But the destiny of the world is inevitably linked with the DIRECTORS TO 1953 ])rinciples from which Notre Dame derived, for which it stands. JOHN Q. ADAMS, '26 758 Lorraine, Upper Montclair, N. J. HARVEY G. FOSTER, '39 327 Federal Bldg., Indianapolis, Ind. In the emergency of our present lives, we cannot suspend our RICHARD J. NASH, '23 6235 Kenmore, Chicago 23, III. cflTorts. We must multiply them. DR. MATTHEW WEIS, '22 7379 Northmoor, St. Louis 5, Mo. JAMES E. ARMSTRONG, '25 Director and Secretary The Notre. Dame Alumnus e Alumnus Urgency Keynote of 1950-51 Foundotioii Drive; Lwe Television of Home Gomes Tels ND Story Putting Notre Dame's home games area who made a special campaign to a pre-game interview with Father Cav- and the Navy game at Cleveland on live insure its construction. anangh will continue to tell the Notre television this year gives the University The necessary expansion of utilities Dame story to the nation. an opportunity nevsr before presented to service these four building^s must be Local Alumni clnbs and Foundation an institution, to tell its story to the begrun by next summer at the very gronps can aid the program by staging: public. latest. It is no secret that these needs parties of alnmni and non-alnnmi friends The number of viewers is estimated —call them "Operations Digging" if you on Saturday afternoons the games are in the millions. The opportunity for en choose—are not geared to capture the put on television. They can amnge couraging additional good will towards imagination of the public as is a radia with other local gronps to hold such the University is being taken by the tion chemistry project or a library build parties, with the Notre Dame story Notre Dame Foundation in the form of ing. Yet it remains obvious that these (possibly the brochures) to be coor a stepped-up campaigfn to tell the new buildings cannot be constructed dinated. school's friends of its continuing and without extension of existing facilities The special football trips present an urgent needs. and without adequate provision for their other means of contact in a select group The Foundation's program for 1950-51 maintenance. already showing enthusiasm. And lists these most urgent needs: Equip Hereby is presented a genuine chal women's groups should not be over ment for several of the new buildings, lenge to the Notre Dame Foundation. looked. There are many women friends $650,000; expansion of the steam plant, The newest phase of Foundation ac of Notre Dame and of the things for extending utilities to new buildings, ad tivities is planned to raise $1,000,000 which Notre Dame stands who could be dition of power generators, $1,400,000; annually through small contributions enlisted as contributors. sewage disposal system, §400,000; con from Notre Dame's thousands of friends. The job, then, for the Foundation gov struction of a maintenance building, The problem of reaching these thousands ernors, city chairmen and local alumni $600,000. —or perhaps millions—of friends is a clubs in the Ben Duffy Plan is the actual These needs, adding up to a sum tremendous one. personal circulation of the brochures. A slightly in excess of $3,000,000, are vital Fortunately, Mr. Bernard Duffy, pres direct mailing to each alumnns from the —and urgent. The present stsam plant ident of Batton, Barton, Durstine & Os- Foundation OfSce is the simplest and after twenty years of operation, is in bom, the top advertising agency in the most immediate method of actual dis need of substantial repair and improve nation, has been pleased to volunteer tribution. ment. his services in this connection. His in Rev. John H. Murphy, C.S.C., Vice- Increasing capacity of the steam plant terest has been so intense and whole President in charge of public relations is an absolute MUST. It is presently hearted, his time and talent so gener and James E. Armstrong, Alomni Secre capable of handling only two more ously granted that the central oflSce of tary and Foundation ExecntiTe '^ee- buildings, and progress in planning four the Foundation has taken to calling this Chairman recently finished personal new buildings must depend on this util phase of the Foundation's activity not visits to Foundation meetings in St. ity increase. The four buildings, de the Mass Appeal Plan, but the Ben Louis, MUwaukee, Minneapolis, Daven scribed in earlier issues of the Alumnus Duffy Plan. port, Cleveland, Pittsburgh, Cincinnati are the new Science Building, the Fred One of the obvious and most necessary and Indianapolis. J. and Sally Fisher Kesidsnce Hall, the requirements for success of the Ben They report great enthusiasm for the Notre Dame Inn and the Liberal and Duffy Plan is the actual personal cir mass appeal based on the Ben Dnfiy Fine Arts Building. culation by the alumni of the brochores Plan and a feeling among Foundation The new student residence hall is the prepared for the campaign. It was and Aliimni leaders that the Notre Dame gift of Mrs. Fred J. Fisher, whose hus agreed that the simplest and most imme story should be told to the friends of band had been a member of the Univer diate method of actual distribution of Notre Dams who can spare a $10 gift sity Board of Trustees. The Inn is a brochures is the direct mailing to each These are the people who know Notre gift of Mr. E. M. Morris, '06, of South alumnus from the central Foundation Dame as a private school, vdiieh has Bend. The Liberal and Fine Arts Build Office. thrived on the gifts from people who ing was given by Mr. I. A. O'Shaugh- The television shows preceding each can understand that an annual gift of nessy, LL.D., '48, of St. Paul. The game will tell the Notre Dame story. $10 is the eqnivalent of a $300 en Science Building is the gift of thousands They are shows done by professionals, dowment.