The Archives of The University of Notre Dame 607 Hesburgh Library Notre Dame, IN 46556 574-631-6448 [email protected] Notre Dame Archives: Alumnus }l q:r w ~ <( THE NOTRE DAME 0 ALUMNUS z LL 0 THE CLEVELAND CLUB RETREAT (See Page 202) In the sanctuary, left to right, M. Harry Miller, '10; Charles A. Mooney, '26; Rev. C. E. McMenamy, S.J.; Rev. M. L. Moriarity. 'I 0; Rev. C. J. Le May, S.J., Retreat Master; F. Joseph Butler, '30; Thomas F. Byrne, 28. APRIL, 1936 The Swimming Pier at Night The Notre Dame AlUmnus ]AMES E. .ARMSTRONG, '25 The magazine is published monthly during the scholastic year by the Alumni A.ssociation Member of the America of the University of Notre Dame. Notre: Dame, Indiana. The subscription price is $2~00 Editor a year: the price of single copies is 25 cents. The annual alumni dues of $5.00 include AIWIIDi CcnmciJ. a year's subscription to THE ALIDINUS. Entered as second·class matter January 1, W1LUAM R. DooLEY, '26 1923, at the post office at Notre Dame, Indiana, under the Act of March 3, 1879. All Member of Nat'!. Catholic Managing Editor correspondence should be ad·lressed to The Notre Dame Alumnus. Box 81, Notre Dame, Ind. AIUDIIli Federalioa. Vol. XIV. April, 1936 No.7 1936-37 Slate Reveals Strength and .Unity Several coincidences in the nomi­ PRESIDENT Ohio, he has occupied a correspond­ nees for offices in the National Asso­ ingly large niche in the civic and (A) ARTHUR J. HUGHES. Art ciation for 1936-37 prove two things. Notre Dame affairs there, being presi­ Hughes received his Ph.B. in 1911. dent of the Notre Dame Club of Cen­ First, the Committees were not in He was a valedictorian of the Class tral Ohio. He is credited \\ith tearing touch during the process of nomina­ and editor-in-chief of the Dome. He down a large part of Ohio State's de­ tion, and secondly, the motives for came to Notre Dame from Pontiac, fenses before the team moved in last nominating seems to have been al­ TIL He returned to the University Fall. Eich is married and has five and took his law degree in 1917. sons to follow in his active footsteps. most identical. In view of the wide­ Since then he has been engaged in the He retains an interest in football be­ spread nature and proven interest of general practice of law in Chicago. ing a recognized official in the game. the Committee membership, th'.! con­ He and his associates occupy offices clusions seem to have great merit. at 332 South 1\Iichigan Avenue. Art SECOND VJCE"PRESIDENT is married and lives in Wilmette with In the nomination of two men from his wife and children, two sons and a (A) HENRY I. DOCKWEILER. the same city and the same Class for daughter. He has been affiliated with Receiving his A.B. at Notre Dame in the office of president is found a both the Notre Dame Club of Chicago 1912, Henry I. Dockweiler did grad­ small element of conflict and a very and the Alumni Association, but has uate work at Catholic U., the fol­ large element of value. Obviously held no offices. lo\\ing year receiving his M.A.. He the Committees realized the value of then took law at California and experience, of contact, of nearness (B) FRED STEERS. Fred Steers Southern California, and with that to the campus. They evidently felt received his LL.B. in 1911 under "the 1ich academic background entered that Chicago, comprising so large a Colonel." He has engaged since then the diplomatic service. He served in numerical group of alumni, enjoying in the general civil practice. Fred the embassies and legations in Japan, an alumni program there that is pro­ came to Notre Dame from Englewood China, Haiti, Dominican Republic and gressive, and possessing innumerable High, Chicago. After a brilliant track· Spain from 1918 to 1926 when he re­ contacts with Notre Dame in every career at Notre Dame, Fred continued turned to Los Angeles and entered field, was the logical spot. Unques­ l1is interest in sports and has been the family firm in the general prac­ tionably the 25-year anniversary of most active in, and an officer of, the tice of law. He was president of the the Class of 1911, the activity of the A.A.U. He was also secretary and Notre Dame Club of Los Angeles·in members of that Class in Associa­ president in turn of the Notre Dame 1931-32. Club of Chicago. For three years he tion affairs, and the particular per­ (B) WENDELL T. PHILLIPS. sonal qualifications of the two nom­ has been a director of the Alumni As­ sociation, and is Secretary of the As a member of the architectural or­ inees combined to produce the coinci­ ganization of Maginnis and Walsh, dence of nomination. Class of 1911. Fred is married and has one son and one daughter. Boston, Wendell Phillips has not only distinguished himself, but has enjoyed HONORARY PRESIDENT that rare privilege of coming back as FIRST VICE-PRESIDENT consulting architect in the erection It would be difficult to determine of many of the beautiful . buildings A) JOHN T. BALFE. John Balfe on the Notre Dame campus which a more outstanding nominee for .the left Notre Dame in 1920 and entered honorary presidency of the Associa­ were designed by his firm. He is the bank-ing business in Buenos Aires. quiet, wrapped up in his work, but tion than Father Nieuwland. In ad­ After three years there he returned dition to the distinction of his career that work speaks rather plainly of his and entered the insurance business in progress since he received his archi­ as a scientist, which has reflected New York. He has been outstanding countless honors upon Notre Dame tectural degree in 1912. Maginnis in that profession since. In addition & Walsh designed Alumni, Dillon, and Notre Dame alumni, Father to his professional progress, John has Nieuwland has always been a good and the new Freshman residence halls been a leader in the Notre Dame Club and the College of Law building. alumnus himself. Never too lost in of New York, holding the presidency his laboratories to enjoy contacts of that organization from 1924 to DIRECTOR FOR FOUR-YEAR TERM with his former students; always pro­ 1929, and a governorship from 1930 moting contacts that have resulted in to 1933. He is also national secre­ (A) JOSEPH M. BYRNE, JR. the industrial demands for his de­ tary of the National Catholic Alumni Joe Byrne is so synonymous with partmentaf alumni; enjoying oppor­ Federation, and an organizer of the Notre Dame activities in New York tunities to meet \vith alumni groups Centre Association for Catholics and New Jersey, it is hard to add to when his valuable time permitted. there. his history. As the son of one of Father Nieuwland has been what Notre Dame's old and distinguished Notre Dame men have learned to (B) RAYJ.EICHENLAUB. alumni, he has carried on the fine know and admire in the Congregation "Eich" occupied a large niche in tradition of loyalty and close associa­ of Holy Cross,-a great man in his Notre Dame when he was a student tion. He has been active and a leader profession, a splendid priest in his as one of the great fullbacks in Notre in the Notre Dame Clubs, tirst of vocation, and a good fellow in his Dame history. Since then, in the gen­ New York, and later of the growing associations. eral insurance business in Columbus, (Continued on Page 214) 184 The Notre Dame Alumnus April, 1936 McBride Library Reid Is Awarded Laetare Medal Received Georgia Editor, Lawyer and Educa­ tor Receives Famous Distinction Many Valuable Volumes Presented By Late Alumnus of the Bulletin of the Catholic Lay­ men's Association of Georgia. This A collection of valuable auto­ award should meet with the approval graphed first editions, some of which of those who are at all acquainted contain holograph copies, have been \vith his contribution to civic leader­ received at the Notre Dame library ship in the South." from the estate of the late Eugene R. McBride, '16, of Pittsburgh. Mr. Reid has been active in the public life of Georgia since 1919, and The editions were presented to the has achieved national recognition as University by Mrs. Florence Daly editor of The BuUetin, official organ l'ricBride, the widow. Gene had e."­ of the Catholic Laymen's Association pressed the desire that the books be of Georgia, and as a contributor to given to the school upon his death. .4merica, Commonweal, The Catholic Probably one of the most unique World, and The Ecclesiastical Review. works of the collection is a first edi­ Before assuming direction of The tion of "Poems" by the Rev. John B. Bulletin, he served as editorial writer Tabb. In the fly leaf of the book is a for the Augusta Chronicle, and as holograph copy (work written in the news editor and columnist of the author's own hand and signed by Augusta Herald. him) of "The Difference," one of the poet's favorite works. On Board of N.C.C.M. Another outstanding e d i t i o n is RICHARD REID Mr. Reid is a member of the law Troubled Heart by Charles Warren 1996 Laetare Medalist firm of Mulherin, Reid and Mulherin Stoddard, a former professor at No­ of Augusta; past president of the tre Dame. Mr. Stoddard has been Richard Reid, Georgia lawyer, edi­ Exchange Club of Augusta; member given credit for interesting Robert tor and educator, was on ?.farch 22 of the National Executive Board of L.