The Archives of The University of Notre Dame 607 Hesburgh Library Notre Dame, IN 46556 574-631-6448 [email protected] Notre Dame Archives: Alumnus 6(\ r{^ NOTRE DAME AUMNUS 1791 m DAME ^ PI liit'l ALUMNUS ifc Volume 41, Number 7 Quadragesimo Anno February-March, 1963 Fortieth Anniversary Issue, dedicated to the memory of Rev. Matthew J. Walsh, C.S.C. (1882- 1963), Eleventh President of the University of Notre Dame, during whose administration (1922-1928) the NOTRE DAME ALUMNUS was founded and began to flourish. NOTRE DAME Sditoml Comment ALUMNUS Vol. 41 No. 1 from your Alumni Secretary James E. Armstrong, '25 Editor John F. Laughlin, '48 Managing Editar HISTOR/CAL NOTE COVER AND CONTENTS of this issue are frankly nostalgic, reviewing 40 This is a modified "Quadragesimo progi-am was adopted by die University years of publication and mourning the recent pass- Anno." It marks the 40th Anniversary' as a full-time office, now directed bv ing of men who shaped those yeors, Father Matt of the first Alumni Office, the first Rev. Louis J. Thornton, C.S.C. Walsh, Joe Byrne, Tom Beocom and Jim Sanford. full-time Alumni Secretar\' (actually In 1929, the late Frank Hayes of modified by the continuing duties of Chicago was an ardent apostle of the Thii nuganne is published bl-montHly by Alfred C. Ryan, '20, as graduate man­ introduction of the annual alumni the Univcraty of Notre Dame, Notre ager of athletics under K. K. Rockne), Dune, Ind. Entered as second class mat­ fund, which enjoyed a short but prom.- ter Oct. .1, 1939, at the Post Office. Notre and — in Januarj', 1923 — the Dame, Ind. tinder the act of Aug. 24, 1912. ising experience in 1930-31, being", establishment of the ALUMNUS mag­ suspended when the Rockne Memorial; azine. building campaign was launched in, ALUMNI ASSOCIATION Historically, the Alumni Association 1931. But the roots remained, and in DIRECTORS 1963-66 came into being in 1868. It -vras, re­ 1941, in preparation for the Universit>'i Installed at the winter meeting of the organized, and functioned continuously Centennial, die Association, under; Alumni Board, Febroory 14-16, 1963: thereafter, in 1908, under the late Rev. President Harrj- F. Kelly, '17, intro­ John VV. Cavanaugh, C.S.C. From duced the First Annual Alumni Fund, 1908 until 1922, the business of the which has continued. From the pay­ Association was conducted by its elected ment of $5 annual dues by some 2,500 George A. officers, and priests and facult)' mem­ to 3,000 alumni before that date, die Bariscillo, Jr., bers on the campus. First Fund received more than '44 This period of volunteer leadership $100,000, and by 1947 in spite of the produced a strong sense of organiza­ war years, alumni had given $936,000. tion, and keeping of records on the to the Universit)'. campus, which provided a strong basis In 1947, President Harry F. Hogan. when permanent organization was ef­ '04, of the Alumni Association, studied fected under full-time staff direction. the Universit)' challenges and the alumni income record and decided that Paul 1. The period also produced the Old outside help must be solicited on an Fenlon, Student Hall Fund, which grew to •19 immediate and a broader basis. The more than $100,000, and was the key result, working with the University gift in the Universitj''s first endowment through its President, Rev. John J. and building campaign, securing for Cavanaugh, C.S.C, was the Notre that $2,000,000 endeavor the matching Dame Foundation. As you may know, gifts of the General Education Board the results of the broadened program! ($250,000) and the Carnegie Founda­ tion ($75,000). brought in some $27,000,000 in the| Morton R. ensuing 10 years, and laid the ground-, Goodman, In 1922 there were appro.ximately work for the success of the $18,000,000|' •30 2,500 Notre Dame alumni, and a net­ three-year effort and the matchingi work of just over 20 Local Alumni $6,000,000 Ford Foundation grantf Clubs. Today, we have 35,000 alumni which looks now to culminate by thel and 190 local alumni clubs. scheduled deadline, July 1 of this yearll Alumni, in the three years of thisS From its early days, the Alumni As­ major eff'ort have given and pledgedf sociation has initiated programs of ahnost $6,000,000 a figure twice thel significance to alumni and to Notre W. Loncoster projected expectation of the profes­ Smith, Dame. Beginning in 1926, the poten­ sional fund counsel from this source. •50 tial of good placement service %vas rec­ ognized. The late Bill Dooley advanced The University's greatest single pub-1 this activity during his tenure in the lie relations force, consistently and con-1 .Alumni Office to a point where the (Continued on page 10) NotTt. Dame Alumnus. Feb.-March, 1963 Libraxj QUADRAGESIMO ANNG .... we want to give them the op­ A Cursory Chronology of the Notre Dame portunity to review Notre Dame of their time as well as gather a glimpse ALUMNUS, 1923-1963 of what the school is today. We hope their interest has been sufficient for them to see that Notre Dame is pro­ of the first graduate of the 1840's, Rev. Fagan, who died in 1951) launched yet gressing academically and athletically. N'eal Gillespie, C.S.C. The Board of di­ another project that January. That Notre Dame has changed. rectors (then known as alumni trus­ project was the ALUMNUS, which man­ With this inevitable change has come tees) had been operating as a con­ aged four issues in that scholastic year a number of policies that many are tinuous body for 15 years since the and began monthly publication the fol­ not familiar with. One of these is the deeper, whole-hearted University inter­ reorganization of 1908. lowing fall. est in her alumni and old students. Rev. Matthew J. VValsli, C.S.C, was The new magazine supplemented the This interest is manifested for no other president of Notre Dame and prepar­ running history of the University, as purpose than the uniting of Notre ing the most dramatic building pro­ presented in the SCHOLASTIC and Dame men on the outside, keeping alive those friendships and interests gram and physical expansion the Uni­ DOME, with the viewpoint of the alum­ that are most cherished because they versity had ever knouTi. And lormer ni as a department of the integral Uni­ found formation at the happiest period president Rev. James A. Bums, C.S.C, versity. The purpose of the publication in anyone's life, that of youth. had undertaken the direction of an then, as now, was threefold communi­ One of the means of maintaining unprecedented endowment drive for cation: to the alumni, the plans and that spirit, keeping it alive and letting policies of the administration; to the it increase in value as the years go on, the magnificent sum of one million is this magazine. It is edited with only dollars, detaching Rev. John C Mc­ administration, the aspirations and the interest of Notre Dame and her Ginn, C.S.C, from his duties as gen­ achievements of the alumni; and be­ men of every year every^vhere in mind. eral secretary of the Alumni Associa­ tween Notre Dame men, the fullest We feci that to serve them, we serve tion to travel the country seeking funds personal news to insure close personal the University, and serving the Uni­ versity we pay the tribute worthy of for the University (in a striking fore­ contact. Catholic education and its growth.— shadowing of the Notre Dame Foun­ Editor Ryan was elected officially as NOTRE DAME ALUMNUS, October, 1923. dation) accompanied by two young secretary at the 1924 meeting of the laymen, Joseph McGinness and Earl Board, retaining editorship ex officio Dickens. as well as his athletic duties. He was ITH THIS issue, the ALUMNUS Left to manage the new head­ soon assisted in the coverage of campus W both completes its fortieth year quarters at 101 Administration BIdg. events by an undergraduate writer from . and begins its forty-first volume of was the acting secretary, Alfred C the journalism department. The stu­ ' publication. Ryan, '20. Already doubling as grad­ dent, James E. Armstrong, was grad­ i' At first printed monthly for nine uate manager of athletics, young Al uated in 1925 and called back at the ^ months of the academic year (in a Ryan and a classmate (Vincent F. beginning of the following year to take miniature format), it has changed in ,» recent years to a bimonthly publica­ tion schedule and spread its sbc issues >." (including two newsletter versions) over the endre calendar year, coordi­ nating its appearance with a sister mag- T azine, the quarterly NOTRE DAME, and various special mailings. In its various forms over the past I, .40 years, the ALUMNUS has been prophet or precursor, witness and re- •• corder of all significant events in which the University and her alumni have been involved. k It is to highlight a few of those events and to spotlight some of the ' men who made them that this brief ' chronicle is presented. '' THE EARLY YEARS: In January, \ FOUNDING, POLICY, 1923, die Alum- \ AND FIRST EDITORS ni AssociatioH j was already be­ By 1948, the ALUMNUS had split into two separate publications, presenting the ginning its 55th year, having been the internal (alumni) and external (institutional) "imoges" of the Universily founded in 1868 under the leadership respectively. Notre Dame Alumnus, Feb.-March, 1963 3 IN MEMORIAM: REV. MATTHEW J.