1972-05-21 University of Notre Dame Commencement Program
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One Hundred and Twenty-Seventh Commencement Exercises MAY EXERCISES THE UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME NoTRE DAME, INDIANA : THE GRADUATE ScHooL THE LAw ScHOOL THE CoLLEGE oF ARTs AND LETTERS THE CoLLEGE oF SciENCE THE CoLLEGE OF ENGINEERING The Graduate and Undergraduate Divisions of THE CoLLEGE OF BusiNEss ADMINISTRATION - '- Athletic and Convocation Center At 2:00 p.m. (Eastern Standard Trme) Sunday, May 21, 1972 . ~ : - \ "' ' ·. ' . ' . ... { .~ - ~ . : . " America, The Beautiful 0 beautiful for spacious skies, For amber waves of grain For purple mountain majesties Above the fruifed plain. America! America! God shed His grace on thee, And crowned thy good with brotherhood From sea to shining sea. Notre Dame, Our Mother · O'Donnel~Casasanta Notre Dame, Our Mother, tender, strong and true, Proudly in the heavens gleams thy gold and blue. Glory's mantle cloaks thee, golden is thy fame And our hearts forever praise thee, Notre Dame: And our hearts forever love thee, Notre Dame. PROGRAM • • • • PROCESSIONAL AMERICA, THE BEAUTIFUL-ORCHESTRA AND AuDmNCE (Words are on inside front cover.) CITATioNs FOR HoNORARY DEGREEs by the Reverend James T. Burtchaell, C.S.C., S.S.L., Ph.D. Provost of the University THE CoNFERRING OF HoNORARY DEGREES by the Reverend Theodore M. Hesburgh, C.S.C., S.T.D. President of the University VALEDICTORIAN'S AnDRESS by William Gerald McElroy, Jr. Silver Spring, Maryland PRESENTATION OF THE SENIOR AwARD WINNERS by the Reverend James T. Burtchaell, C.S.C., S.S.L., Ph.D. Provost of the University PRESENTATION OF THE PROFESSOR THOMAS MADDEN FAcULTY AwARD PREsENTATION oF THE FACULTY AwARD PREsENTATION oF THE PREsiDENT's AwARDs CoMMENCEMENT AnDREss by Dr. Kingman Brewster, Jr. Yale University New Haven, Connecticut PRESENTATION OF CANDIDATES FOR DEGREES by Robert E. Gordon, Ph.D. Vice-President for' Advanced Studies by Thomas L. Shaffer, J.D. · Dean of the Law School by Frederick J. Crosson, Ph.D. Dean of the College of Arts and Letters by Bernard Waldman, Ph.D. Dean of the College of Science by Joseph C. Hogan, Ph;D. Dean of the College of Engineering by Thomas T. Murphy, M.C.S. Dean of the College of Business Administration THE CoNFERRING OF DEGREEs ·AND CHARGE TO THE Cuss by the Reverend Theodore M. Hesburgh, C.S.C., S.T.D. President of the University NoTRE DAME, OuR MoTHER-ORCHESTRA AND .AuDmNcE (Words are on inside front cover.) RECESSIONAL OF THE PLATFORM PARTY ·-'. Degrees Conferred The University of Notre Dame announces the conferring of The Degree of Doctor of Laws, honoris causa on: Hannah Arendt, New York, New York Kingman Brewster, Jr., New Haven, Connecticut Robert Coles, Cambridge, Massachusetts J. Irwin Miller, Columbus, Indiana Sister M. Alma Peter, C.S.C., Notre Dame, Indiana Honorable Walter V. Schaefer, Chicago, Illinois Franklin D. Schurz, Sr., South Bend, Indiana Thomas Grey Wicker, Washington, D. C. The Degree of Doctor of Science, honoris causa on: Ernest R. G. Eckert, Minneapolis, Minnesota Paul A. Weiss, New York, New York IN THE GRADUATE SCHOOL The University of Notre Dame confers the following degrees in course: The Degree of Doctor of Philosophy on: Robert Golder Alderson, Phoenix, Arizona B.E.S., Johns Hopkins University, 1956; M.S.Engr.Sci., University of Notre Dame, 1961. Major subject: Engineering Science. Dissertation: Minimum Dynamic Response of a Fixed-Free Bar. Robert John Antonio, Woodbridge, Connecticut B.A., Miami University (Ohio), 1967; M.A., University of Notre Dame, 1970. Major subject: Sociology and Anthropology. Dissertation: Account ing for Rural-Urban Crime Differentials: A Durkheimian Social Control Model. tJ ohn Benjamin Ashby, Marquette, Michigan B.A., Western :Michigan University, 1962; M.A., Michigan State University, 1964. Major subject: Government and International Studies. · Dissertation: Supreme Court Appointments Since 1937. tRichard Jack Bishirjian, Dallas, Texas A.D., University of Pittsburgh, 1964. Major subject: Government and In ternational Studies. Dissertation: Carlyle's Political Religion and Nineteenth Century Gnosticism. tLee Reese Boyer, Ann Arbor, Michigan D.A., Mount Union College, 1959; M.A., University of Notre Dame, 1968. Major subject: History. Dissertation: Golden Hill and Nassau Street Riots: New York, 1770. Robert Brooke Clements, South Bend, Indiana B.A., St. John's University (Minnesota), 1956; M.A., University of Notre Dame, 1960. Major subject: History. Dissertation: Th6 Commonweal 1924-1938: The Williams-Shuster Years. Mrs. Helen Louise Petts Cripe, South Bend, Indiana B.A., Maryville College (Tennessee), 1953; M.A., University of Notre Dame, 1968. Major subject: History. Dissertation: Thomas Jefferson and Music. David Ragan Dees, Paris, Texas· B.A., East Texas State ·University, 1967; M.A., ibid., 1969. Major subject: Sociology and Anthropology. Dissertation: On the Theory of Art: A Struc turalist Analysis with Example from Contemporary Popular Music. t Degree conferred January 15, 1972. 5 Joseph J. DiGiovanna, Richmond Hill, New York B.A., St. John's University (New York), 1962; M.A., Univenity of Notre Dame, 1965. Major subject: Philosophy. Dissertation: Linguistic Phenom enology: Philosophical Method in J. L. Austin. tDean Robert Esslinger, Baltimore, Maryland B.A., Univenity of Kansas, 1964; M.A., Univenity of Notre Dame, 1966. Major subject: History. Dissertation: The Urbanization of South Bend's Immigrants, 1850-1880. tBrother H. James Farrell, Brothers of the Christian Schools, Winona, Minnesota B.A., St. Mary's College (Minnesota), 1957. Major subject: Physics. Dis sertation: Photoemission Investigation of the Electronic Structure of Re, W, Ta, Mo, Nb. Sister Marilyn Rose Ginder, Sisters of Providence, St. Mary-of-the Woods, Indiana B.A., St. Mary-of-the-Woods College, 1959; M.A., Univenity of Notre Dame, 1965. Major subject: Education. Dissertation: Perceptions of Adopten and Nonadopten of an Innovative Idea in a Selected Secondary School. Vincent Paul Goddard, South Bend, Indiana B.S., College of the Holy Cross, 1943; B.S.A.E., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1947; M.S.A.E., Univenity of Notre Dame, 1951. Major sub ject: Mechanical Engineering. Dissertation: Numerical Solutions of the Drag Response of a Cylinder to Stream-Wise Velocity Fluctuations. tThomas A. Gregory, St. Paul, Minnesota B. of Chern., Univenity of Minnesota, 1964; M.S., Univenity of Iowa, 1966. Major subject: Chemistry. Dissertation: Temperature Dependence of Specific Rates of Benzene Monomer and Excimer Fluorescence, Mrs. Joan Rezner Gundersen, South Bend, Indiana A.B., Monmouth College, 1968; M.A., College of William and Mary in Virginia, 1969. Major subject: History. Dissertation: The Anglican Min istry in Virginia 1723-1776: A Study of a Social Class. tKurt Joseph Guter, Edgewood, Maryland B.S.C.E., Univenity of Notre Dame, 1967; M.S.C.E., ibid., 1969. Major subject: Civil Engineering. Dissertation: The Removal of Organic and In organic Pollutants from Wastewater by a Combined Chemical and Biological Treatment Pilot Plant. tGarry William Hesser, Wooster, Ohio B.A., Phillips Univenity, 1961; B.D., .Vnion Theological. Seminary, 1964; M.A., Univenity of Notre Dame, 1970. Major subject: Sociology and Anthropology. Dissertation: Status Inconsistency, Identity Incongruity, Str=, and Behavior Modification Among Protestant Clergymen. tRev. John Terrance Hiltz, Norwalk, Ohio . B.S., Xavier Univenity (Ohio), 1950; S.T.B., St. Mary's Seminary (Mary land), 1957; S.T.L., ibid., 1959; M.A., Univenity of Notre Dame, 1967. Major subject: Education. Dissertation: Effects of Independent Religion Study on Religious Interest of High School Sophomores. Sister Marilynn Hofer, Sisters of St. Francis, Oldenburg, Indianapolis, Indiana B.A., Marian College (Indiana), 1960; M.E., Xavier Univenity, 1964. Major subject: Education. Dissertation: Professional Behavior Patterns of Directon of Secondary Teacher Education in Catholic Colleges in the Continental United States. Allen Francis Hrejsa, North Riverside, Illinois B.S., Univenity of Illinois, 1964; M.S., Southern Illinois Univenity, 1966. Major subject: Physics. Dissertation: Isobaric Spin Violation in 20Ne (d,a), 18F. tJan-Tsyu James Huang, Taiwan, China B.S., National Taiwan Univenity, 1963; M.S., ibid., 1966. Major subject: Chemistry. Dissertation: Sentiempirical Calculation of Interaction Energy by a Modified Diatontics-in-Molecules Method. 6 ·-~ Robert Francis Hueston, Scranton, Pennsylvania B.A., College of the Holy Cross, 1963; M.A., University of Notre Dame, 1965. Major subject: History. Dissertation: The Catholic Pr..., and Nativism, 1840-1860. tNicholas C. Huie, Bronx, New York B.E. (Ch.Eg.), Manhattan College, 1967. Major subject: Chemical Engi· neering. Dissertation: The Heterogeneous Phase Equilibria of Carbon Dioxide-Norman Paraffin Systems. Ralph Henry Johnson, Windsor, Ontario, Canada H.A.B., Xavier University (Ohio), 1962; M.A., University of Notre Dame, 1967. Major subject: Philosophy. Dissertation: The Concept of Existence in the Concluding Unscientific Postscript. tJames Edward Kassner, Burlington, Kentucky B.S., University of Cincinnati, 1967. Major subject: Chemistry, Dissertation: The Synthesis and Some Reactions of 6H·1,3, 4-0xadiazine-4-0xides. Sister Isabelle Keiss, Sisters of Mercy, Merion, Pennsylvania A.B., Villanova University, 1960; M.A., The Catholic University of America, 1966. Major subject: English. Dissertation: Captain Stormfield: Mark Twain's Symbolic Pilot. Francis Paschal Kessler, St. Louis, Missouri A.B., St. Louis University, 1966; A.M., ibid., 1967. Major subject: