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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 Vol. 38, No. 3 SEPTEMBER, 1960 NEWS: •NOTRE oOUR BELOVED C.^RDIN.A.L OTIAR.\ DIES WE HAVE A NEW PRELATE- DAME BISHOP-ELECT MENDEZ •ALUMNUS FIRST NOTRE D.-\ME PILGRIMAGE TO EUROPE FEATURES: NOTRE DAME MEN OF SCIENCE NICK LAMBER'IO. REPORTER FATHERS AND SONS AT NOTRE DAME DEPARTMENTS: THE WHITE HOUSE June 7, 1960 COMMENCEMENT Dear Father Heshurgh: 1960: UNIVERSAL NOTRE § DAME NIGHT Now that I am hack in Washington I want to try to tell you hov/ deeply appreciative I am of the honor REUNIONS the University of Notre Daire did me in conferring upon me, on Sunday, an honorary degree of Doctor of Laws. I am particularly touched hy the sentiments EDITORIAL: BUSINESS set forth in the citation that you presented to me; I ST.VrESMEN AND A hope I shall alv/ays he worthy of the generosity of NEW LIBRARY those statements. As I am sure you know, I enjoyed greatly heing v/ith you and seeing the splendid young people that comprise YOU, THE ALUMNI — the Senior Class and the entire student hody. It was PART I a privilege, too, to meet so many of the memhers of SELF-STUDY SUR\'EY OF THE your faculty and to see at first hand the operation of 1960 REUNION CLASSES one of our finest and most distinguished Universities. I congratulate you on the great contribution you are making to our country. V/ith v/arm regard. Sincerely, A/»-/*-^A'2^2JC*K Xw-x^ •from your ALUMNI ASSOCIATION Bditoriat Comment Alumni Secretary BOARD OF DIRECTORS Notre Dame alumni and friends will as our people are free to pursue their Officers soon be involved in intensive coopera own destinies, men will be called upon WILLIAM E. COTTER, JR., '41 tion if the plans for the much needed to help one another . ." . Jionorary President It is from business statesmen like JoH.v C. O'Co.N.NOR, '38 Preside!^ New Libra:-)' are to be realized. JAMES H. SHEILS, '35....Club Vice-President Most of you to be Philip Clarke that higher education JOSEPH R. STEWART, '22 so involved will be has enjoyed a constructive interpreta Class Vice-President busy men. tion within the last decade which has PAUL J. CUSHI.NO, '3l...J^und Vice-President Most of you are gone a long way toward averting a JAMES E. ARMSTRONG, '25 Secretary perhaps already in- still critical problem. The Council for Directors to 1961 volved in similar Financial Aid to Education, the match ing gift alumni programs of 100 lead JOSEPH R. STEWART, '22 cooperation w i t h Kansas City Life Insurance Co. ^ the multiple causes ing corporations (listed in this issue of Box 139 Kansas City 41, Missouri W tliat claim your the ALUMNUS), and tlie rise of cor JOHN P. DEMPSEV, '49* contributions. porate support of all forms of higher Kidder, Peabody & Co. J. E. Armstrong 129 S. Broad St., Philadelphia 9, Pa. It would not be education, come from this new and JAMES H. SHEILS, '35 unnatural if the old adage, "It is more foresighted concept. McManus and Walker 39 Broadway, New York, New York blessed to give than to receive," is JOHN- C. O'CO.V.VOR. '38 wearing a little thin. The Leading Schools 1000 Fidelity Trust BIdg. In line with the Univei-sity's need Indianapolis, Indiana to enlist your activity, and in line with And an obvious corollar)' is that tlie present pattern of education and the schools which today are best meet Directors to 1962 _ philanthropy generally, I have just ing the crisis of our era are those JAMES J. BYRNE, '43 come across a stoiy which has some schools which enjoy the participation Byrne Pl>-wood Company of these business statesmen from among Royal Oak, Michigan direct and significant application. It PAUL J. CUSHING, '31 comes from a business man and busi alumni and friends. Hydraulic Dredging Co., Ltd. Har\'ard, Yale, Dartmouth, Prince 14th & Broadway, Oakland, Calif. ness school, and reflects the fact that WALTER FLEMING, JR., '40 our ideals can be based on real con ton, Northwestern, Stanford — all Fleming & Sons, Inc. siderations just as elTectively as our tliese schools are engaged in massive P.O. Box 1291, Dallas, Texas efforts to meet the challenges that W. EDMUND SHE,\, '23 real considerations can be based on Third National Building ideals. even the highly endowed colleges and Dayton 2, Ohio ^ univereities face in our time. Har\'ard is the first to conclude successfully an Directors to 1963 "Business Statesmanship" $82,500,000 capital campaign. The MAURICE J. CARROLL, '19 The Haivard Business School this story of that effort is largely summed 4944 Lindell Blvd., St. Louis 8, Missouri year awarded its first recognition for up in the involvement of its alumni CEORGE L. CO.N-.NOR, '48 leaders, not only in giving generously, 209 S. LaSalle St., Room 716 "Business Statesmanship" to Philip R. Chicago 4, III. Clarke, Chicago business leader. In but in the vital apostolate of philan WILLIAM P. MAHO.VEY, JR., '38 accepting the award Mr. Clarke said thropy tliat enjoys distinctive success Suite 1, Luhrs Tower, Phoenix, Arizona when business statesmen direct it. HARRY J. MEHRE, '22 several important things, among tliem: 72 Eleventh St., N.E., Suite 12 ^ "The first obser\'ation I would make Notre Dame is similarly embarked .Atlanta 9, Ga. • about business statesmanship is the fact on a long-range program that in our Chairmen of the 1960 Committees that it can only be found in any de histor)' is by far our most challenging. The New Library' is an immediate and J. C. O'CONNOR.. ..Executive gree in a free society'. And equally J. H. SHEILS Club Activities factual is the inability of a free so a dramatic embodiment of one phase J. R. STEWART Class Activities ciety, and particularly its handmaiden of this plan. P. J. CUSHI.VG _ Alumni Fund, Foundation and Gifts —free enterprise—to flourish or even J. J. BYRNE Preparatory Schools survive without an abundance of busi Our Alumni Leaders W. L. FLEMING Placement and Job Counseling ness statesmen. The success of die Librar)', but even J. J. BYRNE. Inter-Alumni Affai^ "I would broadly define a business more importantly, the hope for the J. R. STEWART..i'rei(ige and Public Relations statesman as any individual who suc longer future, will unquestionably rest J. H. SHEILS Religion and Citizenship cessfully applies his capabilities par with the response from our business J. R. STEWART AND J. H. SHEILS Nominations tially for private profit and partially statesmen, alumni and friends. W. E. SHEA Budget and Finance for non-profit voluntarj' public sen'ice. We hope that when the invitation W. E. SHEA _ Resolutions "In tliat definition, I would empha comes, and when you have acceded * Appointed to fill the unexpired term of Cliarles size tlie word 'voluntar}'' because we with your demonstrated loyalt)', you E. Rohr, '30, deceased. ^ know that involuntary public ser\'ice will feel something of the surge of neither reflects nor expresses any of statesmanship indicated, and not just This magazine is published bi-monthly by that sense of citizenship responsibility the irritating and handicapping feeling the University of Notre Dame, Notre so essential to the preseiA'ation of a of another job to be done. Our a\- Dame, Ind. Entered as second class mat ter Oct. 1, 1939, at the Post Oifice, Notre republic such as ours. perience indicates that you are in the Dame, Ind. under the act of Aug. 24, 1912. ". it is fairly certain that so long new categor)' of leaders. The Reunions in I960 RELAXiVTION WAS STILL THE KEYNOTE, BUT mirth in the afternoon (Class of '33, left) or foreign policy debate IANIFESTED IN MYRIAD VARIETY by night (Class of '30, right). (Center) Or picnicking in the tpproxiniatcly 300 participated in the Alumni Golf Tournament, grandeur of Alumni-Dillon Court (left), or golfers refueling at and there were enough bridge players to institute a tourney in Morrissey's 19th tee (right). (Below) Or touring a new campus that more cerebral sport; there were organized tours and dis in Merry Oldsmobile and baby bus (Class of '33, left), or hearing organized music, rifle shots and reveille, nonsense prizes and [lo- Father Leo Ward (at mike with Class of '30, right) amid rifle litical shenanigans — but the favorite recreations seemed to be drill and Dixieland in the Basin Street atmosphere of the Mons walking and talking, sitting and talking, standing and talking, Inn's Mahogany Room. Kating and talking, drinking and talking: (Above) It might be Notre Dame Alumnus, September, 1960 25th .XNNIVERS.VRY CL.\SS OF 1935—Their Silver Jubilee set a new record for gimmickry and high living, with derbies, directories, diplomas, and deluxe dining. Shown after luncheon with Father Hesburgh, they made three trcfe to the North Dining Hall sans shuttle bus or ancient auto. % The Reunions in I960 An Eye-witness Report by Jim Armstrong, '25 IN SU.MMARV, THE 1960 REU.VIO.VS WERE too long for the relatively few items pro and the election of Jack Elder as national OUR BEST TO DATE grammed. They were too young for leisure • president opened a new era in Monogram This is a serious statement. It is made and we began to hear the requests for more alumni achievement. Charles Sweeney an^ with considered and balanced judgment. program. Laurence Mullins as succeeding vice- This was my 35tli reunion.