The Archives of The University of Notre Dame 607 Hesburgh Library Notre Dame, IN 46556 574-631-6448 [email protected] Notre Dame Archives: Alumnus I, Volume 32, No. 5 Nov.-Dcc. 1954 i ^iXt^ i^ml ill i -tJ^ *> I —. » Jan\cs E. Armstrong, '25, Editor John N. Cackley, Jr., '37, Managing Editor Construction is undenvay on the Haninics Shopping Center. (Photo on left.) It is a gift of Mr. and Mrs. Romy Hammcs, Kankakee, 111. Pangbom Residence Hall To Be Erected on Campus— Scheduled For Occupancy in 1955. See Page 2 Notre Dame's All-Amcricans See Page 12 The Detroit Notre Dame Alumni Club Sponsors "Friendly Foes" Football Party (below). See Page 6. Alumni Directors New Residence Hall Attend Meeting The Fall meeting of the Alumni Gift of Pangborns Board of Directors is being held No­ vember 4, 5, 6, 7 in Philadelphia, Pa., Campus Building To Be Ready For Occupancy at the Bellevue-Stratford Hotel. Com­ mittee reports will be given by the fol­ At Beginning Of Fall Term In 1955 lowing: Executive, James G. McGold- rick; Class Activities and Resolutions, Ralph Cor)'n; Club Activities, and Re­ A new $800,000 residence hall, to of modem functional and collegiate ligion and Citizenship, John W. Court­ accommodate 200, will be built on Gothic architecture. The structure will ney; Prestige and Public Relations, campus as a gift of Thomas ^V. Pang- include- 100 double rooms, a chapel Msgr. Joseph B. Toomey; Foundation, bom and John C. Pangbom, through and recreation room. the Pangbom Foundation of Hagers- Alumni Fund and Job Counseling, Dr. The Pangbom brothers operate tlie town, Md. To be Notre Dame's 15th Leo O'Donnell; Inter-Alumni, Daniel Pangbom Corporation, Hagerstown, campus residence building, it was be­ Culhane; Prep School Relations, Karl Md., one of the world's largest manu­ gun in October and will be ready for Martersteck; Budget and Finance, facturers of blast cleaning and dust occupancj' in September, 1955. John F. Saunders; Nominating, Mr. control equipment, which on Septem­ Saimders and Mr. Culhane. "Witli the marked increase in en­ ber 1st celebrated its golden anniver- rollment in recent years, the university sar)'. Thomas Pangbom founded the President McGoldrick will preside has found it impossible to provide cam­ company in 1904 and is its president. over the sessions. Representatives from pus residence facilities for all its stu­ He is a member of the Advisor)' Coun­ the University scheduled to attend the dents," said Father Theodore M. Hes- cil for Science and Engineering at No­ meeting include Rev. John J. Cav- burgh, Notre Dame's president. "The tre Dame and a trustee of the Catholic anaugh, C.S.C, Rev. Thomas J. construction of Pangbom Hall will en­ Universit)' of America. O'Donnell, C.S.C, James E. Arm­ able many students who formerly lived His brother, John Pangbom, joined strong and John Cackley. off-campus to share more fully in the the company in 1905 and holds the life and spirit of Notre Dame. I know posts of vice president and treasurer. I speak for generations of Notre Dame Through the Pangbom Foundation, men in expressing the University's which the brothers created in 1945, gratitude to Thomas Pangbom and numerous grants have been made for John Pangbom for tlieir magnificent charitable, religious, scientific, and edu­ gift." cational purposes. Pangbom Hall is to be erected on the new quadrangle between Fisher Hall and the Rockne Memorial. Designed by the Chicago architectural firm of Holy Cross Fathers Holabird, Root and Burgee, the buflf brick building will be a tasteful blend Erect Calif. Parish The new parish of St. Francis Xav- ier was erected recently in Burbank, Calif. It will serve some 650 families DATES TO REMEMBER and will be the first parish in the his­ 1954-55 tory of the archdiocese to be staffed by Holy Cross Fathers." Universal Communion Sunday, The first pastor is Rev. Jolm P. (Closing of Marian Year) Lynch, C.S.C., who practiced law in Mr. Ben Duffy, president of Ballon, Bar­ Dec. 5, 1954 New York City prior to entering the ton, Durstinc and Osborn, Inc., advertising seminar)' in 1931. Father L)'nch has agency, has been named general chairman, Universal Notre Dame Night, imtil recently been cliaplain at Notre of Brotherhood Week to be obscr\'cd na-i April 18, 1955 Dame High School in Sherman Oaks, Calif., and he has also been associate tionally next Februar)- 20-27. Mr. Duffy Commencement, June 5, 1955 director of the Family Theatre with is chairman of Notre Dame's Presidents' the Rev. Patrick Peyton, C.S.C. Fa­ Committee in New York City, a member Class Reunions, ther L)'nch is a graduate of Notre of tlie University's Ad\'isory Council of > June 10, 11, 12, 1955 Dame's 1925 class and was ordained the College of Commerce and a Knight in 1937. of the Order of Malta. Ji Nolrt Dame Alumnus, Xovrmber-Decembtr, 1954 Williams $50,000 Bequest Army Adopts Program Provides Law Scholarships Suggested By Priest The U. S. Army has adopted and The Univei-sity of Notre Dame has Associate Board of Lay Trustees at No­ endorsed the "definition" of the Gen­ received a becjuest of $50,000 from the tre Dame from 1948 until his death eral Aflilitary Science ROTC program estate of the late Charles F. Williams, in September, 1952. His bequest pro­ as propounded by the Rev. Robert W. Cincinnati, O., the former president of vides the first funded scholarships in Woodward, C.S.C., director of military the Western and Southern Life Insur- the Notre Dame law school, which is information and guidance at Notre .. ance Company and a member of the the oldest Catholic college of law in Dame. the United States. "The Charles F. AVilliams law schol­ A member of the joint civifian-mili- IRISH NETWORK arships will memorialize a valued tary panel which in 1952 was commis­ FANS FAVORITE friend and lay trustee of Notre Dame," sioned by the Pentagon to revise its said the Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh, ROTC program. Father Woodward in The Irish Football Network under C.S.C., president of the University. liis report to the military, rapped the the direction of Joe Boland, '27, has "Mr. ^Villiams was a generous bene­ "fragmentation and superficiality" of been bringing play-by-play descriptions factor of the Church and Catholic the outworn ROTC Branch • Material to millions of Notre Dame fans all over higher education. I want to express the program, and its "costly attrition rate the globe. Now in its sixth season, it gratitude not only of the university but of students." has grown from a small nucleus of 12 also of Notre Dame law students who stations to the largest specialized net­ will share his generosity in the years work in the U. S. of 119 stations. to come." "One of the ideak of this univer­ This fall, for example, the voice of AVilliams was an 1897 graduate of sity is to train her sons in the art of Joe Boland is heard every Saturday Cincinnati University. He was elected governing men," Father Robert afternoon everywhere the Irish play, vice president and general counsel of Woodward, C.S.C, told 1,500 fresh­ home or away, by alumni and other Western and Southern in 1910 and men during the orientation program. friends from Honolulu to Kalamazoo became president of the company in and Muskegon to New Orleans. In 1931. Four years later, he assisted the Pointing out that Notre Dame is fact, outlets are set up in 30 states and, late Archbishop McNicholas of Cincin­ one of the few universities offering in the past two seasons, 10 games have nati in tlie founding of the Inslitiitum ROTC programs of the army, navy, been sent around the world via the Divi Thomae, a scientific research cen­ air force, and marines, he urged new Armed Forces Radio. ter. Williams was a Knight Commander students to seriously consider these Not only is the Irish Network the of the Order of St. Gregory and a Mas­ programs. "Catholic youth of this largest in size for its type but it also ter Knight of the Sovereign Military generation," he warned, "are too has excellent ratings. The Pulse, Inc., Order of Malta. frequently satisfied to play only a broadcast-measurement firm has re­ subordinate role" in the politics and ported that Boland's ratings have armed forces of their country. placed him No. 1 among the top ten stations in New York City, St. Louis I CHRISTMAS CARDS § and San Francisco; No. 2 among top W For an attractive box of 20 Christ- S stations in Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, s= mas cards send $1.00 to Moreau S Noting that the old curriculum was S or Dujarie Halls, Notre Dame, g Cleveland, New Orleans, Buffalo, De­ "not up to the college level" and "lack­ g Indiana. Profits will go to the % troit and Milwaukee. This is an amaz­ ing in motivation," the priest advocated % Bengal Missions. ^ ing result particularly when the net­ a general course, which, unlike its pred­ work operates only on Saturday after­ ecessor, will be based on the realization noon during the football season and that the college student is on a higher even then in competition with the ma­ mental level than the average recruit. jor national hook-ups. With history as its "integrating prin­ Joe Boland is one of football's top ciple," the new course will "provide a analysts. He played at Notre Dame in broad basic military education rather front of the Four Horsemen, spent 14 than individual proficiency in the tech­ years in the coaching field at Santa nical duties of junior officers." The Clara, College of St.