Notre Dame 11

The Archives of The University of Notre Dame 607 Hesburgh Library Notre Dame, IN 46556 574-631-6448 [email protected] Notre Dame Archives: Alumnus NOTRE DAME FEBRUARY-MARCH 1962 11 A NEW KJND OF PLAY HOUSE ^m(See "Pattern s for Survival: Living with the Atom") mmm^ . .r.^rl ^^'^^£,1 «-' EDIATION — a new dimension in hi^er education. Keep that Mword in your thinking. It may well be the key to the destiny of Notre Dame. As the echoes of the intensive Chal Mtorial Comment lenge Program in 1961 begin to sub side, we must turn our attention to the real goals of the Universit)' that from your dictated that campaign (and the ulti mate success it must achieve), Alumni Secretary "... Catholic higher education can, in our time, perform an important mediatorial function. Catholic higher education stands for something definite, This concept has not been adequate. indeed, in any way that the present- definable, and, I trust, something true, It is from this inadequacy that higher day needs of mankind demand and in good, beautiful, and timeless. The education and the world outside the whatever areas where we might serve world is disjointed today in so many campus have finally met in a feeling as men committed to Christian wis ways, fragmented into so many dis that the pool of higher educational re dom. ..." parate parts, that one might look far sources — whether faculty', or facilities, Destiny will not be achieved in com to find a more inspiring, more im or alumni — has been largely untap placency. It will not thrive on the portant, or more central task for the ped, as crises have multiplied in areas all-for-one and one-for-all tradition. It Mediation • • • the IMizA yHoxV Catholic higher learning than the where only trained leadership can con will require the intellectual application^ exalted work of mediation in our tribute enlightenment. of alumni and students as never before. times. ..." Into this realization, almost as it But in the absence of this initiative, These are words spoken by Father dawns. Father Hesburgh has injected in our failure to throw our strengtii Theodore Hesburgh to the National the dynamic new concept in the prac into today's crises, weakness begets Catholic Educational Association in tical new dimension of mediation. weakness. April, 1961. He has spoken in similar Through his participation in na Perhaps the most vivid realization of vein to alumni. tional and international areas of crisis, this decline lies in the fact that Catho In the ensuing months it has been as an educator and a priest, he has lics are pitted against Catholics in my good fortune to talk with many grasped the significance of the oppor problems of civil rights, in problems of representatives from campuses all over tunity that is knocking at the door of labor and management, in problems o|^ the country — state, private, large, all higher education, and the even political philosophy, even in problems small, men's, women's, co-educational. greater opportunity that knocks at the of population control. The feeling is general that there is door of the Catholic university. The world we live in, certainly the a gap between our system of higher If the University of Notre Dame can academic world we live in, will, with education and the problems it presum implement his concept, it may well in the few years just ahead, recognize ably was established to solve — one of become the number one University of this new dimension and mobilize the the greatest being the area of public the world. In his words: increasing resources of higher educa responsibility. "... The University has always tion to its implementation. The alter Historically, colleges and universities been the critical mass in society. Today native would seem to be a growing were set up to preserve knowledge, to one may not simply criticize: the prob failure of function, \vith accompanying transmit knowledge, and •— primarily lems are too enormous. The modem disillusion and detachment of support in basic research — to expand knowl university must begin to commit its by the society that in its earlier vision edge. resources to solutions. I can visualize and conviction built our schools. A But in all of these segments, the the Notre Dame of tomorrow operat Notre Dame, through its President, campus retained an objectivity, a de ing in South America and in Africa. has defined the challenge and the op tachment from its contemporary world. I can see Notre Dame leading the way portunity. If, in preserved or transmitted or at home and on the world scene, too It remains for all of the strength new knowledge, there might be solu — in the ecumenical movement, in behind Father Hesburgh to determine tions to contemporary problems, it was civil rights, in the philosophy of science, whether thk definition becomes a mile the responsibility of the world outside in brid^ng the gaps between diverse stone in destiny. to adapt them. world cultures, in atoms-for-peace — — JAMES E. ARMSXRONd© Notre Dame Alumnus^ February-March, 1962 CHALLENGE NOW IN THE STRETCH . NOTRE WITH ONLY $4J MILUON TO GO! DAME From July 1, 1960, to the present, the University has received approximately $13,700,000 in gifts and pledges toward the $18 million Challenge Appeal Goal, or about 76 per cent. ALUMNUS Of thb total nearly 15,000 alumni have given or pledged more than $3.6 million, $2,102,000 of which came in gifts or pledges of less than $500. The Vol. 40, No. 1 Feb.-Mar., 1962 total to date indicates participation by less than half of Notre Dame's 30,000 active alumni, but thousands more are expected to contribute toward the goal of |Editor James E. Armsfrong, '25 greatness before tlie June 30, 1963, deadline set by the Ford Foundation. Pledges Managing Editor John F. Laughlin, '48 turned into cash by that date will be matched by the Ford Foundation at a ratio Columnist of 1 for 2 up to $6 million, which the University needs for many necessary projects Rev. Thomas J. O'Donnell, C.S.C, '41 not covered by the appeal. Photographer M. Bruce Harlan, '49 More than $4,300,000 in additional gifts are required by the deadline to meet Notre Dame's minimum need in the Program for the Future. Only sixteen months remain in which to accomplish the task, but alumni have already demon This magazine is publislicd bi-monthly by strated that thev will do more than their share. the Univenity of Noire Dame, Notre Dame. Ind. Entered as second class mat. ter Oct. 1, 1939, at the Post Office, .Votre Dame, Ind. under the act of Aug. 24, 1912. William Mahoney Elected to Head Alumni; CONTENT HIGHLIGHTS: Carroll, Huter, Mehre to Assist President • Editorial: Mediation, p. 2. • News: Board Elections, Challenge Progress, p. 3. WILLIAM P. MAHONEY, JR., '38, he was assistant attorney general for • Feature: Patterns for Sunn\-al: I., Living PhoenLx, Ariz., attorney, was elected Arizona, and he was prosecutor of with the Atom, p. 4; II., Antennas in the president of the Notre Dame Alumni Maricopa County (Ariz.) from 1953 Sky, p. 5. • Student Slant: A New Association by its board of directors to 1957. Bill was chairman of the Frontier? by Terry McCarthy, '62, p. 6. Arizona del^ation to the 1960 Demo • Miscellany: Notre Dame Notes, p. 7. January 19. He succeeds Walter Flem cratic convention, supjx>rting the presi o Picture Stories: Our Man in Washing ing, Jr., '40, Dallas, Tex., industrialist, dential candidacy of John F. Kennedy. ton, p. 8; They Rallied Round the Dome, as head of Notre Dame's 30,000-mem- pp. 12-13. • Notre Dame Books: Notes, He and his wife have seven children, App. 8-10. • Coliunn: Man and the Mo ber alumni organization. Fleming re four boys and three girk. ment, Rev. Thomas J. O'Donnell, C.S.C, mains on the board as honorary' presi Installed for three-year terms on the '41, p. 10 • Announcement: 39th Uni dent. versal N.D. Night, p. 11. • Law School board were Albert D. Castellini, '24, News, p. 13. • Athletics: 1961 Football Elected vice-presidents were Maurice Cincinnati attorney; Philip J. Fac- Statistics, p. 14. • Club News, Directory, Carroll, '19, St. Louis, Mo., architect cenda, '51, president of the Midwest Calendar, Universal Communion Sunday, (Class); Roger Huter, '40, president Container Co., Inc., Chicago; Peter J. pp. 15-25. • Sublime Tradition (insert): The Political Maturity of .American of Huter-Quest and Co., Louis\ilIe, Keman, '49, college recruiting coordi Catholics, Frank L. Keegan, M..'\., '51, Ky. (Clubs); and Harry Mehre, presi nator. The Ford Motor Co., Dearborn, Ph.D., '59. • Class News, Statistics, Spot dent of Sunny Isles, Inc., Atlanta, Ga., Mich.; and Adam J. Walsh,'25, Bruns light .Alumni, pp. 26-51. * President's soft drink firm (Fund). James E. Arm wick, Me., a U. S. Marshal and for MLetter, Walter L. Fleming, Jr., '40. strong, '25, South Bend, Ind., was re mer collegiate and professional foot elected executive secretary of the As ball coach. sociation. ON THE COVER: LitUe John and The newly elected directors of Notre Catherine Dasek make a happy game of a Bill Mahoney received a law degree Dame's alumni organization took of grim experiment in this South Bend from the University in 1940. He was fice at the winter meeting of the board Tribime photo. Children of Joim Dasek, captain of the 1938 track team and January 18-20 on the campus. The '54, their story is told in the "Patterns served as track coach from 1938 to next meeting will be held with Eastern for Survival" capsule, "Living with the Atom," in this issue.

Load more