\ SCHOLASTIC ^ Vol. 81, No. 2 March 24, 1944 10 Cents I i k '* Anne McCormick Laetare Medalist L ^^.• * Rockne Memorial Program Sunday n * Student Council Voting Wednesday For Years Largest Collegiate Circulation in Indiana "Take me out to the ball game" Home of HICKEY- FREEMAN Navy Officers' Uniforms 8 BLOCKS SOUTH ON MICHIGAN STREET Indiana's Largest Naval Officers' Uniform House SOLE Is NOT DOWNTOWN! AGENCY for /GILBERT'S Naval Tailors, Indiana's Largest— is DOBBS located eight blocks South on Michigan Street in South Bend — NOT DOWN TOWN! Everything Naval Officers' you need UNDER ONE ROOF — 88 courteous Caps Gilbertarians to serve you. TAXI OPEN FREE! HOUSE GILBERT'S Sat. Afternoon in South Bend and Evening —to Gilbert's "(htjz. AfoAd. 7ji££4 /^ptotivi/t- —and Sunday 813 - 817 S. Michigan Street SOUTH BEND'S LARGEST STORE FOR MEN! f APPOINTED BY THE 17. S. NAVY Get More Quality for Less in These NAVY OFFICERS' UNIFORMS created by the U. S. 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MADDEN "Scholastic" Associate Editor THE STAFF Among- the many problems facing V-12 students today is DAVE CONDON the question of further education following the war. Realiz­ - Editor-in-Chief ing this, Congress is endeavoring to legislate liberal meas­ ures to secure college education and training for returning EDWARD MADDEN RALPH ABELL service men. In addition, mustering out pay will facilitate a Associate Editor, Marines Associate Editor, Navy man's entrance into college in a civilian status, tiding him over until he is completely reorientated. HAROLD BERLINER Associote Editor, Civilian At the present time, according to Eev. Hugh O'Donnell, C.S.C, president of the University, a committee on post­ EDITORIAL STAFF war problems is planning the correlation of V-12 college AL LESMEZ Managing Editor records and subsequent peace-time college pursuits. Rev. BILL WADDINGTON Sports Editor John Cavanaugh, C.S.C, vice-president of the Univer­ DICK MURPHY Circulation sity, is the chairman of this committee." BOB OTOOLE Promotion Although the plans of the organization are in a nebulous COLUMNISTS state, the following are some of the concrete problems Avith which it will deal: (1) Will the V-12 record necessarily re­ LIEUT. S. L. BEATTY - Observations main an inflexible part of a college record? (2) Can certain LIEUT. (J.G.) J. J. COLLINS Know Your Navy V-12' college credits, consistent with the course the ex- IIM CASEY - The Green Banner service man takes following the war, be retained and non- JIM REGAN Introducing relevant ones dropped? (3) What will happen to the credits BILL CAHNAHAN The College Parade tjiat do not fit into the majors and minors taken by the ROBERT RIORDAN Man About the Campus newly-made ci-\alian student? (4) Establishment of a revised JIM FENNELLY Pressbox Splinters curi-iculum, meeting new specifications of peace time. PHOTOGRAPHY These and other problems of conversion will be arranged, pointing always toward the benefit of the returning veterans. AL SHAEFER CHARLES RENAUD JOE HALLER Father O'Donnell and Father Cavanaugh pledge eager co­ operation with and full support to the "beloved young men REV. CHARLES M. CAREY, C.S.C. Faculty Advisor of our country" when they return to Notre Dame. eep up on Notre Dame News — subscribe to the SCHOLASTIC for you?-self or for your frie?tds in service $1.00 for March - June semester Name. Address. L CLIP BLANK AND MAIL TO PUBLICATIONS OFFICE — NOTRE DAME, INDIANA THE NOTRE DAME SCHOLASTIC Entered as second-class matter at Notre Dame, Indiana. Acceptance for mailing at special rate of postage. Section 1103, Oct. 3, 1917. Authorized June 25, 1918. VOL. 81 MARCH 24. 1944 NO. 2 Anne McCormick Awarded Medal Rev. J. Hugh O'Donnell, C.S.C, presi­ most of the national leaders in the dent of the University, announced this United States. She built a reputation for week the selection of Anne O'Hare Mc­ herself by her honest, powerful, and in­ Notre Dame Educators Cormick, foreign correspondent of the telligent reporting. New York Times, as the 62nd recipient In 1936 she received the honor of be­ Speak at Chicago Meet of the Laetare Medal. Mrs. McCormick ing the first woman member of the Times Rev. William F. Cunningham, C.S.C., thus becomes the 14th woman to be editorial board. But still another high in director of the faculty, was in Chicago awarded this medal, which has been pre­ feminine achievement was to be reached. Monday through Thursday, attending a sented by the University each year since In that same year she won the Pulitzer meeting of the North Central Associa­ 1883 to an outstanding member of the Prize for journalism, thus becoming thn tion of Colleges and Universities. Catholic laity in the United States. first Avoman to receive this honor. Prom­ At the same time Dr. Waldemar Gur- In announcing this year's selection, a inent women's organizations selected her as "Woman of 1939." ian, faculty member .and editor of the selection which is always made on Lae­ Revieio of Politics, attended the sessions tare Sunday, Father O'Donnell said: Today general recognition concedes of the Midwest Catholic colleges and uni­ ' "The Laetare medal for 1944 is award­ her knowledge of European political af­ versities. This meeting was held Tuesday ed to Anne O'Hare McCormick, distin­ fairs as authority. It also rates her one night and Dr. Gurian led the discussion guished journalist and foreign corre­ of the most outstanding foreign corre­ following- an address on postwar geogra­ spondents of her generation. And it re­ spondent of the New York Tivies. Her phy, given by Dr. Paul Ketrick, presi­ spects her for her "gracious modesty so brilliant reporting of national and in­ dent of Loretto Heights College, Denver, characteristic of the noble woman Avhose ternational events of history in the mak­ Colo. Father Cunningham is a member faith in God inspires her ." ing has been enriched by a clarity and of the board of review of the NCA vision that has given her preeininence in Writes to SCHOLASTIC group. that field, as evidenced by the fact that That Anne McCormick is not a total Tuesday morning. Brother William, she was the first woman to be awarded stranger to the SCHOLASTIC is proved C.S.C, superintendent of high schools of the Pulitzer prize in journalism. Yet by a letter she mailed the University the Brothers of Holy Cross, reported on Mrs. McCormick has accepted all honors dated Cleveland, 0., October, 1906. In the activities of the national organiza­ with a gracious modesty so characteristic that letter she asked the then editor tion committee of the N.CEj\.., and that of the noble woman whose faith in God to forward a few copies of the SCHO­ evening • Father Cunningham, chairman inspires her to great heights in the pur­ LASTIC which contained a particular es­ of the N.CE.A. reorganization commit­ suit of truth." say which had pleased her very much. tee, presided at a second meeting of that Anne O'Hare McCormick was born in "Will you do me the favor to send me, group. Wakefield, Yorkshire, England in the if you can, the three numbers of the Father Cunningham was in Indianap­ '80s. Her education was a product of SCHOLASTIC containing Mr. O'Donnell's olis last week attending the. Indiana private schools here and abroad. She essay on Francis Thompson. It is so ex­ state meeting of the NCA. received a B.A. degree from St. Mary's ceptional a piece of work, both in criti­ Academy, near Columbus, 0. cal insight and poetic feeling and ex­ Lillisin News Again "Times" Editor pression, that I want to preserve it. I Before beginning her work for the should like to congratulate the writer A letter recently sent .to Rev. John J. New York Times, Mrs. McCormick be­ if I knew where or how to reach him. I Cavanaugh, CS.C, vice-presidoit of-the came associate editor of the Catholic imagine, however, judging from the University, from Mrs. H. P. Burnett, Universe Bulletin. When frequent trips promise of his work in the SCHOLASTIC, wife of Captain H. P. Burnett, who was to Europe accompanying her husband, that if we keep our eyes open, we shan't for a long, time commanding ofiicer at Francis J. McCormick, an importer of be long in finding out!" the naval station here, enclosed a clip­ Dayton, 0., supplied her with a back­ The interesting note in the letter is ping from a Los Angeles paper showing ground for a journalistic career, she that the "Mr. O'Donnell" referred to Lt. (jg) Paul Lillis, 1941 Notre Dame wrote the Times and suggested that she later became one of the most famous football captain, as commander of a P-T would like to become a free-lance con­ poets in America, the late Rev.