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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 The Notre Dame Alumnus Vol.. IV.. Contents for April, 1926 No: 7 Spring Scene on the Campus Frontispiece Universal Notre Dame Night Reports ......*. 195 Placement Opportunities Open '. 205 Editorial A. .....:'.. ^ 207 N. D. Glee Club Wins East ,. , .......210 Hon. Warren A. Cartier, '87 .., 213 Athletics ...214 The Alumni - 216 The magazine is published monthly during the scholastic' year by the Alumni Association of the University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana. The subscription price is $2.00 a year; the price of single copies is 23 cents. The annual alumni dues of $3.00. include a year's subscription to The Alumnus. Entered as second-class matter January 1, 1923, at the i>ost office at Notre Dame, Indiana, under tha Act of March 3, 1897. All corres pondence should be addressed to The Notre Dame Alumnus, ^ox 81, Notre Dame, Indiana. JAMES E. ARMSTRONG, '25. Editor The Alumni Association — of the — University of Notre Dame Alumni Headquarters: 101 Administration. Bldg., Notre Dame. James E. Armstrong '25, General Secretary. ALUMNI BOARD REV. M. L. MORIARTY, '10 Honorary President WILLIAM P. MCPHEE, '90 President DANIEL J. .O'CONNOR, '05 Vice-President JAMES E. ARMSTRPNG, '25 Secretary WARREN A. CARTIER, '87 Treasurer THOMAS J. MCKEON; '90: Director JOSEPH M. HALEY, '99 Director •JOHN P. MURPHY, '12 Director EDW. C. MCHUGH, '13. Director Universal Notre Dame Night's third predict the surpassing of all previous rec- birthday was celebrated Wednesday, April rods in any section of this great land. The 21st, by the great national family of Notre program has been arranged largely through Dame alumni. All the fun and abandon of a the efforts of Jim Mayrand, Secretary to three-year-old's party seems to have been Sheriff George Walters. ,,And Jim says the present at the nation-wide observations, and orgies of Eome and of Hollywood when com yet in all of them there was that serious pared to it for excitement and madness will touch which showed that the aunts and un seem like an afternoon meeting of the Bad cles of the child are beginning to realize Axe Browning Club. that steps must be taken toward the edu MAN! YOU CAN'T STAY AWAY! cation of the growing offspring. YOU DON'T DARE! The following reports from the various Your child when he grows up to be a big Clubs indicate how whole-heartedly the manly fellow—^the Rockne type—^will bow members entered into the light and serious' his head with shame if he knows you missed sides of the celebration.' It is with unusual it. Your wife or sweetheart will, probably pleasure that The Ahminus records the fine disown you. Your parents will doubtless dis action which practically every Club took inherit you. upon the three projects of scholarships, The date—^Wednesday, April 21. placement, and publicity, proposed by the The time—8:00 p. m. Alumni Board. The place—Althea Gardens, Grand River The Notre Dame Alumni Association and and Seven-Mile Road. the Local Alumni Clubs are comparatively Now, then, let every N. D. man show his young, and the splendid response to this loyalty to Notre Dame by putting every first request for organization of these thing aside to attend this great event—and phases of alumni activity points to a bril by all means, come prepared to spend an liant future for the entire Notre Dame evening of Good Fellowship. alumni group if this fine beginning is sound. Bring at least two of your friends—^the /^ DETROIT more the merrier. Three tickets are enclos ed, and, since it is necessary to know the \ Detroit wins the autographed bun for exact number to prepare for, the Commit getting in the report of Universal Notre tee asks that you kindly return the enclosed Dame Night. The method was the simple reservation card, AT ONCE. one of sending Eddie Polhaus up to Notre Dame to bring the dope. (Eddie had a few. This is a STAG PARTY. minor missions in connection with the Gra And was this program carried out? The ham Bros, automobile activities, but the U. ayes have it I One hundred members assem N. D. N. mission was foremost.) bled at the Gardens. The matter of a scho larship was disposed of by the simple ex The following advance letter from C. M. pedient of setting aside |300 from the ad Verbiest, secretary of the Club indicates the mission receipts of the dinner, and all that kind of a party planned: remains is for Emmett Kelley's scholarship DETROIT NOTRE DAME CLUB ANNOUNCES committee to name the man. UNIVERSAL NOTRE DAME NIGHT—APRIL 21, The rest of the evening was devoted to a 1926—WEDNESDAY program of the best Detroit talent. The Notre Dame men everywhere will gather famous Red Apple Radio Club entertainers together in old Notre Dame fellowship, but and entertainers from the Oriole Terrace particularly here in Detroit, will this event furnished the Club with one of .the finest- be the most programs reported from any of the meet Stupendous Spectacle of Cheer and Choio ings. The responsibility for this rests with ever conceived by any Alumni Club. a "spiritual alumnus", Jim Mayrand, who Those on the inside unhesitatingly assert isn't a Notre Dame grad but who has caught that the present arrangements—^including the Notre Dame spirit that certainly seems several scintillating radio entertainers— to be rampant in Detroit. 196 THE NOTRE DAME ALUMNUS NORTHERN CALIFORNIA place for the evening. Rev. J. Hugh O'Don- The Pacific Coast must have resembled nell, honorary president of the club for the the campus itself on Universal Notre Dame past year, gave one of the finest talks that Night to judge from the reports of the the Club has heard and was responsible for Club activities along the coast. Mr. CuUi- much of the new life that the meeting seems nan sends in the following fine account of to have developed. He was followed by K. the Northern California assemblage, and K. Rockne, who was elected honorary presi other Pacific activities can be found under dent for the present year. Rock gave an in separate headings: formal talk that was the more effective for . The Notre Dame Club of Northern Cali its informality and filled with the charac fornia held its annual meeting at a dinner teristics that make the speaker so popular. in the St. Francis Hotel, San Francisco, on Father O'Donnell urged the members to Notre Dame Night, April 21st, and had a unite and carry out the program of scholar pleasant evening. President Eustace CuUi- ship activities, publicity, and placement, nan gave a report of his visit to Notre that the Alumni Board advocated—^not only Dame last commencement. Dr. Joseph M. to secure the advancement of those worth Toner, old student from 1885 to 1887, an while plans, but to form a nucleus of activ nounced that he intended to revisit the cam ity about which the Club will be able to pus at commencement of this year for the form a more definite structure. He stated first time in 39 years. Dr. Toner is taking that the St. Joe Valley Club, with Notre a six months' vacation commemorating the Dame and all that Notre Dame means so termination of twenty-five years of active close to them, should be the key-club of the and successful work in the medical profes local alumni clubs. He promised the coopera sion since his graduation in medicine from tion of Notre Dame speakers and talent in the University of California. Hon. Thomas putting across the programs of the Club, J. Sheridan, of the class of 1886, who has and urged that an appeal for active par been in the United States Attorney's office ticipation in Club affairs be sent to all the in San Francisco for many years, expects to members of the Club in the Valley. There attend the reunion of his class, at Notre are over 400 members on the roster, it was Dame in June and celebrate the fortieth an pointed out, and there is no reason why the niversary of their graduation. Club cannot be a leader among its fellow- The incumbent officers of the club were clubs. re-elected, namely: "Rock" gave one of the finest talks on Eustace CuUinan, '95, Phelan Bldg., S. F., Notre Dame and Notre Dame athletics that President; Thomas J. Sheridan, '86, Vice- this writer has been privileged to hear. Just President; Edward P. Madigan, '20, Vice- what athletics mean to Notre Dame and President; John J. Mclnnes, '22, Secretary- what Notre Dame has contributed to athle Treasurer. tics was brought out in the inimitable ST. JOSEPH VALLEY Rockne style. Rock praised Notre Dame, The Notre Dame Club of the St. Joseph not as the capital of the football world or- Valley observed Universal Notre Dame as a school of physical education, but as a Night with a meeting that those present University, and declared that in his many prophesied would be the first streak of the contacts %vith other schools he has become dawn of a new era in the "local" Notre convinced that Notre Dame men can meet Dame club affairs. Attendance wasn't heavy any other university men face to face in any materially, but before the evening was far phase of university activity, scholastic or advanced there was an injection of Spirit athletic. He outlined the heavy football given the members present that sent each of schedule of next fall, with five home games, them away imbued with much of the same four of them "big league" timber.