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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 R=%sH-- Tsim^s-'S#5:V , Vol. 31, No. 6—Nov.-Dec, 1953 mds ^^' Notre Dame umnus t%« »/nin.-! ''•fjftti ::ymk r^J -ij irrtrrt %-^ ?<ivi5 lif ^. m s"rd :f^m Notre Dame Alumni dedicate Universal Communion Sunday, December 6th, to the success of the forthcoming Marian Year proclaimed by His Holiness Pope Pius XII. wm^ :N^^ )ei;-^mm§ v» i^c-ijia^s-j m i ^? i^m^ V- it^^^ rf^;rmm c;^' >^N^ •sf^ 1f^ DIRECTORS TO 1954 JOSEPH S. MORRISSEY, '28 . .49 Race St.. Cincinnati 2, Ohio the J^otre "Dame MummsJOH N H. NEESOX, JR., '35.. 167 Summit Lane, Bala Cynwyd, Pa. LUTHER M. SW^-GERT, '27..,. .. Dune Acres, Chesterton, Ind. WILLIAM C. SCHMITT, '10............2765 AMI'. Nicolai, Portland, Ore. VoL 31, No. 6 NOVEMBER-DECEMBER, 1953 DIRECTORS TO 1955 J. RALPH CORV.X, '22.J._.._.._....; -..J>545 I3th Ajie., iMoline, III. JoH.v W. CouRT.\-EY. '25... .401 S. Highland, Dearborn, Mich. James E. Armstrong, '25, Editor JAMES G. MCGOLDRICK, '39...:2675H. Hudson Pkwy.. New York 63 John N. Cacklcy, Jr., '37, Associate Editor DIRECTORS TO 1956 DA.XIEL CULHA.NE, '23. _..;„.../30 Bradley Lane, Chevy Chase, Md. This magazine is published bi-monthly by the University of Notre RT. REV. MSGR. J. B. TOOMEY, 26..26J E. Onondaga, Syracuse, jV. 1'. Dame, Notre' Dame, Ind. Entered as second class matter Oct. 1, JoH.v F. SAO.NDERS. '31 .....Handschumacher & Co., 1939, at the Postofiice, Notre Dame, Ind., under the act of .Aue. 48 North St., Boston, Mass. •lA, 1912. DR. LEO D. O'DOXNELL, 'n.:..5121 Ellsworth Ave., Pittsburgh, Pa. CHAIRiMEN OF THE 1933 COMMITTEES' JoH.N- H. NEESO.N, JR : Jixecutive BOARD OF DIRECTORS LUTHER M. SWYGERT..... Mudget and Finance JA.MES G. MCGOLPKICK ...Foundation, Alumni Fund, Gifts OFFICERS JOSEPH S. MORRISSEV ..;. _ Club Activities HARVEY G. FOSTER, '39..;....... Honorary President JAMES G. MCGOLDRICK... Class Activities JOHN H. NEESO.V, JR., '35 . :_.- President WILLIAM C. SCHMITT. '. : .Job Counseling and Placement JOSEPH S. MORRISSEY, '28 ..First Vice-President JOHN W. COURT.\-EY..._. __ Religion and Citizenship LUTHER M. SWYGERT, '27 ;.... Second Vice-President JOSEPH S. MORRISSEY Preparatory School Relations WILLIAM C. SCHMITT, '10 .Third Vice-President WILLIAM C. SCH.MITT Inter-Alumni Association JAMES E. .ARMSTRONG, '25 , Director and Secretary LUTHER M. SWYGERT.. Resolutions The Alumni Association University of I¥otre Dame 702 Fidelity-Philadelphia Trust Bldg. Philadelphia, Penn. November 15, 1953 Dear Men of Notre Dame: As you all well know, Notre Dame is dedicated to the You con honor the Blessed Virgin and direct attention to Blessed Virgin Mary. I wish to call your attention to the Notre Dame by participating in such programs. recent Encyclical of His Holiness Pope Pius XII in which he One of the intentions for which the Pope suggested . dedicated the year December 1953 to December 1954 to prayers should be offered to the Virgin'Mary was the spirit observing a Marian Year in commemoration of the centenary ual and moral welfare of the youth, of the world and that of the proclamation of the dogma of the Immaculate Con domestic life "may be conspicuous for inviolate faithfulness, ception. and that it may flourish through the proper and saintly education of its children." Such on intention is especially Notre Dome, by its very name and stature as o Catholic fitting for Notre Dame men. University, should be the focal point of the celebration in I urge all Clubs to exert a particular effort to arrange America. It is equally true that Notre Dame men should a noteworthy .Universal Communion Sunday program for likewise be the facets in the local programs,^ whether spon December 6,. 1953, so that Notre Dome men everywhere will sored by your parish or the Notre Dame Club in your area. begin the Marian Year with distinction. Sincerely yours, JOHN H. NEESON, JR., President The Distinguished Prof essors Program Alumni Clubs Observe Solicit Corporation Support For Faculty 16ih Communion Sunday Notre Dame Alumni Clubs through out the world will observe the 16th Corporations throughout the nation did staff of teachers who now com are being invited to underwrite the pose Notre Dame's 560-man faculty,"' .Annual Universal Notre Dame Corh- addition of forty-five distinguished pro Father Cavanaugh stated. "Our post munion Sunday on December 6th. This fessors to the Notre Dame faculty as war enrollment was so sudden in its year the, dedication will be for the a part of the new Faculty Develop pressures that we now have a student success of the program' of His Holiness ment Fund announced by the Rev. body of 5,400—a 35 percent increase Pope Pius XII (LLD: '36) in. estab John J. Cavanaugh, C.S.C., Director from prewar groups. In view of the lishing the Ceritenar\'iYear of the Dog of the Notre Dame Foundation. nationwide teacher shortage, it has ma of the Immaculate, Conception Father Cavanaugh outlined the pro not been possible to insist upon or to (December 8, 1953 to December 8, gram during recent campus meetings secure the permanent faculty additions essential to the long-range develop 1954), Alumni have been asked to ment of the University," he said. devote that Sunday to Mass, Com munion, and prayers for the Holy Benefactors Generous to N. D. Father's program. : Forty-five outstanding professors Universal Notre Dame Communion would permit an addition to each of Sunday was originated in 1938, by the the University's undergraduate depart New York City club. It is considered ments. Father Cavanaugh stressed a vital phase of the annual alumni that "the University has been e.K- tremely fortunate in recent years in club program and has been an out acquiring new buildings from gen standing event for many local clubs. erous benefactors. With the largest Club obser\'ances will center around enrollment in Notre Dame's histoiy. attendance at Mass and Communion Father Hesburgh has urged that we. breakfasts with speakers from Notre concentrate on expanding and Dame or the local area. strengthening the faculty," Father Cavanaugh continued. The Distinguished Professors Pro gram, subsidized by corporation con tributions, will only be a part of the FATHER CAVANAUGH overall plan known as the Facult}' Development Fund, All unrestricted of the -Alumni A.ssociation Board of gifts from alumni and other, friends Directors and the College of Com during 1953 and 1954 will be used to merce Advisor}' Council. He disclosed provide continuing support for the that Notre Dame has already tested present and future faculty. Unless this program in certain selected cities otherwise specified gifts to this year's and the response from corporation 11 th Annual Alumni Fund will be e.\ecutives has been "enthusiastic and allocated to the Faculty Development encouraging." The plan which cor Fund. • porations are requested to sponsor will be known as the Distinguished Students Pay 70% Education Cost Professors Program. "Despite inflationar}' problems, No Annual Cost of $450,000 tre Dame still is able to give its stu dents their education at approximate An annual mininmm cost of $450,- ly 30 percent below, tlie actual per 000 will be necessary to insure the- student cost of operating the Univer sity," Father Cavanaugh said. "This succcss of the new program. It is LUTHER M. SWYGERT, '27 hoped that corporations owned or is possible because about one-fifth of managed by alumni will be among the facult}' are priests of the Congre the first to participate in this impor gation of Holy Cross who receive no Hon. Luther M. Swyg"t> '27, Judge of the tant project. Under existing laws cor salar}'. It is also possible because of Federal Court of Northern Indiana and former football monogram man, has been porations can take advantage of the gifts to Notre Dame from alumni and named a special lecturer in the College of five percent deduction provision for other friends, support from govern Law and is presiding over Moot Court gifts to educational institutions. ment and industrial gi-ants and fel sessions. Judge Swygert is Second Vice- "The Distinguished Professors Pro lowships, and auxiiiar}' enterprises, in President of the Notre Dame ,\lumni gram in no way deprecates the splen cluding athletics," • he concluded. Association. November-December, 1953 •from your Mary's Alumnae Association, $4.) by Marion McCandless, bright star of the Zditonial Qo4fUHe4iiiAlumn i Secretary neighboring alumnae firmament, a lady D'Artagnan with the pen. And if your wife isn't a St. Mar)''s girl, . Reading you'll both enjoy this personalized his tory of the popular school across the Only one thing bothered me about road. For all you readers who matric the great '28 Class Survey—the low ulated at Notre Dame and majored in book-reading indication. (Maybe it's St. Mar)''s, it will be several evenings just that, judging by the June Re of enriched reading. union, the Class is still in the age Fans of Lucile Hasley, wife of the bracket for taking out the Hbrarian Notre Dame professor, Louis Hasley, instead of the book.) '30, will welcome her new volume. In any event, 1 would like to urge The Mouse Hunter (Sheed & Ward, all alumni to keep their intellectual $2.75). Apostie of the literary what- claws sharpened on some book or other comes-naturally, Lucile has done a as the years go by. (The ALUMNUS at much needed switch in modem writing one time carried a delightful article by calling our daily lives to the atten on pleasant reading by Prof.