Notre Dame Alumnus, Vol. 39, No. 03 -- June 1961
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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 HAWAII—Universal Notre Dame Night in Alohaland, held in April at the Pacific Club, featured a talk on the 1961 theme of personal f responsibility by Most Rev. James Sweeney (seated, center), Bishop of Honolulu. Vol. 38 JUNE, 1961 No. 3 JAMES E. ARMSTRONG, '25, Editor JOHN F. LAUGHLIN, '48, Managing Editor f"^^ CHAPTER I—U.N.D. NIGHT '61 First installment of stories and pictures on 38th Annual Universal Notre Dame Night on pp. 14-51, NOTRE CATHOLIC HIGHER EDUCATION IN 20th CENTURY AMERICA Father Heshurgh's "Atlantic City" address, pp. 3-5. DAMi: 1961 CLASS REUNION WEEK END Program on the eve of the event, pp. 7-8. ALUMNUS COACH KUHARICH and Mascot "Mike" (right) watch "Yankee" Nick Buoniconti, Springfield, Mass., and "Rebel" Norb Roy, Baton Rouge, La., open spring practice as co-captains for 1961, Civil War Centennial Year and Notre Dame's 73rd football season. ALUMNI ASSOCIATION SdUtorM Comment BOARD OF DIRECTORS* Officers JOHN C. O'CONNOR, '38 Honorary President WALTER L. FLEMING, JR., '40 President from your PAUL J. GUSHING, '31.J^und Vice-President JAMES J. BYRNE, '43 Club Vice-President Alumni Secretary W. EDMUND SHEA, '2i..Class Vice-President JAMES E. ARMSTRO.NG, '25.— _ Executive Secretary In pursuit of our theme of Univer Directors to 1962 sal Nottc Dame Night — Personal Re sponsibility— (and it \ras much more the problems of public responsibility, JAMES J. BYRNE, '43 Byrne Plywood Co. than just a theme for that occasion), you dbcharge a personal responsibility Royal Oak, Michigan may I enlist your thinldng of the im — which is at the same time a public PAUL J. CUSHI.NG, '31 • portance of a major ingredient of many responsibilitj' — to the society which Hydraulic Dredging Co. of our programs, YOU. has, from the beginnings of America, Oakland, California Webster says that an alumnus is "A fostered a below-cost system of higher WALTER L. FLEMING, JR., '40 member of a school or college class education as an essential provision for Fleming & Sons, Inc. that has been graduated." The word the proper training of leadership for a P.O. Box 1291, Dallas, Texas is derived from a Latin word, "to nour free society. You cannot in individual W. EDMUND SHEA, '23 ish." This is the basis of our policy as conscience or justice abdicate your re Third National Bank Bldg. an Association — membership open to sponsibilities to political parties, school Dayton, Ohio all graduates, and all members of boards, philanthropic organizations, or Directors to 1963 Classes which have been graduated. fraternal groups. MAURICE CARROLL, '19 The other phase we have assiuned All of us in higher education are 5743 Dehnar Blvd. constantly, and evidently understated, sincerely disturbed by the fact that St. Louis 12, Missouri GEORGE L. CO.S'NOR, '48 is that you were also "nourished" by only 22% of national alumni give en 209 S. LaSalle St., Rm. 716 • Notre Dame. dorsement of the higher educational Chicago 4, Illinois I have been involved in the pro system by financial contributions an WILLIAM P. MAHONEY, JR., '38 grams of the tremendously effective and nually toward its support within its 612 Arizona Bank Bldg. significant work of the American Alum tradition. Phoenix, Arizona ni Council, in its acceleration of the Two things disturb us — one the HARRY J. MEHRE, '22 organization of alumni in all our col necessity that this low figure puts on 686 Greenwood Ave., N.E. lies and universities for ma.ximum all of us for intensive and continuous Atlanta 6, Georgia benefits. appeals for increased financial support Directors to 1964 In this field, and it reduces quickly (even at Notre Dame where our par to our own Notre Dame pattern, it is ticipation has been much more reward JOHN P. DEMPSEY, '49 becoming increasingly clear that organ ing). But the other is a fear that the Kidder, Peabody & Co. ization has in many ways been construc corollary may be that in all the other 123 S. Broad St., Philadelphia, Pa. tive. But in many other ways it has areas of responsibility, alumni partici PATRICK A. DOUGHERTY, '50 4909 34th Avenue, S. ^ permitted indi\'iduals to "abdicate their pation may show an equal, though less Minneapolis, Minnesota " persona] responsibility" to such organ measurable, abdication of personal re WILLIAM H. FALLON, '37 ization. sponsibility. 18 Boston Post Rd. YOU, as an alumnus nourished by There is, unhappily, in the state of Larchmont, New York Notre Dame, are the basic measure of our economics, our politics, our liter OLIVER H. HUNTER, '43 Notre Dame's success. ature, our morals, and our social prog F.B.I., P.O. Box 23, To reflect this nourishment in your ress, and in education itself, much to New Castle, Pennsylvania individual life, your intellect, your will, justify the fear that our great provi Chairmen of the 1961 Committees your spiritual and cultural activity, you sion for educated leadership of a free WALTER FLEMING Executive JAMES BYRNE Club Activities have an inescapable responsibility to society has met with something far less W. EDMUND SHEA Class Activities your literal alma mater, "nourishing than its total mobilization in a time of PAUL CUSHI.VG mother." crisis. Alumni Fund, Foundation and Gifts JAMES J. BYRNE Preparatory Schools As you reflect your training for com- I hope from this thinking with you JOHN DEMPSEY, % jjetence in the various fields that Notre that you \n\\ regroup your own Placement and Job Counseling Dame offers, you reflect a personal thoughts, and realize how much im W. EDMUND SHEA Inter-Alumni Affairs WILLIAM MAHONEY, JR responsibility to the law, to engineer provement could be involved if each prestige and Public Relations ing, to business and industry, to the of us felt this direct personal respon MAURICE CARROLL arts, to medicine and science, that can sibility. Listen, consciously, to how Meligion and Citizenship W. EDMUND SHEA AND JAMES BYRNE not in justice be abdicated to an Alum many of your educated friends will dominations ni Association, or a Bar Association, or fall back on the familiar "why don't HARRY MEHRE Mudget and Finance WILLIATills Mnugaziii MAHONEYe is publishe, JR. d bl'mODtUResolutionsy by a Chamber of Commerce, or a Code they?" when what they should be say the Unlvenlty of Kotzc Dame, Notre of Ethics in the entertainment world. ing to the world — and answering in Dame, Ind. Entered as second dasi mat> ter Oct. 1, 1939, at the Post Office, Notre As you reflect this conscious ability something than more than rhetoric — Dame, Ind. under the act of Aug. 24, 1912. in the application of your talents to is "why don't we?" 2 Voire Dame Alumnus, June, 1961 save that of being willing should the occasion arise. These Gredc and Latin Fathers imited in their peisons the 'Catholic Higher Education in simple holiness of the Gospel with all the wisdom of philosophy and theology. Twentieth-Century America May we do as well! fN a later age, the silent, working The Much Quoted (and More Misquoted) Address Before the -'-Benedictine monks lit a candle in National Catholic Education Association Con the darkness, raised their voices only to praise God, and in many hushed mo- vention, April, 1961 nasUc cells throughout darkened Eu rope, copied and glossed the great books that, now preserved, make possi , by REV. THEODORE M. HESBURGH, C.S.C. ble much of our dialogue, conversa tion, and exchange of views with the 'T'HERE is a theme to what I have gustine saw as a good description of otherwise dead past •*• to say today. I am attempting to the Church herself. All of this ancient classical and discuss the objectives of Catholic ^Vhat this theme really means is that Christian learning was institutionalized Higher Education in Twentietli Cen there are two objectives that Catholic by the Church in the Middle Ages, in tury America. One might be expected higher education must pursue simul the foundation of famous universities to begin by referring to the seeming taneously today: to hold to the perma like Oxford and Cambridge, Paris, ly timeless classic on Catholic higher nent, unchanging values that have Bologna, and Pavia. From a contem learning: Cardinal Newman's "Idea of made our higher learning something porary point of view, when Christian a University," and to discourse, as he special; and to adapt to the djTiamic higher education is often adjudged as did, upon theology as it relates to other changing realities of our times which doctrinaire, "safe," and even stodigly branches of knowledge, and they to need these unchanging values if rapid conformist, one might well wonder at ^theology. One might tlien view knowl- change and explosive new realities are the wild turbulence of life that char *edge as an end in itself, or view it in to have any dimension of meaning and acterized these first Catholic univer relation to learning, professional skill direction. In other words. Catholic sities in mediaeval times where there or religion. One would, of course, con higher education must be neither a reigned the broadest kind of academic clude, as Newman did, by discussing dinosaur nor a changeling, but a vital freedom for the •ivildest of views and the duties of the Church towards and vigorous force in our times, both the goriest of academic battles: of knowledge. ancient and contemporary, both con Bernard against Abelard, of Thomas servative and radical, both traditional Aquinas against the Christian Nomi I submit to you tliat this is beauti and modem.