Notre Dame Alumnus, Vol. 29, No. 01
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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 ?^^ .«*^=^ '•^=^%^,-..^»*. -^ ^^^ Vol. 29, No. I, January-February, 1951 W^m»^ -r ^M;H !U »^... -••.•.;_i! •<..3;^- .l-»~' Zhc Notre Dame Alumnus Class Reunions June S, 9, 10 VoL 29 No. 1 January-February, 1951 CLASSES RETURNING James E. Armstrong. '25. Editor John P. Bums. '34.'Manoging Editor 1901,'06,'11, '16 John N. Cacldey, Jr.. '37. Associate Editor '21 This magazine is published bi-monthly by the University of Notre '26 Dame, Notre Dame, Ind. Entered as second Aass matter OcL 1, 1939, at the Postoifice, Notre Dame, Ind., under the act of Aug. 24, '31 1912. '36 '41, '46 Table of Contents FRIDAY, JUNE 8 ALUMNI BOARD MEETING 3 (all times Central Daylight Saving) BACCALAUREATE SERMON 4 General Registration Law Building Lobby FOOTBALLL TICKETS 6 Class Registration in class halls FOUNDATION REPORT , 8 Golf Tournament, Class Reunion Dinners, Smokers "THE KEY TO PEACE" 9 COMMENCEMENT ADDRESS 10 SATURDAY, JUNE 9 BOOKS 11 Class Masses, Pictures, Elections CLUBS ..._ 13 More Golf CLASSES 22 President's noon luncheon for 25-year class Baseball Game, Cartier Field, 1:30 p.m. Academic review by deans, 2:00-3:30 p.m., Wash BOARD OF DIRECTORS ington Hall OFFICERS Moot Court Finals, 2:30 p.m. and Law Cocktail LEO B. WARD, '20 Jlonorary President party. Law Building, 4-6 p.m. R. Co.VROv ScoGcr.vs, '24 President Annual Alumni Banquet, 6 p.m., dining hall—The WiLU,\M J. SHERRY, '21 First Vice-President WiLLUM B. JONES, '28 Second Vice-President Alumni Secretary, toastmaster EDWARD J. BECKMA.V, '16 Third Vice-President Principal address, by the University President DIRECTORS TO 1952 Awarding of Golf Prizes—Trainer Hugh Bums WILLIAM J. SHERRY, '21 1001 First Natl. Bldg., Tulsa 3, Okla. Presentation of awards to members of 50-Year Club WILLIAM B. JONES, '26....7102 Meadow Lane, Cheay Chase 15, Md. Reports of Alumni Board Officers R. CoNROY ScoGGiNs, '24 480 Humble Bldg., Houston, Tex. EDWARD J. BECKMAN, '16 2 East Mill Dr., Great Ne(k, N. Y. SUNDAY, JUNE 10 DIRECTORS TO 1953 JOHN Q. ADAMS, '26 128 Highland Ave., Montclair, N. ]. 10:00 a.m., Low Mass, sermon by Father.Cornelius HARVEY G. FOSTER, '39 327 Federal Bldg., Indianapolis, Ind. Laskowski, c.s.c. Sacred Heart Church RICHARD J. NASH, '23 6235 Kenmore, Chicago 23, III. DR. MATTHEW WEIS, '22 7379 Northmoor, St. Louis 5, Mo. GENERAL INFORMATION DIRECTORS TO 1954 JOSEPH S. MORRISSEY, '28 22Main St., Cincinnati, Ohio Cafeteria Hours: 7-9:30 a.m. (Sunday, 8-9 a.m.); JOHN- H. NEESON, JR., '35 37 Highland Ave., Cnywyd, Pa. 11 a.m.-1:30 p.m.; 5-7 p.m. WILLIAM G. SCHMITT, '10 ^2765 N.W. Nicolai St., Portland, Ore. LUTHER M. SWVGERT, '27 6330 Hahman Ave., Hammond, Ind. Western Union—Incoming messages delivered J.J^MES E. ARMSTRONG, '25 Director and Secretary from South Bend 2 The Notre Dame Alumnus -a-pj 1 "^ ~ 1 :ii 100 Percent Alumni Participation Is Foundation Goal (or 1951 At the annual election meeting of the frequent discussion by local Alumni came an urgent '-'MUST" with the ad Alumni Asscciation Beard of Directors, Clubs of fund raising activity was ad dition of four new buildings to the pro E. Conroy Scoggins, '24, of Houston vocated as a primary means of imple gram places an immediate burden of succeeded Leo B. Ward, '20, of Los An menting the small-gifts program. fund-raising on the 1951 drive. geles. Extension of the University heat, The new Science Building, the Notre Retiring Board members Ward, Fr. water and sewage facilities, which be- Dame Inn, the Fred and Sally Fisher Vincent Brennan, '32, Joe Boland, '27, residence Hall, and the Fine Arts and Arthur D. Cronin, Jr., '37, were suc Building will overtax existing facliities ceeded by Joe Morrissey, '28, Luther M. and expanding them to meet the new Swygert, '27, John H. Neeson, Jr., '35, demands will be costly. and William Schmitt, '10. Local Clubs were urged to keep rec James E. Armstrong, '25, was re ords of their members who enter mili named Executive Director and John tary service and to send to the Alumni Burns, '34, assistant secretsry. Three Office all information concerning ser new vice-presidents—William J. Sher vicemen so the Alvmmi Office can keep ry, '21, W. B. Jones, '28, and Edward closer contact with them. Clubs also J. Beckman, 'Ifi were also elected. were urged to get in touch with Notre The Board recommended that greatest 'Dame men in military installations near emphasis for 1851 Alumni activities be the Club .arc:s and to invite them to placed on the Foundation Drive, with a Club activities. goal of 100 per cent alumni participa Continuation of the awarding of tion in contributions. A Universal Notre "Man of the Year" scrolls by local Dame Night slogan "Every Alumnus a Clubs was recommended by the Board Contributor" was adopted to aid the in approving a report by the Local University in its critical utilities pro Clubs Committee. The Clubs Committee gram. further advocated establishment of the Selling the value of the small gift Notre Dame Family Communion Break by Alumni, the Board said, should bs fast in all clubs. one of the major jobs of the Associa Arrangement of more family observ tion through the Clubs in 1951. More Luther M. Swygert, '27 ances was recommended in local Clubs. William Schmitt, '10 Joseph S. Morrissey, '28 John H. Neeson, Jr., '33 January-February, 1951 Fight Marxism With Spiritual Arms January Baccalaureate Seimon by Rev. Vincent J. Flynn "But they that hope in the Lord, shall dreds of thousands of college students seventy men and women, all of them reneio their strength, they shall take on pragmatism, positivism, behaviorism, persons of some degree of eminence in wings as eagles, tfiey shall •run, and not Deweyism, Freudianism, skepticism or their respective fields. be weary, they sltall loalk, and not faint." even pure hedonism and expect to pro In varying degrees, and in varying —Isaias xl. 31. duce a generation of political statesmen ways, it is this denial of God and of the and civic leaders with a passion for 'the nature of man which has ruined most of T IS characteristic of the race, as well values of Western civilization.' The un- Europe, which has debauched Russia, I as of individuals, to be subject to dogmatic modem mind has been 'liber and which has brought the United States different temptations at different ated' from these very 'values.'" to its present fearful peril. times. For example, when a man has There is no need, I am sure, to explain been unusually successful in any en to this audience the nature of the false But, my dear young men, let me re deavor he is liable to the temptation of philosophies just mentioned. Suffice it to peat it: you are not a part of this pride. And when he has been notably say that they all add up to the general shame. You are inheritors of the Chris unsuccessful he is liable to the tempta position which denies the supernatural, tian culture of the past. To you is tion of despair. which regards man as an irrational given the exalted honor of standing out animal, truth as relative, and morals a against the fury of the paganism which Now we of this generation are, I sub set of superstitious tabus. is sweeping in upon us. Let me remind mit, peculiarly vulnerable to the tempta you that in a storm it is the rootless tion of despair. The world, in our day, Now it is a fact that many of the text things, the flimsy things that give way. has certainly got itself into a frightful books in use in our colleges and uni It is the tumble weed that is rolled about state and while we are seeking a remedy versities openly advocate the pernicious until it vanishes; it is the jerry-built for our plight, we could very easily views to which I have referred. Lack shanty that crashes first. It is the abandon all hope and resign ourselves to of time prevents me from giving any sturdy oak that survives, because its leaden-eyed despair. thing like a full treatment of this roots are deep; it is the sturdy house matter; but I should like to g^ve you It is precisely to remind you young built on a solid foundation which stands four quotations from a volume of read men of the .Christian virtue of hope that fast. ings on political science published in I have quoted the ringing words of the New York in 1949. This is not the first time the world has prophet Isaias as the text of your faced a crisis. Those who are forever "One of the great tragedies of our day baccalaureate sermon. For no one should telling us to study the future might is that moral values . have actually have better reason to hope than the profitably, I think, take a look at the hindered progress toward the realization graduate of a Catholic University. No past. They might look back to the first of certain ideas." one understands better than he that three centuries of Christianity, when the ultimately truth will prevail because "The belief that rules of conduct are might of the Roman Empire was pitted God is truth and God will ultimately pre unconditionally right or wrong involves against the infant Church; they might vail.