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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 '^i« book i. UJ THE NOTRE DAME < LU ALUMNUS I— o o > CO LU > BERNARD J. VOLL, President of the Alumni As sociation, Addresses a Coast-to-Coast Audience from the Campus on Universal Notre Dame Nisht. MAY. 1936 —and Chesterfields y^m; are usually there theyVe mild and yet j'. © 19J6, LicGcrr &. M^ as ToD\cco Co likes the New CHEVROLET because it is \/X^S / EN and •women... young folks and grown-ups only low-priced car with the Knee-Action Gliding M ... people who live in large cities and people Ride*, Genuine Fisher No Draft Ventilation and •who live in smaller communities.. .all like the new Shockproof Steering*, for maximum comfort and 1936 Chevrolet. dri-vdng ease! 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The Notre Dame Alumnus JAMES E. ARMSTRONG, "25 The masszine is published monthly during the scholastic year by the Alumni Association Member of tfie Americaa of the University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana. The subscription price Is $2.00 Editor a year; the price of single copies is 2S cents. The annual alumni dues of S5.00 include Alumni Council. a year's subscription to THE ALUMNUS. Entered as second-class matter January 1. WlLUAM R. DOOLEY, 76 1923, at the post office at Notre Dame. Indiana, under the Act of March 3, 1879. All Member of Nal'K CaAolic Managing Editor correspondence should be addressed to The Notre Dame Alumnus. Box SI. Notre Dame. Ind. Alumni Federation. Vol. XIV. May, 1936 No. 8 International Figures Feature Commencement Archbishop Mooney, Mayo Brothers in Brilliant Scene; Alumni Program and Student Activities Fill Three Major Days, June 5, 6 and 7; Record Attendance Anticipated Alumni who have been curious ing, Law and Commerce. One hun It is obviously fitting that the about Commencement have this cur dred and seventy-four members of Mayos, so brilliant in the annals of iosity rewarded with the announce the class of 1936 will be. graduated American medical science, should fea ment that the 1936 program once with honors. ture a Commencement which sees the more brings to Notre Dame a group The three-day graduation program, completion of the new University In of celebrites whose names when men in conformitj' with tradition, will be firmary, the growing prominence of tioned connote volumes of achieve gin at noon on Fi-iday, June 5, with a Notre Dame in the iield of science, ment to those familiar with the na talk to the senior class by the Rev. and the proposed plans of the Univer- tional scene. John P. O'Hara, C.S.C, president of sit}- for expanding this development. Dr. William J. Mayo, international Notre Dame, and will be climaxed on ly famed surgeon of the Mayo Clinic, Sunday by the Baccalaureate Mass Banquet and Club Council Rochestei", Minnesota, will give the in the morning and the conferring of Commencement address, and the Most the degrees in the late afternoon. The Alumni Banquet and . the Rev. Archbishop Edward P. Mooney, Council of Local Alumni Clubs will Bishop of Rochester, New York, vrill Class Reunions possess a special scope and signifi deliver the Baccalaureate sermon at Meanwhile, class reunions will be cance this year which should bring the ninety-second Commencement ex held and the senior class admitted to together a record alumni group. ercises of the University of Notre the alumni association at the annual Dame on Sunday, June 7. alumni dinner on Saturday evening. Similarly the Class Reunions, as Special ai-rangements are being made outlined, promise to bring back large Honorary Degrees for the golden anniversary of the numbers of men whose names this Honorarj' degrees will be conferred class of 1886, the silver anniversary year, if a year can stand out, loom upon these two speakers as well as of the class of 1911 and the five-year large in the history and traditions upon Dr. Charles H. Mayo, brother of reunion of the class of 1931. and the present picture of Notre Dr. William Mayo and co-founder of Archbishop Mooney, who will de Dame. the Mayo Foundation and Clinic, and liver this year's Baccalaureate ser upon Air. Francis P. Gai-van, of New mon, was former Apostolic Delegate The hospitality of the University York City, attorney and founder of to India and to Japan and has long is as usual extended to all alumni, the Chemical Foundation, of New been a friend of Notre Dame and of whether members of the Reunion York. the priests of the Congregation of Classes or not, and the values of at Bachelors' degi'ees will be awarded Holy Cross, of Notre Dame, with tendance can be determined by ask to 466 candidates in the Colleges of whom he was associated in Rome and ing the nearest alumnus who ever Arts and Letters, Science, Engineer in mission work in India. attended. CLAXr CCUNI€NX - JUNE 5, 6 AND 7, 1936 25-yEAR CLASS 50-yEAR CLASS 5-yEAR CLASS 1911 1886 1931 DIX GROUP 1936 DIX GROUP 1936 1911 1892 Special 1893 1912 1894 CLASS OF 1921 1913 1895 CLASS OF 1926 1914 216 The Notre Dame Alumnus May, 1936 U. N. D. Night Shatters Records O'Brien New End More Clubs; More Meetings; Coach More Local Radio Stations; More Succeeds Conley on Publicity; More Attendance Coaching Staff Keyed by a i-adio broadcast from P. B. Duffy, of New York, were Johnny "One-Play" O'Brien, '31. the University campus and from the among the many distinguished guests. assumed the end coach job at Notre Notre Dame Club of the District of Dame in mid-April, succeeding Tom More than 200 local radio stations Conley, who shortly before had re Columbia, on the National Broad participated in the observance. Notre casting Company's facilities, the signed to accept the appointment as Dame music filled the air, not only in athletic director and head football Thirteenth Annual Universal Notre this countrj' but abroad. Many Local Dame Night, observed on April 20, coach at John Carroll University, Clubs and individual alumni speakers Cleveland. Johnny was head coach exceeded all pre^ous Nights in every Joined in these local programs. field which the annual celebration em at St. Edward's Austin, Texas, in braces. 1934 and 1935. Before that he was Attendance at the meetings was end coach at the Naval Academy. In Washington where the Club was far greater than in any previous year. entertaining Rev. John F. O'Hara, The Notre Dam.e Club of Chicago Johnny's football playing—and, in C.S.C, '11, the President of the Uni was an easy first with the 850 who particular, his catch of the last-min versity, His Excellency Bishop John jammed the ballroom of the Knicker ute factor}' pass in the famous 12-6 M. McNamara, D.D., LL.D. '34, and bocker Hotel. New York, Cleveland, Army game of 1928 (which gave him a group of distinguished alumni and New Jersey, Peoria, Fort Wayne, are his "One-Play" handle)—made him a friends of Notre Dame in the main among the early returns repoi-ting national figure. Coming from Los ballroom of the Mayflower Hotel, the record crowds. Many of the other jVngeles, he won football monograms in 1928, 1929 and 1930. In addi national hook-up originated at 10:30 Clubs, confining their meetings strict E.S.T. Bishop McNamai-a was intro tion, he was captain of the track team ly to members, deser\-e as great rec and an expert hurdler and for a time duced by Frank C. Walker, '09. Fol ognition for their turnouts. lowing the Bishop, the progi-am was held a world record in the high switched to the campus radio stu Newspaper clippings indicate that hurdles. dios where the Jloreau Choir and the publicity, both local and national, President Bernard J. Voll, '17, of the set a new high for space and signifi Alumni Asociation, participated. The cance. GEORGE WIRRV DIES program was returned to Washington The universal nature of the ob George Wirry, '36, of Racine, Wis for a final address by Father O'Hara. servance; its importance to Notre consin, senior manager of football Bishop McNamara's address on Cath Dame; its pleasant features for alum this year, brother of Tony Wirry, '33, olic Action was both a tribute and ni participating; its utilization for senior football manager in 1932. died a stimulus to the thousands of Notre both publicity and promotional con in St.