The Communist Threat to Peace

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 Rockne Memorial Started Lunn Writes on Communisn University Affairs President's Rase Spotlight Alumni First Four Games Campus News Club News Class News Commerce Buildins, with new Plaza in Foresround. rol. 16 November, 1937 No. 2 NOTRE DAME in PORTRAIT Announcing: AN EXTRAORDINARILY BEAUTIFUL * CALENDAR FOR THE YEAR 1938 Memories . Of lasting appeal to all alumni, prospective students, and friends of Notre Dame are given sub stance in a set of twelve excep tional photographs of the Univer sity with a useful calendar for the year 1938, beginning with the month of January. As a Christmas or New Vear's greeting to alumni and classmates, Notre Dame in Portrait is sure to be received with apprecia tion and enthusiasm. The first publication of its kind, Notre Dame in Portrait, with its twelve outstanding views, will be wire-bound for either wall or desk use. The calendar of events will interest Alumni and make easy the planning of trips back to Notre Dame. Each portrait will be suita ble for framing, and will give last ing pleasure to all to whom Notre Dame memories are dear. (Calendar portraits arc three times this size.) For one dollar a copy, plus ten cents each for mailing, Notre Dame in Portrait will be sent, suitably boxed, to any United States or foreign address. Send your order to:.— WILLIAM TUNNEY, 22 Morrissey Hall, Notre Dame, Indiana The Notre Dame Alumnus JAMES E. ARMSTRONG. "25 The mnsazine is published from October to June inclusive by the Alumni Assoaation Member of the American of the University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame. Indiana. The subscription price is $2.00 Editor a year; the price of single copies is 25 cents. The annual alumni dues of $5.00 include Alumni Council. WlILUAM R. DOOLEY, 76 a year's subscription to THE ALUMNUS. Entered as second-class matter January 1, Member of Natl. Catholic Managing Editor 1923, at the post office at Notre Dame. Indiana, under the Act of March 3, 1879. Alumni Federation Vol. 16 November, 1937 No. 2 To Break Ground for Memorial to Rockne Construction activities on the Dedicated to Knute Rockne, be sical training needs of the student Rockne Memorial, dedicated to the loved football coach of Notre Dame, body, three standard basketball courts late Knute K. Rockne, will get under the building will in several ways ^vill be provided for interhall activi way on November 5, according to honor his memory. A great foyer, ties. the announcement made on October large in length and width, will ex Quarters will be provided for box 28 by Rev. John F. O'Hara, C.S.C, tend to the height of the building. ing, wrestling, and sports of a simi president of the University. Here will be housed the athletic tro lar type. General exercise rooms will The huge building, 128 feet ^vide phies of the University. The name be equipped with apparatus for cor and 210 feet long, will be open, at is to be simply the Rockne Room. rective gymnastics. For the devotees least in part, for the beginning of The Memorial will be located on of golf, various facilities will be pro the 1938-1939 school year. The the present site of the ninth and vided; the building will also contain foundations are to be laid this fall eighteenth greens of the golf course. lockers for the use of the students. and the work will be resumed again These greens will be re-located short ly. It will set off the long expanse The plans for the building were in the spring; the amount of the drawn up by Maurice Carroll, 19, funds available will determine the ex of buildings extending west from Cartier Field. and C. E. Dean, of Kansas City. The tent of the spring's construction supervising architects of the Univer work. The fund-raising drive, started Into the Rockne Memorial will go sity, Maginnis and Walsh, of Boston, in 1931, resulted in ?135,000, being all the physical equipment necessary were associated with the. two men in subscribed for the erection of the for the needs of the student body. A their work. building; in the interim accumulated ninety-foot swimming pool will be the In harmony with the designs of the interest has boosted the amount to featured attraction. $150,000. To augment this sum, the newer buildings on the campus the University has appropriated $200,000 In addition to the natatorium, Memorial will be of a collegiate to be used for the erection of the there will be twelve courts for hand gothic style, and the construction wHl building. However, the total cost will ball and squash. Since the building be of brick with a Bedford stone reach at least $550,000. will be devoted entirely to the phy trim. 34 The Notre Dame Alumnus November 1937 know what it means to a boy who was an athlete in high school, and The Quieter Notre Dame Front whose goal was engineering. And from Chicago came word of a new 'lung" to take the place of the ponderous "iron lung" in which Van Wallace and Sniie VreA Snite has lived since he was Are Sources of Faith. stricken in China. The new affair, made like a jacket, is of foreign de sign, made of lighter metal, covering Record enrollment . distin Chevrolet company, is so constructed less of the body. This will, it is guished European professors • . that Van's bed can be lifted easily hoped, permit a more rapid recovery Layden pessimistic . Army and into it. Those who know his enjoy of other parts of the body. Minnesota tickets sold out . Notre ment of the several games he has Dame OTU be on the air-ways. seen in less comfortable circum Fred and Van should both be, to stances at Notre Dame, will know all alumni, sources of faith and ob It isn't so difficult for an alumnus what this means, And all of you will jects of prayers. to keep track of his Alma Mater "these days. But there are more quiet fronts, on which the more quiet teachings of the University are receiving applica tion with the grimness of life and death. X^lie lltuveriHy acKnowleaqes wUh 9eep qraiihwe ilte folLwinq qifis: And from these occasionally comes a report that is more lastingly stimu From MRS. ANNA J. DOARN, of Omaha, Nebraska: lating than those of the more often A memorial scholarship in memoiy of the late recognized. John C. Doarn, Class of 1929 f 1,000 Two Notre Dame men have suf From the estate of the late AMBROSE MAJOR, '86: fered one of life's greatest tragedies, For the Roger Ryan Memorial Scholarship for a paralysis. student who is physically handicapped 500 Van Wallace, '27, was paralyzed Anonymous: A current scholarship for Professor Louis in the Summer of 1924 hy an acci Buckley to do advanced work in Economics 1,500 dent while diving. Doctors then gave From MISS MARGARET BURKE, Chicago, Illinois: him nine days to live. Today, para- Two paintings for the Art Gallery. Ij'zed so that he must remain on his For the Dante Statue Fund: FRANCIS D. PARTLAN, '32 10 back constantly, he is not only alive but cheerful, emanating a beautiful JAMES W. MURRAY, '31 5 philosophical and spiritual influence Anonymous 10 on a growing circle of friends. And From the VERY REV. URBAN DE HASQUE, LL.D. '18, he conducts an insurance business Antwerp, Belgiimi: A collection of French literature. from this condition. From IRA D. HOWARD, South Bend: Fred Snite Jr., '33, was stricken A collection of opera music and opera costumes. with infantile paralysis in Peking, Anonymous: For a Scholarship in Higher Mathematics 500 China, in March of 1936. Happily, From the VERY REV. J. F. CALLAGHAN, Chicago: perhaps to compensate for a most A portrait of Bishop Muldoon, by Kavanaugh. promising business career he had al From MRS. FREDERICK H. WICKETT, Chicago: ready launched, every resource was The Monlake Tapestry, a collection of drawings, a cas- drawn upon to fight the dreaded at sone, and many other art objects, which have been on tack. As a result of almost miracu lous circumstances, Fred was brought loan in the Wickett Room in the University Library. The to Chicago this summer and is now total value of this collection is many thousands of dollars. in Florida, offered some seven years From the MOST REV. KARL J. ALTER, D.D., Bishop of Toledo: of convalescence under this physical For needy students ^ 250 handicap. From MR. D. F. KELLY, LL.D. '30: For the Rockne Memorial 500 You have followed the career of his illness and his trip home through From the RT. REV. MSGR. JOSEPH L. O'BRIEN, Charleston, S. C: the press. And you have followed For the University Archives: A photostat copy of the career of Van Wallace through Bishop England's diary. the Religious Bulletin. For the Medieval Library Fund: Anonymous 1,000 The ALUMNUS can do little more RAYMOND DISCO, '31 60 than repeat the constant request for For Research in Economics: Anonymous 15,000 prayers, which seem to have played From WiLUAM DAUNT, '05: so prominent a part in these trage A collection of rare books on stained glass. dies of fellow alumni. From MISS JOSEPHINE BROWNSON, Detroit: Two bright bits of news originated A collection of Orestes Brownson books. from their respective sources re cently.

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