Notre Dame Alumnus, Vol. 08, No. 10

The Archives of The University of Notre Dame 607 Hesburgh Library Notre Dame, IN 46556 574-631-6448 [email protected] Notre Dame Archives: Alumnus June, 1930 THE NOTRE DAME ALUMNUS 289 QM'II ititiitii •iiiiitQ IN THIS ISSUE COMMENT This is the last issue of the ALUM NUS until September. Commencement Views, 1930 Frontispiece If you change your address during Eighty-Sixth Annual Commencement 291 the summer, drop us a card. Notice of change of address is par Commencement and Baccalaureate Addresses 296 ticularly important in view of the Annual Meeting of the Association 299 football ticket application distribution. New Officers for 1930-31 303 Elsewhere in this issue the Foot ball Tickets Committee outlines a Editorial 304 number of changes. All of them are Football Ticket Changes 305 aimed to benefit alumni who are ac tive in the interests of Notre Dame Athletics 308 and the Alumni Association. Alumni Clubs 309 The failure to give any preference to alumni who do not pay dues has The Alumni 312 been deferred until now to allow time for an understanding of the present organization of. alumni and the objectives of the Association to The maBazine is published monthly durinff the scholastic year by the Alumni Association of the University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame. Indiana. The become clear to all members. This 8ul>scription price is $2.00 a year: the price of single copies is 25 cents. The annual alumni dues of $5.00 include a year's suliscription to TlIE ALUMNUS. time seems reasonably to have elapsed. Entered as second-class matter January 1, 1923, at the post ofBce at Notre Dame. Indiana, under the Act of March 3. 1897. All correspondence should August 1 gives three months' grace be addressed to The Notre Dame Alumnus, Bo.x 81, Notre Dame, Indiana. to alumni in the matter of paying MEMBEK OF THE AMERICAN ALU.MNI COUNXIL the five dollars dues. MEMBER OF THE NATION.IU- CATHOLIC ALUMNI FEDERATION The decrease in the allotment of tickets for,the Army Game is so ob viously to help alumni that it needs no comment. Army's request for the entire east side of the stadium is one that Notre Dame cannot afford to THE NOTRE DAME ALUMNUS deny in either friendship or sports JAMES E. ARMSTRONG, '25, Editor manship. The closing date, September 15, is HARLEY MCDEVITT, '29, Advertising Mgr. going to save you and everyone con nected with the ticket sale and dis-. tribution a great deal of futile mis understanding. THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION Big business has come to Notre Dame. It must bring with it its of the methods. You are still ahead of the UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME game in preferences, on a compara tive basis with any of the larger Alumni Headquarters, Main Floor Administration BIdg., schools whose teams are popular. Notre Dame, Indiana Until September! JAMES E. ARMSTRONG, General Secretary Lay Reireal The Annual Lay Retreat at the University will be held August 7-10. ALUM MI BOARD Rev. Richard J. Collentine, C.S.C, EEV. JOHN CAVAXAUGH, C.S.C, 'flO Honorary President '09, ivill be in charge. Hon. Alfred FRANK E. HERIXG, '98 - - - President Smith, Laetare Medallist, has been Vice-President reported among those who will at HON. WILLIAM J. GRANFIELD, 'IS tend. JAMES E. ARMSTRONG, '25 Secretai-y Inter-Club Golf WALTER DUNCAN, '12 - - - Treasurer The Notre Dame Club of the St. Director GEORGE M. MAVPOLE, '03 Joseph Valley, sponsors of the first M. HARRY MILLER, '10 - Director annual Inter-Club Golf Tournament, T. PAUL MCGANNON, '07 Director also won the beautiful Max Adler PETER P. MCELLIGOTT, '02 Director trophy, through the excellent golf of Paul Castner, '23. The N. D. Club of JOHN W. EGGEMAN, 'CO {ex officio) Director Chicago was second. Detailed account will be sent to the Clubs with an ..Q nouncements for next year. 19:!(J COMMENCEMENT VIEWS —Toj^ tht- Smiors: tfroint hi^rrt. Pn-.tidrnt tltriua, Dlrrrtorx MaupoU- a»d Milhr, ami Stcretaru Arnistrotui: indiridaal ivsrrt. Tnti-tttrir Pnutati; ninall virim, Flau t-xircixiM: thr Comiitrnccmfnt vlatjornt; the lirtit/'oiis at tin- Fttii/ liaisiiif/. THE NOTRE DAME ALUMNUS Volume VII. JUNE, 1930 No. 10 Eighty-Sixth Annual Commencement TTENDANCE, interest, com for a much different ending to the Saturday noon, in the Lay Faculty prehensiveness of program, game. _ rooms of the University Dining Halls, A seriousness of effort, genuine At seven o'clock the Oliver Hotel's the First Annual Council of the Local enjoyment, and weather, are a few of Rotary room witnessed the largest Alumni Clubs met. Space does not the fields in which the University's Class Reunion Dinner ever held by a permit details here. But this can be Eighty-Sixth Annual Commencement, Notre Dame Class when sixty-eight advanced with much confidence and May 30, May 31, and June 1, shat members of the Class of 1925 gath appreciation. The principle of the tered all existing i-ecords. ered there for their five-year banquet. meeting was justified in the discus William E. Voor, '25, South Bend sions and the conclusions which fol Chronology is the only aid to an attorney, was in charge of this very lowed its convening. The Clubs are editorial mind still dazed with the en successful event. an integral and vital part of the life joyable business of it all. About the same hour Prof. Joseph of the Association. Their growth has Alumni attendance was the most Casasanta's University Band was ac been little short of phenomenal. This significant feature. In a year when quitting one of its various Com organization, designed to aid the men are sticking closer to the desk mencement duties most successfully in Clubs in the right conduct of their than usual, and when travel budgets the form of a concert on the Univers affairs for the greatest good of the are cut heavily, it was very encourag ity Quadrangle. greatest number, has unlimited pos sibilities for good. It is a pleasure to ing and indicative of a new alumni in At eight o'clock in Washington report that even this first meeting, terest to have some five hundred Hall, not only Commencement, but largely organizational in the nature alumni join the four hundred and the whole field of college play pro of things, realized many of these pos thirty-nine members of the Class of duction, received a tremendous stimu sibilities in the short time that was 1930 for the week-end. lus with a splendid production by a available. Those Clubs which were' The University Golf Course and the student cast of "Journey's End," one not represented missed an oppor of the great plays that the World Friday holiday were, without doubt, tunity. very prominent factors in permitting War has produced. Visitors from such attendance. everywhere crowded the Hall and the Saturday Night the largest alumni Friday witnessed a larger influx of praise of the play in all its phases banquet ever held at Notre Dame lis alunmi than ever before. A beautiful was as sincere as it was unstinted. tened to one of the best speaking pro Military Memorial Field Mass was Prof. Frank Kelly, '20, who directed grams that similar gatherings have celebrated at the Memorial doorway. the play, deserves great credit for the enjoyed. Seven hundred and fifty Sacred Heart Church at nine o'clock. high quality of the production. The alumni assembled about the tradi Eev. Matthew J. Walsh, C.S.C, '03, cast was one of the finest to enact a tionally la'den tables. John W. Egge- former president of the University play at Notre Dame. The play is man, '00, president of the Association, and a chaplain of the World War, famous in its own right, and was se was toastmaster. Dr. John B. Bertel- was celebrant. Eev. Charles L. O'Don- cured for local use largely through ing, '80, spoke for the Golden Jubilee nell, C.S.C, '06, president of the Uni the efforts of Frank C. Walker, '09, Class and its three Dix Reunion fel versity, and also chaplain during the New York. low Classes of '78, '79 and '81. His World War, gave a brief but eloquent Saturday started off with a bang. reminiscences of a half century ago Memorial Day address after the Because of the baseball game in the at Notre Dame interested both young Mass. A color guard and a firing afternoon, the golf tournaments were and old alumni. Frank O'Shaugh- squad were furnished through the co moved up to the morning. So that, in nessy ,'00, gave a splendid address for operation of the South Bend unit of a dazzling and dangerous criss-cross the DLx Classes of '97, '98, '99 and the National Guard. Boy Scouts from of golf balls, the honors of the Class 1900, outlining some of the achieve downtown also assisted in decorating of 1925 and the colors of the St. Jo ments of those Classes but emphasiz the graves at the Community ceme- seph Valley were augmented by a ing especially the problems that lie tei-y, where the procession, led by Col. varsity match between Detroit U. and before the whole alumni group. Wil- Hoynes, honorary marshal of the day, Notre Dame. The splendid Inter-Club iam D. Jamieson gave a tremendously went following the Mass. The Uni Cup, donated by Max Adler, South inspiring talk in, connection with the versity Band furnished the music for Bend, and the '25 trophy, donated by Silver Jubilee of the Class of '05, the marches. Lieut. Robert Riordan, Jack Scallan, '25, were incentives that sprinkling the talk with a contagious '24, a member of the faculty, was in brought out all the good golf that the humor that did not detract in any charge of the program.

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