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VOL, XIV, NO. 3 NOVEMBER, DECEMBER, 1970

NOTRE DAME "DELEGATION" IF CONGRESS GROMS

In the national election on November 3rd five Notre Dame alumni were elected or re-elected to the U. S. House of Representatives, and John

J, Gilligan, AR *43, of Cincinnati became Governor of , Elected

Congressmen for the first time are: Joseph M. Gaydos, LL.B. *$1, of

McKeesport, ; Romano L. Mazzoli, RSC *54, Louisville, Ken­ tucky; and John H. Terry, AB *45, Syracuse, , Re-elected to the House are: Joseph M . McDade, AB * 53, (3cranton, Pennsylvania, and

Samuel L. Devine, LL.B, *40 of Columbus, Ohio. Another member of the

House, John N, Erlenborn, Elmhurst, , studied at Notre Dame in lp44 before transferring to Loyola, A former Notre Dame faculty member, Jack R . Mi H e r , was re-elect ed to the Senate from .

Several other members of the U . S + House and Senate, including Repre- sentative John Brademas of * s 3rd Congressional District, hold honorary degrees from the University, j IRISH TO REVISIT COTTON BOWL Board in Control of Athletics. R. I. P.

Completing the regular season with nine wins S-I SPOTLIGHT ON NOTRE DAME and one loss, Notre Dame's football team will return to the Cotton Bowl in Dallas January 1 Initial telegram and letter reaction is to play the champion of the Southwest Confer­ enthusiastic regarding the NBC-First Tuesday ence* segment of December 1st devoted tr peaceful change at Notre Dame. Application blanks for two tickets are being sent to all alumni who contributed to the Uni­ The issue of SPORTS ILLUSTRATED dated Dec. ik versity during I969. It is likely that a but available about a week before then will lottery will be necessary to determine the feature another profile of Notre lame today. successful applicants even among contributing alumni. ASS 1ST PHILIPPINE GOVERNMENT

The Alumni Association is sponsoring a nation­ Dean William B, Lawless of the Notre Dame Law al alumni tour to Dallas departing Chicago on School and Prof. Paul C, Bartholomew of the Dec, 30 and returning Jan. 2. Unlike last department of government and international year, there will be no block allotment of studies are assisting Philippine government tickets to alumni clubs, special groups or authorit ies in the development of a new const! travel agencies, tution.

HESBURGH HONORED BY NCCJ They are among five Ameri cans who will parti ci pate in an American Studies Seminar in Manila Notre Dame's president, Rev. Theodore M, Hes- Dec. 7 ~ H under the auspices of the U. S. burgh, C.S.C., recently received the Charles Department of 3tate and the Philippine- Evans Hughes Award of the National Conference American Education Foundation. of Christians and Jews at a ceremony in New York City. REPORT ON INTERNATIONAL, MINORITY ENROLIMENT

Father Hesburgh, who is chairman of the U. S. Forty-eight students from Taiwan make up the Commission on Civil Rights, was honored for largest contingent among 319 foreign students his "courageous leadership in governmental from 49 countries currently enrolled at Notre service." He was specifically cited for his Dame. India has the next largest group with leadership of the Commission, his contribution 37, foil we d by Hong Kong, 19, Panama, 12 and to freedom and greater educational opportuni- Colombia, Cuba and Japan, 9. Of the students ties and his dedication in the fight against from abroad, 201 are in the Graduate (3chool bigotry and prejudice, while 118 are undergraduates.

DEATH TAKES BAIDINGER, KEENAN The current Notre Dame freshman class numbers twice as many minority students as last year. The recently deceased in the Notre Dame family Among the 69 freshman from minority groups are include James F. Keenan, Fort Wayne, Ind., a 98 blacks, 10 Mexi can-Ameri cans ari 1 Ameri can member of the Board of Trustees, and Dr. Law­ Indian, rence Baldinger, 63, a faculty member and dean for thirty-seven years, TWO AD VIS ORY COUNCIL K2 :BERS NAME:

Keenan, who attended Notre Dame in 1908-09, Senator Birch Bayh of Indiana has sccepted was the donor of on the campus, membership on the Adv: scry Counci 1 of the Baldinger, counselor to hundreds of Notre Dame Notre Dame Law 8chool. men who became physicians and dentists, was dean of the College of Science from 1 9 % to Newly-appointed to the Art Gallery Advd sory i960 when he became associate dean and chair- Council is AZlen Wardwell, curate/ of man of the department of pre-professional primitive arts at the Art Institute of studies. A recipient of the Lay Faculty Chicago. Award, he served for many years on the Faculty ON m G THEOLOGICAL FRONT THE UNIVERSITY-AT-LARGE

Notre Dane is a memb e r of a newly-formed con- Seven students have been named to the sixty- ;3ortium which td.ll seelk: major foundation sup- five member Academic Council, the Univer­ port for the advancement of theological educa- sity* s highest academic policy-making body. tion in the United. States. Other membera are They are: Edward F. McCartin, Oak Lawn, Harvard, Yale, Chicago, Vanderbilt, Union Theo- 111.; John M. Donohue, Detroit, Mich.; Thomas logical 13eminary and. the Graduate Theological L. Schoaf, Colton, Calif.; Thomas S. Kenny, Union. Rev. Aldan Ka vanagh, 0.S .B., is the Olivette, Mo.; Frank C. Palopoli, Cincinnati, University* s representative on the project. Ohio; J. Michael Keefer, Fort Wayne, Ind.; & William C. Wilka, Sioux Falls, So. Dakota. Rev. James T, Burtchaell, C.S.C., Provost of the University and former chairman of the The University Theatre is presenting Brendan department of theology, lias been elected presi- Behan1 s The Hostage in Washington Hall on dent of the American Academy of Religion. The Dec. 4, 5, 6, 10, 11 and 12. 3,500 member AAR is the nat ion * s largest pro- fessional society in the field of religion. Notre Dame's director of development, Frank G. Kelly, has been appointed to the Committee! Dr. James Kritzeek, director of the Institute on Taxation and Philanthropy of the American for Advanced Religious Studies, ire cently attend- College Public Relations Association. ed meetings of the Vatican Secretariat for Non- Christian Religions in Rome as well as an Faculty members and students of the Vector international colloquium on "Religion, People - Biology Laboratory presented ten papers at J hood, Nation and land" in Jerusalem. the recent annual meeting of the Entomologi- j cal Society of America at Miami Beach. ( Rev. Ernan McMullin, chairman of the philosophy Dr. George B. Craig is director of the laboraL department, also has returned from Rome where tory which is a world center for research he parti cipated as a consult or in a meet ing of dealing with the malaria-bearing Aedes Aegyptk the Vati can Se cretariat for Non-Believers. mosquito.

The Press has now A team of students fl • mi ...... —-T IT-- -. r ■ •— I ir-irnn-iTT -irr-'^T-nr------, • - ,, • ,,, published forty-six titles in theology and reached the semi-finals in a regional Moot related areas. Court Competition held in Chicago Nov. 6th. Twenty-two colleges and universities in {REPORT GROWTH OF MBA PROGRAM Indiana, Illinois and participated in the competition. Applications for admission to Notre Dame's Master of Business Administration Program in­ During October the University received creased l8% this year. One hundred thirteen $470,899 in awards for the support of re- students are currently enrolled in the two-year search and educational programs. graduate course. They represent $8 undergradu­ ate colleges, 27 states and 11 foreign countries; James E. Gerity, Jr., Adrian, Mich., broad- j casting executive and a member of Notre Dame'(s MASSEY HONORS: BY IEEE Business Administration Advisory Council, has! been appointed to a Special Advisory Committed Dr. James Massey, profes s or of electri cal engi- on Public Opinion of the Department of State.I neering, has been named a Fellow of the Insti- Earlier, Mrs. Gerity received a presidential tute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. appointment to the National Council on the The titie of Pellow js conferred upon those of Arts. "unusual professional distinction" who have made outstanding and extraordinary contribu­ The chairman of Notre Dame's art department, tions in the field. Massey was cited "for con­ Dr. Thomas Fern, has been elected vice presi- tributions to coding theory, particularly to dent of the 125-member Mid-America College threshold decoding and its application, and Art Association. to engineering education." The Sears Roebuck Foundation recently made grants totaling fp7,^00 to Notre Dame, one of which is restricted to library development. Notre Dame officials and students are speaking professor of art at Notre Dame. ; at a series of luncheon-meetings for Chicago 1 area alumni and friends at the English Room The phenomenon of air turbulence will be of Marshall Field and Co. Father Burtchaell studied by Prof. Robert Betchov of the aero- addressed the Dec. 1st session. Dean Lawless space and mechanical engineering department will speak Jan. 5th, and Rev. Thomas Chambers, with the support of a $30,600 grant from the ; C.S.C., director of student residence, is the National Science Foundation. Feb. 2nd speaker. Ninety-nine educational institutions, librar­ Nine members have been appointed to a tri­ ies, government offices and other organiza- partite Hall Life Board. They are Profs. tions are subscribers to the Proceedings of Peter Thornton, Paul Conway and John Uhran; Notre Dame1 s annual Union-Management Con­ Revs. Maurice Amen, Thomas Chambers and Ralph ference which is under the direction of Rev. Dunn; and students Eric Andrus, Carl Ellison Mark Fitzgerald, C.S.C. and Robert Galgan. Donald Vogl, assistant professor of art, was I With the support of the U. S. Air Force, Prof. awarded prizes recently at art competitions I John D. Nicolaides is developing a motorized conducted at Nazareth College, Kalamazoo, jversion of the parafoil, the Notre Dame-develop Mich., and at the Niles, Mich., Art Center, ed experimental parachute which has attracted ; considerable national attention. Dr. Don Mittleman, professor of computing I science, has been elected to a second term as 1Thirty-seven officers of the armed forces, in- chairman of the Interuniversity Communica­ ;eluding 80$ of the ROTCinstructors" assigned to tions Council (EDUCCM) at its national conven­ {Notre Dame, are pursuing graduate degrees at tion in Atlanta. |the University. j Notre Dame1s Office for Educational Research Dr. Elizabeth Fiorenza, assistant professor of has announced two new services for diocesan I theology, has been awarded the Munster Univer- superintendents of education. One is a model isity Faculty Prize for her doctoral disserta­ for analysis and projection of school enroll-' tion, "The Motive of Priesthood and Kingdom ments and the other is a model for financial I in the Apocalypse." analysis. They will particularly benefit the superintendent who lacks a large staff or who jChemistry professor Ernest Eliel, a specialist cannot afford the high costs of a comprehen- Iin conformational analysis and co-author of a sive education study. Itextbook on the subject, has accepted lecture :invitations in the months ahead in Guadalajara, Several hundred disadvantaged South Bend area (Mexico City, , Paris, Cologne and Boston. children, most of whom are tutored by Notre Dame and Saint Mary's students, saw their jProf. Gerhart Niemeyer of the department of first college football game Nov. l4th when the {government and international studies is the collegians relinquished their own stadium author of an article on the post-Communist seats to the youngsters. {world in the January issue of PACIFIC C01.MUNITY, \ a Tokyo publication. The new issue of SUMMAry, the newsletter for Notre Dame's $52 million development program, The American Philosophical Society of Philadel- lists the names of 26,327 individuals and ;phia has awarded Prof. Henry Hare Carter a organizations which participated in the capita: ;grant enabling him to spend an additional three fund-raising effort in its first three years. fmonths in Vienna where he is completing a trans- :cription of a mediaeval Portuguese manuscript. The effect of South Bend winters on the dura­ bility of concrete is the subject of research ,A one-man show, "Douglas Kinsey: Recent Paint­ being conducted by Dr. Kenneth Lauer, profes- ing, is on view in the University Gallery sor of civil engineering, with the support of through Dec. 20th. Kinsey is an assistant a $4l,400 National Science Foundation grant.