Notre Dame Alumnus, Vol. 20, No. 05 -- March 1942
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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 THE NOTRE DAME ALUMNUS 'I 1,000 Navai Trainees! at Notre Dame (Page 3) Class Reunions (Page 4) J, Heat Power Lab. | In Use i (Pase 5) I U. N. D. Night (Page 6) Historic Murals : Are Unveiled | (Page 9) I The World Famous Notre Dame Dome MARCH. 1942 No. 5 The Notre Dame Alumnus Hueh 13: The Chekhov Theater Players in Shake speare's "Twelfth Night.*' Directed by famous. Michael Chekhov of play and short story fame. UNIVERSITY AFFAIRS :-: :-: A ccnnpany of youncr American players, trained in the Chekhov Theater Studio. Mardi 20: Hie White Hussars. Brass ensemble of symphony artists, harpist, pianist, and operatic PROFESSORS TO GOVERNMENT family and published under the title tenor. The nation's war effort has claimed History of Evidence of the Paasfige of Muiie Wcdc another Notre Dame faculty member Abraham Lincoln from Harrisburg, Pa^ April 27: OpeninE Mosic V?eek with the "Mar- to Washington, D. C, 2Snd and SSrd of riase of Figaro" sonir in English by the "Nine with the announcement Feb. 13 by the o'clock Opera Company" of New York. Mozart's University of the granting of a leave of February, 1861. greatest and gayest lyric,opera. absence for John P. Nash, instructor in Two sons of Allen Pinkerton, William April 30:' JcTse Iturbi, famous pianist and orches mathematics. Dr. Nash has been asked tra conductor. and Robert, attended Notre Dame in Hay 4: Helen Jepson, celebrated artist of the to cooperate in goverimient work being 1860-61. Robert Pinkerton returned in Metropolitan Opera Company, will sing as solo done in the radiation laboratories of the 1867 to complete his courses. ist with the South Bend Symphony Orchestra. Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston. Dr. Nash received his bachelor's de NEW MEDIEVAL PUBLICATION N. D. RADIO COURSES gree from the University of California Radical departure of Hitler's Germany Courses in amateur radio operation in 1936. He became a fellow at Rice In from the long-standing German concept were introduced at Notre Dame in ni^t stitute and worked there for four years of law is contained in Saclisenspiegel and . classes beginning Feb. 1, Rev. James D. receiving his master's and his doctorate Bible, a study of Guido Kisch, edited by Trahey, C.S.C, defense coordinator, an in mathematics. In 1940 he joined Notre Rev. Philip Moore, C.S.C, dean of the nounced. The courses were open to any Dame's faculty of mathematics which Notre Dame graduate school. The book persons interested, men or women, who has achieved international recognition is the fifth volume of Notre Dame's Pub had graduated from high school. under the leadership of the eminent Aus lications in Medieval Studies, and was The move follows an organization trian scholar. Dr. Karl Menger. published recently at Notre Dame. meeting of South Bend radio amateurs Dr. Nash is a member of Phi Beta Both Jewish and Christian scriptures and stems from an urgent government Kappa, Sigma Xi and the American were extensively used in the formulation request for trained radio operators. Mathematical society. of law in the great German legal docu The Notre Dame courses will be ment of the middle ages, the Sachsen- taught two nights each week for a 15- Dr. George B. Collins, distinguished spiegel. This view of Prof. Kisch is con week period. physicist of the University and a leader trary to accepted views of many earlier • in the development of the experiments scholars but is conclusively shown and is with atomic disintegration at Notre particularly significant in an era when CENTENNIAL MEDAL Dame, is also at M.I.T. on a leave of ab the great legal tradition of Germany has At work now on a large medal for next sence from the University to do govern been scrapped by the nazi state for the year's centennial ceUbration symbolizing ment research. One of his outstanding rule of man. a century of progress at Notre Dame is student physicists, who assisted him in the internationally famous Hungarian the construction of Notre Dame's electro Author of the Sachsenspiegel was artist and sculptor, Eugene Kormendi. static generator, Alexander Pertauskas, Eike von Repgow, of Anhalt, a lay judge Employed by the University, Mr. Kor is also working in the M.I.T. laborator of knightly rank who was bom about mendi works in a studio on the top floor ies on leave of absence from Notre 1180 and who died about 1233. Only a of the Administration Building. Besides Dame. Petranskas received his bachelor's few years ago, in observance of the sev doing his creative work in clay, wood, degree from Notre Dame in 1931 and his enth centenary of his death, monuments terra-cotta. bronze, or plaster, Mr. Kor M.S. in 1938. in stone and bronze were erected to his mendi will teach art courses in the memory in his native Germany. Prof. University. Kisch's work, edited by Father Moore, The most famous of Kormendi's works is a spiritual monument to von Sep- are an heroic European war memorial PINKERTON BOOK TO LIBRARY gow's contribution to the l^al tradition Difficulties of protecting a United of five continents represented by five of the older Germany. Prof. Kisch's pres lamenting women; a beantifol statue of States president on an inaugural jour entation of the Sachsenspiegel as deep ney to Washington, D. C, are intimately the Empress Elizabeth of Hungary, in ly imbued with both the spirit and letter Budapest; and plaques bearing the por revealed in a privately printed first edi of the Bible, is in timely contrast to the tion recently acquired by the Notre traits of the Most Rev. John F. Noll, present German philosophy of "blood' D.D., bishop of Fort Wayne diocese, and Dame Library from the Chicago Pinker- and soil." ton Detective Agency. of Archbishop Samuel A. Stritch, D.D., of Chicago. Allen Pinkerton, founder of the far- ENTERTAINMENT PROGRAM Mrs. Kormendi, also an internationally famed organization which bears his famous artist, is the former Elizabeth name, was in charge of safe passage for A brilliant entertainment program will Fejervary. Her work primarily consists Abraham Lincoln from Harrisburg, Pa., be offered at Notre Dame during the of paintings of parks and beaches and to Washington, D. C, Feb. 22 and 23, remainder of 1941-42. The appearances fine ceramics. 1861. It was on this journey that an as of Jose Iturbi and Miss Helen Jepson These two outstanding contemporary sassination attempt was made on the life will highlight Music Week from April artists left their native Budapest some of the newly-elected President in Bal 27 to May 4. years ago, and have studied in Rome, timore, Md., which was successfully The schedule is as follows: Berlin, and in Paris under Rodin before rooted. coming to America from Holland in March 6: Cornelia Otis Skinner—^"The sreatest His recollections and papers on this sinsrie attraction of the American theater** In 1939. Their work has been exhibited ex incident were collected by the Pinkerton New Orieinal MonoIoKnes. tensively in all of the Eun^tean capitals. The Notre Dame Alumnus Thi« masazine i« pnbllihed oMotUr from October to Jane, inclusive (except January), kr Iha Paliairtr at Notre Dane. Notre Dame, Indiana. Entend aa aeeond elaa matter October 1, 19It, at the rnediaii^ Hotra DMMU TaiBaaa. Oder the iv^ aet< of Aoetiat 24, 1912. Heinber of the American Ahmml Coondl and of the NatMal ChthoHe Alonai HeJetatluB. JAMES E. ARMSTRONG, "75. Eiilor; WILUAM R. DOOLEY, Tfi. Manafnt Editor Vol. 20 MARCH. 1942 No. 5 1,000 Naval Trainees at N. D. on April 15 Captain ' H. P. Bumett To ComnMnd Both New Group and Present N.R.O.T.C; Navy To Take Over Three Campus Halls. One thousand naval reserve midship from their month's training here to the However, Lyons, Monisaey and How men will report to the campus on April three schools which offer the three-month ard halls, erected in 192B-26-27 as the 15 for a one-month indoctrination course training course leading to ensign's com first of Notre Dame's residence expan under the V-7 (deck officer or eng^eer- missions, such as the Mid-West training sion program, wiU be completely evacu ing officer) program. Rev. Hugh O'Don- school at Abbott Hall. ated by the University and taken over nell, C.S.C, president of the University, for housing the naval reserve midship announced on March 1. A thousand men The course at Notre Dame will be men. The Navy will furnish the halls will be trained in the same course in basic in teaching the fundamentals in to accommodate the unit, and hall regu each subsequent month, according to becoming Navy officer materiaL Inocu lations will be under naval officers. Capt. present plans. lations, uniforms, physical drill, and Bumett expects from 15 to 20 naval some basic classroom work will aid naval officers to report for duty by April 15 The program of naval aviation train officers in selecting personnel of satis to command the various phases of train ing in the Middle West for which the factory caliber for entering the advanced ing for the new recruits. facilities of Notre Dame were considered training courses. The other men, under by the Navy Department has been in the terms of their enlistment, will ronain Present plans call for the feeding of stalled at the University of Iowa.