Notre Dame Alumnus, Vol. 36, No. 04 -- May-June 1958
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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 Bwai Vol. 36 No. 4 May - June 1958 James E. Armstrong, '25 Editor John F. Laughlin, '48 Managing Editor B" V* -•- ^^.,3- THE FAMILIAR LOURDES GROTTO Center of the Centcnarj- Obseri-ances at Notre Dame site of the .Alumni Reunion Mass on June 8. (Storj- on page 2) WM.i&&^^M 35th UNIVERSAL NOTRE DAME NIGHT A RECORD ONE Impressive New York setting indica tive of growth of prestige and public relations in our 169 local clubs. (See editorial and club reports beginning on page 23) ALUMNI ASSOCIATION BOARD OF DIRECTORS Officers J. PATRICK CANNY, '28 Honorary President FRANCIS L. LAYDEN, '36 President EDMOND R. ILVGGAR, '38 Club Vice-President Class Reunion Weekend EUGENE M. KENNEDY, '22 — _ Class Vice-President OSCAR J. DORWIN, '17 June 6-7-8 ; Fund Vice-President JAMES E. .ARMSTRONG, '25 Secretary Class of 1908 Alumni Hall Class of 1933 Howard Hall Class of 1913 Alumni Hall Class of 1938 Morrissey Hall Directors to 1959 Class of 1918 Alumni Hall Class of 1943 Morrissey Hall FR^VNCIS L. LAYDEN, '36 Class of 1923 Alumni Hall Class of 1948 Dillon Hall 701 College Highway, Evansville, Ind. Class of 1928 Lyons Hall Class of 1953 Dillon Hall EDMOND R. HAGGAR, '38 Haggar Company 6113 Lcmman Avenue, Dallas, Texas Friday, June 6 EuGE.VE M. KENNEDY, '22 174 S. Mansfield Avenue General Registration—Law Building. One fee, $20, will be collected at Los Angeles 36, Calif. registration desk covering all general and class expenditures. OSCAR J. DORWIN, '17 Texas Company Class Registration and Room Assignment will be in the halls as listed 135 E. 42nd St., New York 17, N. Y. above. Weekend Golf Tournament beginning Friday. Special Monogram Golf Directors to 1960 Day (Monogram Clubbers only) Thursday, June 5 (all day). Mono LEO J. VoGEL, '17 gram Club Headquarters: Alumni Hall. Monogram cocktail party 286 Magnolia Place, Pittsburgh 28, Pa. and dinner 6:30 p.m., Thursday, Morris Inn. RAYMOND W. DURST, '26 840 Lathrop .•\ve.. River Forest, III. Class Events Scheduled on Friday Night: JULES K. DE LA VERGNE, '33 1908—Supper, Morris Inn. • 413 Pcrc Marquette BIdg. 1913—Supper, Morris Inn. New Orleans, Louisiana 1918—^Supper, Morris Inn. WILLIAM E. COTTER, JR., '41 1923—^Dinner, South Bend Country Club. 114 Laurie St., Duluth 3, Minnesota 1928—Dinner, New North Dining Hall. 1933—Silver Jubilee Dinner, Morris Inn. Directors to 1961 1938—Dinner, Rockne Memorial Lounge. JOSEPH R. STEWART, '22 1943—Buffet, Morrissey Hall. Kansas City Life Insurance Co. 1948—Buffet, site to be announced. Bo.x 139 Kansas City 41, Missouri 1953—Buffet, Dillon Hall. CHARLES E. ROHR, '30 Rohr's, nil Chester, Cleveland, Ohio JAMES H. SHEILS, '35 Saturday, June 7 McManus and Walker 39 Broadway, New York, New York Class Masses, Class Pictures, Golf Tournament, all day. JOHN C. O'CONNOR, '38 1000 Fidelitj- Trust Bldg. Special President's Convocation, 11 a.m., Washington Hall. "State of the Indianapolis, Indiana University" address. President's Luncheon for the 1933 Silver Jubilee Class. Gliairmen of tlie 1958 Committees Bo.x Lunches for other reunion classes (noon). F. L. LAYDEN Executive E. R. HAGGAR ; Club Activities^ Tours—O'Shaughnessy Hall, LaFortune Center, Nieuwiand Science E. M. KENNEDY Class Activities Building, and other places of interest (afternoon). O. J. DORWIN Alumni Fund, Foundation and Gifts Open Houses, 4:00 to 5:00 p.m. Most popular of the efforts to bring E. R. HAGGAR Preparatory Schools alumni into contact with Deans 'and former professors and the L- J. VOGEL Placement and Job Counseling environment of their Colleges. Administrators and faculty members J. K. DE L/\ VERONE .... Inter-Alumni Affairs of Arts and Letters, Science, Commerce, and Engineering will be on E. M. KENNEDY hand in their respective buildings to greet alumni and discuss the Prestige and Public Relations^ College. W. E. COTTER Religion and Citizenship E. R. HAGGAR AND Law Association Meeting in the Law Building, 4:00 to 5:00 p.m. E. M. KENNEDY Nominations Annual Alumni Banquet, New North University Dining Hall (evening). R. W. DURST Budget and Finance L. J. VOGEL Resolutions Sunday, June 8 This masazinc is published bi-monthly by the University of Notre Dame, Notre Lo'urdes Centenary Ma<is for Alumni, Grotto. Dame, Ind. Entered as second class mat- ler Oct. I, 1939, at the Post OlHcc, Notre Dame. Ind. under the act of Aug. 24, I9I2. Notre Dame Alumnus, May-June, 1958 The reappointment of Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh, C.S.C., as president of the University was announced April 26 by Rev. Theodore J. Mehling, C.S.C., provincial superior of the Holy Fr. Hesburgh Reappointed Cross Fathers. Father Hesburgh has been serving President of Notre Dame as Notre Dame president and religious superior of the Holy Cross priests and Brothers associated with the University since 1952. He will relinquish the latter Will Relinquish Post As Religious Superior post in June, Father Mehling ex plained, since religious superiors are limited to a maximum term of si.x years by canon law. A new religious Faculty salaries have increased sub Notre Dame campus. In 1945 he re superior for Notre Dame will be an stantially in recent years and a number ceived the degree of Doctor of Sacred nounced later. Father Mehling said. of internationally recognized scholars Theology from the Catholic University and artists have been added to the of America, Washington, D. C. He In addition to his many responsi faculty under Notre Dame's Distin holds honorary degrees from IJradley bilities as the head of one of America's guished Professors Program. Father University, LeMoyne College and the major universities, Father Hesbui^h Hesburgh has encouraged a marked Catholic University of Santiago, Chile. also holds several important posts in the development of student government on In addition to his membership on the world of public affairs. He is a mem the campus. There has aiso been a Civil Rights Commission and the Na ber of the Civil Rights Commission and steady increase in the number of fel tional Science Board, Father Hesburgh the National Science Board. He is also lowships awarded to graduating seniors. holds a number of other influential peiTnanent Vatican City representative Eighteen Notre Dame students received posts in the world of education, science to the International Atomic Energy \Voodrow Wilson National Fellow \ and public affairs. He is a member Agency. ships this year, the fifth largest group of the Secretary of the Navy's newly- Father Hesburgh became sixteenth in the nation. formed Advisory Board on Scientific president of Notre Dame at the age of Last March Father Hesbui^li an Education and is a former member and thirty-five in June, 1952. During the nounced a $66,600,000 development president of the Board of Visitors at first six years of his administration the program geared "to consolidate and the U. S. Naval Academy. University has experienced one of its further Notre Dame's academ.ic excel Father Hesburgh is a director and greatest periods of physical growth and lence during the next ten yeai-s." The member of the over-all panel of the internal academic development. Twelve long-range plan includes $27,000,000 Special Studies Project of the Rocke campus buildings have been dedicated in endowment for increased faculty feller Brothers Fund. He is a member during the sbc-ycar period and new salaries, $18,600,000 for buildings, of the Policy Advisory Board of the curricula have been established in the $11,000,000 for research, $5,000,000 Aigonne National Library and a direc Notre Dame Law School and die un for student aid, and $5,000,000 for tor of the Midwest Universities Re dergraduate liberal arts and commerce administrative puiposes. The Univer search Association, a non-profit corpo schools. A comprehensive self-study sity recently completed a development ration formed by fifteen Midwest edu has also been completed in the College program launched in 1947, exceeding cational institutions to conduct nuclear of Engineering. its ten-year goal of $25,000,000 by more research. than $2,000,000. Notre Dame's president is a director Prior to becoming Notre Dame's and former vice president of the Insti president in 1952, Father Hesburgh tute of International Education. He is served for three years as executive vice- also a director of the National Wood- president of the University. During row Wilson Fellowship Corporation, 1948-49 he was head of the religion the Freedoms Foundation, the Nutri department. He is the author of God tion Foundation and the Foimdation and the World of Man, a widely used for Religious Action in the Social and college te.\t, and his Patterns for Edu Civic Order. cational Growth has just been pub Father Hesburgh has just completed lished by the University of Notre- terms of service on the Ford Motor Dame Press. Company and General Motors Corpo Father Hesburgh, who will be 41 ration scholarship boards. His other on May 25, is a native of Syracuse, memberships and affiliations have in N. Y., where his parents, Mr. and Mrs. cluded the Commission on Instruction Theodore Bernard Hesburgh, still re and Evaluation of the American Coun side. He was educated at Notre Dame cil on Education; the Commission on and at the Gregorian University in Christian Higher Education of the Rome which awarded him a bachelor Association of American Colleges; the of philosophy degree in 1939. He was Committee on Professional Accredit ordained to the priesthood on June 24, ing Problems of the North Central Rev.