Notre Dame Alumnus, Vol. 35, No. 06 -- October-November 1957
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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 Orientation Program was conducted ^ VOLUME 351^S*S5WUKIBEirB7^?777>i¥ A~ Morau Saninatj I' OCTOBER iNpVEMBEIli!l957:^:f >• ffiJfcS J for 1500 first-year men. Cblumlu Hal) Lauadry ^^1 ^VnAjtKtj^ NOTRE DAME •^ ALUMNUS Arclutecliuet\ O Indoctrination lectures were given faculty and administrative officers. i *' 'i^" <# £L ^m ' • •: "• • The annual Misaoh was hdd in Sacred Heart Chur -Ji. 1 -: i • James E. Armstrong, '25 Editor <i*<«iF John N. Cackley, '37 Managing Editor John F. Laughlin, '48 Editi>rla l Assistant ALUMNI ASSOCIATION I Color Movie 'Notre Dame' BOARD OF DIRECTORS Proves Box Office Smash Officers JOSEPH I. O'NEILL, JR., '36 Honorary President J. PATRICK CA.NNY, '28 President PATRICK J. FISHER, '36 Film Center Swamped With Club, School Club Vice-President JoH.v W. BRENNAN, '27 And Television Bookings Class Vice-President' JOSEPH E. WHALEN, '29 Fund Vice-President JAJIES E. ARMSTRONG, '25 Secretary The slogan "Movies are better than But tlie most striking tiling about ever" became a Hollj'wood common the film is the enlliusiasm of its recep Directors to 1958 place when television began to make tion by alumni clubs, schools, civic and JOHN ^y. BRENNAN, '27 terrifying inroads with the motion pic scn'ice organizations, corporations, "sub American Blower Corp., Detroit 32, Mich. ture audience. It seemed to assume way alumni" and televiewers across die J. PATRICK CANNY, '28 reality as filmed presentations captured nation. By early September it had been 14700 Clifton Blvd., Cleveland, Ohio PATRICK J. FISHER, '36 an ever-increasing share of television viewed by more than sixty alumni clubs 605 E. 42nd St., Indianapolis, Ind. programing. But a real proof that and dozens of other oi^anizations with JOSEPH E. WKALEN, '29 movies are better, or at least more ef a total attendance estimated at some Hotel Ft. Des Moines, Des Moines, Iowa fective, than ever is the e.\traordinar}' where between ten and twenty thou success of a half-hour color film en sand alumni and friends. This is re Directors to 1939 ' titled, simply, "Notre Dame." markable if one considers that the typi cal audience consists of less than a OSCAR JOH.V DORWIN, '17 The mowe was in production for tlie Texas Company greater part of 1956. Its campus pre hundred viewers. 135 E. 42nd St., New York 17, N. Y. miere was tied in with local premieres EDMOND R. HAGCAR, '38 The T\' figures are even more strik Haggar Company in more than fifty cities as alumni ing. By tlie first week in September 6113 Lcmmon Avenue, Dallas, Texas clubs obser\'ed the 34th annual Uni the movie had been over more than EUGENE M. KE.VNEDY, '22 versal Notre Dame Night in April. fifty television stations in 43 cities. The 174 South Mansfield -Avenue Shortly tliereafter it was made available Los Angeles 36, Calif. television audience has been conserv FR,\NCIS L. LAYDEN, '36 for use by television stations and inter atively estimated at upwards of three 701 College Highway, Evansvillc, Ind. ested organizations all over the country. million people. Another group of sta "Notre Dame" is narrated by Joe tions has been invited to televise the Directors to 1960 Boland, '27, nationally known sports- picture this fall, and. special eve-of- caster, with an assist from Dr. Willam LEO J. VOGEL, '17 game telecasts are scheduled in many Union Trust Bldg., Pittsburgh, Pa. M. Burke, Director of the University's cities where the Notre Dame football R,\Y.MOND W. DURST, '26 Office of Student Advisor. The film team will appear. 840 Lathrop Ave., River Forest, 111. opens with an exciting football se JULES K. DE L.\ VERGNE, '33 There has been a great demand for quence, interrupted at "halftime" by a 413 Pere Marquette Bldg. showings among Holy Name, NCCM, New Orleans, Louisiana colorful tour of Notre Dame. In sweep CYO and other Catholic action groups, WILLIAM E. COTTER, JR., '41 ing scenes it depicts the intellectual, 114 Laurie St., Duluth 3, Minn. as well as Parent-Teachers, educators' spiritual and social life of tlic University and Boy Scout meetings. Some corpo as seen in its classrooms, laboratories rations have shown it to all executives Chairmen of the 1957 Committees and libraries, its church, chapels and or sales personnel, while small com shrines, its residence halls, athletic fields J. PATRICK CANNY Executive munities have had multi-group screen PATRICK J. FISHER Club Activities and recreational centers, and as ex ings in civic auditoriums. The Lions JOHN W. BRENNAN Class Activities emplified in the hundreds of students and odicr service clubs have been cn- JOSEPH E. WHALEN and faculty members shown. Foundation, Alumni Fund and Gifts tliusiastic. FRIV.NCIS L. LAYDE.V Produced by Owen Murphy Produc Preparatory School Relation.' tions, Inc., of New York City, "Notre High schools and prep schools, orig JoH.v W. BRENNAN '- Dame" was filmed entirely on campus inally considered only as a by-product Job Counseling and Placement under the personal supervision of Owen of club showings, are emerging as a Osa\R JOHN DORWIN Inter-Alumni Affairs major market for the film, which may JOSEPH E. WHALE.N Murphy of tlie Class of 1915. It is in Prestige and Public Relations Eastman color, the print is by Techni be instrumental in recruiting thousands EUGENE M. KENNEDY color Corp. of Los Angeles, and it fea of future Notre Dame students. Many Religion and Citizenship tures the music of the Notre Dame alumni clubs now consider the film a Er<Mo.vD R. HAGGAR AND "must" for all prospective freshmen. EUGENE M. KENNEDY ..,„„.A'omina(tonr Band and Glee Club and the Morcau FRANCIS L. LAMjEN..._Btirfgei and Finance Seminar)' Choir. Since there are permanent prints of PATRICK J. FISHER Resolutions j Immediately after its release tlie film the movie in most major city clubs in was lauded by motion picture trade the U. S., plus several in constant de This magazine is published bi-monthly by the University of Notre Dame, Notre publications as truly portraying the ex mand at the Foundation Office, "Notre Dame, Ind. Entered as second class mat citement, beauty and academic serious Dame" may some day rank as an aca ter Oct. 1, 1939, at the Post OIHce, Notre Dame, Ind. under the act of Aug. 24, 1912. ness of the University of Notre Dame. demic "Gone With the Wind.". Notre Dame Alumnus, October-November, 1957 FASHION NOTE Beginning this semester all students eating in campus dining halls will be required by the University to wear 6,000 Students Begin dtcss shirts, neckties and coats at eve ning meals and at all Sunday meals. The announcement of this ruling coin cided with similar announcements in Fall Term Classes several Ivy League schools. The regu lation has been contemplated for some time, according to Rev. Leonard A. Collins, C.S.C., Dean of Students, but was made possible only recently by the construction of additional dining hall Sermon Preached by Father Hesburgh facilities. At Formal Opening of School; Orientation For Freshmen During Six-Day PeHod less life; and vitamins are no substi tute for virtues," he said. Father Hesburgh, a member of the •National Science Board, stressed the difficulty of the University's task "in More than 6,000 students are en- ues that he cherished long before the a world that is essentially ecularistic . rolled in Notre Dame's undeigraduate advent of modem science and its ac and scientifically oriented in its for- Imd graduate courses during the Fall companying technolog)'." vrard march." semester. The University began its A man that is well-fed, well-clothed Recently appointed Vatican City 116th academic year with a Solemn and well-housed can be ignorant, delegate to the new International High Mass in Sacred Heart Church, prejudiced and immoral, too," the No Atomic Energy Agency, Father Hes attended by the student body and fac tre Dame president pointed out. "A burgh deplored the lack of communi ulty. Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh, healthy man can be as unjust as an cation among specialists in the various C.S.C., president, preached the sermon unhealthy man. A long life is not nec arts and sciences. He lamented that at the formal opening. Two new stu essarily good or fruitful. Vastly ex theologians and physicists, for example, dent residences, Keenan and Stanford panded communications devices do not "have not been on speaking terms for Halls, and a new dining hall are the guarantee that much worthwhile is be centuries — so much so that they no latest campus facilities available to un ing communicated, and a world longer speak the same language." He dergraduates. These buildings mark brought close together is not necessar cited evidence, however, that the cli the completion of a $4,000,000 expan ily a world at peace. Simplified house mate has how begun to change — and sion program begun last year. The two keeping does not guarantee happy mar on both sides. "The time is ripe," he dorms will house a total of 600 stu riages; easily accessible amusement urged, "to take up a fruitful conversa dents while the dining hall will serve cannot banish the boredom of a point tion left aside centuries ago." approximately 2,000 students. Approximately 1,500 freshmen un derwent an intensive orientation pro gram including a batter)' of tests and a spiritual retreat or mission prior to the registration for classes. A new graduate program in gnoto- biotics is being offered this Fall for the fii-st time at Notre Dame's Lobund Institute.