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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 J" v"^ j""-*" i Volume 42, No. 1 m February-March, 1964 M:Ti!w«;i-;^.^; ©Maiif3( .. extending the tradition of great teaching Vol. 42 No: 1 February-March, 196^ JAMES E. ARMSTRONG, '25, Editor JOHN F. lAUGHLIN, '41, Managing Ediloi REV. THOMAS J. O'DONNELL, C.S.C., '41, CotumnisI NOTRE DAME ALUMNUS BRUCE HARLAN. '49, P/iologropti^ ALUMNI ASSOCIATION BOARD OF DIRECTORS Officers CONTENTS: WILLIAM P. MAHONEY, JR., '38 Honorary President OLIVER H. HUNTER, '43 President JOHN P. DEMPSEY, '49_Fu7ii Vice-President 3 Announcing Challenge II: "Extending the Tradition of Great WILLIAM H. FALLON, '37. Teaching" Club Vice-President PATRICK A. DOUGHERTY, '50 Class Vice-President 5 Editorial: "Not Another!" James E. Armstrong '25 JAUES E. ARMSTRONG, '25 . Executive Secretary Directors to 1964 6 Notre Dameland in Texas: Volunteer Teachers Service. Rev. Harry JOHN P. DEMPSEY, '49 Kidder, Peafaody & Co. Baker, C.S.C, '54 123 Broad SL, PhUaddphia, PennsyK-ania PATRICK A. DOUGHERTY, '50 2324 Universit>' .•\venuc 7 Family Picnic at Cedar Point: July Event to Honor Rockne St. Paul, Minnesota 55114 WILLIAM H. FALLON, '37 100 Pelham Road 8 Our Man in Ghana. Ambassador William P. Mohoney Jr. '38 New Rochelle, New York OLIVER H. HUNTER, '43 F3.I., P. O. Box 23 10 Are You Afraid of Your Children? Judge William J. Obermiller '45 New Castle, Pennsylvania Directors to 1965 ALBERT D. CASTELLI.VI, '24 12 Man and the Moment: More About the Grotto. Rev. Thomas J. 506 First National Bank Bldg. Cincinnati, Ohio PHILIP J. FACCENDA, '51 O'Donneli, C.S.C, '41 1510 Ogden La Grange, Illinois PETER J. KERNAN, JR., '49 13 "Nev/ Look" of the Alumni Board: Part Two 661 Washington Road Grosse Pointe, Michigan TIMOTHY J. TOOMEY, '30 14 Notre Dame Books 12 Windermere Avenue Arlington 74, Massachusetts Directors to 1966 15 The Student Slant: "Thunder" Brings a Shov/er. Warren C. GEORGE A. BARISCILLO, JR., '44 444 Golf Road Stephens '64 d Deal Park, New Jersey PAUL I. FENLON, '19 141 Sorin Hall 16 Universal ND Night '64/2nd International Convention Notre Dame, Indiana MORTON R. GOODMAN, '30 2415 Pilgrimage Trail 17 Sports. Charlie Callahan '38 LOS Angeles 28, California W. LANCASTER SMITH, '50 Dallas Athletic Club Building 18 Clubs: Directory and UND Communion Sunday Dallas 1, Texas Gbairmen of the 1963 Gommitfees GEORGE A. BARISCILLO, JR 24 Classes: Statistics Spotlight Alumni „ Academic Affairs PHILIP J. FACCENDA Admissions COVER: JOHN P. DEMPSEY.. .^lumni Fund, Foundation & Gifts PHILIP J. FACCENDA -Athletics ALBERT D. CASTELLINI Budget & Finance PATRICK A. DOUGHERTY. Class Activities WiLUAM H. FALLON Club Activities OLIVER H. HUNTER Executive The Triangle symbol of Challenge II is abstracted from the PATRICK A. DOUGHERTY- Inter-Alumni Affairs Golden Dome and symbolizes the trinity of mind, body and spirit WILLIAM H. FALLON AND JOHN P DEMPSEY. Nominations involved in great teaching. PETER J. KERNAN, JR . Placement & Counseling PETER J. KERNAN, JR Public Relations The Athletic and Convocation Center is pictured on the cover ALBERT D. CASTELLINI Religion & Citizenship PETER J. KERNAN, JR Student Affairs and at right in preliminary architect's sketches. The office area Tfaii migiTine il published bi-monthly by in the center has been lowered in subsequent blueprints. See dM Uiuvcrety of Notre Daxne, Notre Dtome, Ind. Entered ms fecond dam mat the story at right for a description. ter Oct. 1. 1939, at the Fwt Office, Notre Dane, Ind. under the act of Aug. 24, 1912. Notre Dame Alumnus, February-March, 1964 i ©KLKiKKii extending the tradition of great teaching Dear Alumnus: TN JANUARY the University announced a comprehensive What Notre Dame may become in the years that lie $20jOOO,000 development plan focused on people and ahead depends largely on the vision and the resources at programs but also providing for the construction of three our command today. I can see a Notre Dame enjoying more major buildings — including a long-awaited athletic fa than ever before the respect and regard of the academic cility. community as one of America's leading institutions of higher learning. I can also see a Notre Dame whose scholarly ap' Father Hesburgh announced that the new, national fund- plication of theology and philosophy to twentieth century raising effort, to be known as Challenge II, will have as living makes it one of the truly great Catholic universities its theme, "Extending the Tradition of Great Teaching." 0n all the world. He said 60% of the funds will be used to initiate new pro To wield such leadership tomorrow^ there is much we grams of study and research, further strengthen the facul must do today. First of all, we must further strengthen our ty and provide financial assistance for students with the faculty, retaining and attracting men who live to teach, balance allocated to physical expansion. whose names are associated with achievement and distinc He listed these major objectives of the t\vo-and-a-haIf tion in their fields. Secondly, we must develop new strength year Challenge II Program, which is a segment of a ten- in the humanities and social sciences which receive scant year, $66 million development plan launched in 1958: support compared to science and technology. To this end, Notre Dame plans to establish a department of experimental $5,000,000—Construction of an Athletic and Convoca psychology, create new programs in anthropology, de tion Center with a seating capacity of mography, geography and religious sociology, and launch Latin American and African area programs. It is precisely 10,500 for athletic, academic and civic in these areas that a Catholic university like Notre Dame events; W-an mediate with great influence and effectiveness. $6p00,000—Faculty development and new academic To benefit from great teaching, to provide future leader programs with emphasis on the social ship for a complex and sophisticated world, students with sciences and the humanities; considerable intellectual capacity and moral stamina must . be attracted to Notre Dame. Every great university seeks §5,500,000—Expansion of student-aid programs includ such young men. For those who need financial assistance, ing scholarships, fellowships, loans and ap- there must be resources for grants-in-aid, loans and campus portunities for campus employment; employment. Because students must live on our campus to share completely in the life that is Notre Dame, we must .$3,000,000—Erection of t%vo residence halls to provide build two additional undergraduate residence halls. And housing for virtually all Notre Dame un to help develop in them the vigor and spirit of competition dergraduates. ^phich traditionally marks the Notre Dame man, we are planning to erect an Athletic and Convocation Center Notre Dame's president pointed out that the Fotd Foun . which, like the old Fieldhouse it replaces, will serve the dation has already pledged $6 million, or 30% of the $20 University for decades. million overall goal, provided the University double that These are some of the things Notre Dame must do now amount in cash gifts and grants from its alumni, friends and in the immediate future. However great our success and other nongovernmental sources by June 30, 1966. In in the past, we dare not stand still. This University has a a three-year development program which ended in mid- . rendezvous with destiny, and it is our privilege — yours and 1963, Notre Dame received $18,603,157 in financial sup mine — to help speed that day. Only when the University port in addition to an earlier $6 million Ford Foundation achieves that destiny will it be truly worthy of its name, Notre Dame, who has been its heavenly patron and pro matching grant. tector for one hundred and twenty-two years. Rev. John E. Walsh, C.S.C., the University's vice-presi W Yours in Notre Dame, dent for public relations and development, said that the Theodore M. Hesburgh, C.S.C., President Challenge II program is geared to extend Notre Dame's \\\\\\l«» • ^YWL^ « <• M iB 5SJ1 'lA v^. <!!! 5a as 'H 'a! 'ff ^a -in • ^miynMiiiififfiffifgwffln ^^fsss^R^aatS^ea 1 !s54!ae=£tiiisi^s •..•w-« • —i'2i_ Notre Dame Alumnus, February-March, 1964 mMME tradition of great teaching "to new generations and into new too, he e.xplained, to create and expand University-operated fields." He said the funds it generates will enable Notre dow-interest loan funds for qualified students requiring fi Dame to continue "to develop young men in mind, body and nancial assistance. Often, he explained, it is a combination spirit and, at the same time, through its research make ef of a scholarship or felloVvship, a loan and campus employ fective contributions to the solution of vexing human prob ment which enables a young man to enroll and remain at lems." Notre Dame. In a move to strengthen its educational programs and The Athletic and Convocation Center, replacing Field- research in the social sciences and hiunanitieSj Notre Dame house, will be erected east of Notre Dame Stadium, Father plans to establish a department of experimental psychology, Walsh said. The 400,000-square-foot facility-will ha%'e twin it was announced. With funds emanating from Challenge arenas, one for basketball and assemblies requiring up tl^ II, the University will also create new programs in such 10,500 seats, the other for fieldhouse activities and exhibi people-oriented fields as anthropology, demography, geo tions. He described the new building as a center for inter graphy and reli^ous sociology. Plaiming is also under way collegiate sports — basketball, track, baseball (indoor prac for area study programs, first for Latin America and later tice), fencing, wTcstiing, boxing, et cetera—and a hub for Africa.