The Archives of The University of Notre Dame 607 Hesburgh Library Notre Dame, IN 46556 574-631-6448 [email protected] Notre Dame Archives: Alumnus This book is not to be taken f'-^TT- the Library THE NOTRE DAME ALUMNUS EDWARD P. CARVILLE, LLB. '09 Reno, Nevada .i^^ Governor of District 20, Alumni Association United States District Attorney for Nevada JANUARY, 1936 REV. MICHAEL J. SHEA. '04 The composer of the music of the "Victory March," Father Michael Shea, '04, conducts the Notre Dame Band in playing it between the halves of the Southern California - Notre Dame game on November 23, 1935, at Notre Dame. Just before, Father Shea had been awarded a major Notre Dame monogram in an impressive ceremony. The Notre Dame Alumnus JAMES E. ARMSTRONG, 75 The masazine is published monthly dorins the scholastic year by the Alumni Association Member o( the AaerieaB of the TTniversity of Notre Dame, Notre Dame. Indiana. Ihe subscription piic« is $2.00 Editor a year; the price of sinele copies is 25 cents. The annual alumni dues of $5.00 indode Alumni Council.' a year's subscription to THE ALUMNUS. Entered as second-^class matter January 1, WILUAM R. DOOLEY, "26 1923. at the post office at Notre Dame. Indiana, under the Act of March 3, 1879. All Member of Nat'I. Catholic Managing Editor correspondence should be addressed to The Notre Dame Alumnus, Box 81, Notre Dame, Ind. Alumni Fetleraliaa. Vol. XIV. January, 1936 No. 4 Old Timers Enjoy Joyful Campus Reunion Three Members of First Football Team Attend; Father Shea Receives Major Monogram at S. C Game; Program Covers Two Full Days sociation were also able to contribute ident Thomas J. Murphy, '36, of Judge Eggeman Says; materially to the success of the ven­ Newport, Rhode Island. Stirring mu­ "The first annual reunion of Old ture. sic was provided by the Band, directed Timers has come and gone. It was Judge Patrick Nelson, Dubuque, by Joe Casasanta, '23, there were all wo wonderful. Our dear Alma Iowa, Col. Prank Fehr, Louisville, short speeches by the coaching staff Mater was truly the host. She and Ed Sawkins, Detroit, were the and by some of the players, and, of provided for every possible %vant three members of the football team course, there were many cheers. and desire and overflowing with of 1887, Notre Dame's first, who were Frank Hering, '98, presided most appreciation and gratitude is the present. For them and the many heart of every Old Timer for the happily in presenting, for short ad­ other Old Timers who were present dresses, some of the Old Timers to grand entertainment and hospital* the week-end got started in the Alum­ ity extended. the super - enthusiastic student body. ni Office on Friday, November 22, Laugh followed laugh and cheer fol­ **Mr. E. J, Meehan, President of with registration and the issuance of lowed cheer as the Old Timers re­ the Monogram Cluh, and the St. badges and sidelines passes for the lated amusing, as well as heroic, in­ Joe Valley Club, and the Athletic game the next day. Unofficial head­ cidents of the by-gone days. Father Association were very instrumen­ quarters for the group were estab­ Hugh O'Donnell, C.S.C, vice-president tal in making the reunion a grand lished in Father John Farley's offices of the University, then introduced success and to them our sincere in Sorin Hall. the entire group of Old Timers to the thanks. The first official gathering of the students. "It is impossible to express in words the inward feeling of joy Old Timers was at the dinner in the The smokei: of the St. Joe Valley and delight that was all our own Dining Halls Friday evening, when club later in the same evening was a in reminiscing and being with the they were the guests of the Univer­ repetition of the. same enthusiasm boys, on the dear old campus, who sity. as the Old Timers were presented to were our most intimate friends Immediately afterwards the activ­ the largest of the four finely-managed during the good old college days ity was transferred to the Gym where and highly successful afTairs which of more than 35 years ago.*' . a huge student pep meeting had been the Club sponsored during the 1935 assembled by the Student Activities football season. Featured on the pro- With three members of Notre Council under the leadership of Pres­ (Continued on Page. 117) Dame's first football team in attend­ ance, with two well-crowded days of activity and entertainment, with a close and exciting victory over South- em California, with the presentation of a major monogram to Father Michael Shea, '04, composer of the music of the "Victory March," the Old Timers' Reunion on the campus on November 22 and 23 was consid­ ered an outstanding success in its first year. For the success of the program much credit must go to Fred Powers, '99, ("Track Team" Powers), Wor­ cester, Massachusetts, who conceived the idea, to Judge John Eggeman, '00, Fort Wayne, Indiana, who was the general chairman, and to the local chairman, Ed Meehan, '20, South Bend, president of the National Asso­ ciation of Notre Dame Monogram Men, who devoted a large share of his days and nights for weeks to the fur­ therance of the plan. The administration of the Univer­ sity, the Student Activities Council, the University Dining Halls, the St. Some Old Timers and Some Others at the St. Joe Valley Smoker. In the left hackcround. E. L. Holland and Ed Sawkins. Around the table, left to riftht. Martin Herbert. Fred Joe Valley Notre Dame club, the Ath­ Powers. Frank Hcrinc. Fred Steers. Judse EcBcman. Frank Hanlcy. William McNichols. letic Association, and the Alumni As­ Harry Miller. Frank McNichols. 98 The Notre Dame Alumnus January, 1936 MRS. BRADY PRESENTS addition to the above. Father O'Hara HOLLIS LECTURES also acknowledged a gift of $10,000 from Mr. Garvan for the establish­ THREE RARE VOLUMES Christopher HoUis, noted Eng­ ment of the Julius A. Nieuwland fund lish economist and writer who is for chemical and allied science re­ a member of the Notre Dame fac­ search. This fund has been increased A rare first edition of Charles ulty for 1935-36, will deliver the to $15,600 by an anonymous bene­ Dickens' Christmas Carol containing following public lectures in Wash­ faction. a letter -written by him to Charles ington Hall on the campus after Knight, and two volumes of Oliver the first of the year: Research work by the Rev. J. A. Goldsmith's Vicar of Wakefield, the January 9: Karl Marx. Nieuwland, C.S.C, member of the most valuable of the Goldsmith items, January 23: Disraeli. chemistry faculty at Notre Dame, have been resented to the Rev. John February 6: Booms and Slumps. made possible the development of F. O'Hara, C.S.C, president of the February 20: Charles S. Pamell. duprene, a synthetic rubber, which University, by Mrs. Nicholas Brady March 5: The Last Ten Years. recently has been placed in large of New York Citj-. March 19: Economic Nationalism. scale production. Mrs. Brady, winner of the Laetare April 2: The Unitj^ of Europe. April 16: Monarchy. In an article published some months medal in 1934, selected the books ago, Mr. Garvan estimated that from the collection of the late Father Nieuwland's discoveries were Nicholas Brady. Dickens' Christmas 1936 and the remainder in the Fall saving rubber companies of the Carol is dated 1843, and contains of 1937. United States $350,000,000 annually colored illustrations by John Leech. Another gift of $10,000 from the by keeping down the cost of natural The letter, in Dickens' own hand, same source will be used to purchase rubber, which must be imported from appears in the front of the book, and books for the chemistiy librarj'. In abroad. is dated December 13, 1848. It reads: My dear Knight: I shall look forward to the pleasure of dining with you on Wednesday the The President of the University Writes Another Page 27th and am truly interested in your (The officers of the Aluinni Association believe that a great deal can be con­ project, I assure you. tributed to the progress of the Greater Notre Dame by acquainting alumni not Believe me always faithfully yours, only with its progress but with its needs. This contribution by the Rev. John Charles Dickens. F. O'Hara, C.S.C., '11, president of the University, is significant in both fields. Sometime after this letter was writ­ Particularly pleasing to alumni is the splendid alimmi response to the tieeds ten, Dickens found the book in the reflected in the acknowledgement of gifts.—Ed.) collection of Frederick Locker and wrote in it, "I wish I had given this GIFTS book to F. Locker and Eleanor Bertha Mary Locker: Witness my hand, The Universitj- acknowledges with deep gratitude the following gifts: thirtj'-first of May, 1869." $193,000 from the estate of the late John F. Gushing, '06, final payment on a The bookplate of Frederick Locker pledge of $300,000 for the John P. Gushing Hall of Engineering. is the famous touchstone of the Row- fant Library which was the most $27,000 from the Chemical Foundation of New York, through Francis P. Gar­ select collection in private hands in van, President, for ten current Ph.D. fellowships in Chemistry and England. allied sciences, five of these fellowships to begin in September, 1936, . The other two volumes are the rare and five in 1937, each of them to represent $900 a year per student first edition of Goldsmith's Vicar of for three years each; Wakefield, printed in Salisbury in 1766 before it was printed in London.