E EP ~THE UNIVERSITY FACULTY NoTEs 191 Hatch Elected Provost 193 Honors 191 McKenna, Malloy and Beauchamp Elected to New 193 Activities Terms of Office 191 Welsh Family Underwrites Women's Residence Hall 192 Notre Dame Selected to Templeton Honor Roll 192 Committee on International Studies Formed 192 Office of University Computing Renamed Office ofInformation Technologies DocuMENTATION THE GR.ADUATE ScHooL 197 Corrections to Notre Dame Report #4 213 Current Publications and Other Scholarly Works 200 Opening Mass Homily 217 Awards Received and Proposals Submitted September 10, 1995 218 Awards Received 202 President's Address to the Faculty 219 Proposals Submitted October 10, 1995 212 University Committee on Libraries September 22, 1995 THE UNIVERSITY .Hatch Elected Provost McKenna, Malloy and Beauchamp Elected to New Terms of Office Nathan 0. Hatch, vice president for graduate studies and research since 1989, was elected provost of the University by the Board of Trustees. Hatch will succeed Timothy The Board of Trustees elected Rev. Edward A. Malloy, O'Meara, provost since 1978, on O'Meara's retirement C.S.C., to a third five-year term as president to begin July from the post june 30, 1996. 1, 1997, and elected board chair Andrew J. McKenna of Winnetka, Ill., to a new two-year term beginning in May The provost is the University's second ranking officer 1996. The board also elected Rev. E. William Beauchamp, and, at the direction of the president, exercises overall re­ C.S.C., to a third five-year term as executive vice presi­ sponsibility for the academic enterprise. Hatch will be dent concurrent with Malloy's .. the third person to hold the position at Notre Dame since McKenna has served as chair of the board since june 1992 its establishment in 1970. and previously was the board's first vice chair, assuming Hatch, a professor of history and member of the faculty that role with its creation in 1986. since 1975, regularly is cited as one of the most influen­ tial scholars in the study of the history of religion in Based upon internal reviews of the three officers, the board undertook their reappointments in conjunction America. His book, The Democratization ofAmerican Chris­ with the election of Nathan 0. Hatch as the new provost tianity, published by Yale University Press in 1989, has garnered three awards and was chosen in a survey of 2000 and preparatory to the mounting of the University's next historians and sociologists as one of the two more impor­ capital campaign. tant books in the study of American religion. Hatch served as acting dean of the College of Arts and Welsh Family Underwrites Letters in 1988-89, and from 1983 to 1988 was associate dean. During that time he founded and directed the In­ Women's Residence Hall stitute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts, which fostered One of two new women's residence halls now under con­ ~ a six-fa~~ increase ii_I ext~rnal funding of faculty in the :..9. humamties and social sciences and assisted faculty mem- struction on the West Quad will be underwritten with a . bers in winning 21 National Endowment for the Humani­ gift from the Robert]. Welsh family. Robert Welsh, a ties fellowships from 1985 to 1991-an achievement Notre Dame alumnus and trustee, is president and chief that ranked the University among the top 10 nationally. executive officer of Welsh, Inc., of Merrillville, Ind. Hatch directed graduate studies in the history department A native of Gary, Ind., Welsh was graduated from Notre from 1980 to 1983, during which time he also was Dame in 1956 with a bachelor's degree in finance. He be­ awarded the college's Paul Fenlon Award for excellence in gan his career at Welsh Oil, Inc., that same year and as­ undergraduate teaching. sumed the leadership of the company in 1968. He was a member of the Advisory Council for the Law School from A summa cum laude graduate of Wheaton College in 1987 to 1990, then joined the Advisory Council for the 1968, Hatch earned his master's and doctoral degrees, in College of Business Administration until his election as a 1972 and 1974, respectively, from Washington University Trustees in 1991. He previously served on the board of in St. Louis. He has held postdoctoral fellowships at regents of Saint Mary's College, including several years as Harvard and johns Hopkins Universities and has been vice chair of the board, and is a benefactor of the Center awarded research grants by the National Endowment for for the Homeless in South Bend. He is a recipient of Saint the Humanities, the American Council of Learned Societ­ Mary's President's Medal and of a Notre Dame alumni ies and the American Antiquarian Society. club "Man of the Year" award. Hatch was president of the American Society of Church In addition to heading Welsh, Inc., Welsh also is presi­ History in 1993 and is a senior advisor to the Religion Di­ d~nt of Aspen, Inc., a petroleum hauling company. He is vision of the Pew Charitable Trusts. Active in South Bend duector of Catholic Charities; Northern Indiana Public civic affairs, he was elected vice chair of the board of the Service Company; NIPSCO Industries, Inc.; NBD Indiana, St. Joseph Medical Center and serves on the board of the Inc. (Indianapolis); the Northwest Indiana Forum; the Michiana Public Broadcasting Corporation. He was a di­ Northwest Indiana Entrepreneurship Academy; Zollner rector of the United Way of St. joseph County from 1987 Industries; and Lakeshore Health Systems. to 1992. 191 " lllllll""" THE UNIVER_SITY Notre Dame Selected to Templeton Members of the committee are: Harold W. Attridge, dean llllif: of the arts and letters; Thomas Bogneschild; Francis J. 9 Honor Roll Castellino, dean of science; Seamus Deane, Keough pro- fessor of Irish studies; JoAnn DellaNeva, associate profes- Notre Dame has been selected to the 1995 John sor and chairperson of Romance languages and litera- Templeton Foundation Honor Role for Character Build­ tures; Rev. Patrick Gaffney, C.S.C., associate professor of ing Colleges. Established in 1989, the biennial honor anthropology; Alexander Hahn, professor of mathemat- role recognizes those institutions of higher learning that ics; Ivan Jaksic, assistant provost for international studies; best "encourage the development of strong moral charac­ John G. Keane, dean of business administration; Eileen ter among students." Kolman, dean of the Freshman Year of Studies; Rev. Will- iam M. Lewers, C.S.C., director of the Center for Civil and The Templeton Foundation was formed in 1987 by inter­ Human Rights; David T. Link, dean of law; A. James national investment counselor John M. Templeton to McAdams, associate professor of government and interna­ forge stronger links between the sciences and all reli­ tional studies; Anthony N. Michel, dean of engineering; gions. The foundation works closely with scientists, Robert C. Miller, director of University libraries; Dian H. theologians, philosophers, scholars and medical profes­ Murray, associate dean of arts and letters; Guillermo A. sionals to support programs and studies that seek to fur­ O'Donnell, academic director of the Kellogg Institute; ther understanding of spirituality and the importance of Mihir Sen, professor of aerospace and mechanical engi­ personal character. neering; Raimo V. Vayrynen, director of the Kroc Insti- tute; Michael A. Wadsworth, director of athletics; J. Rob- ert Wegs, professor of history; and Robert W. Williamson, Committee on International professor of accountancy. Studies Formed Notre Dame sponsors 18 international study programs for its undergraduate students in Europe, Latin America, the A committee to assist in the development of international Middle East, Far East and Australia. Two programs in the studies at Notre Dame and a new director of international Law School are headquartered in London, and the Col­ studies programs have been appointed. lege of Business Administration has professional pro- grams in London and Santiago, Chile. ~ Thomas E. Bogenschild has been appointed director of in­ ternational studies. A 1977 graduate of Occidental Col­ lege, Bogenschild obtained a master's degree in anthro­ Office of University Computing pology from the University of Chicago in 1984 and a doc­ toral degree from the University of California at Berkeley Renamed Office of Information in 1992. A specialist in cultural anthropology, he has a Technologies particular interest in the religions, cultures and politics of Central America and is at work on a book, "The Roots of The Academic Council approved a change in the name of Protestant Fundamentalism in Liberal Guatemala, 1882- the Office of University Computing to the Office of Infor­ 1940." He was vice chair of Berkeley's Center for Latin mation Technologies (OIT). Larry Rapagnani, assistant American Studies from 1989 to 1993. Before coming to provost, requested the name change to reflect the services Notre Dame he was associate director of the program in provided by the department since technological issues Latin American studies at Princeton University. and not just computing issues ai:e the focus for the future. The ad hoc Committee on International Studies was ap­ OIT administers Notre Dame's wide-ranging information proved by the Academic Council last May. It will recom­ and computer resources, including 597 computer work­ mend policies for a wide variety of international activities stations and several dedicated terminals in 10 clusters· including international study programs, faculty and stu­ throughout campus. The clusters and most academic dent exchanges, foreign language study and library re­ buildings are linked in a fiber-based network to campus sources. Appointed for an initial two-year period, the ad resources, including the Hesburgh Library's on-line cata­ hoc committee also will recommend a permanent com­ log, an electronic-mail system, a campuswide information mittee structure to the Academic Council.