The Archives of The University of Notre Dame 607 Hesburgh Library Notre Dame, IN 46556 574-631-6448 [email protected] Notre Dame Archives: Alumnus VOL 40 • YEAR END • DEDICATION OF THE NEW CARTIER FIELD (shown from the air with Klein Memorial Baseball Park and the probable site of a projected new athletic field house) was held on the morning of November 24. Officiating (facing camera, from left) were Rev. Jerome J. Wilson, C.S.C, vice-president for business affairs; Rev. Edmund P. Joyce, C.S.C, executive NOTRE vice-president and chairman of the Faculty Board in Control of Athletics; and Rev. Thomas J. O'Donnell, C.S.C, associate director of the Notre Dame Foundation. DAME (See story, overleaf.) ALUMNUS ALUMNI ASSOCIATION On the cover: BOARD OF DIRECTORS A New Cartier Field Officers fame was won by an offer, in 1899, to WALTER L. FLEMING, JR., '40. November 24, 1962, was a great day Honorary President for the Irish. In the stadium the build a badly needed athletic field WILLIAM P. MAHOJJEY, JR., '38 President football team scored a fifth and final east of the old Brownson campus. Com­ MAURICE CARROLL, 'IS-Ctass Vice-President pleted in 1905, Cartier Field was the ROGER J. HUTER, '40 Clnb Vice-President win for the season by trouncing Iowa HARRY J. MEHRE, '22 Fund Vice-President 35-12. The N.D. Marching Band scene of 25 years of Irish football JAMES E. ARJISTRONC, '25 played a Latin-American medley as a glory before the stadium was built in Executive Secretary musical salute to the University-spon­ 1930, and it has continued to breed Directors to 1963 sored U.S. Peace Corps team in Chile, that glory as the Notre Dame practice^, field. * MAURICE CARROLL, '19 and Father Hesburgh (see page 5743 Delmar Blvd. 6) added his recorded congratulations, \Vith the breaking of ground for the St Louis 12, Missouri taped before he left for an inspection Memorial Library and a new eastern ROGER J. HUTER, '40* tour of scientific bases in the Antarctic quadrangle, the practice field was re­ Huter-Quest Co. for the National Science Foundation. located east of the stadium and car­ 833 W. Main St. Ixjuisville, Kentucky Earlier that day, east of the stadium, ried with it the Cartier name to per­ WILLIAM P. MAHONEY, JR., '38 a small group gathered for a short but petuate the University's gratitude for U.S. Ambassador significant ceremony. Priests, coaches, a great benefaction. Accra, Ghana administrators and students joined sev­ The new Cartier Field has night HARRY J. MEHRE, '22 eral members of the family of the late illumination for its several practice 3155 Aiden Road, N.W. Warren A. Cartier, '87, for the dedica­ gridirons and its track and field facili-CJ Atlanta, Georgia tion and blessing of a new site for the ties, among the finest in the world. Directors to 1964 enclosed athletic field which has borne The name Cartier is usually associated JOHN P. DEMPSEY, '49 Kidder, Peabody & Co. the family name for nearly 60 years. with diamonds, and the baseball 123 Broad St, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania ^Varren Cartier was a lumberman, diamond which the old field boasted PATRICE A. DOUGHERTY, '50 banker and political leader who served has been moved northwest of the new P.O. Box 5672 for eleven years as mayor of Luding- field, much improved. Named for Minneapolis 17, Minnesota ton, Michigan. A lay trustee of the venerable Professor-Coach Clarence WILLIAM H. FALLON, '37 (Jake) Klein, it was dedicated and 100 Pelham Road University, he was once president and tested by Jake's team at the close of New Rochelle, New York for many years treasurer of the Alumni the last season. OLIVER H. HUNTER, '43 Association. He had three alumni F.B.I., P. O. Box 23 sons, Raymond, Morgan and Vincent The stadium, practice and basebalL New Castle, Pennsylvania Cartier, and before his death in fields surround a large open area of^ Directors to 1965 November, 1934, Pope Pius XI con­ Juniper Road. Hopefully this \vill pro­ ALBERT D. CASTELLINI, '24 ferred upon him the Knighthood of 506 First National Bank Bldg. vide room for a great new gymnasium St. Gregory in recognition of his work Cincinnati, Ohio and field house to complete a central­ PHILIP J. FAGCENDA, '51 for the Church. But his most enduring ized athletic plant. 1510 Ogden LaGrange, Illinois PETER J. KERNAN, JR., '49 Content Highlighis: 661 Washington Road Grosse Pointe, Michigan Cover, p. 2, A NEW CARTIER FIELD ADAH J. WALSH, '25 ... p. 3, EDITORIAL: New Year'^ P. O. Box 349 thoughts by James E. Armstrong, '25 . Portland, Maine pp. 4-6, THE UNIVERSAL UNIVER­ * Appointed to fill tmexptred term of George Con­ nor, '48, who resigned under pressure of business. SITY, U.N.D. Night words: Detroit, Ed­ Chaitmen of flie 1962 Committees ward L. Cushman; Chicago, award to Dr. WILLIAM MAHONEY.- Executive John W. Taylor of WTTW-TV; Washing­ ROGER HUTER -Club Activities ton, Senator Thomas J. Dodd; New York, MAURICE CARKOLI ^Class Activities Father Hesburgh, C.S.C. ... p. 7, THE JOHN DEMPSEY_ STUDENT SLANT: notes on student gov­ -Alumni Fund, Foundation & Gifts PATRICK DOUGHERTY Student Affairs ernment by Frank Dicello, '63 . p. 8, JOHN DEMPSEY Admissions THE IRISH GO INTERNATIONAL, PETER KzKHAH-Placement & Job Counseling Florida Convention and Third European ADAH WALSH Inter-Alumni Affairs Tour ... p. 9, MAN AND THE MO­ OuvER HUNTER Public Relations ALBERT CASTELLiNLjJe/igion 6? Citizenship MENT: more about the bells by Rev. MAURICE CARROLL AND ROGER HUTER Thomas J. O'DonneU, C5.C., '41 . pi^ dominations NEW POSTMASTER of Notre Dame, 10-12, ATHLETICS, football roundup an" PHILIP FACCENDJS Budget & Finance taking office Sept 3D after U.S. Senate basketball prospects ... pp. 13-14, CLUB WILLIAM FALLON_ Athletics approval of his appointment, is Brother Eli, DIRECTORY ... p. 15, THE ALUMNI CS.C, (center), being sworn in by SCENE, photos ... pp. 16-23, CLUBS . Patrick F. Dowling, '21, postal inspector pp. 24-51, CLASSES: statistics, spotlights, This magaune is published bi-monthiy by for South Bend. Brother Alarcelliniis, the University of Notre Dame, Notre etc ... p. 52, PRESIDENT'S LETTER, Ikasie, Ind. Entered as second daist mat­ C.S.C. (left), the retiring postmaster, had ter Oct. 1, 1939, at the Post Office, Notre held the job since 1945 and had been Ambassador William P. Mahoney . Dame, Ind. luder the act of Aug. 24, 1912. connected with the University's post office center, THE SUBLIME TRADITION: A for more than forty years. Bade Home Library. V Notre Dame Alumnus, Year End, 1962 they are new feet, and there are more of them. But essentially they go from hall to class to dining hall to playing field to chapel, in the unending process Sditorial Comment of making good men from good boys, of molding the leadership of maturity from the clay of youth, of depositing from your the best of the past and present in the minds and hearts of the hope of the Alumni Secretary future. And in the atmosphere there are the old conflicts — impatience with time vs. the peace of environment, criticism of age and experience vs. the trust of the young, the profound and irrevoca­ ble pronouncements of youth as it E ARE EMERGING from an inten­ like an academic Disneyland. But makes news of history and inaccuracies Wsive period of implementing our when you consider the implications of of truth. progress. the Atomic Energy Center, the Com­ In fact, because of the tremendous As a result of your generous help puter Center, the Library, the Stepan drive for the future that has been in success is in sight. Center for student convocations and the Notre Dame spotlight, and because So for this occasion, not in relaxation recreation, the well-laid-out and light­ of the pressures of the present, many ^r in false security, but in the interest ed athletic fields, you realize that of us who live here in the center of of breathing, in the interests of a joy­ future generations of Notre Dame men, these urgencies occasionaUy forget that ous Christmas and a Happy New Year, in all walks of the Universit}''s life, student history is never more than four let's think of the happy things. will call us blessed. years old. We begin to worry about, I flew in over the campus on a re­ The old heartland of the campus. the student voices as though they were cent sunny day. The new Library Main Building, Church, Washington saying new and startling things. And. looms as an impressive pillar of prog­ Hall, LaFortune Student Center (e.x- sometimes, in our preoccupation with ress. Science), St. Edward's and Sorin, stand the magnificent future that Notre- But the slender spire of Sacred like reconstructed Williamsburg, as an Dame faces, we wonder a little about Heart Church reminds us of our origin active life-filled tribute to the Univer­ the merits of its past and our destiny, in God. sity administrations and programs of It is when these things catch up to- Most of all, the bright golden Lady another century. you, and you sit back and breathe » '9n the Dome has lost none of her And Notre Dame Avenue stretches little, that these years slip into proper luster. In the heart of an expanding from the expanding campus into the perspective. Great years, yes. Stimu­ campus she still stands as the patroness civic environs of neighboring South lating years, yes. Years that will in­ of Notre Dame and all its objectives Bend as a long and lovely channel fluence Notre Dame in the future, cer­ — "Our Life, Our Sweetness, and Our linking the city and the campus like tainly.