The Archives of The University of Notre Dame 607 Hesburgh Library Notre Dame, IN 46556 574-631-6448 [email protected] Notre Dame Archives: Alumnus Mrclbme •- "71 ^^f)Y':^i^ toiimiir '^iif^ a^ ^^^^^^ ^^SK^ ^^ v.- J^^SBHM^Sji ^^^^9 '{ V, '-ii^'^ >!L&: Vl ^^ n i-&S> VOLUME 4J, NUMBER 4 t >4UGUST-S£PT£MB£R, J963 .villSS^ Vol. 41, No. 4 NOTRE DAME ALUMNUS Aug.-Sept., 1963 JAMES E.- ARMSTRONG, '25, Bdilor JOHN F. LAUGHLIN, '48, Monaging Editor REV. THOMAS J. O'DONNELL, C.S.C.. '41, Columnhl BRUCE HARLAN, '49, Phologwpher BONNIE GAY, Stoff Writer ALUMNI ASSOCIATION BOARD OF DIRECTORS CONTENTS: Officers Pp. 2-5 Commencement and the decade's second Notre Dame Pope WILLIAM P. MAHONEY, JR., '38 Honorary President P. 6 Editorial: The Belabored Point OLIVER H. HUNTER, '43 President JOHN P. DEMPSEY, 'iS.J'und Vice-President Pp. 7-9, 27-34 A Pageant of Nostalgia: Reunion 1963 4 WILLIAM H. FALLON, '37 Club Vice-President P. 10 Man and the Moment: Report on Gettysburg*^ PATRICK A. DOUGHERTY, '50 Class Vice-President P. 11 1 Take Pa Back To Notre Dame, by Rev. Ed Calkins, O.S.M.^ JAMES E. ARMSTRONG, '25 P. 12 Books; Frederick Fund; Third European Pilgrimage Executive Secretary Directors to 1964 . P. 13 Notre Dame Went International: Florida Convention JOHN P. DEMPSEY, '49 Pp. 14-15 Cardinal O'Hara as President, by Rev. Thomas T. McAvoy, C.S.C. Kidder, Peabody & Co. f 123 Broad St., Philadelphia, PennsyK-ania P. 16 Mission Accomplished: Alumni meet the "Challenge"' PATRICK A. DOUGHERTY-, '50 P.O. Box 5672 Pp. 17-26 Clubs: UND Night, part >- Minneapolis 17, Minnesota -WILLIAM H. FALLON, '37 Pp. 34-59 Classes: Statistics, Spotlight Alumni 100 Pelham Road New Rochelle, New York OLIVER H. HUNTER, '43 F.B.I., P. O. Box 23 ON THE COVER: New Castle, Penns>'Ivania Directors to 1965 ALBERT D. CASTELLINI, '24 Commencement in 196B 506 First National Bank BIdg. Cincinnati, Ohio PHILIP J. FACCENDA, '51 In June, Prime Minister Pearson; in August, Msgr. Hughes 1510 Ogden La Grange, Illinois PETER J. KER.N-AN, JR., '49 661 Washington Road Grosse Pointe, Michigan TIMOTHY J. TOO.MEY, '30 12 Windermere .Avenue .Arlington 74, Massachusetts Directors to 19GG GEORGE A. BARISCILLO, JR., '44 416 Burlington Avenue Bradley Beach, New Jersey PAUL I. FENLON, '19 141 Sorin Hall Notre Dame, Indiana MORTON R. GOODMAN, '30 2415 Pilgrimage Trail Los Angeles 28, California W. LANCASTER SMITH, '50 Dallas Athletic Club Building Dallas 1, Texas Chairmen of the 1963 Committees OLIVER H. HUNTER Executive ABOVE: Nine honorarj- degree recipients surround Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh, CS.C, WiLLUM H. FALLON. Club Activities president, at the University's 118th annual comniencenicnt exercises June 9. ' PATRICK A. DOUGHERTY Class Activities They arc (left to right, front row) Ralph McGIII, publisher of the Atlanta Constitution; JOHN P. DEMPSEY Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson of Canada, the coniniencemcnt speaker; Father Hesburgh; Alumni Fundj Foundation & Gifts Most Rev. Mark McGrath, C5.C., Auxiliary Bishop of Panama, the baccalaureate speaker; PHILIP J. FACCENDA Admissions George D. Woods, president of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Develop­ ^^ PETER J. KERNAN, JR Placement & Counseling ment; and Don McNeill, the radio and TV entertainer. ^ PATRICK A. DOUGHERTI-. Appearing in the second row are (left to right) Judge Harold Stevens of the Appellate Inter-Alumni Affairs Division of the New York Supreme Court; Dr. William K. Wimsatt, professor of English PETER J. KERNAN, JR Public Relations at Yale University; Dr. John C. Sheehan, professor of chemistry at the Massachusetts* ALBERT D. CASTELUNL Institute of Technology; and Alfred C. Stepan, Jr., president of the Stepan Chemical Co., .Jieligion & Citizenship Northfield, III., and a Notre Dame lay trustee. WILLIAM H. FALLON AND JOHN P The summer commencement speaker In August was Msgr. Philip Hughes, famed DEMPSEY Nominations *k ALBERT D. CASTELLLNL Budget & Finance Church historian on the Notre Dame faculty (not shown). PHILIP J. FACCENDA Athletics PETER J. KERNAN, JR Student Affairs RIGHT: A slim, slight figure among principals at the 115th exercises. Cardinal Montlni^) seemed physically overshadowed by the presidents of the United States and the University, This magazine is published bi-monthiy by the rector of Rome's North American College, a Peruvian statesman and seven other -the Univemty of Notre Dame, Notre scientists, scholars, and humanitarians, Including two Internationally acclaimed alunmi. Dame, Ind. Entered as second class mat­ ter Oct. 1, 1939, at the Post Office, Notre Now, three years later the Vicar of Christ, he has assumed the most awesome responsibility Dame, Ind. under the act of Aug. 24, 1912. on earth. Notre Dame Alumnus, August-September, 1963 I ^ " . Truth, once possessed, diffuses itself so that others may possess it. It is the individual truth which becomes social truth. It is the inner V truth which becomes outer truth. These gifts transform disciples into apostles. The college becomes a ministry. We who belong to the realm of science and wisdom, the university, must understand the f divine design of truth is for us a vocation, a blessing, a duty. We must be to the utmost both disciples and teachers. ..." POPE PAUL VI (On the occasion o( 1960 Commencement at the University of Notre Dame, when, as Giovanni Battista Cardinal Montini, he re­ ceived an honorary LL.D. and celebrated t the Baccalaureate Sfass.) Recalls I960 Ceremonies, Occasion for the American Visit of POPE PAUL VI, NOTRE DAME MAN TUNE WAS A crowded month for Notre Dame — from tlic battlefield blessing, climaxing a spring of Notre Dame Night end of classes through commencement (featuring such as tributes to the University's patriotic legacy. Canada's "Mike" Pearson, Atlanta's Ralph McGill and But probably the most important Notre Dame event Notre Dame's own Bishop Mark McGrath of Panama), took place between Reunions and Gettysburg in time and from perhaps the most impressive alumni reunion in the about 4,000 miles away — in Rome. The untimely death University's histoiy to an equally impressive prelude to the of the beloved Pope John XXIII brought the College of ^Civil AVar Centennial at Gettysburg — a Mass commemo­ Cardinals together in mourning to elect a successor. Their rating Chaplain-President Father William Corby's historic clioice was quick and widely anticipated; for the second time ' fi"7^:?^r' *^^k^ Vr SiSsA Fi2S?i:-'V>'.*•: ^-^ i'^-. ^ m CARDINAL MONTINI'S gift to Father Hcsburgh, a huge limited edition quarto volume containing 248 dra«-ings and sketches by Renaissance masters from the collection of Milan's Ambrosian Library, has an inscription in which the future Pope describes himself as "bound forever with chains of esteem, devotion and friendship POPE PAUL VI to a glorious American Catholic University in gratitude and benediction." ,. (Continued) *^ "Bound forever . .„:^.o^Uc.^ c-Ce. -U. -lUi-tc .*U i^W^tt* ^^ to a glorious -4^ American Catholic 9^ University ..." EVERY INCH a "sacerdos magnus," the Cardinal-Archbishop begins a solemn proccs- sion with deacons: Fr. Paul Bcichner, dean of the Graduate School, and Fr. Robert ^O^fMlcc^ Pclton, head of the theology department. in an epochal decade, an honorary alumnus of Notre Dame occupied the Chair of Peter. His Eminence Giovanni Battista Cardinal Montinij LL.D., '60, the brilliant and progressive Archbishop of Milan, mounted the Papal Throne and chose the ecumeni­ •• E; cally significant name Paul, after the Apostle to the Gentiles, as \vitness to his taking up the great work begun by his saintly predecessor — toward the eventual reunion of all Christians in Christ. The death in 1958 of the Papacy's first Notre Dame •«/ man. Pope Pius XII, LL.D., '36, brought about much public speculation about a successor. The Archbishop of Milan, a startlingly successful opponent of the Communists in his embattled see, was the favorite by concensus. But the Holy Spirit raised the aged Patriarch of Venice, Angelo Giuseppe Cardinal Roncalli, to guide the Holy See of Rome (Continued on page 16) PONTIFICAL MASS, celebrated on the University Mali, has all the magnificence of the ancient Latin Rite. •---' * J-' I « a;:*} 4 Notre Dame Alumnus, August-September, 1963 BENIGNITY AND HUMOR are evident in the future Pontiff's gaze (right) as the camera catches him at the President's Luncheon between Archbishop O'Connor and President Eisenhower (chatting with Fr. Hesburgh). STERN ANT) STOICAL (above). Cardinal Montini listens as the President reaches a particularly serious point in a grimly earnest commencement address. i} ADMIRATION AND ESTEEM for Our Lady's University and her alumni, expressed to Fr. Hesburgh, shine (right) in the face of the future Holy Father when he presents the . Laetare Medal to Dr. Shuster, honored as an outstanding American Catholic layman for his many years in the ser\'ice of God and country and the hope of many more in the service of Notre Dame. In the back­ ground sits the late Dr. Tom Dooley, '48, awarded an honorary degree for his humanitarian work as a jungle physician in Southeast Asia and throughout the world as co- founder of MEDICO. Notre Dame Alumnus, August-September, 1963 Sditorkl Comment from your Alumni Secretary ly new, and at-the same time remain­ less of Dr. Jerome Green to the wonders • ing constantly unchanging to preserve of Telstar, from the pioneering of and promote the constantly old. Father Nieuwland to the fabulous di­ The returning alumnus is under­ versities of srathetic rubber. Change? <^ standably impressed, startled, bewil­ Of course. They,