The Archives of The University of Notre Dame 607 Hesburgh Library Notre Dame, IN 46556 574-631-6448 [email protected] Notre Dame Archives: Alumnus THE NOTRE DAME ALUMNUS 99th Year Begins (Page 3) Alumni Board Meets (Page 5) Atom Smashing at Notre Dame (Page 7) Memorial Entrance to Sacred Heart Church Vol. 19 OCTOBER. 1940 No. Courtesy. N.C.W.C. News Service Frank C. Walker, '09, Becomes Cabinet Member Francis Comerford Walker, LL.B., '09, LL.D., '34, on Sep­ National Emergency Council, in 1935... Commencement speaker tember 11, 1940, became the first Notre Dame alumnus, in and recipient of the Doctorate of Laws at Notre Dame's 1934 course, to hold a portfolio in the Cabinet of the President of Commencement.... member of the Board of Lay Trustees of the United States, succeeding James A. Farley as Postmaster the University. General. In the picture above Mr. Walker is shown receiving his commission from President Franklin D. Roosevelt, LL.D., '35. So it is that Notre Dame men herald the recognition of Frank C. Walker to the high post in the United States Govern­ Frank Walker's career has risen to its present merited peak ment. Coming to a vital office during a period bordering on through steps familiar to the alumni of Notre Dame: practicing national crisis, his fellow alumni borrow advice and look at lawyer in his boyhood state, Montana assistant district the record, and are confident that Notre Dame, as well as the attorney and legislator in his district first lieutenant in the people of America, are well represented by this new Cabinet World War association with the theatrical enterprise in member. the East which he has recently headed, a chain of 180 theaters .... enlistment through friendship with Franklin D. Boosevelt Their prayers join their best personal wishes for his success, as treasurer of the Democratic National Committee in 1932 and the success of the small group to which he now belongs, in director of the first great New Deal spending agency, the the happy solution of the great problems which rest upon them. The Notre Dame Alumnus This magazine is published monthly from October to June, inclusive (except January), by the University of Nott« Dame. Notre Dame, Indiana. Entered as second class matter October 1, 1939, at the Fostoffiee, Notre I>uae, IndiaDa, under the act of August 24, 1912. Member of the American Alumni Council and of the. National'Catholic Alumni Federation. JAMES E. ARMSTRONG. '25, Editor; WII-UAM R. DOOLEY. "26, Managmg Editor Vol. 19 OaOBER, 1940 No. Notre Dame Begins 99th Scholastic Year Father O'Donnell Retained as President; Two Col­ leges With New Deans; 3,252 Enrollment; Faculty Ad­ ditions; increase in Class and Laboratory Facilities. The summer of 1940 found Notre department of politics at Notre Dame. tute of Chemistry, and the Indiana Acad. Dame going through again that process Father Boland received his Ph.D. from emy of Science. which permits drastic change in plant Catholic University, and has taken spe­ and personnel without interfering with cial work several summers at Columbia Major plant change is not the pres­ the great purpose which motivated the University. ence of a new building, but the absence founder, or the great spirit which, of an old one. Freshman Hall, nee Soph­ through the years since 1842, has been With the opening of the scholastic omore, the stucco residence hall adjoin­ ing Eddy Street, erected in 1923 as a the common denominator of the pro­ year, Mr. Henry B. Froning was named temporary appeasement of campus rea- cesses serving that purpose. officially as dean of the College of Sci­ ence, succeeding the late Rev. Francis dence demands of that crowded era, was The Provincial Chapter of the Con­ Wenninger, C.S.C, '11. Prof. Froning, demolished this .summer. The result is gregation of Holy Cross, meeting the in­ for many years head of both the Depart­ an east campus to which the Biology- creasing demands of the many functions ment of Chemistry and the Department Building, the Iniirmary, the three resi­ dence halls, Breen-Phillips, Cavanau^, of the Congregation without as well as of Chemical Engineering, retains those and Zahm, and a iwplar-fronted Gymna­ within the University, met during the posts. Prof. Froning begins this fall his 21st year at Notre Dame.'He received sium contribute beauty and impressive summer and its deliberations affected the scope. personnel of the Notre Dame family ex­ his A.B. from St. Joseph's College in tensively. 1908, and his A.M. from Ohio State in 1912. He is a member of Sigma Xi, the A much needed expansion of Chemis­ try Hall is being provided by a wing to Happily, and as anticipated, Kev. J. Phi Lamba Upsilon, the American Chem­ the east of the present main structure. Hugh O'Donnell, C.S.C, '16, acting pres­ ical Society, the Deutsche Chemische The new wing, together with the old ident of the University following the Gesellschaft, and fellow of the British postoffice building that now serves as the consecration of the Most Rev. John F. Chemical Society, the American Insti- chemistry library, will give the depart­ O'Hara, C.S.C, D.D., in January, was ment substantial and essential labratory named as president of the University for and classroom space. the ensuing full term of office. Rev. John Cavanaugh, C.S.C, '23, was also con­ In back of Science Hall, a modest addi­ firmed as vice-president to continue in tion for the project involved, the Physics that office under Father O'Donnell. Department has walled in. fhe major equipment for its new generator (cf. A major change of interest to alumni Prof. Collins' article in this^issnfc) was the appointment of Rev. Charles C Miltner, C.S.C, '11, as president of the And of no small interest is the laying University of Portland. For many years of much sidewalk during the summer, a Dean of the College of Arts and Letters, challenge to the statisticians re: the' and one of America's leading Catholic savings in socks and shoe-leather as philosophers. Father Miltner now adds against the long-familiar cinders. to Ms academic and cultural richness Rev. Patrick J. Haggerty, C.S.C, 16. executive experience in one of the grow­ retired as president of St. Edward's Uni­ ing colleges of the Congregation. versity in Austin, Texas, and has re­ Succeeding Father Miltner as dean of turned to Watertown, Wis. Succeeding the College of Arts and Letters at Notre him as president of St. Edward's is the Dame is the Rev. Francis J. Boland, Rev. Stanislaus Lisewski, C.S.C., '20. C.S.C., Ph.D., '18, formerly head of the Father Usewsld, who was assistant pro­ Department of Politics. Father Boland fessor of Polish at Notre Dame from has served in many executive capacities, 1936, received his PhJ). from Gregorian including the vice-presidency of St. Ed­ University in Rome, his S.T.D. timn fhe ward's University, the prefect of disci­ same university, and later studied Sla- . pline's post at Notre Dame, and the di­ REV. J. HUGH O'DONNELL, CS.C.'16 vonic languages at the University of recting head of the recently instituted President of the Univenity Krakow, in Poland, for two years. The Notre Dame Alumnus Rev. James French, C.S.C, for many most recently pastor at Watertown, Wis., bring to alumni those men whose pres­ years a member of the faculty and ad­ has become superior and pastor of Sa­ ent posts or whose past associations have ministration of the University, later a cred Heart Church, New Orleans. particular alumni significance. founding father of the Mission Band of The Chapter obediences were given to Succeeding Father Dolan as superior the Congregation of Holy Cross, retired 278 priests and 374 brothers, and even of the Mission Band at Notre Dame is from his post as chaplain of St. Joseph's a condensed version that would be com­ Rev. Richard CoUentine, C.S.C, '09, for­ Hospital, in South Bend, and was suc­ mer mission priest, most recently superior prehensive assumes epic proportions. ceeded in that post by another beloved of the Community House, Notre Dame. Present addresses of any member of the veteran of the Congregation, Rev. John Congregation will gladly be furnished F. De Groote, C.S.C. Father French is Rev. Louis Kelley, C.S.C, '07, returns to alumni on request. living in the Community Infirmary at to the Notre Dame faculty from Sacred Outstanding among new faculty mem- Notre Dame. Heart parish. New Orleans. hers from outside the Notre Dame fam­ Rev. Joseph Maguire, C.S.C, '96, one­ Rev. Michael J. Early, C.S.C, '17, for­ ily is Rev. John A. O'Brien, Ph.D., for­ time faculty member, later president of merly president of the University of mer head of the Newman Foundation of St. Edward's, and most recently pastor Portland, has become the superior of the the University of Illinois, and a distin­ of St. Patrick's parish. South Bend, has Holy Cross Foreign Mission Seminary, guished figure in most of the forms of become superior of the Community House Washington, D. C contemporary Catholic writing. Father on the Notre Dame campus. He has been Added to the Mission Band at Notre O'Brien, adding a year's study and succeeded at St. Patrick's by the popular Dame is Rev. Joseph McAllister, C.S.C, travel in Europe to his rich background Rev. Patrick Dolan, C.S.C, '15, formerly '23, formerly superior of Holy Cross at niinois, joins the faculty of apolo­ head of the Mission Band.