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 Rev. Hugh O'Donnell, C.S.C., Greets Nen' Coach Leahy With Former Coach Layden Layden Resigns, Centennial Program Classes . Clubs Leahy Signs Takes Shape and Other Features VoL 19 MARCH, 1941 No. 5 A. D. MCDONALD. Fetruary 4, 1941 • PKESIDENT Reverend Hugh O'Donnell, C.S.C., President, University of Notre Dame, Kotre Dame, Indiana. Dear Father O'Donnell: I am pleased to acknowledge the Trustee's Report, and again wish to say I am sorry I was unable to attend the meeting, owing to 'business vAiich kept me on the West Coast. I note -with interest the progress -.liiich the University has made since our last meeting, and I congratulate your administration on the construction of an addition to .the Chemistry Building and the new Heat and Power Laboratory. I hope it mil be possible for IJotre Dame to carry on the aaditional construction indicated, and to stimulate interest in endovments for foundations of Chairs and for visiting lecturers in the various departments of the University. •iifhile in school it vms indeed difficult for me to realize and appreciate that we students paid only tvro-thirds o'f'the dost of our education. JTiiis figure, of (30urse,, is also true of other universities; however, their endovaient is from ten to one hundred times greater than ours. After experience in the business world,. I have found that cold statistics take on a more severe and actual form. I hope tliat some day Kotre .Dame's endowment per student, which is now ^315, will be raised to $3,315; and this, is still only one-half of Stanford's figure of over $6,000 per student, which amount I noted in a Press release last week. I hope to have the pleasure, at an early date, of stopping off at Alma~Mater on my next trip East. Very tnllyjSr<3rrs,j ADMCD*db The Notre Dame Alumnus This masazine is published monthlj from October to Jane, inclusive (except January), by th* Unhmsitir ot Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana. Entered as second class matter October 1, 1939, at the FostofSee, Notre Dune, Indiana, under the act of August 24, 1912. Member of the American Alunmi Council and of the National Gatholie Alumni Federation. JAMES E. ARMSTRONG, "25. Editor; WILLIAM R. DOOLEY. 76. Manapng Eiilor Vol. 19 MARCH. 1941 No.5 Centennial Plans Take Shape Rev. John Cavanaush, C.S.C '23, General Chair­ man, Announces Committees and Some Out­ standing Features. Alumni Suggestions Asked (Ed. Note: Aluvmi have been asking the spotlight to bear upon the need ex­ of.the University at the Commencement viany questions about the Centennial of isting at Notre Dame for financial sup­ of 1942, in which he will ask all the- the University. These have been difficult port, particularly in the field of endoio- faculty members, alumni, students, and to ansiuer, but the folloioing official ex­ ment. Plans are being formulated to friends of Notre Dame to unite in a pression from the chairman, Rev. John crystallize these needs so that their fzd- year of special prayer, petitioning, fillment will be a logical corollary of the through Our Lady, Heaven's blessings story of 100 years.) upon Notre Dame and the Centennial year and begging for peace throughout Rev. J. Hugh O'Donnell, C.S.C, presi­ all the countries of the world. This in­ dent of the University, has appointed an tention will be featured in a program of Executive Committee and sub-commit­ Masses, frequent Communions and Ad­ tees to work under the Executive Com­ oration of the Blessed Sacrament which mittee to handle all arrangements for is to be observed during the summer Notre Dame's Centennial in 1942-43. school of 1942 and throughout the reg­ ular schoolyear of 1942-43. Alumni par­ Several meetings have already been ticipation in this religious program is held by the Executive Committee and now being studied. by the various sub-committees, and a The Centennial celebration will for­ general program to express the academ­ mally close with a climax of special ic, the religious,-the ascetical, the his­ events at the- Commencement of 1943. torical, and the recreational phases of the University life has been tentatively The academic life of the University worked out. Celebration of the Centen­ is to be expressed at various times nial will formally begin with an an­ throughout.the centenary in special sym­ nouncement to be made by the president posia to be held by several graduate and REV. JOHN J. CAVANAUGH, CS.C. Vice-President of Notre Dame, General Chairman o{ the University's Centennial /. Cavanaugh, C.S.C, '2-3, is eloquent testimony that the officials of the Uni­ versity have not been unaiaare of the imminence of the 100th anniversary. The committees announced are obviously the results of careful planning and a study of qualified personnel. An'd in each para­ graph of the plans for the Centennial alumni loill find new vistas of Notre Dame which will arouse varied response. It is hoped that alumni, many of whom have been interested in this great observ­ ance, will accept Father Cavanaiigh's gracious invitation to make suggestions for the further enrichment of the cele­ bration.) "OLD COLLEGE." ORIGINAL NOTRE DAME (N. B. The Centennial is also bringing Present Miasion Headquartera — Centennial Muaeam The Notre Dame Alumnus undergraduate departments of the Uni­ versity. Eminent scholars from centers of learning in America and abroad, as CENTENNIAL COMMIHEES well as Notre Dame faculty members, alumni, and students are to be invited EXECUTIVE COUMITTEE to participate in the symposia, and it is. Rev. John J. Cavanaugh, C.S.C, Chairman planned to publish the special lectures Rev. Francis J. Boland, C.S.C. Rev. James W. Connerton, C.S.C. delivered during the symposia. Invita­ Rev. Eugene P. Burke, C.S.C. Rev. Kemdt M. Healy, C.S.C. tions are to be extended to many Rev. John J. Burke, C.S.C. Rev. Bernard J. 111. C.S.C. learned societies to hold their regular Rev. J. Leonard Carrico, C.S.C. Rev. Thomas P. Irving, C.S.C. Rev. Patrick J. Carroll, C.S.C. Rev. James D. Trahey, C.S.C. annual meetings at Notre Dame Rev. Francis P. Cavanaugh, C.S.C. Rev. Matthew J. Walsh, C.S.C. during the Centennial year. The Com­ mittee is considering plans to pub­ Sub-committees to work under the general Executive Committee are: lish an anthology of Notre Dame poetry COMMITTEE ON INVITATIONS AND LITERATURE together with sermons, letters, and Rev. J. Leonard Carrico, C.S.C, Chairman brochures of manj' outstanding priests Rev. Thomas A. Lahey, C.S.C Mr. Thomas J. Barry and laymen who have been associated Rev. Thomas E. Burke, C.S.C. Mr. Henry F. Staunton with Notre Dame. A new history of the Rev. Charles M. Carey, C.S.C. Mr. Joseph S. Petritz Brother Justin, C.S.C. Mr. James E. Armstrong University of Notre Dame is already in Mr. Frank J. O'Malley Mr. Paul R. Byrne preparation and a moving picture, to Mr. Willis D. Nutting portray the modem Notre Dame and the present-day activities at the University, COMMITTEE FOR RECEPTION, HOUSING AND DECORATIONS is being filmed. The "Old College" build­ Rev. Francis P. Cavanaugh, C.S.C, Chairman Rev. Patrick J. Carroll, C.S.C. Brother Patrick, C.S.C. ing, first ever built on the campus and Rev. George L. Holderith, C.S.C. Mr. Clarence E. Manion now occupied by the Holy Cross Mission Rev. John J. Bednar, C.S.C. Mr. J. Arthur Haley Band, will be transformed into a. mu­ seum in which many relics of the past COMMITTEE FOR ACADEMIC AFFAIRS are to be placed on display. A series of Rev. Francis J. Boland, C.S.C, Chairman monographs on priests and laymen who Rev. Philip S. Moore, C.S.C. Mr. Karl Menger figured prominently in the building of Rev. Henry J. Bolger, C.S.C. Mr. Henry B. Froning Rev. Leo R. Ward, C.S.C. Mr. Edward G. Mahin the University is to be published in per­ Mr. James A. Reyniers manent form. COMMITTEE FOR STUI»:NT PARTICIPATION The Committee is considering the pro­ Rev. James D. Trahey, C.S.C, Chairman duction of several plays of historical Rev. John M. Dupuis, C.S.C. Mr. Frank W. Leahy significance, as well as a symphony and, Rev. Thomas J. Brennan, C.S.C. Mr. Walter M. Langford perhaps, a cantata, for the Centennial. Mr. William J. Coyne Mr. Robert H. McAuIiffe It is hoped that the Moreau Seminarj' COMMITTEE ON RADIO AND MOVIES choir, the Glee Club and a group of Rev. Eugene P. Burke, C.S.C, Chairman specially-chosen student voices may be Mr. James E. McCarthy Mr. Thomas J. Barry trained into a large chorus for the sing­ Mr. Joseph S. Petritz ing of the special Centennial Mass dur­ COMMITTEE ON CHURCH OBSERVANCES ing the Commencement of June, 1943. Rev. Kemdt M. Healy, C.S.C, Chairman Rev. William R. Connor, C.S.C Rev. Richard J. Grimm, C.S.C. Publication of a special Notre Dame Rev. John P. Lynch, C.S.C. Rev. James H. Young, C.S.C. Rev. William T. Craddick, C.S.C. Rev. Michael A. Mathis, C.S.C prayer book as a means of establishing Rev. G. Carlos Hager, C.S.C.