The Archives of The University of Notre Dame 607 Hesburgh Library Notre Dame, IN 46556 574-631-6448 [email protected] Notre Dame Archives: Alumnus lastMseaaaattfXBmiifaii ^-- '~V.t^-^ ^ *7Ae JVahe ^ame A L L M N r-wi>n»r'nmtx"A' The Notre Dame Alumnus 7<4e 24tk AHM44al UNIVERSAL NOTRE DAME NIGHT IS APRIL 14 WUai U 4f04€fi did AoUuf? p. S. •— Just a whispered hint: If you don't know, ask your president. Cf prewar 1 C€HAiENCEMENT ana ALUMNI I^ELINICN Friday, Saturday and Sunday MAY 30-31, JUNE I (on the campus, of course) Special reunions of the Classes of 1917, 1922, 1927, 1932, 1937, and 1.9,42. All added starters welcome. Residence accommodations in the halls. Reunion parties, alumni banquet, baseball games, golf tourna­ ment and all the other reunion activities, in pre-war style. PLAN NOW TO MAKE THE BEST USE OF THAT MEMORIAL DAY WEEK-END! % The Notre Dame Alumnus This ma^razine. is published bi-monthly by the University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame. Indiana. Entered as seeond class matter Octo­ ber 1. 1939, at the PostofHce. Notre Dame. Indiana, under the act of August 24. 1912. Honber of the American Alumni Coand]. James E. Annstroiig, '25« Editor; WiUiam R. Dooley, '26, Mcmagiag Editor V&L25V FEBRUARY, 1947 NO. i March 15 Deadline For Alumni Applications By REV. LOUIS J. THORNTON. CS.C, '29 Registrar of the University- As you may have .heard through other dations and dining hall facilities are dating new students had been exhausted; channels, the University in late Decem- available, with due .recognition of alumni- (3) students had enrolled at another ^ ber announced that it could no longer son status. school and wished to transfer \io colleges accept applications for September, 1947, I should add that there is, under cur­ or departments at Notre Dame which enrollment. The reason for this an­ rent policies, no chronological preference could not accommodate them. nouncement was, of course, the fact for an applicant. Those, for instance, Pioud of Family Spirit that we had already on file applications who applied in September, 1946, will far in excess of the number of vacan­ be judged by the same standards as We in the Registrar's OfiBce, like every cies available for next September, and those who applied in December,; 1946. one else at Notre Dame, are very con­ we felt that it would be futile to go on This prompts me to explain to you scious and very proud of .the '-Notre adding to the number of boys who woiild our methods of handling the September, Dame family" spirit and the "Notre ultimately have to be turned away. 1947, applications. We in the Registrar's Dame'tradition" and we have done and Office are at present engaged in com­ will do everything reasonably within our At the same time this announcement power .to maintain that spirit and that was made, it was determined by the pleting the applicant's record, where nec­ essary, by writing to his high school for ' tradition. We derive a special satisfac­ University administration that, despite tion, you may be sure, when we are able the large number of applications already a transcript of credits, based upon seven semesters of work. to eiiroll a student who will be a Notre on file, additional applications .would be Dame man for the second or third gener­ taken zmtil March 15 from sons of our Preiegistiation in April ation. Upon such a foundation does No­ alumni. tre Dame go ahead to greater glory. During the period from April 28 to I am, therefore, making use of the May 1, the students now enrolled in the Final figures for the semester which ALUMNUS, ofiicial organ of the Alumni University will preregister for their begun in September, 1946, and closed in Association, to ask all alumni having' courses in the fall semester. When such January, 1947, showed a total registra­ v< sons contemplating enrollment for Sep­ preregistration is completed the Regis­ tion of 4,541 students, an all-time high tember, 1947, to act promptly, if they trar's Office will know, approximately, by more than a thousand students. (In f have not already acted.. For reasons the previous semester there were 3,500 the number of vacancies for next fall ?. which I am sure you will understand in each college and department-and can students,'which,at that time was an all- and go along with, we cannot accept, even pi'oceed to accept students for those time peak.) The 4,541 figure represents from sons of alumni, applications mailed vacancies. the maximum number of men that can after March 15, 1947. possibly be handled here at the Univer­ It is our sincere hope that every ap­ sity, even with crowding, doubling up and Pieierence to Wen Veterans plicant for September, 1947, can be noti­ similar inconveniences, and it is the de­ It is, perhaps, needless to point out to fied not later than May 15, 1947, as to cision of the Administration that that men so well acquainted with college pro- whether or not he may be enrolled. In figure will not be exceeded in the Sep­ c^lures in general iand Notre Dame pro­ view of this expectation, may I, in the tember, 1947, semester. cedures in particular that the mere filing interest of expediting the work of the of an application by a boy, even the son Registrar's Office, ask that you do not It follows from this decision that it of an alumnus, is no assurance that he write in before May 15 to inquire re­ will now be possible to consider the ac­ will ultimately be accepted for enroll­ garding the acceptance of an applicant. ceptance of additional students only to ment. As you can see, we;'.will have no definite the extent that students currently en­ rolled may be graduated or withdraw. In accordance with the University's answer before that .date. policy, preference will continue to be Let me tell you, for your information, So, in closing, may I ask that you j given to the applications of former No­ a little about our experience in handling work with us, bear with us and try to tre Dame students who left the campus the applications of sons of alumni for understand the difficulties of these days I in good standing for service in the armed September, 1946. We received several at Notre Dame. In the Registrar's Office, ,.i. forces. With this policy I am certain hundred such applications, and very few for example, the expanding enrollment ''9 there will be no disag;reement on the part of them were rejected. Rejections, such and the thousands upon thousands of. let­ I of any one. Other applications will be as they jjfere, were for the following ters, telephone calls, telegrams, personal I considered largely on the basis of aca-' reasons: -• interviews and the like have obviously demic standards, to the extent that class­ (1) academic deficiencies; (2) receipt of put a severe strain upon a staff that has rooms, laboratories, residence accoirimo- applications after facilities for accommo­ been much enlarged to care for the work. The Notre Dame Alumnus New Members of Alumni Board of Directors Eugene S. Blish, '34 Louis F. Buckley, '28 Hcnold E. Duke. '30 John J. Elder. '30 Domiel D. Hodpin, '31 Robert T. Hellruncr, '30 Hany G. Hogan. '04 Leo D. Kelley. '21 Paul H. MoUon, '23 Timothy J. Murphy, '24 Daniel J. O'NeU, '25 Francis Wallace, *23 Volume 25, No. 1, February, 1947 Harry G. Hogan, '04, New Alumni President Board Endorses Association Pattern for Progress, Plans New Mechanical and Personal Aids to Per­ fect; Wallace and Helirung Named Vice-Presidents Harry G. Hogan, '04, of Fort Wayne, • (1948); and Eugene S. Blish, '34, manu- would be the minimum number of ob­ Indiana, attorney, bank president, civic facturex-'s agent, Denver, Colo. (1948). servances of the Night this year. leader, long-time active alumnus, is the The term of Fi-ank Wallace expires in new president of the Alumni Associa­ 1950 and those of Harry Hogan and Bob Local Qub Development tion of the University of Notre Dame. Helh-ung in 1949. As an outgrowth of the Presidents con­ Under the new constitution of the Asso­ ference, and in view of the natural chan­ ciation the board of directors elected Deliberations of the first meeting of nels they provide for all the phases of the JF, oiRcers at its first meeting on Jan. 25. the new board of directoi-s centered about growing program of the Association and the general program for achieving in the the development of Notre Dame inter­ Francis Wallace, '23, sports writer, Alumni Association the same prestige, ests, the Board dwelt at length on the novelist, Hollywood author, resident of dignity and leadership that is reflected promotion of the Local Alumni Clubs. Bdlaire, Ohio, was made a vice presi­ in the University. A brief summary of dent, as was Robert T. Hellrang, '30, the agenda of the board meeting will in­ The president and vice-presidents were director of the St. Louis Medical Credit dicate the serious nature of the present particularly charged with the develoj/- Bureau. approach to Association problems. ment of personal contact with the Clubs, In order to preserve the counsel of the and the board encouraged the University i-etiring board, and to recognize the great The Fifth Annual Alumni Fund administration through Father Robert contribution made to Notre Dame by a Sweeney, the alumni coordinator, and man whom Father Mike Moriarty de­ Because of the fine r'ecord of the Alum­ through general faculty, administrative scribed appropriately as "the Notre ni in the Fourth Annual Fund, which and athletic contacts, to make every ef­ Dame man of the year," Thomas F.