Commencement Exercises OFFICIAL SuMMER SESSION 1970 THE UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME NoTRE DAME, INDIANA THE GRADUATE ScHooL THE CoLLEGE . OF ARTs AND LETTERS THE CoLLEGE oF ScmNcE THE CoLLEGE OF ENGINEERING THE CoLLEGE oF BusiNEss ADMINISTRATION Athletic & Convocation Center 11:00 A.M. (Eastern Daylight Time) Friday, August 7, 1970 (The processional will begin at 10:45 A.M.) .-E1W=f'rmsmmm·rrrm " MK COMMENCEMENT PROGRAM Processional Music by the University Summer Symphony Orchestra Under the direction of Charles A. Biondo, D.M.E. Associate Professor of Music, University of Notre Dame (The audience is requested to please stand during the processional and remain standing until the conclusion of the National Anthem.) National Anthem-Orchestra and Audience Presentation of Candidates for Degrees by the Reverend Paul E. Beichner, C.S.C., Ph.D. Dean of the Graduate School by Devere T. Plunkett, A.M. Associate Dean of the College of Arts and Letters by Bernard Waldman, Ph.D. Dean of the College of S.cience by Edward W. Jerger, Ph.D. Associate Dean of the College of Engineering by Thomas T. Murphy, M.C.S. Dean of the College of Business Administration The Conferring of Degrees by the Reverend Edmund P. Joyce, C.S.C., B.C.S., C.P.A. Executive Vice President University of Notre Dame ,Commencement Address by Philip J. Faccenda, J.D. Vice President and University Counsel University of Notre Dame Closing Remarks by the Reverend Edmund P. Joyce, C.S.C., B.C.S., C.P.A. Executive Vice President University of Notre Dame Notre Dame, Our Mother-Orchestra and Audience (Words are on inside back cover.) Recessional of the Platform Party Music by the University Summer Symphony Orchestra 3 Degrees Conferred IN THE GRADUATE SCHOOL The University of Notre Dame confers the following degrees in course: The Degree of Doctor of Philosophy on: Jack Dwyer Alexander, Rye Beach, New Hampshire B.S.C., University of Notre Dame, 1947; M.B.A., Harvard University, 1949; M.A. {Educ.}, ibid., 1953; M.A. {Pol. Sci.), ibid., 1955. l\-fajor subject: Gov­ ernment and International Studies. Dissertation: A Case Study in Non-Belliger­ ency: The Changing Nature of Spanish Foreign Policy and Its Influence on Allied Military Operations in Europe During World War II. John Guilbert Allen, Manchester, New Hampshire A.B;, St. Anselm's College, 1965; B.S.M.E., University of Notre Dame, 1966; M.S.M.E., ibid., 1968. Major subject: Mechanical Engineering. Dissertation: The Design of Discrete Servomechanisms for Linear Distributive Parameter Systems Utilizing the Fast Fourier Transform. David E. Bedan, St. Louis, Missouri B.A., Bellarmine College, 1958; M.A., University of Notre Dame, 1966. Major subject: Philosophy. Dissertation: The Concept of Evolutionary Progress in the Context of Contemporary Philosophical Naturalism. Sister Agnes Bocan, Sister of Saints Cyril and Methodius, Danville, Pennsylvania B.A., Mount Mercy College, 1960; M.A., University of Notre Dame, 1965. Major subject: English. Dissertation: Nature and Art Themes in the Middle Comedies of Ben Jonson. Joseph J. Bucuzzo, Haverhill, ~1assachusctts B.S., University of Massachusetts, 1962; M.A., ibid., 1964. Major subject: Mathematics. Dissertation: A Cosheaf Theory on Grothendieck Topologies with Application to the Relative Torsion Functors. John William Carlson, Eureka, California B.A., St. Mary's College of California, 1965. Major subject: Philosophy. Dissertation: Wittgenstcin on Language and Philosophical Understanding: A Study of Continuities in His Thought. Chan-nan Chang, South Bend, Indiana B.S.. National Taiwan University, 1964. Major subject: Mathematics. Dis­ sertation: Local Orthogonal Groups Over 2-Adic Fields. Bang-yen Chen, Notre Dame, Indiana B.S., · Tamkang College of Arts and Sciences, 1965; M.S., National Tsing Hua University, 1967. Major subject: Mathematics. Dissertation: On the G-total Curvature .and Topology of Immersed Manifolds. Chao-Kun Cheng, Hunan, China B.S., National Taiwan University, 1964. Major subject: Mathematics. Disser­ tation: H-.Spaces and Higher Order Structures of Two-Stage Postnikov Systems. Vincent Paul Coletta, Memphis, Tennessee B.S., Christian Brothers College, 1964. Major subject: Physics. Dissertation: Asymptotic Forms of Correlation Functions in the Ising Model. Rev. Richard Leo Conboy, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania B.A., St. Vincent Seminary, 1956; S.T.B., St. Mary's Seminary and University, 1958; S.T.L., ibid., 1960; M.Ed., University of Pittsburgh, 1965. Major subject: Education. Dissertation: Trends of Enrollment, Personnel, and Finances in Selected Catholic Schools of the City of Pittsburgh, 1964-65 to 1969-70. 5 Patrick Thomas Conley, Cranston, Rhode Island A.B., Providence College, 1959; M.A., University o£ Notre Dame, 1961. Major subject: History. Dissertation: Rhode Island Constitutional Develop­ ment, 1636-1841: Prologue to the Dorr Rebellion. Rev. Lawrence Maxime Deno, Ogdensburg, New York A.B., Wadhams Hall, 1955; M.A.T., St. Michael's College (Vermont}, 1967. Major subject: Education. Dissertation: A Study to Describe, Classify, and Evaluate Diocesan-Sponsored Catholic School Research. Anthony Michael Desiderio, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania B.A., LaSalle College, 1965; M.S., University o£ Notre Dame, 1967. Major subject: Physics. Dissertation: Lamb Shift and Energy Levels o£ K-Electrons in Heavy Atoms. Michael Richard Dillon, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania B.A., University o£ Notre Dame, 1964; M.A., ibid., 1966. Major subject: Government and International Studies. Dissertation: A Study o£ Authority: The Political Thought o£ Bertrand de Jouvenel. Robert E. Ducharme, Wyandotte, Michigan B.A., University o£ Notre Dame, 1961; M.A., John Carroll University, 1964. Major subject: English. Dissertation: Art and Idea in the Novels of Bernard Malamud. John Michael Geist, Pensacola, Florida B.S.E.E., University o£ Notre Dame, 1966; M.S.E.E., ibid., 1968. Major subject: Electrical Engineering. Dissertation: Algorithmic Aspects of Sequen­ tial Decoding. John F. Goehl, Junior, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania B.S., University of Notre Dame, 1962. Major subject: Physics. Dissertation: Double Regge Rescattering in Three Body Decay. Alexander John Hahn, Laguna Beach, California B.S., Loyola University of Los Angeles, 1965; M.S., University of Notre Dame, 1968. Major subject: Mathematics. Dissertation: On the Isomorphisms o£ the Classical Groups over Infinite Fields. Charles Raymond Hall, Junior, Syracuse, New York B.S.A.E., University of Notre Dame, 1965; M.S.A.~., ibid., 1967. Major subject: Aerospace Engineering. Dissertation: An Analytical and Experi· mental Study of Non-Uniform Plug Nozzle Flow Fields. James Carlton Hayes, South Bend, Indiana B.S.E.E., University of Notre Dame, 1964; M.S.Engr.Sci., ibid., 1967. Major subject: Engineering Science. Dissertation: Inelastic Buckling o£ Axisym­ metric Shells. David Joseph Hibler, Lincoln, Nebraska B.A., University of Dayton, 1965. Major subject: English. Dissertation: Sexual Rhetoric in Seventeenth-Century American Literature. Michael J. Hoare, Bergenfield, New Jersey B.S., St. Peter's College, 1966. Major subject: Chemistry. Dissertation: 1,3-Dipolar Cycloaddition Reactions with 3,4-Diazacyclopentadienone Oxides. Ira Walter Hutchison III, Midland, Michigan B.A., Michigan State University, 1966; M.A., University of Notre Dame, 1968. Major subject: Sociology and Anthropology. Dissertation: Husband-Wife Interaction and Fertility Patterns in the Philippines. Bahram Jamalpur, Tehran, Iran B.A., DePauw University, 1964. Major subject: Philosophy. Dissertation: God and Man: An Historical and Critical Comparison of Ibn Sina and Molavi within the Esoteric Iranian Tradition of Islamic Philosophy. William Alexander Jones, Neenah, Wisconsin B.A., Marquette University, 1964. Major subject: Philosophy. The Develop­ ment of the Social Philosophy of Jean-Paul Sartre. 6 Wenceslaus L. Kilama, Bukoba, Tanzania A.B., St. Michael's College (Vermont), 1965; M.S., University of Notre Dame, 1967; M.A.T., ibid., 1968. Major subject: Biology. Dissertation: Genetics of Susceptibility of Aedes aegypti to Plasmodium gallinaceum. Joel Terrence Klopcic, Batavia, Illinois A.B., Knox College, 1964. Major subject: Physics. Dissertation: A Study of Neutrons from the T(3He,n)5Li Reaction. Glenn K. S. Man, Waipahu, Hawaii B.A., University of Notre Dame, 1966; M.A., ibid., 1967. Major subject: English. Dissertation: The Imaginative Dimension in the Writings of John Stuart Mill. Kenneth E. Martin, Mishawaka, Indiana B.S., St. Benedict's College (Kansas), 1964; M.S., Indiana University, 1966. Major subject: Mathematics. Dissertation: Orthogonal Group Over R((7r)). Paul Thomas McDonald, Waterbury, Connecticut B.A., Yale University, 1964. Major subject: Biology. Dissertation: Cyto· genetics and· Population Control Potential of Two Reciprocal Translocations in Aedes aegypti (Diptera: Culicidae). Robert Eugene McDonough, Northfield, Minnesota B.A., Los Angeles State College, 1963; M.A., University of Notre Dame, 1965. Major subject: Government and International Studies. Dissertation: American Orthodoxy and the First Amendment Freedoms: The Law and Public Dialogue of Early Virginia. Romesh Chander Mehra, Amritsar, Punjab, India B.S., Punjab University, 1956; M.S., Agra. University, 1959. Major subject: Biology. Dissertation: Cytogenetic Studies of Meiotic Abnormalities in Collinsia Tinctoria Hartw. J oscph R. Millichap, Missoula, Montana B.S., St. Peter's College, 1961; M.A., University of Notre Dame, 1962. Major subject: English. Dissertation: A Critical Reevaluation of Caron McCullers