The Archives of The University of Notre Dame 607 Hesburgh Library Notre Dame, IN 46556 574-631-6448 [email protected] Notre Dame Archives: Alumnus IMHHHMHiilHa LU S6c < Notre Dame ALUMNUS O^ o o ^^'«;^5^ > CO UJ > TIMOTHY P. GALVIN, PH.B., '16 Devoted Alumnus President of the Alumni Association Supreme Director, Knights of Columbus Eminent Attorney and Orator November, 1934 34 The 1<lo t T e 'Dame cA lumnus November, 1934 Association; while the Editor may be that our infringement upon the in­ confined to a large portion of routine; dulgence of the University, no matter CCA4HENT and while the treasury continues to how satisfied Notre Dame may be sufl'er a most pernicious financial with the results, is difBcult to justify '. anemia—^the Association continues a in the face of economic recovery. Radio waves have controlled the definite, even rapid, progress, con­ While we do not pretend to believe direction of cars, ships, planes, etc., trolled by those radioactive forces that all our members are happily or without the aid of human hands. that have always worked for our profitably employed, we bring up progress, though in normal times again those time-worn contentions The direction of the Notre Danie through human agents. Alumni Association is in somewhat that we still hold to be most moder­ similar vein now. • ate— five dollars, the annual dues, Bills have been mailed as in the represent very little drain on any The waves of the depression over­ happy days of yore. No veneer, no form of income. We maintain that whelmed us financially. Many paths mitigating statements. We believe one-third, just 1/3, of our members, that seemed attractive—and sKU seem paying dues, would support us in our so—^were closed, like the path through fundamental activities. Surely not the Red Sea to the pursuing Egyp­ BULLETIN more than two-thirds of the Associa­ tians, by the flood of adversity. tion are economically below the abil­ But as the by-ways closed, the one It ii the wi»h of the new ad­ ity to contribute five dollars annually unifying highway opened wider. ministration o{ the University for actual values that more than re­ Service to the University has been that the Alumni OHice continue pay the investment, and potential the keynote of alumni associations the work of contacting prospec­ values that can't be interpreted in from the first call in 1868, in the case tive students which the alumni money terms. of Notre Dame, to the present. Ser­ bandied so atly in the several vice to members and mutual benefits communities last year. were essentially by-products of this The Office therefore, as last What we want to do, so that the generous virtue. year, becomes merely the ma­ Association can be a real asset to chinery for the good will, loyal­ Notre Dame, is to continue the high But as the depression cut down the ty and activity of the alumni benefits to members, it increased the type of service and the deeply appre­ which it was created to repre­ ciated work that the organization has need, and fortunately increased the sent. opportunity, for the principal plank accomplished during these troublous It asks that alumni every­ times, and at the same time, support in the organization platform, service where take the steps which were to Notre Dame. our own department financially. outlined in last year*$ program At the present time, we resemble a Therefore, our history this several to see that their community is bit too literally, the come-ons who sit years past has been one of reliance informed adequately, particu­ on the Chinatown busses or stand in upon the financial supplement of the larly the school people — stu­ front of medicine shows and readily University, which, however, we have dents and teachers—regarding subscribe their half-dollar, knowing returned an interest upon in the form the academic side of Notre Dame. Co-operation from the that it vrill be returned at the close of service and organized, articulate of the trip, or show. loyalty (to use a popular designa­ Alumni Office will be available tion). as last year, with hoped-for So, while you may not hear much improvements. Of course it's the same old moan. from the presidential chambers of the It's the same old misery, friend. THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION of The University of Notre Dame Alumni Headquarters, Main Floor Administration Bldg., Notre Dame, Indiana DISTRICT GOVERNORS District 19. James H. Bach, '07, San Diego, California District 20. Keene Filspatrick, '13. San Francisco, California District 1. Timothy P. Galvin, *16, Hammond, Indiana District 21. James L. Hope, '11. Astoria. Oregon District 2. James H. Brennan, '20, Gbica^, Illinois District 22. Louis P. Harl, '16. Paris. France District 3. Rev. M. L. lloriarty. '10, Qeveland, Ohio District 4. Daniel Coughlin, '22, "Waseca. Minn, District 5. Joseph F. Sanford, '21, Muskegon, Michigan District 6. John Purcell, '26, Fanwood, New Jersey ALUMNI BOARD District 7. William A. Daunt, '08, Long Island City. New York FEANK C. WALKEH, '09---------- Honorary President District 8. Leo Kelley, '22. Syracuso. New York TIMOTHY P. GALVXN, *16 ------------- President District 9. Charles Grimes, '20, Providence, Khodc Island BEEXARD J. VOLL, '17---------- First Vice-President District 10. Forest Fletcher, *12, Lc:cington, Va. GRATTAN T. STANPOED, '04-------- Second Vice-President District H. Matthew M. O'Brien, '31. Tampa, Fla. JASIES E. ARMSTBONG, '25--------- Secretary-Treasurer District 12. Edward H. Pfeiffer. '22, Louisville. Kentucky WiLUAM R. DOOLEV, '26---------- Assistant Secretary District 13. Robert Evans, Jr., '28, Vicksburg, Mississippi ROBERT E. LYNCH, '03 -------------- Director District 14. James P. Swift, '24, Dallas, Texas HUGH A. O'DONNELL, '94------------- Director District IS. Edgar F. Moran, '17, Tulsa, Oklahoma FKED L. STEERS, 'il. -------------- Director District 16. R. Gerald Jones, '22, Dixon, Illinois . JAUES E. DEERY, '10--------------- Director District 17. Thomas C. Kasper, '21, Brookings, South Dakota M. HARRY MILLER* '10---------- (ex officio) Director District 18. Robert Fox, '01, Denver Colorado JAMES S. KEARKS. '34---------- (one year) Director The Notre Dame Alumnus JAMES E. ARiiSTRONC. '25, The mainizinc is published monthly durinp the scholastic year by the Alumn: Association Atember of the American of the University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana. The subscription price is $2.00 Alumni Council. Editor a year; the price of single copies is 25 cents. The annual alumni dues of ^^5.00 include WILLIA3I R. DOOLEY, '26. a year's subscription to THE ALUMNUS. Entered as second-class matter January 1, 1923, at the post office at Notre Dame. Indiana, under the Act of March 3, 1S79. All Member of Nat'l. Catholic Associate Editor correspondence should be addressed to The Notre D.ime Alumnus, Box 81, Notre Dame, Ind. Alumni Federation VOL. XIII NOVEMBER, 1934 No. 2 NOTRE DAME STANDS FOR BASIC PRINCIPLES The text of a talk delivered by the Rev. John F, O'Hara, C.S.C., President of the University, over Radio Station WKBF, Indianapolis, on August 7. This is a centennial year for the than §10,000,000, and we hope that ward life of Notre Dame and char­ Catholic Church in Indiana. At a the faith in God of Father Serin's acterizes its instruction. To analyze brilliant assembly in Vincennes on successors is as great as the founder's. this I believe we have to go back the 6th of May, addressed by His Ex­ Father Sorin lived to see the gold­ again to his faith, and to the vision cellency, Governor McNutt, was com­ en jubilee of his project. He lived that faith gives. Father Sorin's vision memorated the hundredth anniver­ to see boys come from all over the reached far into the future. He built sary of the establishment of the Dio­ world to receive their education in not for a day, not for a year, not for cese of Vincennes, now Indianapolis, the halls that his hands had raised in a hundred years, but for eternity— which included the whole state of In­ the %vilderness of Indiana. He saw and that vision is characteristic of diana and a large part of Illinois. It his work live through the ravages of the University today and is of the is also a centennial year for Notre cholera, which decimated his faculty greatest importance in its underlying Dame, for in that same year of 1834, in 1854; he saw it thi-ough the philosophy. There is an organic there was established on the shores scourge of Civil war when from his unity to Catholic education that is of Lake St. Mai-y the first educational small community he sent eight priests missing in so many educational proj­ institution on what is now the largest to be chaplains for the Union army; ects today. campus in the world. An orphan asy­ he saw it swept away in 1879 when At a meeting of the Institute for lum was built at Notre Dame that fire destroyed most of the buildings Administrative Oflicers of Higher In­ summer by Father Badin, missionarj' devoted to living quarters and class­ stitutions held recently at the Uni­ to the Indians, the first priest or­ rooms—^but his courage never failed. versity of Chicago, a prominent note dained in the United States. He sent the students home in April, sounded was a plea for a new direc­ and in September he called them back tion in education, a more socialized But Father Badin's temporary again to a new Notre Dame that had pro'ect was soon abandoned. In 1835 product of education, a broader out­ risen from the ashes.