UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME Department of Public Information James E. Murphy, Director 59/131 For release in PM's, Tuesday, February ^rd: Notre Dame, Ind», Feb, 3 ■**• The University of Notre Dame's eleventh annual "Marriage Institute" opens tomorrow (Wednesday) evening with a talk on 'Selecting a Marriage Partner" by Rev, Theodore M. Hesbvrgh, C.S.C., University president, More than eight hundred Notre Dame seniors will attend six weekly Institute lectures designed to prepare them for marriage and family life. The sessions will be held in Washington Hall or the Engineering Auditorium each Wednesday at 7$30 p.m. through March Uth, Among the "Marriage Institute" speakers are two priests, a physician and three married couples. All of them have wide experience as counselors to young people contemplating marriage. Mr. and Mrs, Bart Farrell, leaders in the Cana Conference and Christian Family Movement in Chicago, will conduct the Institute 's second program February 11th on "The Psychology of the Male and Female." Rev. A. I, Meloche, director of family life for the Diocese of London, Ontario, will speak on "Sanity and Sex" February 18th, Another Chicago couple, Mr. and Mrs. Frank 0'Dowd, will make their fourth appearance at the "Marriage Institute" February 25th. Parents of six children, they will discuss "Love in Marriage," "The Doctor's Viewpoint" will be presented March Uth by Dr. Louis B, Leone, an obstetrician at the Skokie, HI., Medical Center. Dr. Leone, who also has participated in the "Marriage Institute" in previous years, received his medical degree at the University of Illinois, The final program in the series on "Success in Marriage" will be conducted by Mr. and Mrs. John Evans, -South Bend, Ind., March 11th. They are also active in the programs of the Christian Family Movement. UmSBSITY OF NOTES DAME Department of Public Information James E. Murphy, Director 59/132 EBB 2Sig2g£. il Thursday, February 5th i Notre Dame, Ind#, Feb# $ -«The impact of immigration on American Catholicism will be explored at a symposium to be held at the University of Notre Dame February 13**li4.« The sessions, scheduled for the Law Auditorium, will be a continuation of an earlier symposium on "Roman Catholicism and the American Way of Life#11 The University*s history department and the Faculty Seminar in American Civilization are sponsoring the two-4 ay program# "The Inrngrant and the City" will be discussed by three Chicagoans at the opening session Feb# 13 (Friday) at 8;00 p#m# Saul D. Alinsky, a sociologist and co-founder of the Back of the Yards Neighborhood Council, will speak on "The Urban Immigrant#" Rev# Rollins Lambert, of St# Dorothy's Church, has chosen "The Negro and the Catholic Church" as his topic# "The Latin-American Catholic Immigrant" will be the subject of Rev# Gilbert Carroll, coordinator of the Cardinal's Committee for the Spanish Speaking in Chicago, Rev, Thomas T# HcAvoy, C#S#C#, head of Notre Dame's history department and director of the symposium, will preside at the opening session# The second symposium session Feb# lb (Sat#) at 9:30 a#m# will deal with "Complications of Language and Tradition#" Judge Juvenal Marchisio, national chair­ man of the American Committee on Italian Migration, New York City, will discuss "The Italian Catholic Immigrant#" The problems of the Polish immigrant will be aired by the Very Rev# Ksgr# Aloyaius J0 Wycislo, assistant executive director of the Catholic Relief Services oi the National Catholic welfare Conference, N e w York City# Rev# Colman Barry, 0#S,B», professor of history at St, John's University, Collegeville, Minn#, will analyze the status of "The German Catholic Immigrant,” Presiding at the second session will be Dr# John J# Kane, head of Notre Dame's sociology department# more Symposium<,„e»2 "The More Permanent Aspects of the Immigration Problem" m i l be studied at the final symposium session to be held under the chairmanship of ProfQ Aaron I. Abell of the Notre Dame history department Feb* lit (Sat,) at 2 p.m. The Very Rev. James P. Shannon, president of St. Thomas College, St. Paul, Minn,, td.ll speak on "The Irish Catholic Immigrant," Dr. VfiUard E* Might, of the department of social sciences at Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, will discuss the relationships of "The Native-Born American Catholic and the Immigrant," The final symposium paper, "The American Historian looks at the Catholic Immigrant," m i l be presented by Dr, Vincent P, De Santis, associate professor of history at Notre Dame, The symposium will be open to the public, Father McAvoy said. The papers delivered at these and earlier sessions m i l be published in the near future, he explained. end UNIVERSITY OP NOTRE DAME Department of Public Information » James E. Murphy, Director ~ as.^ Is 4J£!a* ftlday. February 6th: Notre Dame, Ind., Feb. 5th — Dr. S. E. Luria, an internationally recognized authority on fundamental problems in virus research, will give the annual Nieuwland Lectures in the University of Metre Dame's department of biology February 8-11, according to an announcement today by Rev. Cletus Bachofer, C.S.C., acting department head* The Italian-born scientist has conducted extensive research on the relation­ ship between viruses and genes, the carriers of heredity. His three Notre Dame lectures on "Viruses and Cellular Heredity" will be held in the auditorium of Wenninger-Kirs ch Biology Hall Feb. 9 and 10 (Hon-Tues.) at 8:00 p.m. and Feb. 11 (Wed*) at h p*m* Dr. Luria has been a professor of bacteriology at the University of Illinois since 1950. During the current academic year he is a visiting professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His book, General Virology, published in 1553, is a standard American work on the subject. This year's Nieuwland lecturer received his medical degree at the University of Turin in 1935. He was associated with the Institute Pasteur, Paris, from 1939 to 192|0. During the next two years he was a member of Columbia University's surgical bacteriology department. PTom 19i*3 to 1950 he taught bacteriology at Indiana University. Dr. Luria became an American citizen in 191*7. Notre Dame's annual Nieuwland lectures honor the late Rev. Julius A. Nieuwland, C.3.C., an outstanding chemist and botanist, whose research at the University lad to the development of synthetic rubber. Nieuwland Science Hall, which houses Notre Dame's chemistry, physics and mathematics departments, was dedicated n 1953. end UNIVERSITY OF MOIRE DAME Department of Public Information James E. Murphy, Director For release in AM's, Sunday, February 8th: Notre Dame, Ind., Feb. 7 — Four authorities on American economic life will deliver the annual Cardinal O'Hara Seminar Lectures in the University of Notre Dame's College of Commerce, according to an announcement today by Dean James W. Gullit on. Dr. Sidney 0. Sufrin, professor of economics at Syracuse (N. Y„) University and director of the Business and Economic Research Center there, will give the first lecture of the series in Washington Hall here February 19th (Thursday) at 1:30 p„m. His topic will be "Wages and Employment: Theory Without Tears," Sufrin will also conduct a seminar among faculty members of the department of business organisation and management and address the College's Labor-Hanagement Club (7:30 p.m.). Other speakers in the Cardinal O'Hara lecture series will be M. S. Szymczak, a veteran member of the board of governors of the Federal Reserve System, Washington, B, C., March l6thj Dr. James J, O'Leary, director of economic research for the Life Insurance Association of America, New York City, April l6thj and Dr, Raymond ¥, Goldsmith, professor of economics at New York University and a research specialist with the National Bureau of Economic Research, May 5th, The annual lecture series in Notre Dame's commerce school was established in 19h9 in honor of His Eminence John Cardinal O'Hara, G.S.C., Archbishop of Philadelphia, The Pennsylvania prelate served as president of Notre Dame from 19 3U to 1939 and was first dean of the College of Commerce, He was elevated to the Sacred College of Cardinals by Pope John XXIII last December. UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME Department of Public Information James E. Murphy# Director 59/135 for release in AM's, Sunday, February 8th: Notre Dame# Ind.# Feb. 7 **•» The University of Notre Dame received a total of $3#020#052 in gifts and grants during 1958# it was reported today (Saturday) by Rev, John J. Cavanaugh# C.S.C.# director of the Notre Dame Foundation. Father Cavanaugh said last year's contributions were the largest in the 12-year history of the Foundation except for 1956 and 1957 when Notre Dame received installments of a #3,074,500 Ford Foundation grant. According to the year-end report, gifts totalling $721,180 were earmarked for faculty development at Notre Dam. The University has projected a goal of #27,000,000 in endowment to increase faculty salaries as part of its 10-year, ■ 166,600,000 development program launched a year ago. By 1967 Notre Dame also hopes to acquire $18,600,000 for new buildings, $11,000,000 for research and $5,000,000 each for student aid and special administrative purposes. The overall 1958 total, Father Cavanaugh said, includes $695,620 from Notre Dame alumni, $1,323,384 from non-alumni sources including 453 corporations and foundations, and $992,987 in research grants and fellowships exclusive of corporation- supported research. A total of 11,677 Notre Dame alumni contributed an average of #59.57 to their alma mater during 1958, an #11.00 increase in the average gift compared to the previous year, Father Cavanaugh disclosed.