Sorin J. A. Zahm J. W. Cavanaugh Burns Charles O'Donnell Kirsch Nieuwland Wenninger Edwards Hoynes Albert Zahm Green Rockne Gurian Barth of Holy Cross that year and was ordained to the priest­ hood in 1941. Father O’Donnell, also born in Chicago, was grad­ uated from Notre Dame in FATHER WILSON 1941 and was awarded a master’s degree by the ASSIGNED TO Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C. He was named assistant to ND FOUNDATION the director of the Notre D am e Foundation in 1953 and subsequently became Rev. John J. Cavanaugh, C.S.C., has been granted associate director of the or­ Father O’Donnell an indefinite leave of absence from his post as director ganization. Father O’Don­ of The Notre Dame Foundation and head of the Uni­ nell entered the Holy Cross Fathers’ novitiate in 1936 versity’s $66,600,000 development program, it was an­ and was ordanied to the priesthood in 1945. He is a nounced recently by the office of Rev. Theodore M. former faculty member at Holy Cross College, Wash­ Hesburgh, C.S.C., Notre Dame president. Father Cava­ ington, D.C., and also served as associate editor ofThe naugh has been suffering from a chronic vascular ailment. Catholic Boy. Rev. John H. Wilson, C.S.C., administrative assistant to Father Hesburgh, has been named acting director of the Foundation, Notre Dame’s fund-raising organization. Listed on the front cover are names He will coordinate all the University’s public relations Cover Design: of priests and laymen, all deceased, and development activities. who have been associated in one way or another with The University also announced the appointment of the g re a tn ess of Notre Dame. R e v . E d w a r d F. S o r in , Rev. Thomas J. O’Donnell, C.S.C., to a newly created C.S.C., with seven Brothers of Holy Cross, founded the alumni liaison post. Father O’Donnell, who has been University in 1842 and was its first president;R e v . J o h n associate director of the Foundation, will travel widely A. Zahm, C.S.C., teacher of distinction, had a far- in his new assignment, meeting at regular intervals with reaching influence on furthering scientific investigation Notre Dame’s 175 local alumni clubs in this country and abroad. and research at Notre Dame in the 1870’s;R e v . J o h n W. C a v a n a u g h , C.S.C., ninth president of the University Father Cavanaugh served as Notre Dame’s president from 1946 to 1952, and he has been the University’s in 1905-1919, was an exceptionally talented writer and principal public relations speaker; R e v . J a m e s A. B u r n s , C.S.C., Chemistry pro­ and development officer fessor, tenth president (1919-1922), provincial;R e v . C h a r l e s O ’D o n n e l l , C.S.C., twelfth president (1928- since 1953. The Notre Dame Foundation, which 1934), poet and inspiring professor of rhetoric;R e v . he established during his A l e x a n d e r K i r s c h , C.S.C., priest-scientist and member of presidency in 1947 and the Notre Dame faculty following ordination in 1880; which he has actively led R e v . J u l i u s A. N i e u w l a n d , C.S.C., famed as the dis­ during the past six years, coverer of neoprene, the first commercially successful has received more than synthetic rubber in America, died in 1936;R e v . F r a n c is $30,000,000 in gifts and W e n n i n g e r , dean of the College of Science (1926-1940) grants. Fifteen major build­ and organizer of the Notre Dame Academy of Science; ings have been erected on J a m e s F. E d w a r d s , professor of History and head of the the campus since the Foun­ University Library (1874-1924); M a u r ic e F r a n c is E g a n , dation was inaugurated twelve years ago. professor, poet, novelist and editor (1889);C o l . W il l ia m Father Wilson, a native of Chicago, 111., was ap­ H o y n e s , dean and professor of Law at Notre Dame for pointed administrative assistant to the president of half a century (beginning in 1883);A l b e r t F. Z a h m , N otre Dam e in 1958. Pre­ founder of modern aeronautical science (1880), profes­ viously, he had served for sor, chief of the aeronautical division of the Library of two years as assistant direc­ Congress (brother of Father John A. Zahm); J e r o m e J. tor of the Holy Cross G r e e n , the first American to send a wireless message Fathers’ Office of Province (1899) and professor of electrical engineering at Notre Development. In earlier Dam e; K n u t e K . R o c k n e , Chemistry teacher and builder years he was vocation direc­ of men (died in 1931) W; a l d e m a r G u r i a n , internation­ tor for the Holy Cross ally-famed political scientist, editor, professor (at Notre Fathers and promotion and Dame, 1937-1954); B e r n a r d C. B a r t h , first general man­ advertising director ofThe ager and vice-president of Notre Dame’s commercial Catholic Boy. Father Wil­ television station (1955-1959). son was graduated as a lay­ Father Wilson man from Notre Dame in NOTRE DAME VOL. 12, NO. 4, WINTER, 1959 1932 and received a law degree from the Chicago-Kent Published quarterly by the University of Notie Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana. Entered as second class mattei Mav 10, 1928, at Post Office at Notre Dame, College of Law in 1934. He entered the Congregation Indiana, under the Act of August 24, 1912. Every new synthesis of old ideas, scientists. Anything less than what can every new scientific discovery, every be conceived in the mind of man as human creation of a new form is noth­ good and useful in pursuit of know­ ing more than the creature’s elabora­ ledge is an unacceptable compromise. tion in time of the Creator’s efernal Our problem at Notre Dame is, at plan. In a special way, Notre Dame least, to minimize this compromise by has a heavy responsibility to pursue finding the resources proportioned to these activities constituting, in effect, a the ambitions and abilities of our own natural revelation through which the faculty. Obviously, they cannot en­ Divine Word is embellished. That is gage in every productive form of why scholarly research takes on an in­ scholarship and research. Their parti­ creasingly important role in the intel­ cipation is necessarily confined to then- lectual life of our faculty and students.current interests and competence. Research in the contemporary world Their interests are being increasingly has become the way of life of true served by the burgeoning programs of scholars. It is increasingly character­ the federal government in support of ized by the elaboration of physical re­ university research. Although concen­ sources needed to support the efforts trated mainly in the natural sciences, of its devotees. In fact, the resources there are nevertheless an increasing needed to support any truly creative number of federal programs for spon­ group of men such as a university fac­ sorship of research in the humanities ulty are simply stupendous. Consider and the social sciences. Noteworthy the current frantic attempts to de­ among these are the recently inaugu­ velop automatic language translators rated programs under the National De­ as a means of keeping up with the fense Education Act. Also the Na­ scholar’s insatiable demand for com­ tional Science Foundation has em­ munication; or the burgeoning traffic in barked cautiously upon a program to all kinds of audio-visual aids to accele­ support some aspects of social science rate the pace of learning. The massive research. I have for the past two years, accumulations of the printed word call been chairman of the National Science not only for bigger libraries but also Board’s Committee for this research. sophisticated and elaborate means for Recognizing the overriding interest of making these words immediately avail­ the federal government in research re­ able to the scholar. In the natural and lated to national defense, health and social sciences, the application of the economic welfare, the private founda­ scientific method results in the gene­ tions have channeled their funds into ration of raw data in quantities un­ fields not covered by federal support. manageable but for the electronic com­ As a means of augmenting our own puters with their capacity for storing, limited resources, we are encouraging recalling and organizing this data at faculty members with appropriate the behest of their expert operators. interest and qualifications to partici­ The proliferation of magnificently pate in these federally and privately conceived instruments to extend the sponsored research programs. senses of m an into space in one direc­ tion and into the heart of the atom in the other reflects the pressure generated by research for resources proportioned to the creative abilities of scholars and Hotre Bame, man anb fits toorlb... Bold vision and solid Christian fortitude inspired Father Edward F.