The Archives of The University of Notre Dame 607 Hesburgh Library Notre Dame, IN 46556 574-631-6448 [email protected] Notre Dame Archives: Alumnus i [pUFfHf • NOTRE DAME . ALUMNUS APRIL-iWAY, 1962 THE HOLY SPIRIT DESCENDING (See Tongues of Fire) are to be an intelligent part of thi| world, it is not enough that we simply acquire those new developments in our business or professional life which have Sdltorial Comment the obvious priorities. One of the greatest problems of the world is that the frantic and frag­ from your mented explosion of knowledge has not Alumni Secretary been accompanied by the wisdom and the control that marked the slower and more orderly development of the knowlr edge of the past. HOPE YOU HAVE read the editorial new knowledge is imparted at all This is where Notre Dame and Notre 1comment on "mediation." It was not levels to men of age and experience — Dame men can join in a magnificent just a passing stress on a tenn. Nor was scientists, soldiers, industrialists, writers, contribution to our time. it just the ordinar)' support of an ad­ teachers — so that what they learned in The University, holding the tradi­ ministrative idea. the traditional student years is only a tional deposit of knowledge, possessing There is a great unrest in our educa­ base of principles, a storehouse of facts the traditional machinery of its trans­ tion. There is a great challenge being frequently and increasingly obsolete. mission, knowing the theological and voiced. And there is a searching e\'alu- One of the fascinating phases of this philosophical principles which must ation. new "lateral" concept is that very often guide the use of all knowledge for the These things have happened before. the elders must be taught this new proper destiny of man, can bring thi. By the very nature of education, they knowledge by the young. Because it is old and the new together for men of should be heralded as a good expression the young who have discovered the new all ages and fields of endeavor. of its vitality. and displacing approaches to the prob­ The development of guidance from But this time there are differences. lems of the world we live in — its prog­ Notre Dame to its alumni can make The classrooms and tlie teachers, the ress, its defense, its health and welfare. the acquisition of the constant new- administrators and the curricula, and And there is another \dtal revolution knowledge of our day an orderly build­ of course the students, are feeling the in American education, which must be ing and strengthening of a leadership impact. These are not unusual. realized if we are to avoid the pitfalls that is increasingly essential to this The differences are that this time the of resistance. Our traditional education phenomenon. alumnus, the community', the nation, was in our schools. Today's education, This does not mean to say that everj' business and industry', research, com­ adding the "lateral" dimension as it alimmus \vill come back to the campus munications, our whole lives, are af­ has, finds the military and industry to receive in detail the growing booy fected. setting up great educational machinery of information and experience in his Since the last time you read this because the scope and the speed of particular field. column I have read the expressions of a lai^e number of leaders in the educa­ tional thought of our country, projected The Education Explosion largely on the path ahead of us. I have not gone long-hair or egghead, nor am developing and disseminating new But every alumnus is faced with get­ I tiding to pose as either pedagogue or knowledge cannot be absorbed by the ting this acquisition somewhere if he prophet. But the concerns of education schools. is to fulfill his own obligation to himsi^ have become so commonplace and so But these adaptations are still only and his society. common-sense that I would not dis­ the pressured scrambling of expediency Every alumnus must know where to charge this alumni job if I did not urge to meet an expanding world that has acquire, and what to acquire. some of this thinking on all of you in outrun tlie imaginations of its inhabit­ And because there are so many turn. ants. sources of acquisition and so much The most interesting, and the most It is at this point that we come face disparity in \'alues, and because the significant, of the ideas — because in it to face witii the great and immediate most \'ital factors of all — moral values lies the major reason for your concern opportunity and challenge for each of and the nature and destiny of man — and involvement—treats tlie revolution us and for Notre Dame. are too often omitted in acquisition in the basic concept of education. For The bridging of the gap between new charmels, the University of Notre Dame decades after its founding, our educa­ knowledge and old in the "lateral" can make this great contribution to its tional system was based on the teaching areas has been almost of necessity con­ alumni. In turn, it can be the major of the young by the old, the handing fined to groups and categories, where contribution of education to the solC down of the cumulative knowledge of such new knowledge and skills are an tion of the problems which progress has the past to the young student of the immediate and vital part of progress. brought to our planet. present. Today, so rapid and so uni­ But for each of us, in all walks of I didn't get this \vay overnight. But versal has been the "explosion of knowl­ life, at every age, there is this same please think and read a little along edge" that the traditional single "ver­ widening gap between our traditional these lines — not just for Notre Dame, tical" concept has given way to the education in school under a teacher, or your job, or the country, but foi "lateral" concept as a corollary. and the unfolding of the wonders of your own fulfillment. ^-> This new concept is the one in which the growing world around us. If we —J.E..< 2 liolTt Dame Alumnus, April-May, 1962 ,9 ALUMNI ASSOCIATION AT DBADUNE . BOARD OF DIRECTORS THE LAETARE MEDAL for 1962 will be presented to Dr. Francis J. Braceland of New Haven, Conn., chief psychiatrist at the Institute for Living and clinical professor of psy­ Officers chiatry at Yale University, according to an announcement by Father Hesburgb on April 1. Dr. Braceland is the eighth physician and first psychiatrist to receive the award, presented WALTER L. FLEMING, JR., '40 Honorary President last year to President Kennedy. UNIVERSAL NOTRE DAME NIGHT meetings WILLIAM P. MAHO.NEV, JR., '38 President were scheduled in April and May by more than 100 Notre Dame Clubs, with themes re­ MAURICE CARROLL, 'l2..Class Vice-President lating to the responsibilities of educated laymen as outlined in the encyclical letter ROGER J. HUTER, '40. Club Vice-President Mater et Magistra by Pope John XXIIL . SPRING ON THE CAMPUS meant base­ HARRY J. MEHRE, '22 Fund Vice-President ball, tennis, golf and a great variety of activities before the "Old-Timers" football game JAMES E. ARMSTRO.NG, '25 and Easter vacation; e.g.: Engineering Open House drew thousands to its respective auto „ Executive Secretary and industrial shows in the new Stepan Center; the College Jazz Festival and the N.D. Debate Tournament brought talented representation from campuses across the land; Wash­ '^ Directors to 1963 ington's Birthday, Mardi Gras, and other events, drawing such varied celebrities as Senator MAURICE CARROLL, '12 Barry Goldwater, comedian Bob Hope and maestro Duke Ellington, are described in the 5743 Delmar Blvd. "Student Slant" column. CHALLENGE CAMPAIGN approached 90% of the goal St. Louis 12, Missouri as gifts were announced of $1 million from Laetare Medalist I. A. O'Shaughnessy (IX.D. ROGER J. HUTER, '40* '47) and $500,000 from former lecturer Frank Freimann, president of Magnavox Corp. Hutcr-Qucst Co. Steel construction \vas "topped out" on the Memorial Library, while the Computer Center 833 W. Main St. and Radiation Laboratory grew. ALUMNI SECRETARY James Armstrong has been Louisville, Kentucky a man on the move since being named president-elect of the American Alimmi Council in WiLLUM P. MAHONEV, JR., '38 Miami Beach last July. Besides his usual excursions for speeches and meetings with Notre 612 Arizona Bank Bldg. Dame Clubs and ser\-ing as master of ceremonies for the Challenge Rally telephone net­ Phoenix, Arizona work last fall, Jim has made official appearances and major addresses at -A.A.C. district HARRY J. MEHRE, '22 conferences in Chicago, San -Antonio, Te.x., and Lake Tahoe, Nev.; represented the Uni­ ^ 3155 Arden Road, N.W. versity (with publicist James Murphy) at the dedication of the new printing plant of the •S .\tlanta, Georgia national weekly Our Sunday Visitor; attended -A.A.C. board meetings in Washington, and scheduled N.D. board-class-club officer meetings for May in New York. After the annual Directors to 1964 wide-ranging Notre Dame Night circuit. May meetings and June Reunions, Jim will travel JOHN P. DEMPSEY, '49 to Banff, .•\lberta, Canada, to be installed as president of the A-A.C. MASS STIPENDS Kidder, Peabody & Co. for alumni intentions in Masses celebrated on the campus can be sent to Rev. Ferdinand 123 Broai'. St., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Brown, C.S.C., Superior, Corby Hall, Notre Dame, Indiana. —J. L. PATRICK A. DoucHERTi-, '50 P. O. Box 5672 Minneapolis 17, Minnesota W1LLIA.M H.