The Archives of The University of Notre Dame 607 Hesburgh Library Notre Dame, IN 46556 574-631-6448 [email protected] Notre Dame Archives: Alumnus NOV 10^58 James £. Armstrong, '21 Editor John F. Laughlin, '48 Managing Editor ALUMNI ASSOCIATION BOARD OF DIRECTORS Officers J. PATRICK CANNY, '28 Honorary President ^ FR,\NCIS L. LAYDEN, '36 President 'Rockne Story' November 9 EDMOND R. HACGAR, '38 , Club Vice-President EUGENE M. KENNEDY, '22 On CBS-TV '20th Century' Class Vice-President OSCAR J. DORWIN, '17 Fund Vice-President JAMES E. ARMSTRONG, '25 Secretary' Directors to 1959 Coach's Words and Grid Triumphs FR,\NCIS L. LAYDEN, '36 701 College Highway, Evansville, Ind. EDMOND R. HAGGAR, '38 Recalled on Documentary Program Haggar Company 6113 Lemman Avenue, Dallas, Texas EUGENE M. KENNEDY, '22 174 S. Mansfield Avenue Los Angeles 36, Calif. OSCAR J. DORWIN, '17 A half-hour film program entitled certainly refute any charges that he ran Texas Company "Rockne of Notre Dame" will be pre­ a football factor)'. In addition, he is 135 E. 42nd St, New York 17, N. Y. sented over the CBS television network shown as a man of considerable wit — on Sunday, November 9, from 6:30 he says some tremendously funny Directors to 1960 to 7:00 p.m. (Eastern Standard Time) things in the course of the show." LEO J. VooEL, '17 >. 286 Magnolia Place, Pittsburgh 28, Pa. as a production of CBS-TVs "Twen­ One outstanding sound-on-film se­ RAYMOND W. DURST, '26 tieth Century" series. quence depicts a half-time pep talk in 840 Lathrop .'\ve.. River Forest, III. "Rockne" will be one of ver)' few the locker room. JULES K. DE LA VERGNE, '33 programs dedicated to a personality on The "Twentieth Century" series, 413 Pere Marquette BIdg. the "Twentieth Centur)'" series, which now in its second season, is produced New Orleans, Louisiana ' usually concerns itself with trends and WILLIAM E. COTTER, JR., '41 by the Public Affairs Department of 114 Laurie St., Duluth 3, Minnesota j institutions rather . than individuals. CBS News. The producer of the series This is probably because "Rock" has is Benjamin Burton, and newsman Directors to 1961 1 become as much an institution as foot­ Walter Cronkite is narrator. The JOSEPH R. STEWART, '22 ball itself. The last sports presentation Rockne show was written by Jerome Kansas City Life Insurance Co. ! cf "Twentieth Century" was a story of Brondfield. The "Twentieth Century" Box 139 Kansas City 41, Missouri the ten most unforgettable moments series is sponsored by the Prudential CHARLES E. ROHR, '30 in the history of the \Vorld's Series, as insurance company. Rohr's, nil Chester, Cleveland, Ohio chosen by W. \V. "Red" Smith, '27, JAMES H. SHEILS, '35 America's best-known sports columnist, McManus and Walker ' 39 Broadway, New York, New York with commentary by Smith and Yan- JOHN C. O'CONNOR, '38 kee-tumed-sportscaster Phil Rizzuto. 1000 Fidelity Trust Bldg. Indianapolis, Indiana Notre Dame's Film Storage Center turned over all its Rockne-era movie Chairmen of tlie 1958 Committees footage to CBS for the Rockne pro­ F. L. LAYDEN Executive^ gram, wliich network executives feel E. R. HAGGAR Club Activities "will create a tremendous amount of E. M. KENNEDY Class Activities- interest, not only amongst sport fans, O. J. DORWIN but among viewers in general." Alumni Fund, Foundation and Gifts E. R. HAGGAR Preparatory Schools CBS News' information director, L. J. VOGEL Placement and Job Counseling' Michael Horton, says: "Even though J. K. DE LA VERGNE .... Inter-Alumni Affairs Rockne died in 1931, great deal of E. M. KENNEDY * footage has been unearthed in which Prestige and Public Relations W. E. COTTER Religion and Citizenships he is talking on film. This footage has E. R. HAGGAR AND been put together into a half-hour E. M. KENNEDY Nominations program which successfully portrays R. W. DURST Budget and Finance Rockne not only as a great coach but L. J. VoGEL Resolutions' as a great force for good in education. Much of the film is devoted to his This magazioe is published bi-monthly by the Uni\xr5it>' of Notre Dame, Notre talks to his players in which he dis­ Dame, Ind. Entered as second class mat­ cusses the need for brains and scholar­ ter Oct. 1, 1939, at the Post OfEcc, Notre KNUTE K. ROCKNE Dame, Ind.. under the act of Aug. 24, 1912. ship on the part of athletes, and would "Force for Good in Education" 2 Notre Dame Alumnus, November, 1958 portation (chiefly air); guides through­ out the trip to assist the pilgrims; all meals e.\cept as noted below in Rome, Paris and London; sightseeing tours in each city (four in Rome, three apiece in London and Paris, etc.); aU Lourdes, Rome Highlight transfers (plane to hotel, etc.) includ­ ing luggage, and first class hotels in every city. Plan For N. D. Air Tour The only "extras" would be one meal a day in Rome, Paris and Lon­ don; private sightseeing transjrorta- tion, gifts and any additional re­ freshments. Interest Sought For Projected Priests or other campus representa­ tives would probably accompany the Alumni Pilgrimage to Europe tour. The pilgrimage does not provide a visit to the Shrine of Fatima in Portugal because of difficulties in transportation from Lisbon, but this might be possible on one of the alter­ ' Would you be interested in a three- an hour and a half by plane and an nate plans. week "all-expense" chartered-plane hour by train to Lucerne, Switzerland; pilgrimage to the Shrines of Europe two nights and a daytime tour in the Prices and itinerary have been out­ ^ —Lourdes, the Eternal City, Paris' ancient Swiss resort city with its beau­ lined by a national travel agency oper­ Cathedral of Notre Dame—under tiful lake; next an hour each by train ated by Notre Dame alumni. Prices quoted are the maximum anticipated. 'Notre Dame auspices and at a price and plane through France to Paris; The success of the pilgrimage de­ that compares favorably with a stay three days and nights in the City of pends on the number of participants. at the more luxurious vacation resorts Light, including morning and after­ If you are interested in such a tour in on this hemisphere? noon tours and Mass at Notre Dame the early spring of 1959, or later, (1959 This is not a rhetorical question. Cathedral; then an hour's plane trip or 1960), please write to PILGRIM­ • Your opinion is earnestly solicited by to London for three days and nights AGE, Box 81, Notre Dame, Indiana. alumni in Rome and on this side of in the English capital, with morning the Atlantic who have developed a and afternoon tours, then, no Notre plan for such a tour. Dame pilgrimage would be complete Originally conceived, before his without a two-hour plane hop to Dub­ IN MEMORIAM ' death, as a tribute to Pope Pius XII, lin for a day and night, a five-hour HIS HOLINESS, the pilgrimage—if alumni interest deluxe motor coach trip across Ireland POPE PIUS XII to Shannon and return by overnight warrants—might still be held as a The University of Notre Dame, • memorial to the departed Pontiff, "first plane to the U.S. its priests, faculty members and Notre Dame Pope," and a welcome That's the basic trip—21 (or 22, if students, deeply mourn the death to his successor in the chair of St. desired) days, including 19 (or twen­ of our Holy Father, Pope Pius , Peter. ty) in Europe—all for about $795 per XII. Before his elevation to the The sponsors of the Notre Dame person. papacy it was Notre Dame's pri­ Pilgrimage have worked out this ten­ Two main alternatives are possible, vilege to confer upon him an tative itinerary': departure after Mass each including round-trip ticket and honorary degree when he visited the University as Eugenio Cardi­ '\in Chicago for the main body of pil- the first-week pilgrimage to Lourdes nal Pacelli, Vatican secretary of I'grims, by sleeper plane over the At­ and Rome: either (1) leaving the state, in 1936. lantic, Portugal and Spain, to Lourdes, group after the first week for two Throughout his glorious Ponti­ * France; the next day spent at the weeks' footloose travel, rejoining the ficate, with its awesome responsi­ Shrine, including overnight accommo­ tour on the last day for return to the bilities. Pope Pius XII continued dations; departure for Rome next day States (cost: about $495); or (2) to show in many ways a keen « on a three-hour flight over the Medi­ going with the group for the first and interest and a great affection for terranean; the remainder of this and third weeks, with the second week on his American "alma mater." ' the next four full days in the Eternal one's own, which should appeal to He relinquishes his burdens as Christ's vicar on earth, assured ,, City, with morning and afternoon tours skiers or those who would like to re­ of the prayers of the entire Notre main in Rome or take side trips to of the Vatican and the Seven Hills, Dame family, here and through­ plus evenings planned by the Notre Germany, Monte Carlo or the Riviera out the world. Dame Club of Rome; departure next (cost: approximately $610). May his magnificent soul rest day, after Mass at St. Peter's Basilica, These three alternatives, allowing in peace. ijon an eight-hour deluxe motor coach any number of others, make the trip —Rev. Edmund P. Joyce, 'tour through Italy to Florence; two flexible enough for any taste and re­ C.S.C.