The Archives of The University of Notre Dame 607 Hesburgh Library Notre Dame, IN 46556 574-631-6448 [email protected] Notre Dame Archives: Alumnus NUS 9i!i. OHUf tUe fHOMUt aUet naxt Twenty-five years ago the late John H. Nceson, '03, of Philadelphia, then president of the Alumni Association, instituted Universal Notre X^O>> H \° Dame Night, a Night when Notre Dame men everj'where would join y\aO in expressing their oneness with their school. Mr. Neeson's particular \Ve purpose — and this purpose has remained steadily through the years — was to emphasize the full stature of Notre Dame as an institution of Jo*,et- ^ higher learning. l^ isf* ts».\ Now, on April 5, 1948, the Notre Dame Club of Philadelphia will^l fittingly be the "key city" in the twenty-fifth annual observance of Uni­ versal Notre Dame Night. Scores of Notre Dame clubs will join with the University and with the Philadelphia Club in paying tribute to the school "planted immovably on the moveless rock." The Alumni Office will be happy to cooperate with the clubs in every possible way to make this 25th annual Universal Notre Dame Night a significant event in Notre Dame history and an all-time high in clubg interest and participation. .q»» *). >y^^^ Mark the calendar now for Monday, April 5—the second Monday after Easter. 74fUuefUal AfaUe 2bame JififUi MoHidcu^, {» The Notre Dame Alumnus This magazine is published bi-monthly by the University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana. Entered as second class matter Octo­ ber I, 1939, at the PostoRicc, Notre Dame, Indiana, under the act of August 24, 1912. Member of the American Alumni Council. lames E. Armstrong, '25, Editor; William B. Dooley. '26, Managing Editor i Vol. 26 FEBRUARY, 1948 No. I Alumni Board Reelects Officers arate story on the success of the Fifth An­ New Directors, Joe Boland, Father Vincent Brennan, nual Alumni Fund and on the plans for Arthur Cronin and Leo Ward, Attend First Meeting the Sixth Annual Fund appears elsewhere in this issue. Father Sweeney reported that in 1947 he had visited 37 local alumni clubs, in addi­ Meeting at Notre Dame on Jan. 11-12, Rev. John J. Cavanaugh, c.s.c, president, tion to directing an undergraduate job place­ the Alumni Board reelected for 1948 the and other top University administrators ment program and the coordination of the V officers who ser\'cd the Alumni Association were guests. In an address, comparatively public information, public relations and •^ through 1947. brief yet extraordinarily comprehensive. alumni phases of University life. At pres­ Father Cavanaugh pointed out to the direc­ The reelected officers include Harry G. ent, as one of his niunerous activities. Father tors the obligations and opportunities facing Sweeney is organizing a directory of Notre Hogan, president: Thomas F. Byrne, hon- the Notre Dame of the present and the basic orar)' president; Francis Wallace and Robert Dame lawyers, estimated to number about plans which the University has for future 1,130. T. HcUrung, vice-presidents; James E. Arm­ development. So favorably was the address strong secretar)-; and William R. Dooley, received that there was a general demand Dan O'Neil, heading a committee com­ assistant sccrctar)-. that it be made available generally. posed also of Harold JDuke, Lou Buckle>-, The Board welcomed to their first meet­ and Bill Dooley, reported on a study con­ ing the new directors chosen in the recent Hearing a detailed report from President ducted by the committee on vocational coun­ balloting: Joseph M. Boland, '27, South Hogan on the accomplishments of the Notre seling and job placement as related to Bend; Rev. Vincent P. Brennan, '32, Pitts­ Dame Foundation (of which Mr. Hogan is alumni. Substance of the report was con­ burgh; Arthur D. Cronin, '37, Detroit; and chairman), and on its relationships to the tained in recommendations, adopted by the Leo B._ Ward, '20, Los Angeles. Holdover University and the Alumni Association, the Board, that the University should appoint directors present, in addition to the officers, Board voted unanimously its appreciation committees among the Administration and included Louis F. Buckley, Harold E. Duke, and approval, saying that the Foundation the alimmi to formulate policies and prac­ John J. Elder and Daniel J. O'Neil. Direc­ "fills a basic need at Notre Dame and is tices to guide the University and the Alumni tor Paul Mallon was unable to be present. operating presently under a sound basic .Association in a cooperative effort in this Retiring directors Eugene S. Blish and Tim­ formula." counseling-job field and in related fields. othy J. Murphy met with the group, as did Herbert E. Jones, '27, biuiness manager In a report covering 1947, Jim Armstrong Rev. Robert H.. Sweeney, c.s.c, executive of athletics, and M. Robert CahiU, '34, detailed the advances made in the club and assistant to the president and coordinator of ticket manager, met with the Board on Sun­ the class organizations, in the AttJMNUS alumni affairs. day morning to discuss at length policies (note especially tj-pe changes, new Iayo!it covering football ticket distributio to alumni. ft:' The Board meeting opened Saturday and new cover in the present, and recent, noon, Jan. 11, with a luncheon at which issues) and in the .Mumni Fund. \ sep­ ^Continued on page 5] THE MEW DIRECTOBS OF THE ALUMNI ASSOCUTION NB Arthur D. Cronin, '37 Joseph M. Boland. '27 Rev. Vincent P. Brennan. '32 Leo B. Ward. '20 Detroit Coalman South Bend Radioman Pittsburgh Priest Los Angeles AttemeT The Noire Dame Alumnus THREE EVENTS, since last we vrenl to press, caused quite a bit of comment on '/Ae the campus — Christmas vacation, sub­ zero weather, and semester exams. SEVEN SCR.\PS of paper of great value were donated to the Universit)*. They are UNIVERSITY rare original manuscripts of Joyce Kilmer's poems. The gift came from Mrs. William Corbett, of Chicago, wife of a member of the Board of Lay Trustees. TODAY On one side of a piece of paper are a husband's jotted reminders—"copy paper for .Mcnie, 3 yards of white batiste, 35 or By Edward A. Fischer, '37 40 a yard"—on the other side is the poem sions by collecting stamps, paper, and "Main Street," scribbled in pencil. "The scrap metaL Thorn," written for the late Rev. Charles O'Donnell, c.s.c, fonner president of Notre According to the president of the soci­ A SEMINAR COURSE, "Aristotelian Dame, was penciled on stationer)- of the ety, Vice-Admiral Edward L. Cociuane, the Philosophy on Health and Disease," will be Hotel Seville. "Grace Before Drinking" was formula is of great importance to the ship­ given for science students by a visiting lec­ scratched on a Chemist Club memo pad. building industry because, for the first turer. Dr. Herbert Ratner, of the College "Snowman in the Yard" has a list of experi­ time in history, it puts calculations of ship of Medicine, Loyola University, Chicago. mental rhymes written beside it — obey, say, resistance and ship power on a common day, bray, gray, hay, lay, may, nay, ray, stay, basis in all model testing. The method, THREE SCHOLARS, faculty members of and way. Doodlings of a landscape with a known as the Schoenherr Mean Line, may the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval cross in the sky appear on "Lionel Johnson" be adopted by Great Britain and Holland. Studies at Toronto, will give public lec- .„ and "Father Gerard Hopkins, s.j." On the Dr. Schoenherr, dean here since 1945, tures during the spring semester at the 4 Father Hopkins manuscript, Kilmer wrote has an international reputation as a hydro- Mediaeval Institute at Notre Dame. The the names of other Catholic poets he plan­ mechanical engineer. He received the Dis­ Rev. A. J. Denomy. C.S3.. will lecture on ned to honor in verse — Coventr>- Patmorc tinguished Civilian Service Medal from the The Mediaeval Stage, the Troy Legend in and Father Tabb. Government for his contributions to the the Middle Ages, CourUy Love, the war effort in designing and testing ships. Mediaeval Epic, and Indo-European, Ger­ Before coming to Notre Dame he was with manic and Romance Philology. INGENIOUS is the word for the Rev. the Navy Department. Edwin C. Bauer, C.S.C, '37. He used shell Dr. Anton C. Pegis will speak on Illus- packing cases, tinished off with stucco, to ^trotions of the Decline of Mediaeval Phil­ build a parish barber shop and living osophy. quarters for his housekeeper, according to The Rev. Vincent L. Kennedy, C.S.6., will a story that has reached the campus. The conclude the series with History of the young priest is pastor of Holy Family par­ Roman Rite and Problems of Hagiography. ish for Negroes in South Austin, Texas. The lectiures ore made possible by a gift to the Institute by the Michael P. Grace n Trust FOUR BROTHERS of Holy Cross, re­ —o— cent honor graduates at the University, will EIGHTY MILLION churchless people in teach in the Diocese of Dacca, India. They America present a challenge to the zeal of are Brothers Hobart Pieper, Springfield, N. Catholic students, the Rev. Dr. John A J.; Martinian Wilson, Natchez, Miss.; Ivan O'Brien, professor of Religion at Notre Dolan, Waterloo, la., and Fulgcnce Dough­ Dame, declared in an address at the Wis­ erty, Sioux Falls, S. D. consin Catholic .Action Convention in Mil-.^ waukee. V BEUGIOUS CEREMONIES, held here Father O'Brien recently completed a Jon. 16 and 20, commemorated the seventy- pamphlet, "So, You're in Love," published fifth anniversary of the death of the Rev.