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They All Came for the 1965 Reunion—<br />

and Filled All Rooms ...<br />

The 1965 Reunions, attended by more than 1100 registered alumni, found room<br />

space at a premium in the five halls set aside for the weekend. The Alumni Banquet<br />

in the North Dining Hall featured, again, wall-to-wall alumni as a most attentive<br />

audience for the Presidents' Reports — Lank Smith for the Association and Father<br />

Hesburgh for the <strong>University</strong>.<br />

The Golf Course found the good weekend weather setting a Reunion record for<br />

the more than 500 golfers who toured the Burke course. Father Holderith's alumni<br />

sparkled in the prize awards, but the tournament is broad enough to spotlight those<br />

alumni whose scores are creative and imaginative and even dramatic.<br />

-\s we have said, year in and year out, the Reunion is a reunion. It is not intended<br />

as a retreat — although the Class Masses, the Sunday .'\lumni Mass with its fine<br />

sermon by Father Maurice Powers and the meditative walks that many alumni enjoyed,<br />

come close to this result. It is not intended as a s>'mposium — and the somewhat disappointing<br />

crowd that occupied the Library ."Auditorium to hear Dr. George Shuster,<br />

Dr. Frederick Rossini and Dr. Thomas Bergin in a significant approach to continuing<br />

education, proved our point But, those who attended were rewarded by the program.<br />

Watch for the 1966 Reunion literature, which tentatively will include a specific<br />

Continuing Education program, but just preceding the regular reunion weekend.<br />

We think this may be one answer to the problem <strong>of</strong> integrating the two events.<br />

There was more evidence <strong>of</strong> general planning in the 1965 Reunions. The Silver<br />

Jubilee Class, following a strong recent tradition, was thoroughly organized in detail<br />

' for the entire weekend. The Class <strong>of</strong> '25 featured a special dinner honoring the<br />

40th anniversary <strong>of</strong> the Rose Bowl team. ."And the younger Classes served notice in<br />

their promotion and attendance that a new pattern for Reunions, to meet our own<br />

space problems, is now directly facing us.<br />

And<br />

Reminisced,<br />

Renewed,<br />

Relived,<br />

and Retold.<br />

Until the Concluding Communion<br />

Breakfast on Sunday . . .<br />

But, from the beginning, our Reunion Review...<br />

<strong>Notre</strong> <strong>Dame</strong> Alumnus, September-October, 1965 35

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