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fllE NOTRE DAME 

ALUMNUS 

^937 Commencement 

• i) Head Table at the Alumni 

Banquet, Left to right (as far as the 

Ufaiter) : Vice-President Rav Eichenlaub; 

Director Don O^Keefe ; 

Past President Bernie Volt; President-elect 

Bill Colter; Past President 

John i^Jeeson: Trustee Chairman 

Bvron Kanalcp; Laetare 

Medalist Dr. J. D. A/. Ford: 

Honorary President Rev. J. A. 

Burns, C.S.C.: President Rev. J. 

F. O'Hara, CS.C; President A. 

J. Hughes. 

m 2) Bishop Karl J. Alter, DS). 

and William S. Calcott, recipients 

of honoran; degrees, with Father 

O'Hara. 

# 3) Dr. Ford receiving Laetare 

Medal from Bishop J. F. Noll, 

D.D. 

4) The Alumni Banquet. 

• 5) Father O'Hara blessing the 

flag afier the Baccalaureate Mass. 

I. 15 June. 1937 No. 9

Pronounced Alma-naris 

S U P E R C A R B O N A T E D 

In Waukesha and Milwaukee 

(only 10 miles apart) the headquarters 

of many excellent waters 

and beverages, Notre Dame 

Alumni will find Almanaris 

Supercarbonated Water a 

favorite mixer at leading clubs 

and hotels. 

If you would like to enjoy at 

home the extra tang that goes 

with good fellowship at the club, 

order a case of Almanaris in 

pints and quarts from your 

neighborhood dealer. 

Will you try it? 

(^ZWX^^L..^ ('28) 

MILWAUKEE ATHLETIC CLUB 

E. G. DOOLTTTLE, MANAGER 

UJat£A> 

Notre Dame Alumni 

living in or visiting 

Milwaukee -who ore 

not members or affiliates 

of the MJLC. are invited to meet 

in the modem, air conditioned cocktail 

lounge on the street floor at N. Broadway 

at E. Mason St 

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ALUMNUS. Entered as second-class matter January 1, 1923. at the post office at Notre Dame. Indiana, under the Act of March 3, 1879.

The Notre Dame Alumnus 

Vol. 15 JUNE, 1937 No. 9 

Record Alumni Crowd at ^37 Commencement 

More than 800 alumni returned to 

set a new attendance record for the 

93rd Annual Commencement of the 

University. Half of this number arrived 

on Friday, June 4, to set a new 

record for the opening day of the 

exercises and mark a new trend in 

Association activities. 

The Alumni Banquet, with 1,006 in 

attendance in the East Hall and a 

full table of disappointed late-comers 

in the cafeteria, followed the weekend 

custom of cracking old records. 

The brevity of the banquet program 

and the staying qualities of the 

alumni were additional new highs in 

banquet history. 

Reunion parties, in number and 

enthusiasm, were not behind the parade. 

Never has such a varied program 

been so successfully carried 

out. 

Friday night, the Class of 1912, 

which had been organized throughout 

the year by the efficient Class 

Secretary B. J. Kaiser, held its Silver 

Jubilee Dinner in the University 

Dining Halls. The local committee, 

headed by F. L. Mendez and J. Elmer 

Peak, had paved the way for a heartwarming 

hospitality for the large 

delegation who arrived Friday. 

Coast to Coast 

The Class of 1917 back from coast 

to coast through Ed McOsker's exhortations, 

enjoyed the hospitality of 

the beautiful country home of Bernard 

J. VoU. And while many in 

attendance were removed from '17 in 

years of graduation, the program put 

on by Harry Scott, John Urban Riley, 

Paul Fogarty and Mike Duifecy, held 

a universal appeal that kept the 

crowd present until breakfast. 

The Class of 1932 held its 5-year in 

the Columbia Athletic Club, South 

Bend. Headed by the active secretary. 

Herb Giorgio, a record crowd was 

back, as the roster under Class news 

shows. The local committee again 

functioned ably, under the chairmanship 

of Ed O'Malley and the management 

of Jack McGrath, Bemie 

Roethele and George Hennion, with 

Varied Events Provide Record Crowd With Associa 

tion's Most Successful Weekend; Various Meetings 

and Reunions Forecast a New and Happier Era. 

Joe Petritz and the rest of the '32 

locals as advisory members. 

While we are on the Reunion 

theme, 1927, with Herb Jones ana 

Joe Boland handling the local arrangements, 

met at the Columbia 

Club on Saturday night after the 

Alunrni Banquet, with some 60 members 

gathering for the 10th anniversary. 

St. Joe Hallers Back 

And one of the most enthusiastic 

reunions of the entire week-end was 

that of the alumni of St, Joe Hall. 

Fathers Ray Blurray and Hugh 

O'Donnell had left nothing to chance. 

Quartered in Badin, formerly old St. 

Joe Hall, more than 50 of this famous 

cross-section of Notre Dame student 

life, re-lived their student days, 

even to the donning of waiters coats 

on Sunday for the luncheon. Previously, 

the men had met at the old 

kitchen "turn" and from there visited 

the Community cemetery where Brother 

Florian and many of the other 

figures familiar during the life of 

St. Joe Hall now rest. 

Dillon Hall bulged with the Classes 

after 1926. Alumni Hall, which this 

year became a residence hall for Seniors, 

was not available for alunrni 

use, and so the Classes of 1926 and 

before were quartered in Howard 

(originally Old Students) Hall, and 

in Lyons, with the St. Joe Hallers 

going to Badin. 

The Dining Halls and the Golf 

Course once more proved to be the 

highlights of Commencement from 

the first arrival to the last departure, 

providing facilities of the finest kind 

for the returning alumni. 

Friday night at 7:00 o'clock the 

University Band under the direction 

of Joseph J. Casasanta, '23, gave a 

concert on the front porch of the 

Main Building for a large crowd assembled 

in the Quadrangle and on 

the steps of the residence halls. The 

Band had an active year in football, 

basketball and concert seasons, and 

provided a real musical treat for the 

Commencement visitors. 

At 8 o'clock Friday night, in Washington 

Hall, the seasoned boards of 

the University Theatre echoed a fine 

performance of "Bom Lucky," under 

the direction of Albert P. Doyle, '27. 

The interest of the play and the quality 

of the performances of the cast 

were contributions to the success of 

the week-end. 

Alumni of all years enjoyed the 

baseball games with Iowa on Friday 

and Saturday afternoons, Notre 

Dame dropping the first and taking 

the second in a thrilling 9th inning 

rally. Many also enjoyed the high 

'school track meet, held imder the 

auspices of the Athletic association, 

and including representatives from 

the outstanding Catholic high schools 

of the country. More than 300 boys 

were entered in the meet, which was 

won by West Catholic of Philadelphia. 

Every Hour Crowded 

Saturday morning was devoted to 

the traditional exercises, Mass for 

deceased alumni in Sacred Heart 

Church at 8:30, followed by the Last 

Visit of the Class of 1937. Class Day 

exercises in Washington Hall and the 

award of honors were held immediately 

after the Last Visit. 

At 11 o'clock, in the courtroom of 

the Law Building, the Eighth Annual 

Council of Local Alumni Clubs was 

held. The results of the Club year 

were discussed by delegates from the 

Clubs, and many suggestions made 

which will be incorporated in a special 

bulletin to Club officers. 

Six o'clock Saturday night found 

the East Hall of the University Dining 

Halls crowded to capacity with 

the greatest banquet attendance in 

the history of the association. Arthur 

J. Hughes, presided. Addresses by 

Rev. John F. O'Hara, C.S.C, president 

of the University, Elmer F. 

Layden, director of athletics, John P. 

Murphy, past president and a member 

of the Class of 1912, and by 

President Hughes, featured the program. 

A short welcome was also 

given by the Very Rev. James W.

238 The Notre Dame Alumnus June, 1937 

Donahue, C.S.C, superior general of 

the Congregation of Holy Cross. The 

invocation was given by Very Rev. 

James A. Bums, C.S.C, provincial 

of the Congregation in the United 

States, and honorary president of the 

association. A section of the band 

furnished music during the meal, 

which was of the customary excellence 

to which the patrons of Mr. E. 

F. Connolly's banquets have become 

accustomed. 

The ALUMNTJS reprints in this issue 

the magnificent baccalaureate 

sermon delivered Sunday morning, 

June 6, by Bishop Alter, and the 

Commencement Address, delivered by 

Dennis F. Kelly, Chicago merchant. 

For the rest, only attendance can 

catch the color of the scenes that 

marked the Pontifical Mass which 

Bishop Noll celebrated in the beautifully 

decorated Gym, the raising of 

the '37 flag which followed on the 

Quadrangle, and the Commencement 

exercises proper in the afternoon in 

the Gym. 

The Moreau Choir, the Band, the 

faculty and Seniors in cap and gown, 

the clergy in procession, all these 

things created a scene with which 

alimuii are familiar but which is impossible 

to describe adequately in 

type. 

Added feature of this year's weekend 

was the impressive presentation 

of the Laetare Medal to Dr. Jeremiah 

D. M. Ford, Harvard classicist. The 

presentation was made before a private 

audience of friends, faculty 

members and clergy in the parlor of 

the Administration Building at 3:00 

o'clock Sunday afternoon. Dr. Ford 

was a welcome figure at the Alumni 

Banquet and the other Commencement 

events of the week-end. 

Many of the events of the weekend 

have been touched upon only 

lightly. Happily, many of the addresses 

are reprinted in this issue to 

reach the many alumni who could not 

return. But in the last analysis, only 

those who were here can grasp the 

many happy features of the 93rd 

Annual Commencement exercises, the 

greatest, from an alumni standpoint, 

in the history of Notre Dame. 

St. Joe Hallers Gather 

Some 60 alumni, specifically known 

as "the St. Joe Hallers," returned for 

the Commencement exercises, the 

general alumni reunion and, likewise, 

to hold a reunion of their own—a 

gathering of St. Joe Boys, by St. Joe 

Boys and for St. Joe Boys. It was 

the first time in Notre Dame history 

that such a reunion had been held 

and that it met with the hearty approval 

of the many men who lived in 

old St. Joe Hall during their student 

days was attested by the letters that 

literally poured into the office of the 

Rev. J. Hugh O'Donnell, C.S.C, vicepresident 

of the University and moving 

spirit of the reunion. 

"Where," someone whose knowledge 

of Notre Dame extends back 

over a period of not more than 20 

years is bound to ask, "is St. Joe 

Hall?" 

That question is easily answered. 

Twenty years ago it was glorified by 

the addition of a pair of wings, and 

wonder of wonders — at least for 

those who had known the old Notre 

Dame—a cafeteria was installed on 

the ground floor. That was in 1917 

when a goodly portion of the graduating 

class, resplendent in new uniforms, 

came back to the Commencement 

from various army training 

campus, while others, located too far 

away to make the return trip, had 

to be content with receiving their di 

Reunion Recalls History 

of Famous Old Hall. 

By Paul R. Martin, '09 

plomas by parcel post. The name of 

St. Joe Hall was then changed to 

Badin and Badin it remains to the 

present. 

St. Joe Hall—it was called St. 

Joseph's Hall in formal conversation 

—^was not a large building. It contained 

no private rooms and its 

"lounge" was a "rec" room of the old 

fashioned type where the furniture 

was intended to be utilitarian rather 

than ornamental. But it was a place 

of happiness and of industry. If one 

should dig back into the archives of 

the director of studies ofiice he would 

likely find that some of the highest 

marks of scholarship were won by the 

lads who lived in old St. Joe—^lads 

who arose earlier in the morning 

than did the students of other halls, 

made their way across campus to the 

old kitchen behind the Administration 

building and carried the food 

from the kitchen to the two Main 

Building refectories and there served 

the tables more or less (usually less) 

according to the dictates of Miss Emily 

Post. 

In the days of the older Notre 

Dame, St. Joe Hall was the home of 

the student waiters, and, with the 

exception of a handful of boys who 

could be used in the library, the general 

office or as secretaries to the one 

or two administrative officers who 

rated secretaries, about the only stu 

dent employment available was waiting 

on table. 

What has been accomplished since 

graduation by many of the men was 

revealed by the letter-heads that 

filled Father O'Donnell's reunion correspondence 

file. Among them were 

the presidents of large manufacturing 

and other important business concerns; 

eminent physicians, lawyers 

and judges; engineers who have left 

their mark on gigantic undertakings; 

men high in politics and government 

service; teachers whose names adorn 

the title pages of authoritative text 

books; newspaper men who have reported 

world affairs in many countries; 

priests who shepherd flocks in 

some of the largest parishes or who 

have dedicated their lives to the instruction 

of youth or the missions; 

orators who at will hold large 

audiences in the palm of their hand; 

lecturers who entertain and instruct 

from the public platform. These and 

many more are among the alunrni of 

old St. Joe Hall and it is gratifying 

to the University authorities that a 

large number of them were back for 

the reunion of the erstwhile "white 

jackets." 

Those returning for the reunion 

included: 

Norman Bartholomew, '15, Iron Mountain. 

Michigan; James Boland, '17, South Bend; 

Richard Braun. *14, Port Arthur, Texas; Harold 

P. Burlse, '16. Rochester, New York; Dr. 

John Bums. '13, Kalamazoo, Michigan; John 

"W. Costello, '12, Chicago; S. F. Bauwens. '98, 

Chicago; Paul R. Conaghan, *20. Chicago; 

John Ckistdlo, '12, Chicago; Frank Cull, '08, 

Qeveland; James Cunningham, '07, Chicago; 

Arthur B. Curran, '15, Rochester, New York: 

William A. Daunt, '08, New York City; Dr. 

John Delph. '16, Chicago; John Dubbs, '03. 

Mendota, Illinois; Joseph R. Farrell, '15, 

Camp Hill, Pennsylvania. 

G. B. Fredell, 'Oo. Chicago; Alfred F. Fries. 

'16. Peru, Indiana; John Corley, '02. St, Louis: 

William Doyle, '11. Cobb, Wisconsin; Elmo 

Funk, '11, Anderson, Indiana; Leo Hannon, 

•09, Port Arthur, Texas; Frank Hayes, 'H. 

El Cajon, California; Rev. Edward Howard, 

'12, Brandon, Vermont; Frank Hurley, *18, 

Chicago; Will Jamieson, '05, Chicago; Eugene 

Kane, '14, Cleveland; William Kelleher, '15. 

Lorain. Ohio; Ray J. Kelly. '15, Detroit. 

Robert E. Lynch, '03. Green Bay. Wis.; I. 

W. Loshbaugh, '97, South Bend; Pat Maloney. 

'16, Crown Point. Indiana; J. Malkowski. '15, 

South Bend; Paul Martin, '09. Marion. Ind.; 

E. J. McOsker, "17, Elgin. Illinois; Joe 

O'Connor, '19. Rochester, N. Y.; Dr. Frank 

O^DonnclI. '17. Alpena, Michigan; Don P. 

O'Keefe. '03, Detroit; Donat Pepin. '14, Detroit; 

Harry Poulin. '99. South Bend; Ted 

Rademacher. *19. Peru. Indiana. 

Harry Richwine. '20. South Bend; James E. 

Sanford. '15. Chicago; Hon. Edmond H. Savord, 

'12, Sandusky, Ohio; Martin, Schnur. '95. 

Goshen, Indiana; James Sherry, '05, N. Tarrytown. 

New York; Harry Sylvestre, *16, 

Crookston, Minnesota; Joseph F. Smith, '14. 

Cleveland; Dr.'M. F. Sullivan. *14, Hammond, 

Indiana; E. C. Tobin, '15, Elgin, Illinois; Dr. 

L. P. Van Rie. '05, Mishawaka, Indiana; F. 

A. Zink. '08. Canton. Ohio; A. C. Zweck, '12, 

West Aliis, Wisconsin.

June. 1937 The Notre Dame Alumnus 239 

The distinguished honor of addressing 

the men of Notre Dame is mine 

—today—^but the memory will always 

live in my heart. Upon the occasion 

of Commencement, when thoughtful 

yoimg men finally close that chapter 

of their lives which embraces the 

comparatively carefree days of boyhood 

and of school—^when they look 

ahead to a new, more rigorous and 

perhaps more problematical future, 

these questions loom up in their 

minds. "This is Commencement Day 

—^^vhat does it signify? Of what is it 

the beginning? To what may we justifiiably 

look forward?" In facing, 

with you, this Commencement, in 

looking ahead with you to a life of 

worth while endeavor, I wish, if I 

may, to be of service. 

In the antediluvian days—Î refer 

to that period prior to 1930—many 

college graduates were accused of 

facing the world wth a superiority 

complex. However, if Notre Dame 

men have had such a complex, it is 

probably due to the great pride that 

Notre Dame graduates have in their 

school. 

Notre Dame Leading 

And this is indeed justifiable, for 

three important members of the faculty 

of one of the largest universities 

in Chicago have mentioned to me 

on several occasions that in their 

opinion Notre Dame is leading all 

other colleges in educating our young 

men. It is a •widely conceded fact 

that Notre Dame men are easily recognized 

through the inimitable character 

training that has been theirs 

during the years they spend at this 

school under its scholarly teaching 

staif. 

You ^vill carry with you, not only 

the evidence of the years of effort 

you made here, but something of the 

spirit as well, something that will 

assure you a cordial reception wherever 

you may go. And so, when you 

leave Notre Dame, you vnU have not 

only your diploma, but the best of all 

the signature of Notre Dame's president 

implies — the distinction that 

identifies graduates of Notre Dame 

as a class apart. 

You gentlemen undoubtedly have 

in mind the question, "What are my 

The Commencement Address 

By Dennis F. Kelly, LLD., '30 

Distinguished Catholic Layman, Head of 

the Fair Store in Chicago, Warns Graduates 

Against Hopes of Rapid Rise in Business. 

opportunities in the business world?" 

Business men to whom you will look 

for employment expect you to possess 

the necessary attributes that fit you 

for business. I use the term business 

in its all inclusive sense, for the 

simple reason that every form of occupation, 

whether it be professional, 

manufacturing, retailing or statesmanship, 

is a business, and business 

is a profession. And, speaking of 

qualifications, if you have the will to 

succeed in your life's work it is taken 

for granted that integrity and truthfulness 

will ever be your watchwords 

—and that you will always seek responsibility 

rather than attempt to 

evade it. 

Decide—^Then Go Ahead 

I hope none of you will make the 

mistake of vacillating in the choice 

of your life's work. Decide upon your 

career — definitely — then go ahead, 

for this is the age of specialization. 

Like Mr. Forbes, I believe that 

"Diamonds are merely little chunks 

of coal that stayed on the job" and 

I entirely agree with the sentiment 

of the song, "You Can't Play Every 

Instrument in the Band." Pick out 

DENNIS F. KELLY 

the one you like and stick to it, if 

you want to become a star. 

When accepting a connection with 

an organization, especially if it happens 

to be one of the larger type, you 

will find that the majority of men 

whom you meet are not collegetrained. 

They have, however, something 

you do not possess, as yet—^the 

training secured through the experience 

of years. With the ground work 

that you have acquired at Notre 

Dame, you should be able, in a comparatively 

short time, to master the 

details of any position to which you 

may be assigned, so that under ordinary 

circumstances your advancement 

would be much more rapid than 

you could possibly hope for without 

the benefits of a college education. 

The one great truth that I would 

like to leave with you today is—forget 

about rising rapidly — forget 

about becoming a star within a year 

or two. Oh, it is going to take much 

longer than that: You have to look 

far ahead—îf at the end of the first 

ten-year cycle, you find yourself successful, 

you have builded well, and 

you may well be proud of your 

achievement: Geniuses that startle 

the world with their youthful triimiphs 

are but the e.xceptions that 

prove the rule. Mistakes, when recognized 

and analyzed, are the richest 

pay dirt a man. can pan. They are to 

the ambitious man what the placer 

sands are to the miner — treasure 

houses of gold. Those of you who will 

profit by your mistakes will wind up 

your careers with an invaluable asset 

—^knowledge based on experience. 

Recognize Importance of Truth 

This is why looking backward is 

the first step toward looking forward. 

I would like every young man here 

to grasp the importance of truth. I 

would like to have you form the habit 

of reviewing yourselves and your 

work weekly, not treating lightly mistakes, 

rebukes and errors, but rather 

turning them over and examining 

them. Be searching and ruthless, if 

you will, in your honest self-analysis. 

Study what prompted your mistakes. 

And, last but not least, make plans 

to see that they will not happen

240 The Notre Dame Alumnus June. 1937 

again, thereby putting something 

valuable in your storehouse of experience 

and knowledge. All of us make 

mistakes but it is the wise and successful 

man who turns them into 

profit. 

In this connection I might point 

out that your associates in business 

can be of tremendous help in your 

advancement, and if you are ^\•ise 

you will show appreciation for all the 

assistance and advice they are in a 

position to offer because of their superior 

knowledge of business. 

In our business of retailing, we 

are constantly training a number of 

young college men. Those who are 

still in our organization have demonstrated 

by the hardest sort of work 

that they have the will to succeed. 

We have men from Harvard, Yale, 

Princeton, Notre Dame and other 

universities. One of the most successful 

of these men is a graduate of 

Notre Dame, Class of 1932, who now 

occupies a prominent position in our 

organization. AVhen he entered our 

store we advised him to cultivate the 

good will and siipport of those around 

him. This he has done admirably and 

it has been a determining factor in 

his advancement. 

Cultivate Cheerful Disposition 

There is no more important characteristic 

that you could acquire than 

a pleasant, cheerful disposition. A 

smile will carry you further than a 

frown. The world has no place for 

a man with a grievance, but it loves 

a man with a smile. 

It is not necessarj- for me to dwell 

upon the very high esteem in which 

Notre Dame is held and of the disappointment 

that come to hundreds 

of thousands when, on a very few 

occasions, your famous football team 

fails to win. I recall an incident 

which occurred last Fall when I was 

on a train bound for Milwaukee. I 

entered the Club Car and found a 

number of men gathered about a 

radio listening intently to a broadcast 

of one of your football games. I 

cannot recall ever having seen men 

so thoroughly disappointed as those 

I saw that day when the game's final 

gun banished all hope of victory. 

Though nothing was said by anyone, 

every man indicated by his facial expression 

that he would have been 

very happy if the score had been reversed. 

So you see, practically everyone 

expects Notre Dame to be on top 

—always. 

I hope that you will believe that 

business is something quite different 

from the ruthless enterprise some 

people would have it appear. In more 

than 40 years as an executive, I have 

yet to encounter anyone among those 

with whom I have been closely associated 

who attempted to do what I 

would consider a dishonest act. 

Business in general is straightforward 

and honest, and you can be 

helpful to the country as a whole and 

business in particular if you will 

remember that corporations are not 

all heartless Frankensteins. Executives, 

both great and small, are just 

as much interested in making an honorable 

success of their work and the 

work of those connected with their 

organizations as they are of the business 

itself. The reason for this is 

simple. Business cannot be a success 

unless those connected with it are 

happy and contented and wholehearted 

in their interest. 

Low Starting Salary 

Insofar as compensation is concerned, 

your question is probably, 

"What may I reasonably expect to 

earn as a starting salary?" My advice 

is that you should, if necessary, 

be content with a small salary that 

^vill, perhaps, enable you just "to get 

by," for about a year. In other words, 

keep your first demands low enough 

so that you will be able to make yourself 

wanted in the organization. 

Starting salaries should always be 

secondary considerations. 

After you accept a modest wage, 

budget your expenses accordingly and 

live within its limits. Do not get into 

the habit of borrowing money from 

anyone for it is generally recognized 

that if a man cannot manage his own 

financial affairs successfully, he cannot 

manage the affairs of others. 

Now, of course, I am not insensible, 

nor is any executive worthy of his 

office, ever unmindful of the necessity 

of earning an adequate salary. But 

the measure of an employee's worth 

is based primarily upon his spirit of 

willingness, his honest desire to further 

the best interests of his organization, 

his consciousness and acceptance 

of responsibility. Make your attitude—"What 

can I do?" rather 

than "How much can I make?" and 

you will find that by the efficient and 

intelligent fulfillment of your duties 

you are proving your worth to your 

organization—a worth that will ultimately 

be recognized in financial returns. 

It is the man who is dissatisfied 

to do only what he is paid to do, 

who insists always in doing just a 

little bit more, who makes himself 

truly invaluable to his employer. 

Walt Whitman said, "The gift is to 

the giver, and comes back most to 

him." There can be no question about, 

"Show me the man who progresses 

furthest and it is that man who puts 

most into his work." 

Tells of Own Experience 

I am going to venture to tell you of 

my own experience. One of my 

brothers was a cashier for a large 

store in Chicago. Because of this I 

persuaded my parents to permit him 

to find me a position as errand boy 

in that organization so that I could 

work during a summer vacation. 

That was my first job and it paid 

$2.00 a week. In the Fall I returned 

to school, neglecting to notify the 

head of the company, whose office boy 

I had been. When he discovered my 

absence he spoke to my brother and 

insisted upon my returning. I persuaded 

my parents to allow me to do 

so, with the understanding that I 

would study at night. This I did for 

more than ten years, but I have always 

regretted that I did not take 

the advice of my parents and acquire 

a college education. 

Another phase of my experience 

may be of some interest to you. Thirty-five 

years ago there were very few 

of our young men who took part in 

ci^^c affairs. The late Bishop JIuldoon 

of Chicago told me that Catholic 

young men were making a mistake in 

not taking a more active interest in 

the clubs and social organizations 

with which they were connected. He 

urged me to do so and cautioned me, 

above all, to avoid politics. Since then 

I have accepted many opportunities 

to ser\'e as director or officer of the 

clubs with which I have been connected. 

These activities provided 

much valuable experience and infinite 

stimulating contacts. 

Optimism Is Valuable 

During the past several years I 

have been rereading the biographies 

of a number of our Presidents—Wilson, 

Cleveland, Grant, Lincoln and 

others, together with the life stories 

of some of their cabinet members. 

History indicates that all of these 

men were faced with perplexing 

problems, quite as serious at the time 

as are those of today. In such situations 

you will always find Woodrow 

Wilson's definition of an optimist a 

big help. He said, "An optimist is a 

man who makes lemonade out of the 

lemons handed to him." While many 

lemons, in the form of difficult problems 

are being handed out today, just 

as they always have been, college 

men are becoming adept in the making 

of palatable lemonade. 

God, in His wisdom, has made it 

possible for many men of your generation 

and of mine, to revive some 

of the accomplishments of our forefathers. 

The majority of these men, 

who are among the country's greatest 

leaders, are not college trained 

and many of them, like myself and 

many of you, came from poor families, 

but they found this no handicap. 

We should all be proud of the accomplishments 

of such men as Thomas 

E. Wilson, Chairman of the Board 

of Directors of Wilson and Company, 

who started his business life in a 

minor position in the stockyards and 

is now generally recognized as the 

most able executive in the packing 

industry; Mr. James Simpson, Chair- 

(Continued on Pane 257)


BcToare lest any man cheat you by philosophy 

or vain deceit; according to the 

elements of the world, and not according to 

Christ,"—Coloss, 2-S, 

Every period of history has its own 

peculiar characteristics. The dominant 

note of our times is uncertainty, 

confusion and instability. There are 

scholars of great authority who express 

the conviction that we are 

approaching a crisis in our civilization, 

if in fact it is not already here. 

Superficially the crisis appears to be 

political, social and economic. Actually 

these are only symptoms of a 

much more profound distemper. The 

world is sick in its soul. It is out of 

joint spiritually and religiously. 

That this judgment is not merely 

an individual one but represents 

rather a consensus of world opinion 

is abundantly clear from the pronouncements 

of contemporary criticism. 

Christopher Dawson in England, 

the most respected of oar Christian 

sociologists, makes this statement: 

"Today the world is on the 

move again, and no one can tell 

where it is going or what will happen 

next; whether our civilization is 

going to recover its stability or 

whether it will collapse in ruins." 

Problem Is Religious 

In another place he states the 

cause and also cites the remedy. "The 

central conviction which has dominated 

my mind ever since I began to 

wTite, and which has increased in intensity 

during the last 20 years, is 

the conviction that the society or 

culture which has lost its spiritual 

roots is a dying culture, however 

prosperous it may appear externally. 

Consequently the problem of social 

survival is not only a political or 

economic one; it is above all things 

religious, since it is in religion that 

the ultimate spiritual roots both of 

society and of the individual are to 

be found." 

Let me repeat that this is not an 

isolated verdict. Dawson has many 

companions who share his views not 

only in England but on the Continent 

of Europe and here in America. In 

The Baccalaureate Sermon 

By Most Rev. Karl J. Alter, D.D.. 

Bishop of Toledo, Ohio 

Speaker Charges the 1937 Graduates 

With the Responsibility of Being Intel 

lectual, Articulate and on the Offensive. 

France v>-e can mention such celebrated 

scholars as Jacques Maritain, 

Paul Claudel, Gilson and Mauriac. 

In Germany there are Peter Wust 

and Karl Adam. 

In America there is an entire host 

of writers who echo the same sentiments. 

Among the non-Catholic critics 

similar views are expressed. Oswald 

Spengler, the German sociologist, 

writes a book on the Decline 

of the West; Nicholas Berdyaev, the 

Russian author, on the End of Our 

Times; Irving Babbitt, late of Harvard, 

Paul Elmer Moore of Princeton, 

and Walter Lippman, of literary 

fame, all concur in the same analysis 

of our modern unrest and instability. 

The latter offers the following trenchant 

criticism of present day American 

attitudes: "There is nothing 

BISHOP ALTER 

new in the fact that men have ceased 

to believe in the religion of their 

fathers, but this is the first age in 

the history of mankind when the circumstances 

of life have conspired 

with the intellectual habits of the 

time to render any fixed and authoritative 

belief incredible to large masses 

of men.—The irreligion of the 

modern world is radical to a degree 

for which there is, I think, no counterpart." 

Ever since the days of the Renaissance 

we have been moving towards 

a complete secularization of society. 

It was the great misfortune of our 

world that the leaders of that movement, 

otherwise so beneficial, erred 

egregiously in their appraisal of 

human values and fimibled the relation 

and distinction between nature 

and grace. They grossly exaggerated 

man's perfectibility by merely human 

means. They placed a false estimate 

on the ability of man to achieve unrestricted 

progress by dominating 

merely his physical environment and 

external nature rather than by mastering 

his own inner self, thereby 

establishing a divine synthesis between 

nature and grace. The train 

of events set in motion by the Renaissance 

is only now reaching its 

ultimate conclusions. Such is always 

the course of false philosophy. 

Life Has Lost Meaning 

Karl Adam states: "The sixteenth 

century revolt from the Church," he 

tells us "led inevitably to the revolt 

from Christ of the eighteenth century, 

and thence to the revolt from 

God of the nineteenth. . . And thus 

life has lost its great meaning, its 

\'ital strength and high purpose, its 

strong pervading love, that can be 

enkindled only by the divine." 

Christopher Dawson says practically 

the same thing: "Protestantism, 

Liberalism and Communism are the 

three successive stages by which our 

civilization has passed from Catholicism 

to complete secularism. The 

first eliminated the Church, the second 

eliminated Christianity, and the 

third eliminates the human soul. We 

cannot have a Christian society, or a 

Christian economic life until our civilization 

has recovered its moral conscience, 

its faith in God and its membership 

of the Church." 

During the past 400 years the 

Church has not been able to lead a 

normal life. She has been forced to 

stand upon the defensive. She has 

been like a country that is invaded, 

like a city that is beseiged. Her energies 

have been absorbed in fighting


for her very life and hence whole 

provinces of human life and cultural 

activity have been lost to her beneficent 

influence. Philosophy, literature, 

art, politics, economics — all these 

have repudiated their alma mater 

and have become prodigal sons wandering 

in a ^^^ldemess of doubt, confusion 

and despair. 

For a long time the battle was 

fought in the field of dogma. The 

Church had to vindicate the fundamental 

truths concerning her own 

divine establishment, the divinity of 

Christ, the authenticity of the Sacred 

Scriptures and the very fact of revelation. 

But the old battle line is 

changing. We are no longer defending 

the ancient doctrines of Christian 

Revelation. Now we are face to face 

• ^vith a general attack upon the entire 

code of Christian conduct. The very 

commandments of God are under fire. 

The traditional standards of Christian 

ethics, on the basis of which our 

civilization was built, are being subjected 

to a hea^-y barrage of higher 

criticism. > 

Our Civilization Pre-eniinent 

Every\vhere in the western world 

we have prided ourselves on our 

progress in the way of culture and 

civilization. We look down with a 

sense of superiority on the culture of 

China and Japan, of India and of the 

far flung territory of Islam. AVe of 

America and Europe consider, and 

rightly so, that our ci\'ilization is 

something pre-eminent and unique in 

the history of the human race. What 

most people do not realize is the 

source and origin of our peculiar 

privilege. 

Our civilization is not something 

which just happened. It is not a thing 

of spontaneous generation. It is not 

a mere accident or an effect without 

a cause. Even if we were not possessed 

of an inquiring turn of mind, 

our attention should at least be arrested 

by the fact that this culture of 

o"rs is historically associated with 

Christianity and that it is everywhere 

co-terminous with its boundaries. 

AATierever the Christian gospel 

has been preached and its principles 

accepted into the lives of the people 

great social improvements have taken 

place. This v.-as true in the ancient 

world and it is true today. As Christian 

truth advances, society improves. 

As Christian truth retreats, society 

falls first into confusion and then 

into decay. The inner spirit and the 

driving force of our culture are the 

product of a specific body of truth 

and practice which in its last analysis 

has no other foundation than the 

Christian gospel. Tell me what are 

the ideas and the attitudes of a people, 

towards human life, towards 

property, towards labor, towards 

marriage, the family, and towards 

government, and I will name for you 

the distinguishing characteristics of 

its civilization. 

Is human life the property of God 

or is it the property of man? Upon 

the answer which we give to that 

question depends the value, the dignity 

and the safety of human life. If 

it is from God then it cannot be declared 

forfeited or abridged in any 

way by the authority of man. If it 

is from God and He alone has dominion 

over it, then suicide and homicide 

in any form are an attack upon 

the rights of God and they will be 

reprobated and rejected completely in 

a society or civilization which acknowledges 

such rights and believes 

in such Christian truths. 

If on the other hand we reject the 

Christian viewpoint and assume that 

the life of man is subject to human 

authority, vested in the state or in 

government, then immediately its 

dignity, its sanctity and its security 

%nll be placed in jeopardy. If you 

think this is merely academic or 

without practical results, let me direct 

your attention to the customs 

which prevailed in pagan societies 

before the advent of Christian truth. 

In the Roman state the husband had 

complete control over the life of his 

wife, the children, and the slaves of 

the household. Under the laws of 

Lycurgus defective children were exposed 

to death immediately after 

birth. There was nothing reprehensible, 

moreover, in the mind of a 

Roman populace to seek entertainment 

at the arena in the death combats 

of professional gladiators. Life 

was cheaply held. 

Abortion, Sterilization, Euthanasia 

You may say that this is a thing 

of the past and could not possibly 

recur today. But what about the 

surgical death of thousands of unborn 

children by the way of abortion? 

What about the laws of sterilization 

which have been passed in recent 

years by quite a large number of our 

states? There are some who think 

that this is merely a eugenic measure 

for the improvement of the race. Do . 

.not forget however that even a partial 

attack upon our right to life and 

the integrity of the human person is 

an admission of the State's authority 

over life itself. The State will not 

stop at the comma but will ultimately 

go through to the period as it has 

done in Russia. AVhat about euthanasia 

or mercy killing of which we 

read in our newspapers today? 

Though at present these mercy killings 

are advocated for the hopelessly 

insane, the hopelessly crippled, the 

hopelessly defective, what reason 

have we to think that they ^vill stop 

there? 

As Christians we deny such rights 

and we hold strictly to the principle 

that life belongs to God alone. We 

refuse to let anyone open up this 

Pandora box and let loose once more 

the genii of violence and ruthless 

slaughter. Can anyone seriously believe 

that if the Russian Communists 

maintained a belief in God and in his 

supreme dominion over life, that 

their leaders could speak so glibly of 

liquidating huge masses of the population 

by wholesale death? Several 

millions of the land-owning peasant 

class and the bourgeoise were either 

stood up against the wall before the 

firing squad or else cruelly condemned 

to famine. Let no thoughtful 

person say that principles do not 

count or that it make no difference 

what one things of the sanctity of 

life and who has authoritj' over it. 

Regarding Private Property 

Turn your attention for a few moments 

to the question of PRIV.\TE 

PROPERTY. Christianity teaches that 

ownership of property is a God-given 

right necessary for man's well being 

in this world. It teaches, however, 

that there is a twofold purpose of 

propert}'. It is both individual and 

social. In other words its function is 

to serve the good or well being of 

persons and families and also the 

common good of the whole community. 

Christianity teaches that "the 

earth is the Lord's and the fullness 

thereof." Man, therefore, has no absolute 

right to do with his property as 

he pleases. Rather he is a steward 

of his possessions and must administer 

them under God's law according 

to the purpose for which the Creator 

gives them. He cannot follow merely 

his own sweet will. 

Now what happens in the practiced 

order from a consideration of this 

truth? Does it not follow immediately 

that both the system of finance-capitalism 

and the system of communistic 

bolshevism stand equally condemned? 

Because of this fundamental truth 

our Holy Father Pius XI has been 

forced to speak out in solemn warning, 

demanding a reconstruction of 

the social order on the basis of a 

right and Christian understanding of 

property and private o\vnership. 

When we speak of finance—capitalism 

we do not mean to imply that 

the use of private wealth for the purpose 

of economic production, whether 

by the individual or by groups joined 

together in corporations, is contrary 

to Christian teaching. The phrase, 

hov/ever, stands for much more than 

that. Broadly speaking, finance-capitalism 

implies irresponsibility which 

breaks up the moral organism of society 

into a chaos of competitive individualism. 

In the economic world it 

denies the sovereignty of the moral 

law and substitutes for it pure self 

interest. In the political order it 

denies the principle of authority and 

substitutes for it the arbitrary will 

of the majority. In religious matters 

it denies the existence of objective 

divine truth and substitutes for it 

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June, 1937 The Notre Dame Alumnus 243 

President of University Reports on 1936-37 

At the Commencement exercises 

three years ago, our hearts were saddened 

by the fatal ilhiess of our 

President, Father O'Donnell. At the 

close of the exercises, just three 

years ago today, this beloved priest 

passed to his great reward. 

This year, by a singular coincidence, 

another great figure in the 

literary tradition of Notre Dame has 

cast a shadow on our joy by his passing. 

The association of Professor 

Fred Myers with our University was 

relatively brief, if compared \vith the 

55 years of Father Hudson, but the 

impression made this modest man on 

the students who came under his influence 

during that time was of the 

everlasting kind. Let my first word 

tonight be a pledge of prayers for 

the repose of his beautiful and courageous 

soul. -Ajid let me be your 

spokesman in a similar pledge for 

two other noble souls who were mth 

us a year ago but have since been 

called to God — the great Father 

Nieuwland and the lovable Johnnie 

O'Brien. May their souls, and the 

souls of all the faithful departed, 

through the mercy of God, rest in 

peace. 

Cites Father Sorin's Exairple 

These crosses come, and we accept 

them with resignation to the Divine 

Will. Again we commend ourselves to 

Divine Providence, which has guided 

Notre Dame through seemingly insurmountable 

trials; again we thank 

God for a good year. Looking over 

some old letters of Father Sorin recently, 

I was struck by the frequency 

with which he put off his creditors 

admitting honestly that the treasury 

was empty, but that his faith in God 

had not abated. In one letter, written 

in 1859, he wrote that he expected 

Notre Dame to be sold that day for 

debt. In another letter, dated in that 

same year, he reported that the religious 

had gathered about his bed in 

tears that morning, lamenting the 

end of Notre Dame, and that he upbraided 

them for their lack of confidence 

in the Divine Providence which 

had protected them in seemingly impossible 

situations. Often he stated 

that though the till was empty, the 

flour bin was not, and that God had 

blessed them with good crops; that 

neither students nor community was 

in danger of starvation. 

Summarizes Progress of Vear in Annua! 

Message to Alumni; Emphasizes Unprecedented 

Record in Student Religious Life. 

By Rev. John F. O'Hara. C.S.C. "I I 

(An Address at the Alumni Banquet) 

It is on prayer that Notre Dame 

was built, and on prayer it must continue 

if it is to do the work for which 

it was founded. I am pleased to report 

that the spirit of prayer has not 

departed. Father Cavanaugh tells me 

' that the number of Holy Communions 

received by the students this year 

was 361,215, a daily average of 1,570, 

or 40 a day more than was ever 

recorded before. The best previous 

average was 1,530, which was registered 

in the scholastic year, 1931-32, 

when the student registration was 

200 higher than it is now. In addition 

to daily Communion, there were 

evidences of new peaks in devotion to 

the Blessed Sacrament, to daily adoration 

of the Blessed Sacrament, and 

to Our Lady at the Grotto. Notre 

Dame is following in the way of her 

founders when these things are true, 

and I know that you want to hear 

that the truly important things have 

not been forgotten. 

It has been, I say, a good year. For 

the first time since the depression 

affected student attendance on the 

campus, we found it necessary to 

close registration of students a month 

in advance of the opening of classes. 

.A.ttendance was limited this year, 

practically, to those who could be accommodated 

on the campus, 2,937. 

Present reports from the registrar 

FATHER O'HARA 

indicate that probably before the end 

of this month, the books for next 

year will be closed. I should say in 

this connection that it is not our intention 

to provide new housing facilities 

for undergraduates, except in the 

way of replacements of halls that are 

not fireproof. Increase in graduate 

enrollment indicates the need of a 

graduate hall, and there will be no 

limitation placed for the present on 

students in the graduate division; 

but the council has decided against 

allowing any further growth in the 

undergraduate department. 

Progress in Science 

Last year you heard at length of 

studies and research in science. It 

will not be amiss to report briefly at 

this time on the development of projects 

then outlined. Two important 

symposia were held during the year. 

In January, a memorial service for 

Father Nieuwland brought together 

some 300 scientists from all parts of 

the country; the papers read on scientific 

subjects at this meeting have 

received world - wide attention. In 

April, a symposium on the Calculus 

of Variations was attended by some 

70 mathematicians of first rank in 

the United States. The two days' 

sessions were addressed by the 12 

men in this country who are held to 

be most proficient in this particular 

branch of mathematics. Professor • 

Menger, who came to us this year 

from the faculty of the University 

of Vienna, was the moving spirit of 

the Symposium. Another Notre Dame 

speaker was professor Arthur Haas, 

who is also a former member of the 

Vienna faculty. 

A year ago, the cornerstone of the 

Biology building was blessed during 

Commencement exercises. This new 

building is now completed, and will 

be in use during the coming summer 

session. It has been praised as a 

model for work in the field of 

Biology. 

The new Cavanaugh Hall, a Freshman 

dormitory, was opened in September. 

Zahm Hall, another Freshman 

dormitory, is promised for the 

opening of school this fall. The renovation 

of Corby Hall was completed 

in December, and this traditional student 

dormitory is now a beautiful 

faculty houS2.

244 The Notre Dame Alumnus J une, 1937 

Many questions are asked about 

the proposed Rockne Memorial. Unfortunately, 

I cannot make any definite 

promises on the beginning of 

work, but I can tell you that the 

architects have modified plans in such 

fashion that the cost of the building 

is now much less than originally announced. 

Present plans call for a 

structure that ^vill cost §550,000. It 

seems not to be generally known that 

the amount collected on the original 

drive was only 5125,000. Interest on 

invested principal has now increased 

this amount to $150,000. There is still 

a gap of $400,000 to be bridged. It is 

hoped that the restoration of business 

confidence will incline many of our 

friends to make donations to this 

worthy cause. 

Visit of Cardinal Pacelli 

The most notable event of the year 

was the visit of the Papal Secretary 

of State, Cardinal Pacelli. His Eminence 

accepted from the University 

the honorary degree of Doctor of 

Letters, the first degree of this kind 

that has been awarded here. Since 

this memorable visit. His Eminence 

has given many evidences of warm 

affection for Notre Dame. 

The alumni of the Universitj', under 

the active leadership of their 

tireless president, Arthur Hughes, 

has this year given our country 

striking evidence of the importance 

of the sound education in fundamental 

truths that must be followed 

if Democracy is to continue as a safe 

and sound form of government. 

Armed with the personal blessing of 

the Holy Father, President Hughes 

visited alumni clubs from coast to 

coast this year at great personal sacrifice. 

Everywhere he addressed public 

gatherings, and encouraged Notre 

Dame men to initiate activities 

against Communism, and to cooperate 

with sound movements in this 

direction wherever they were already 

in progress. Everywhere he met with 

the cooperation of the hierarchy and 

the warm assistance of Notre Dame 

men. Correspondence received from 

all parts of the country indicates that 

great good has been done by this 

sacrificing work of President Hughes, 

and I want to thank him personally 

and the alumni association for this 

fine testimony to the work of Notre 

Dame training. 

The University was represented at 

the Eucharistic Congree in Manila by 

Father George Marr, and Father 

Thomas Lahey. Father Marr continued 

the journey around the world, 

and is expected home shortly. An 

unfortunate illness interfered •svith 

Father Lahey's plan to continue beyond 

the Philippine Islands. After 

several weeks in a Manila hospital. 

Father Lahey returned to this country, 

and is now resting at the University 

of Portland, to gain strength 

for his return journey to Notre 

Dame. You may have heard Lowell 

Thomas broadcast from the Queen 

Mary his impression of Father Marr. 

He had met the genial rector of 

Walsh Hall in St. Peter's a few days 

earlier, and he described him as the 

lonesomest man he had ever seen in 

all his travels. Father Marr recalled 

the story of the prophet, Habacuc, 

whom an angel carried by the hair 

of his head from Palestine to Babylon, 

where he was deposited in the 

den of lions with Daniel with a basket 

of lunch for the great prophet 

who had rebuked Nebuchadnezzar. 

Father Marr, at the tomb of the 

Apostles was saying a prayer that 

this angel would visit him and set 

him down in the heart of Notre 

Dame, where he could enjoy final examinations 

and spring practice. However, 

I am not sure that Father 

Marr's prayer was entirely sincere. 

He had in his pocket a ticket to 

Stuttgart, and he planned to visit 

Lourdes, England and Ireland before 

sailing for New York. 

Our heart goes again tonight to 

the far west, where a member of the 

class of 1932, now holding its fiveyear 

reunion here, is beginning a 

brave journey home. Fred Snite was 

stricken ^vith infantile paralysis some 

15 months ago in Peiping, China. 

Those 15 months he has spent in an 

"iron lung," always brave, always 

cheerful, in spite of the prospect that 

death might strike at any moment. 

Ingenious devices of modem science 

have made it possible for him to 

attempt the homeward journey. Every 

stage of this trip will be fraught 

with peril, but he and his family, 

are courageous enough to make 

the trip. The Class of 1932 sent 

him a reassuring cablegram from its 

reunion last night, and promised to 

continue its prayers for his safety 

and his ultimate recovery. I am sure 

all of you will unite with his classmates 

in an earnest plea for this 

same intention. 

The University acknowledges with 

deep gratitude the series of important 

gifts that have come during the 

past year. With the closing of the 

estate of the late Frank Phillips, the 

portfolio of the Board of Lay Trustees 

was increased by some $300,000. 

The final accounting of the estate of 

Mr. Phillips' brother-in-law, the late 

William P. Breen, will further increase 

the portfolio by something 

more than §100,000. 

Some notable additions to the collections 

of rare and precious books in 

the Library have been made by William 

Daunt, Class of 1908, and Shane 

Leslie, LL.D., 1935. 

Other benefactions received during 

the year totaling several thousand 

dollars have been contributed: 

1. From Gerald Rj-an, Joseph Ryan, 

Mary T. Ryan. Bemice Ryan, Florence 

MarKan, and Genevie\*e Lan- 

san, to establish the Roger Ryan 

Memorial Scholarship for the benefit 

of students who suifer physical 

handicaps $1,000 

2. From Mr- C. Roy McCanna. Lay 

Trustee, for the Charles L. O'Donnell 

scholarship in Apolosetics 1.000 

3. For slides for the Department of 

Architecture from the SolIIt Construction 

Company „__. 400 

4. For the Roger Ryan Memorial Scholarship 

from a Bishop 

5. For needy students, from alumnus — 

6. For needy students from a friend — 

7. For needy students from a fan 

S. For needy students from Grattan 

Stanford, 'OS 

30 

100 

9. For • needy students from Harry 

Cullcn, '23 25 

10. For the Dante Statue: 

Mr. E. Byrne Hackett 

Mr. Gabriel Wells 

Mrs. Mary Young Moore 

The Most Rev. James E. Cassidy, 

D.D. 

Mr. Byron V. Kanolcy 

Mr. James Oliver, H 

Mr. Daniel Verrili. '29 

Mr. Harley McDevitt, '29 

90 

50 

10 

20 

200 

50 

20 

25 

15 

5 

11. For Scientific equipment from Mr. 

C. C. Mitchell, '02 1.000 

12. For general purposes: 

Hon. J. F. T. O'Connor 60 

Mr. John C. Tully, '11 500 

13. For the Roger Ryan Memorial Scholarship 

from the Ryan Family 

14. From Mr. John Pick. '33 a first edition 

of Drydcn's "Satires of Juvenal 

and Persius" 

15. From Mrs. C. H. Mann, a folio edi- 

.tion of the Douay Bible. 

16. From the British Government in 

India, a splendid collection of fossils 

and other geological specimens. 

17. From G. A. Farabaugh. '04 

needy students — 

for 

100 

IS. For the Dante statue, AnoniTnous, '29 10 

19. For the Dante statue. Anonymous, '16 5 

20. From Mr. Herman Feigenheimer. 

Chicago, for student relief 25 

21. From the Studebaker^ Corporation. 

one Studebaker Dictator engine, 

for the department of Aeronautical 

Engineering. 

22. From R.iymond Disco for a special 

Medieval Library fund . 60 

23. From Mr. A. Lee Read, '26, for continuance 

of the Mechan Medal 155 

In welcoming to the ranks of the 

alumni the Class of 1937, special salutation 

is due the graduates in Aeronautical 

Engineering. This new 

course, which was opened two years 

ago with an enrollment of seven juniors, 

has had during the present year 

the largest freshman enrollment of 

any branch of Engineering. 

All in all, it has been a grand year 

at the University, and since we seem 

to have the largest alumni reunion 

that has ever been held at the University, 

I take it that the blessing of 

God has been vrith you all. May it 

so continue forever.


Hughes Reports on Anti-Communism Trips 

And now I have come to the end 

of my year. I am told that custom 

dictates that at this time I should 

render an account of my stewardship. 

I should tell you what I have done 

during my year as President of our 

National Alumni Association. 

In that connection, however, my 

administration has been somewhat of 

a peculiar one, because I alone have 

not carried the major part of the 

burden of the Association's activities 

during the past year. That burden 

has been earned in large measure by 

Notre Dame men throughout the 

length and the breadth of this country, 

and instead, therefore, of reporting 

to you what I have done, I 

am going to report to you on what 

they have done, within the narrow 

limitations of the time allotted to me. 

Thanks Pope for Assistance 

Before passing to that, however, I 

want to make of this a solemn moment 

during which I desire most sincerely 

to extend to His Holiness, Pope 

Pius the Eleventh, our deepest appreciation 

and our mose sincere 

thanks for the saintly blessing which 

he conferred upon the work of our 

Association last September. Without 

having the full, unqualified approval 

which He gave unstintingly to the 

plans that we hoped to achieve, the 

accomplishment of those plans would 

have dwarfed into insignificance. 

I next want to offer, also, to His 

Eminence, George Cardinal Mundelein 

of the Archdiocese of Chicago, 

the sincere thanks of our Association 

for the endeavors which he put forth 

in making possible my private audience 

with the Holy Father. Cardinal 

Mundelein's cooperation was graciously 

extended to Father O'Hara 

and myself at an audience which was 

afforded to us in Chicago last August. 

I desire at this time, also, to sincerely 

thank Father O'Hara for the 

fine inspiration and support and leadership 

which he has constantly given 

us in our campaign against Communism 

throughout the year. There 

wasn't a time that I wanted to see 

him that he didn't make it possible 

for me to see him, and there wasn't 

a time that I virrote to him that I 

didn't get an immediate reply. He 

Alumni Association President Tells of Numerous 

Public Meetings Arranged by Notre Dame 

Clubs and of the Excellent Results Achieved. 

By Arthur J. Hughes, "11 

(An Address nt the Alumni Banquet) 

has been shoulder to shoulder with 

us in all of our endeavors, and he 

leads us now triumphantly in whatever 

accomplishments we may have 

attained. 

I have said to you that there were 

able and aggressive and loyal Notre 

Dame men throughout this whole 

land of ours who also cooperated 

with me most nobly in our joint_ endeavors 

to carry the colors of Notre 

Dame to the very heights of patriotism 

and honor and good citizenship, 

and that Notre Dame man who was 

most outstanding in the results that 

he was able to achieve in behalf of 

Notre Dame and our Alumni Associa- 

ARTIIUR J. HUGHES 

tion is our good friend, Jimmy Phelan, 

football coach at Washington 

University. 

Jimmy was ably assisted in those 

endeavors which he put forth daily 

over a period of some three months 

by Emmet G. Lenihan, another outstanding 

Notre Dame man, whose 

record also as a student, as well as a 

graduate, has been preeminent in the 

annals of our school. Those of us 

who are gathered here at this Commencement 

time to participate in the 

twentieth anniversary reunion of the 

class of 1917 can well be proud of 

these two fine representatives of our 

class for the marvelous vôrk that 

they did in our behalf. 

Four thousand people crossed the 

threshold of one of the largest auditoriums 

in Seattle, Washington, to attend 

out meeting and some 30-odd 

of the city's most prominent leaders 

were on the platform. Bishop Shaughnessy 

of the diocese of Seattle sponsored 

the meeting on behalf of the 

Seattle Truth Society, of which 

George Flood is the president. 

Throughout those long preparations 

Father Gallagher, chancellor of the 

Seattle diocese, worked constantly 

with Jim to put over, not only the 

biggest meeting of this year, but the 

biggest civic meeting ever held, I am 

told, under Notre Dame auspices outside 

the confines of the campus. 

Success in Springfield 

I should mention next perhaps the 

meeting of the Notre Dame Club of 

Springfield, Illinois, so ably handled 

by Charles G. Corcoran, president of 

the club, and another member of onr 

class of 1917, in association with 

George Maypole, president pro tem 

of the Illinois Senate. As a part of 

the gathering a dinner was tendered 

by Bishop Griffin of the Springfield 

diocese in honor of Father O'Hara, 

and about the banquet table there 

were gathered not only Father O' 

Hara, as honored guest, but Bishop 

Griffin and Bishop Schlarman of the 

diocese of Peoria, Honorable Henry 

Homer,, Governor of the State of 

Illinois, and all of the state officials 

and prominent citizens of the city. 

Our meeting in Minneapolis, under 

the auspices of the Notre Dame Club 

of that city, and under the direction 

of John D. Yelland and Jerry Conway, 

was a most memorable one with 

cround 600 people in the audience. 

In St. Louis the St. Louis Club, 

under the direction of Dr. Weis, as 

its president, with the able cooperation 

of John L. Corley of the class of 

1902, secured the sponsorship of the 

Jesuit Fathers of St. Louis Tlniversity 

and our meeting was held in the University 

auditorium with a great 

crowd in attendance. 

In Portland, Oregon, Charles G. 

Hirschbuhl of the class of 1922, ably


assisted by Frank J. Lonergan, of 

the class of 1904, my old friend Bill 

Schmitt of the class of 1910, and 

Father Michael Early, president of 

the University of Portland and a 

member of the Holy Cross Order, 

achieved great distinction by not only 

having a large crowd in attendance, 

but also ha\ing Archbishop Howard 

of the diocese of Portland preside at 

the meeting. Sam Dolan, whom you 

all know well as one of our greatest 

football players and a member of the 

class of 1910, drove a distance of 80 

miles to attend this meeting, being 

outdone in this respect only by Father 

John Regan of the class of 1920 and 

chancellor of the diocese of Great 

Falls, Montana, who drove a distance 

of 100 nules to attend our meeting 

in Helena, The Helena meeting was 

ably arranged and conducted by William 

B. Jones of the class of 1928, 

president of the Montana Club. 

Des Moines Meeting 

At the Des Moines, Iowa, meeting, 

held under the direction of Harold P. 

Klein of the class of 1926, we were 

honored by the presence of Bishop 

Gerald Bergan, of the diocese of 

Des Moines, who presided at our 

meeting. 

And I now want to tell you of the 

wonderful endeavors put forth by 

Robert A. Dick, president of the 

Denver Notre Dame Club, and Edward 

Mansfield. These men had 

worked steadily for weeks in their 

preparations, as a result of which we 

v.-ere invited to make addresses to 

some 700 or 800 students at Regis 

College, as the guests of the Jesuit 

Fathers, and again before some 500 

or GOO students of Cathedral high 

school, in addition to which there was 

the main meeting of the evening, as 

well as a dinner of the Denver Club 

and two radio broadcasts. 

In addition to these meetings which 

I have mentioned, and since the last 

ALUMNUS, we visited the following 

cities: 

In Kansas City on April 27, a meeting 

was held under club auspices in 

one of the attractive auditoriums of 

the Municipal Building. John M. 

"Rome" Dugan, chairman of the committee 

in charge, was out of the city, 

but President Robert M. Tyler and 

the committee, — Dan Foley, Henry 

Burdick, Dr. KeWn Curran, Fred 

Maneuso, Henry Massman, E. Mc- 

Grath, Frank Tyler, Dr. D. AL Nigro, 

John O'Connor, Maurice Carroll, Joe 

Stewart, and the officei-s of the club 

— promoted a very representative 

and attentive audience. 

In Phoenix Arizona, on April 30, 

we found a club of small membership 

but large abilities and loyalty. Jack 

Hilkert had been ill and arrangements 

were delayed. But through 

the cooperation of the Phoenix Council, 

K. of C, under Grand Knight 

Roy Heyne, a fine meeting was held 

in St. Mary's auditorium. Jack Hilkert 

and Steve Bielli were the guardian 

angels of this stop. The following 

day, Saturday, a luncheon was 

enjoyed with a group of the alumni 

and friends of Notre Dame, including 

Ed Mehren, who had just returned 

from a trip East, and Jliss Madelyn 

Carmody, sister of Steve Carmody, 

'22, who acted as hostess on a visit 

to the Government Indian school 

where she is a nurse. 

California Clubs 

Los Angeles, where a splendid series 

of 13 radio talks occupied the 

winter weeks through the leadersliip 

of Henry Dockweiler, ^-ice-president 

of the Association, on May 3 arranged 

a joint meeting of the alumni 

and one of the outljang councils of 

the Knights of Columbus. Alumni 

representation included some of the 

most familiar names in the L. A. roster— 

Joseph Scott, Al Scott, Henry 

Dockweiler, Terence Cosgrove, Frank 

Barrj', Tom Lieb, Gene Kennedy, 

Judge Thomas McKeon, Leo Ward, 

et al. Doug Daley, president of the 

club, presided at the Notre Dame 

part of the occasion. Gene Kennedy 

and Jim McCabe, a recent addition 

to the club as L. A. representative for 

the niinois Central Railroad, provided 

many sightseeing thrills. 

San Francisco hit a hurdle in the 

illness and resulting absence of Mark 

Kreutzer. But Bemie Abrott took 

hold and, v.-ith the aid of such stalwarts 

as Royal Bosshard, Keene Fitzpatrick 

and Elmer Wynne, assembled 

a good meeting at the Union League 

Club on the night of May 5. With 

the hotel strike in full blast, the 

Union League Club also offered living 

quarters which were greatly appreciated. 

Salt Lake City was stymied for an 

open meeting, but we were guests at 

a special luncheon on May 12 which 

was graced by His Excellency Governor 

Blood, Judge Roger McDonough, 

President Ray Brady, Cy Harbeke, 

and several other prominent 

civic and state leaders. 

The final trip of the year was made 

Eastward and was shortened (with 

little real opposition on our part) by 

the difficulties that the late dates and 

the Memorial Day week-end presented 

to the clubs in Albany and New 

Jersey. 

Circumstances prevented the 

planned meeting in Buffalo on the 

night of May 24, but such staunch 

leaders there as Jay Lee, John Byrne, 

and the younger alumni under the 

leadership of President George Doyle 

and Frank Cass, have promised to 

follow up the program there as it 

develops. The K. of C. had kindly 

conti-ibuted the use of their lovely 

auditorium for the meeting. 

In Rochester on May 25, President 

Frank Norton and his aides had a 

splendid meeting. It was held in the 

Columbus Civic Center at 8:15. Cooperation 

had been secured previously 

from the Knights of Columbus, 

from Nazareth College and from Niagai-a 

University. Mr. Eugene Dwyer, 

outstanding attorney and Catholic 

lajTnan, presided. The meeting was 

preceded by a dinner of the club in 

our honor. 

Traveling Ends in Utica 

May 2G, in Syracuse, the Notre 

Dame Club, cooperating with the 

Syracuse Post No. 41 of the American 

Legion, and Syracuse Council 

191, K. of C., held a meeting in the 

Legion Club House. Presiding was 

Frank C. Love, a vice-commander of 

the Legion in New York State. Fine 

organization work was done by Leo 

Kelley, acting as the N. D. chairman, 

Irving Belth, commander of the 

American Leôn, and Herman Engelhart, 

grand knight of the K. of C. 

Printed imitations were sent out by 

the group to all of the religious, ciîc, 

fi-atemal, and labor groups of the 

city. In the afternoon, we presented 

our talk in brief form to the senior 

class of Christian Brothers Academy, 

through the coui-tesy of the Brothers 

there. 

And the active program of visits 

closed most happily in Utica on the 

night of May 27, where, again, the 

Notre Dame Club and the Knights of 

Columbus joined forces in sponsoring 

the meeting. Dr. John Kelley was the 

Notre Dame man in charge of arrangements, 

while Grand Knight Rus- 

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THE CENTER OP THE HEAD TABLE AT THE ALUMNI BANQUET 

Left to right—Dr. J. D. M. Ford, Rev. J. A. Bums, C.S.C., D. F. Kelly, Rev. J. 

F. O'Hara. C.S.C., A. J. Hughes, Rev. J. W. Donahue, C.S.C.


Report of the Executive Secretary 

MEMBERSHIP: 

Improved economic conditions, and 

increased activity in the Association 

program, brought about a very promising 

increase in active membership, 

as reflected in payment of dues. 

1,829 members paid dues in 1936- 

1937, as against 1,349 the preceding 

year, an increase of more than 35%. 

Continuing financial strain was indicated 

by the fact that of this number 

more than 12% took advantage of 

the offer to accept less than the five 

dollars. 

Encoui-agement of the figures is 

obvious. On the same rate of increase, 

next year, the current fiscal 

year, should see us again financially 

independent. 

Encouragement also, from a membership 

standpoint, was readily found 

by the officers in contacts with the 

Local Clubs, and with the Classes, 

particularly the Reunion Classes. 

Individual member activity and interest 

also found outlet in retreats, 

football games, visits to the campus 

on personal trips, correspondence 

with the Office, and the increasing 

scope of member interests generally. 

THE ALUMNUS: 

The Editor of the ALUMNUS was 

necessarily away a great deal this 

year. The burden of the magazine 

fell largely on William R. Dooley, 

'26, gi-aduate manager of publications 

and managing editor of the 

ALUMNUS. His excellent work was 

reflected in large numbers of enthusiastic 

comments for the magazine as 

it appeared nine times during the 

year. 

Departments were strengthened by 

the veteran authorship of Joseph Petritz, 

'32, sports editor, and Jolm 

Lechner, '37, campus editor, together 

with a most edifying efficiency on the 

part of most of the Club and Class 

Secretaries. 

Additional advertising, particularly 

national, was run this year, largely in 

a spirit of faith and hope, not without 

some of the element of charity. 

However, the movement is the most 

promising to date in making the national 

advertiser conscious of the 

select group feature of the alumni 

magazine, and increased revenue has 

been predicted to offset the less attractive 

features. 

From June I, 1936 to June I. 1937 

THE LOCAL ALUMNI CLUBS: 

Too many good things cannot be 

said for the Notre Dame Clubs. This 

year they were tried in earnest. The 

anti-Communism campaign, with its 

collective start and its individual follow-ups, 

found a most satisfactory 

strength and spirit in the Clubs. The 

Pontiac hour, broadcast from the 

campus, received a most commendable 

support from the Clubs. And 

on Universal Notre Dame Night, the 

Clubs reached that new peak that has 

become an annual feature of the 

Night. 

The tone of Club activities grew 

richer, not in the monetary sense 

perhaps, but in a better sense. Spiritually, 

intellectually, as civic units, 

the Clubs emerged. 

Retreats occupied many of the Club 

calendars, most successfully. The 

football smokers of the St. Joe Valley 

Club again stood out. Chicago and 

Detroit conducted a series of lectures 

by campus faculty members which, 

were most effective. New York and 

Los Angeles secured sponsorship for 

series of thirteen lectures on Catholic 

subjects opposed to Communism. 

In New York these were given by 

Report oF the Treasurer 

June I, 1936 to June I. 1937 

Balance on.hand June 1, 1936 „ $ 358.80 

Receipts, June 1, 1936 to June 1, 1937: 

Dues _ :. 8,487.00* 

Living Endowment 225.00** 

-Advertising in ALUJINTJS 1,727.92 

Interest 60.00 

Subscriptions and miscellaneous income 330.73 

Total Income for Year §11,189.45 

*A 22% increase in amount over 1935-36. 

**JMore than $2,000 was given by alumni for current needs of 

the University, direct to the President of the University. 

Expenditures: 

Postoffice, Notre Dame (.ALUMNUS, stamps, 

permit mail, return mail, etc.) § 1,086.51 

Printing and Engraving 2,386.89 

Office salaries 4,960.00 

Travel 

Office expenses and miscellaneous (moving pictures, 

addressograph, file folders, telegraph, 

688.18* 

supplies, advertising commissions, etc.).. 

Dues, American Alumni Council (tvvo years) and 

1,241.71 

National Catholic Alumni Federation 

75.00 

Total Expenditures ..$10,438.29 

Balance on hand June 1, 1937 ?751.16** 

* The Secretary traveled extensively after January 25, accompanying the 

President of the Association to more than 40 Clubs. William R. Dooley 

also represented the Association to advantage at the American.Alumni 

Council at West Point in April. 

** There is a bill of some $1,200 outstanding at the Ave Maria press.


members of the Club, in Los Angeles 

by members of the Club and friends 

of the Club prominent civically. 

Chicago again published a directory 

and had more than SOO at the U.N.D. 

Night party. Alanila identified itself 

beautifully with its reception of Fathers 

Marr and Lahey at the Eucharistic 

Congress and the attention 

given Father Lahey in his illness. 

Manila also scooped the Club •world 

with the organization of a polo team 

representing Notre Dame in the Islands. 

Denver ran a record special 

on the new Zephyr to the N.D.-Northwestem 

game. New Jersey published 

a Club paper, periodically, greatly 

strengthening its always active progi-am. 

Springfield, 111. again held its 

Mothers' Day communion brealcfgst. 

Peoria, HI. held a Novena to the 

Blessed Virgin in May, for the intention 

of establishing Catholic principles 

of peace and Justice in a world 

of unrest. Undergraduate contacts 

have been more harmonious throughout 

the year. -4.nd the Clubs have 

continued to participate actively in 

the work of securing a selected, nationally 

distributed, student prospect 

list. 

In addition to the above activities 

of existing Clubs, the following six 

new Clubs were formed: Centra] New 

Jersey; Flint, Mich; Northern Louisiana; 

Sandusky, Ohio; Tri-State (Ind. 

HI. Ky.); West Virginia. 

These are inadequate recognitions 

of the several events, but emphasize 

the variety of activity and the improving 

stature. 

UNIVERSAL NOTRE DAME NIGHT: 

Always suggested by the Club picture. 

Universal Notre Dame Night 

broke all records on April 19. The 

14th annual observance was keyed by 

a program featuring Father O'Hara, 

Elmer Layden, and the Glee Club on 

the Studebaker NBC hour. And 

again, the local radio stations in the 

various parts of the country contributed 

immeasurably to the success of 

the Night in the several localities, especially 

those of the Clubs. 

Campus speakers again were in demand. 

The football movies were 

taken months ahead. Publicity was 

plentiful and good. Friends of Notre 

Dame were introduced to the fellowship 

of the Notre Dame man. -4.1together, 

the Night expressed in stronger 

terms than ever its possibilities 

and the wisdom of its founders. 

LIVING ENDOWMENT: 

The Association has again included 

Living Endowment as an active feature 

of the current year. We have 

kept it lightly in the picture so that 

its value and its continuity would not 

be completely obscured. But at present, 

it oilers a tremendous aid to 

Notre Dame, in logical return for aid 

we have enjoyed in recent years. 

That it would seem practical is indicated 

by the alumni gifts listed during 

the year just passed on Father 

O'Hara's page in the ALUMNUS 

Bernard J. VoU 5190 

Alumnus 100 

Gi-attan Stanford 100 

HaiTy CuUen 25 

Byron Kanaley 20 

James Oliver, II 25 

Daniel Verilli 15 

Harley McDevitt 5 

Louis Thornton 10 

John C. Tully 500 

C. C. Mitchell 1000 

G. A. Farabaugh 100 

Alumnus 5 

Many of the above gifts were for 

current needs listed in the ALUMNUS. 

But the point is that the above gifts, 

few as they are, represent the purchasing 

power of an endowment of 

541,900 invested at 5%. In addition 

to the above gifts, the Ryan family 

also started a Roger Ryan scholarship 

with a gift of 51,000, and the Universitj' 

received 5320,000 from the 

estate of Frank B. Phillips, and 

5122,000 from the estate of William 

P. Breen, both former students of 

the University. 

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PROSPECTIVE 

STUDENT CONTACTS: 

Many alumni, knowing that enrolment 

in the freshman class in 1937 

was capacitj-, and that figures indicate 

that enrolment for 1938 will 

have to be stopped before school 

opens, have asked about the Association's 

program for continuing contacts 

with preparatory schools and 

prospective students. 

Policy, if we are to meet competition, 

dictates a continuation of the 

key point in our program from the 

beginning, namely the effort on the 

part of the alumni to interest the 

best boys from the community, who 

seem likely candidates for Notre 

Dame. Then we ^\•ill continue to have 

on the campus not only representative 

boys, but boys representative of 

the 48 States and the countries 

abroad, from which universal background 

has sprung, much that is traditional 

and much that is valuable 

and distinctive in the Notre Dame 

training and spirit. 

PUBLICATIONS: 

The Alumni Association has pretty 

much edited and will publish early 

this summer for the University two 

new publications. One is a new and 

augmented directory of Notre Dantie 

men practicing law. This book contains 

the names and address of almost 

900 lawyers. And in the front 

will be a number of practical suggestions 

by which Notre Dame laivyers 

can render signal service to Notre 

Dame and to their clients in the disposition 

of bequests. 

The second publication is an illustrated 

book, Notre Dame Men, similar 

to the one used so extensively 

in student contact work during the 

last three years. 

AFFILIATIONS: 

William R. Dooley represented the 

Alumni Association at the annual 

convention of the American Alumni 

Council, held at West Point this 

Spring. The convention of the National 

Catholic iUumni Federation 

will be held this coming Fall. Notre 

Dame has been particularly active in 

the Chicago chapter of the latter organization. 

• 

SPECIAL 

FEATURES OF THE YEAR: 

A few of the outstanding features 

of the year have been suggested 

previously. But there are some 

which are unique in the year and deserve 

special mention. 

Alumni bookplates were designed 

for the Association through a contest 

sponsored by the students of the 

department of art. Three fine designs 

are available to alumni for a 

distinctive bookplate. 

The Lay Retreat held on the campus 

last summer drew heavily from 

the neighboring Clubs, and set a new 

record with the attendance of alumni 

from such distant points as Tulsa, 

Oklahoma, and Bethlehem, Pa. Continued, 

growing support of this movement 

is urged on all alumni. 

The second annual Old-Timers reunion, 

for monogram men from 1900 

to 1905 was held on the campus the 

week-end of the Notre Dame-Northwestern 

game. It was well attended 

and established the practice as a fine 

annual gesture of recognition for the 

athletes of other years. The Monogram 

Club, which sponsors the reunion, 

is planning next Fall's reunion 

for the men from 1905 to 1910, a 

brilliant group in the annals of Notre 

Dame athletic history. 

Science alumni enjoyed invitations 

which many accepted to attend the 

memorial exercises and the science 

symposium in honor of Father Julius 

Nieuwland, held on the campus January 

10. 

The St. Joseph Valley Club again 

demonstrated outstanding ability as 

hosts at the pre-game smokers pre-


ceding the home football games. 

These smokers have become the 

"homecomings" for out - of - tovm 

alumni. 

Chicago and Detroit Clubs deserve 

special mention for the lecture series 

by Notre Dame faculty members 

which they sponsored during the winter 

months. 

Similarly New York and Los Angeles 

are to be commended for their 

splendid use of the radio in 13-week 

lecture series in the campaign against 

Communism. 

The "Highlights of 1936" football 

films sent out by the Association, 

proved to be more interesting than 

profitable. The films have been 

booked as solidly as the express can 

handle them, but the small fee for 

their rental has been less diligently 

handled. Continuation of the pleasant 

practice is therefore unlikely. 

JIany alumni aided in the splendid 

work done by Profs. John M. Cooney 

and Fi-ancis V/. Kei-vick which culminated 

in the erection of a memorial 

to the Rev. John Bannister Tabb, 

priest-poet, at the site of his home in 

Virginia. 

The President and Secretarj' of the 

Association of course set a new high 

in travel, visiting the Alumni Clubs 

from the Atlantic to the Pacific. It 

was the strongest step taken in organization 

work since the Association 

launched the Alumni Office, and 

should be productive of great good 

and much closer relationships. More 

than 40 of the Clubs were visited by 

President Hughes, in addition to 

many non-Club meetings in conjunction 

with our campaign against Communism. 

The Pontiac-sponsored radio program 

from the campus on March 5, 

enlisted the co - operation of the 

Alumni Office and the Clubs, and in 

turn gave alum.ni throughout the 

country an opportunity to hear a 

half-hour progj-am of entertainment 

direct from the campus. 

The scope and at the same time the 

intensity of the activities of the Association 

continues to increase, at a 

pace which has the personnel jumping 

through the hoops and which is 

enlisting more and more the active 

participation of Club and District as 

well as national officers. 

There were many things during the 

year. The above are the quickly remembered 

highlights. 

(937 "DOMES" 

The Publications Oflice has available 

for alumni a limited supply of 

1937 Domes. Books will be mailed 

promptly, as long as the supply lasts, 

upon receipt of orders with remittances 

($5.00 as usual). Requests 

should be directed to the Board of 

Publications, Notre Dame, Indiana. 

Eighth Annual Club Council Successful 

Visits to more than 40 Clubs by 

the President and Secretary of the 

Association, and unprecedented activity 

by all the Clubs, provided the 

basis for a most interesting discussion 

at the Eighth Annual Council 

of Local Alumni Clubs, held in the 

court i-oom of the Law building on 

the campus at 11 o'clock Saturday 

morning, June 5. 

A recommendation of President 

Hughes strongly urged the Clubs to 

preserve in some, form the valuable 

asset of the influence and contacts of 

older alumni. The bulk of Club 

membership is young. Duties of officers, 

particularly president and secretary, 

rest more lightly upon the 

younger members. -\nd it has been, 

in many instances, at the request of 

the older members that the offices 

were filled with young men. But in a 

serious project, such as the arrangement 

of meetings which were held 

in conjunction with the Communism 

progi-am of the Association, President 

Hughes found that the contacts 

and the influence of the older men 

in securing the cooperation of other 

community organizations and leaders 

were essential, in most cases, and 

saved hours and days of efi'ort for 

the less established, younger officer, 

in others. Therefore, President 

Hughes and the Secretarj' recommend 

that, through the honorarjpresidency, 

through vice-presidencies, 

through boards of governors, or 

through active advisory ari-angements 

of any other sort, the retaining in active 

participation in Club affairs of 

some of the older alumni. 

SO LONG, MARy 

-41umni who have had occasion to 

visit the .A.lumni Office in recent 

years learned to appreciate the pleasant 

efficiency of Mary Cass, who last 

year deviated from her career to become 

Mrs. Robert Cahill ('34). Now, 

after a year of grace in her former 

role, the young lady is severing what 

has been, from the Alumni Office 

standpoint, a most happy relationship, 

to devote her full time to her home. 

Ability, attractiveness and a uniformly 

fine disposition are separately at a 

premium. Collectively, they represent 

a picture which will make even 

the alumnus who is a total stranger 

to the Office, join the rest of the Office 

force in a sincerely regretful So 

Long, Mary. And with it all, the 

best wishes for continued happiness. 

Suggestions After Clubs' Greatest 

Year Reflect Experience & Progress. 

A follow-up program of literature 

from the University to be used by 

the Clubs and by individual members 

and alumni generally in capitalizing 

the progress of the campaign 

against Communism was reported as 

planned for the present year. The 

material will be suitable for dissemination 

among affiliated organizations 

in the same interests. 

A continued program of student 

contacts with preparatory schools was 

suggested by tlie Alumni Office to be 

based on the objective of retaining 

at Notre Dame that geographical distribution 

of students which has become 

a distinctive tradition of the 

University, and preserving in this enrolment 

the qualities of representative 

scholarship and leadership which 

will bring to Notre Dame the best 

boys from each community. 

Better financial outlook for the 

Clubs was the concensus of opinion, 

v.-ith the continuing of the attention 

to budget and the more modest scale 

of operation which are marks of the 

depression. 

Many ideas for Club activities 

were presented, which will be incorporated 

in a special bulletin to the 

Club officers. The Clubs undoubtedly 

had their most active, and most successful, 

year. It is now possible to 

present a balanced program to the 

membership of even the smaller 

units, and to advance the interests of 

the Club and the University in every 

Club community. 

STAMP COLLEQION DISPLAYED 

"A parade of stamps from 1835 to 

1937" has been assembled at Notre 

Dame, a collection of stamps mth an 

estimated value of ?15,000. Assembled 

by Rev. Aloysius Dayberry, 

C.S.C., it was on public display in 

the University art galleries from 

May 15 to June 7, and will be on display 

again from July 1 to August 5. 

Father Dayberry began his collection 

as a boy and has turned over his 

stamps, covers and rare envelopes to 

the University. 

In addition to the major American 

exhibit, there is a display of Vatican 

City stamps, including all issues from 

the founding of the Vatican City 

postoffice in 1928.


Brother Alexander and the Broth ers 

"To your name, if I wrote on brass, 

I could add nothing; it has been already 

written higher than I could 

dream to reach * * * it is not as the 

ivriter who brings you his work, but 

as the friend who would remind you 

of bis affection." 

—KOBEajT LOUIS STEVENSON. 

My knowledge of Notre Dame goes 

back now nearly 40 years and naturally 

my affection the same space of 

time. As I am writing this brief 

tribute to one of the great figures in 

the history of Notre Dame my mind 

naturally wanders here and there in 

the scenes of those years ago and I 

muse reminiscently and with devotion 

on names and faces and personalities 

long absent, but long remembered. 

And none arise before me in 

the doing of this pleasant duty with 

more clearness than the humble, selfeffacing, 

stalwart leader of men and 

boys, who for over 50 years was part 

of the life and development of our 

great University — who was bom 

Charles Smith and who lived to us 

Brother Alexander. 

How well I remember as a boy of 

18 in my first year the tall, slightly 

bent, strong figure with the kindly 

understanding face, the characterful 

aquiline nose, piercing eyes and vigorous 

gray hair—striding with purposeful 

step across St. Edward's 

campus — the respected, venerated 

and beloved Brother Alexander. 

Have you ever stopped to consider 

how many lives a life such as his has 

influenced? For over 40 years the 

man of whom I write taught, inspired, 

disciplined, and led in ever 

upward paths hundreds of boys who 

I daresay many, many times in the 

doubtful moments of life were helped 

over many a rocky place, even if subconsciously, 

by what Brother Alexander 

gave to them in old St. Edward's. 

In a broader sense. Brother Alexander 

represents one of the finest 

facts of the University's history— 

namely, the contribution of the 

Brothers of Holy Cross to the foundation 

and the upbuilding of Notre 

Dame. 

Eemember, that on that cold, bleak, 

Tvintry day of Nov. 26, 1842, after a 

journey of 11 days through snow and 

ice and virgin forest, on foot, from 

near Vincennes, Ind., there stood 

•where "Old College" now stands, six 

Tribute Is Given to Devotion 

and Zeal of Holy Cross Brothers 

By Byron V. Kanaley, '04 

men who founded on that spot this 

University — five Brothers of Holy 

Cross and Father Sorin. What a day 

that is to remember! 

As the Brothers of Holy Cross 

were present at the birth of this University, 

so they have been in unflagging 

zeal and devotion with her in 

her struggles and gro\vth and accomplishment 

through the nigh 100 

years since. As the years pass, I am 

impressed more and more with the 

ever new story of the piety of these 

men, the purposeful intelligence, the 

steady endeavour, the deep affection 

of the Brothers of Holy Cross for 

Notre Dame. 

I have heard what I consider the 

finest tributes to anyone connected 

with the life of our University paid 

by every president of my time from 

Father Morrissey to Father O'Hara, 

paid to the Brothers of Holy Cross. 

And I am content if these few 

words of mine reach the men of my 

time and serve to awaken and kindle 

again in the minds and hearts of 

those of my generation the ever wonderfully 

inspiring and mellow memories 

of the good Brothers, who ^vith 

their predecessors and successors, 

have done so much to make possible 

what those before us, and 

since, have enjoyed as a bounteous 

heritage. I shall mention only a few 

that come to me as I write, Bnmo 

who showed us "how fields are won," 

gentle Brother Cyprian, saintly Brother 

Leander, charming Brother Urban, 

Brother Basil, the musical genius, 

immortalized by the late Father 

Charles O'Donnell in "A Dead Musician," 

friendly Brother Florian, and 

who of us will ever forget trying to 

wheedle a dollar from Brother Paul, 

the University treasurer, or the kindly 

and wise advice of Brother Alphonsus 

who knew the gentle voice 

of birds as well as he knew the 

hearts of boys? 

Brother Leo and his farm. Brother 

Leopold and his "lemonade and 

fours," Brother- Hugh and his discipline, 

stem but just. Brother Lawrence 

and his bicycle. Brother "Hi," 

Brother Dominic of the Coimnunity 

House—well, I must stop now, but I 

should dearly like to name them all 

—^for each and every Brother of Holy 

Cross, living and dead, richly deserves 

the naming in the reading of 

any scroll that perpetuates and immortalizes 

the toilsome building of 

our beloved University. 

Maurice Francis Egan phrased it 

well when he said—they (the Brothers) 

"Contributed that spirit of 

cheerfulness, of obedience, of energy, 

of unostentatious spirituality, of 

peace and of devotion to the cause of 

Christian education" and "the Brother 

at Notre Dame, to my mind, solved 

the great problem which the Emersons, 

the Hawthomes and the Danas 

have tried in vain to solve; he has 

found how to lose himself in work 

for God, and to bear the lily of purity 

that he may gain the palm of 

triumph in the end." 

I started to write of Brother Alexander—I 

find I have written of the 

Brotherhood—It is nigh impossible to 

^vrite of a sun without writing of the 

firmament. And indeed they, and he, 

are in wondrous company. 

20 ALUMNI ORDAINED 

In Sacred Heart Church at Notre 

Dame, on Thursday, June 24, twenty 

members of the Congi-egation of 

Holy Cross were ordained as priests 

by the Most Rev. John F. Noll, D.D., 

bishop of Fort Wayne. 

Most of the newly ordained priests 

will return to their home parishes for 

their first Solemn High Masses on 

June 27. After brief vacations they 

will receive their assignments for 

the coming year in July, when the 

genei'al obediences for the community 

are given out by Eev. James A. 

Bums, C.S.C, provincial. 

Those ordained, all of whom are 

graduates of the University, are: 

Rev. John Bednar, C.S.C., "33, Qcvdand, Ohio. 

Rev. Victor Boisvert. '33. Waterloo, New York. 

Rev. Leon Boannan, C.S.C.. '33. Philpott. Ky. 

Kev. Francis D. Bridenstine, C.S.C. "33, Royal 

Oak. IVIichigan. 

Rev. Lawrence BroestI, C.S.C., '33, aevcland. 

Ohio. 

Rev. George Brown, C.S.C. '32. Lancaster, O. 

Rev. Francis Burton, C.S.C, '33. Saginaw, 

Michigan. 

Rev. FclLx Duffes", C.S.C., '32, Ypsilanli, Mich. 

Rev. Michael Foran, C.S.C., '33, Syracuse, N. Y. 

Rev. John Gallagher, C.S.C '33, Philadelphia, 

Pennsylvania. 

Rev. Francis Gartland, CS.C, '33, Dorchester, 

Massachusetts. 

Rev. Richard Grimm, CS.C, '33, Peoria. III. 

Rev. Cornelius Laskowski, C.S.C., '33, South 

Bend, Indiana. 

Rev. John P. Lynch, CS.C. '25, Geneva, N. Y. 

Rev. Andrew Mulreany. CS.C, *28, Lawrence, 

Massachusetts. 

Rev. Bernard Pegearski. CS.C, '33, Pottstown, 

Pa. 

Rev. Maurice Powers, C.S.C.. '33. Omaha, Net, 

Rev. Leo Ryan, CS.C, '33, Framingharo, Mass. 

Rev.Frcderick Schmidt, CS.C, '33. New York 

City. 

Rev. Robert Waidc, C.S.C, '33, Montreal, P. Q. 

MONOGRAM CLUB ELEQS 

Don Hamilton, '12, Columbus, 

Ohio, was elected president of the 

Monogram Club at the annual meeting 

on Sunday, June 6. Don succeeded 

Fred Steers, '11, of Chicago. 

Bill Sheehan, '25, South Bend, was 

named vice - president, and Clarence 

(Chick to you) Bader, '19, Gary, Indiana, 

secretary - treasurer. Chosen 

as directors for one year were Tom 

Quigley, '12, of Chicago, and Stanley 

Cofall, '17, Cleveland.


Professor Myers Dies Catholic Lawyers' Guild Progresses 

The brilliant and heroic Fred 

Myers, 45 years old, professor of 

English, died in St. Joseph's Hospital, 

South Bend, on June 3 after a 

long illness. 

Funeral services were in Holy 

Cross church. South Bend, with Rev. 

Philip Beaghan, C.S.C, the pastor, 

as celebrant of the Mass, assisted by 

Rev. J. Leonard Carrico, C.S.C, director 

of studies, and Rev. Leo L. 

Ward, C.S.C, head of the English 

Department. Rev. Francis J. Wenninger, 

C.S.C, was master of ceremonies, 

and Rev. Eugene P. Burke, 

C.S.C. preached the funeral sermon. 

The University Choir of Moreau 

Seminary provided the music. 

Pallbeai-ers were Dean Thomas F. 

Konop, of the Law School, and Professors 

Pedro deLandero, Andrew 

Smithberger, David Campbell, Raymond 

V. Pence and Thomas J. Barry. 

Bui-ial was in Highland Cemetery, 

South Bend. 

Professor Myers had been a member 

of the regular Notre Dame faculty 

since 1932 and a member of the 

Summer School faculty since 192G. 

A graduate of the University of Indiana, 

Professor Myers had taken 

graduate work at Indiana, Harvard, 

and niinois. He came to Notre Dame 

from a teaching post in the United 

States Naval Academy. He s6r%'ed 

in the World War and participated 

in many of the most important 

battles. 

Surviving Professor Myers are 

Mrs. Myers, six children, his mother, 

five brothers and five sistei-s. 

LAXMEN'S RETREAT 

The nineteenth annual Laymen's 

Retreat will be held at Notre Dame 

from Thursday evening, August 5, to 

Sunday morning, August 8, according 

to the announcements of Rev. 

Patrick Dolan, C.S.C, '15, the director. 

Alumni are inWted and urged, 

as always, to participate. 

To cover the expense of eight 

meals in the Dining Hall, room, service 

and other features of the Retreat, 

the modest stipend of only ten 

dollara is asked. Transportation costs 

can, and generally are, much reduced 

by the organization of auto parties 

from the same communities. 

Those who look forward to the 

combining of three peaceful days in 

the old campus sui-roundings with a 

glorious religious experience are requested 

to ^vrite at once to Father 

Dolan, Notre Dame, Indiana, for 

room reservations. Increasingly popular, 

the Retreat promises to keep 

its place as the leader of men's retreats 

in the country. 

The Catholic Lawyers' Guild, 

founded a year ago under the direction 

of Very Rev. Msgr. Joseph A. 

Morrison, Rev. Joseph V. Dailey and 

Leo J. Hassenauer, '20, former first 

assistant United State district attorney, 

has received numerous congratulatory 

messages from members of the 

Kings Bench, in London, as well as 

from judges of our Federal and State 

courts encouraging the movement 

and urging a more active part in the 

spiritual, fraternal and national life 

of Catholic members of the bench and 

bar. 

The purpose of the Guild, as stated 

by Mr. Hassenauer, is to provide a 

closer spiritual and fraternal relationship 

among the Catholic members 

of the bench and bar and that with 

the enunciation of the principles for 

which the Guild stands such members 

will become better lawyers by becoming 

better Catholics. 

Requests have been received by 

Mr. Hassenauer, the founder of the 

Guild in Chicago, from numerous 

members of the bar in other cities inquiring 

about the formation of similar 

Guilds." The only way to satisfy 

these requests" said Mr. Hassenauer, 

"is to make this a national movement." 

Numerous requests to that 

e.xtent have been received, he stated. 

The Guild recognizes that the law 

is indeed in a great measure a Catholic 

heritage. The fundamental prin 

Leo J. Hassenauer, '20, Oiicago, 

One of the Founders 

ciples are the eternal principles of 

Catholic morality as taught by Saint 

Thomas Aquinas. Its traditions are 

the concepts of Justice and Charity 

that to each man shall be rendered 

justice according to his due and the 

protection of every individual in his 

natural rights of Ufe, liberty and the 

pursuit of happiness; the protection 

of one's property rights as announced 

in the Encyclicals of Pope Leo XIII 

and Pope Pius XI and to guard these 

sacred rights against unjust aggression. 

The Guild is a definite step 

ahead in preserving and administering 

justice in providing each member 

with that true knowledge which he 

should bring to bear upon all the 

problems in his professional life. 

FRED SNITE RETURNS 

Notre Dame men joined in a particular 

way in rejoicing over the 

safe return to Chicago of Fred Suite, 

'33, after his perilous journey from 

China in an "iron lung." The class 

of '32, of which Fred was really a 

member, sent him to China from its 

five-year reunion a special message 

of prayers and cheer. 

The details of Fred's daring trip 

have been too well made known by 

newspapers and other journals to 

need repeating here. The lesson of 

inspired courage can always bear 

repetition, however, and Notre Dame 

men can get that lesson from Fred. 

HONORARy DEGREES—1937 

Honoraiy degi*ees of doctor of law 

were awarded at the 1937 Commencement 

to Most Rev. Karl J. 

Alter, D.D., bishop of Toledo, who 

delivered the Baccalaureate Sermon; 

to William S. Calcott, Wilmington, 

Delaware, director of the Jackson 

Research Laboratories of the E. I. 

du Pont deNemours Co.; to Joseph 

P. Gi-ace, chairman of the board of 

the W. R. Grace Steamship Company. 

Mr. Grace was absent from 

the Commencement because of the 

serious illness of his "wife. 

The citations for the honorary degrees 

were as follows: 

On a gifted prelate, educator, and 

Christian sociologist, whose years 

have been devoted very effectively to 

the welfare of his native diocese, a 

churchman know^n not only for his 

zealous ministry but also for his 

achievement as first director of Catholic 

Charities in the Diocese of Toledo, 

organizer of the Toledo Catholic 

Charities Corporation, director of 

the National School of Social Service 

at the Catholic University, and chair- 

n:an of the Speakers' Commission for 

the Catholic Hour—the Most Reverend 

Karl J. Alter, Bishop of Toledo. 

On a modest man of science, who 

has been for years the successful director 

of one of the most important 

laboratories of scientific research in 

the chemical industries of the United 

States, permanently endeared to 

Notre Dame as friend and associate 

of our lamented Father Nieuwiand 

in the researches of which the invention 

of synthetic rubber was one of 

the most important results—William 

Stansfield Calcott, of Wilmington, 

Delaware. 

IN ABSENTIA, on a gentleman in 

international commerce, who has 

been a patriotic pioneer in the establisfanxent 

and development of the 

present communications and trade 

relations between the United States 

and the countries of South America, 

and who by valuable counsel has 

been for years a gracious benefactor 

of the Department of Foreign Commerce 

here—Joseph Peter Grace, of 

New York City.


Football Ticket Facts For 1937 

It is very important for alumni to 

know these facts %rhich the ALUaiNUS 

has secured from the Athletic Association 

: 

1. Ticket applications for the 1937 

football games will be mailed July 

20. SALE OF TICKETS OPENS 

AUGUST 1. 

2. They will be mailed to all alumni 

on the ALUMNUS mailing list, at 

the address being used on that list. 

If you do not receive your blanks by 

August 1, advise the Alumni Office 

promptly. 

3. They are printed, ALUMNI 

across one end, expressly for alumni, 

and are the only blanks received 

which get alumni preference. Use 

them for your application. 

4. Alumni whose dues for 1937-38 

(payable as of June 1, 1937) are 

paid, will receive preference in the 

allotment of tickets until September 

1, OR UNTEL ALL TICKETS H.A.VE 

BEEN SOLD FOR A GIVEN GAME. 

(It is impossible to hold an indefinite 

Alumni Asain Urged 

to Place Orders Early 

section for alumni and at the same 

time reject applications from other 

interested patrons. But alumni preference 

will be extended to dues-paid 

alumni until September 1 or while 

the sale is open.) 

5. With at least two games promising 

a sell-out before the season 

opens, alumni desiring preference are 

urged to apply for their alumni allotment 

as soon as the blanks are received. 

6. Alumni may have general public 

application blanks upon request, 

or may send in the names of others 

desiring tickets, and blanks will be 

mailed to them for one or more 

games from the Athletic Ofiice. (The 

practice has saved many alumni time, 

money and general grief.) 

7. Season ticket blanks for the 

home games have been mailed to 

alumni in the immediate area. Any 

others interested may secure the information 

by writing at once to the 

Athletic Association. 

Student Academic Leaders Honored 

To classmates from 42 states and 

seven foreign countries Robert 

Schmelzle, of Freeport, Illinois, delivered 

the class oration at the Class 

Day exercises on Saturday, June 5. 

Joseph P. O'Brien, C.S.C, Cheboygan, 

Michigan, read the class poem, 

and Richard H. Meier, of Faulkton, 

South Dakota, delivered the valedictory 

address. To Mr. Meier went 

special honors for establishing an alltime 

record of academic achievement 

at the Universitj'. He closed his career 

with a general average of 97.67 

per cent. 

During the exercises the following 

scholastic awards were made: 

The Breen Medal for Oratory, 

Gerald Griffin Hogan, Brooklyn, New 

York; the Meehan Medal for English, 

Brother Silvan Mellett, C.S.C, Notre 

Dame; the Dockweiler Medal for 

Philosophy, Joseph Edward Loftus, 

Brooklyn, New York; the Architecture 

Medal, John Herbert McAuliffe, 

Oak Park, Illinois. 

The Lehn and Fink Medal for 

Pharmacy, Bernard Adolph Marty, 

Decatur, Illinois; the Hoynes Award 

in Law, Archibald G. Graham, South 

Richard H. Meier Achieves 

New High in Class Average 

Bend; the J. Sinnott Meyers Burse 

in Journalism, Paul Emmett Foley, 

Grosse Pointe, Michigan; the William 

Mitchell Memorial Award for Play- 

^vriting, Lawrence Justin Larkin, 

Cranford, New Jersey. 

The Byron V. Kanaley Prize for 

the outstanding student-athlete leader, 

John Lautar, Mounds\alle, West 

Virginia; the South Bend Citizens' 

Prizes, Joseph William Minarick, 

Midland Park, New Jersey; Steven 

Joseph Schmidt, South Bend; Joseph 

Fendall Froning, South Bend; and 

Guy Henry McMichael, South Bend. 

The Ralph Thomas SoUitt Prize for 

Architectui-e, Albert Edmund Van 

Namee, Bristol, Indiana;the Gertrude 

S. SoUitt Prize for Architecture, Reginald 

Alexander Morrison, Rochester, 

New York; the Maurice Carroll Prize 

for Architecture, Bernard James Eilers, 

Rochester, New York;the Jeanne 

D'Arc Medal for French, Ralph Marion 

Cardinal, Malone, New York; the 

Cervantes Medal for Spanish, Paul 

Thomas Doran, Galesburg, Illinois; 

the Freshman Oratorical Prize, Joseph 

G. Smolik, Valley Stream, Long 

Island, New York. 

PRESIDENT HUGHES' ADDRESS 

(Continued from Page 246) 

sell and Faithful Navigator Metzger, 

together with Rev. Matthew J. Lawlor, 

chaplain of the Knights and himself 

a popular and militant crusader 

in Catholic principles, comprised a 

most able group. Many of the alumni 

of Utica gathered after the meeting 

for a short session before our train 

time, led by the Hitzelbergers, father 

and son. Doc Kelley, Frank Donalty, 

Vin Fletcher, et al. 

Tribute to Club Officers 

When it is realized that during the 

year we held some forty meetings in 

the principal cities of the United 

States, practically all under the auspices 

of the various Notre Dame 

clubs of those cities, it must be 

appreciated that I have not the 

opportunity here to pay to the fine, 

able, aggressive officers of all those 

clubs the real tribute and praise which 

they so richly deserve. I wish to say 

to them, however, we have not overlooked 

our duties in reporting regularly 

their loyalty and their achievements 

on behalf of Notre Dame to 

Father O'Hara and I propose to leave 

as a part of the official records of the 

Alumni -A.ssociation a full, detailed 

account of the accomplishments of all 

these clubs and of the men who so 

ably directed their activities. 

The Notre Dame Spirit 

.A.nd now I shall pay final tribute, and 

I assure you it is from my heai-t, to 

one who has been my constant guide 

and counselor and associate in evêry 

activity of which I was a part during 

this past year—I" express my great 

personal obligation to James E. Armstrong, 

executive secretary of the 

National -Alumni .4.ssociation. Father 

O'Hara in his utmost desire to cooperate 

with me to the fullest extent 

permitted me to have Jim with me 

at everj' meeting that we held this 

year, and we traveled together from 

the Atlantic to the Pacific, and I want 

to say to Father O'Hara and I want 

to say to the .41umni Association of 

Notre Dame that there is no Notre 

Dame man more true, loyal or more 

solicitous for the welfare and future 

of Notre Dame than is my good 

friend and your good friend, Jim 

Armstrong. 

I now bid you all. Adieu. I go back 

into the ranks cheerfully, for I want 

to tell you tinlhfully that I am most 

happy when I am there. Due to the 

great energy and the marvelous loyalty 

of hundreds and hundreds of 

Notre Dame men whom 1 have met 

this year I have learned anew the 

true definition of unselfish service. I 

now know and appreciate and shall 

always treasure the real meaning of 

the Noti-e Dame Spirit.


ATHLETICS 

Last year at this time we told you 

about how Notre Dame athletes had 

compiled the most successful winning 

percentage in dual competition 

in Notre Dame history. No one expected 

the boys of 1936-37 to repeat 

what with graduation losses practically 

wiping out most of the teams. 

They didn't repeat, but the year waa 

one of which alumni, students, coaches, 

or players need not be ashamed. 

The basketball team held its own, 

winning 20 out of 23, to become the 

unofficial national champion and to 

set itself up as perhaps the greatest 

quintet in Notre Dame history. The 

football team slipped only slightly, 

losing one more game than it did in 

193.5, when a senior team won 7, lost 

1, and tied 1. 

The track team, undefeated in 1936 

had a losing season, but it might 

have been a winning one except for 

the fact that at no time did Coach 

John Nicholson have full strength 

available. At that, Notre Dame won 

the indoor Central Intercollegiate 

conference title, and took third in 

the outdoor meet. The Irish were 

fourth outdoors last year. 

Coach Jake Kline placed a brand 

new team on the field in baseball, 

having lost seven of his eight 1936 

regulars, excluding pitchers, and he 

came through with a .647 season. 

The golfers produced a .778 season, 

which is good enough considering 

everything, but it is still the worst 

season in percentages in Notre Dame 

golf history. This year's team 

couldn't help it, of course, that previous 

teams had been better, or that 

Purdue and Wisconsin both had their 

hottest rounds of the year to win. 

The tennis team improved to the 

extent of one added victory over last 

year. But more than that, the Irish 

looked much better in defeat with a 

sophomore-junior team than they 

have for several years. When Michigan 

State won an 8 to 1 decision, for 

example, the Irish forced them to 

three sets in seven matches, taking 

the first set in five matches. 

The fencing team, after two undefeated 

years, won five, lost 3, and 

experienced its only tie in the brief 

history of the sport on the campus. 

The percentages of the teams 

follow: 

W L T Pet. 

Basketball 20 3 0 .870 

Golf 7 2 2 .778 

Football 6 2 1 .750 

Baseball 11 6 0 .647 

» » » 

Oct. 2.-—Drake 

at Notre Dame 

Oct. 9.-—Illinois 

at Champaign 

Oct. 16.-—Carnegie 

Tech at Pittsburgh 

Oct. 23.-—Navy 

at Notre Dame 

Oct. 30.-—Minnesota 

olis. 

at Minneap 

Nov 6.-—Pittsburgh 

at Notre 

Dame 

Nov 

Nov 

Nov 

13. 

20 

27. 

1937 SCHEDULE 

—Ârmy at New York 

—Northwestern at Evanston 

California at Notre 

Dame 

Fencing 5 3 1 .625 

Track 3 5 0 .375 

Tennis 3 5 0 - .375 

Totals 55 26 4 .679 

Since football, basketball, and fencing 

have been covered in previous 

issues, we shall refer to them only 

briefly before getting down to a 

clean-up review of the other sports. 

• 

FOOTBALL 

The footballers elected Joe Zwers, 

right end from Grand Rapids, Mich., 

captain for 1937. Prospects, despite 

the loss of eight regulars by graduation, 

are slightly better than they 

were last year at this time. This 

slight ray of hope is largely offset by 

the increased stiffness of the schedule. 

The 1936 record follows: (Elsewhere 

you ^vill find an important note 

about tickets.) 

Notro Dame, 21: Carneffie Tech. 7. 

Notre Dame. 14 : Washington U., 6. 

NotrB Dame. 27: Wisconsin, 0. 

Notre D,-une, 0 : Pittshursh, 26. 

Notre Dame. 7: Ohio State. 2. 

Notre Dame, 0 : Navy, 3. 

Notre Dame, 20 ; Army G. 

Notre Dame, 26; Northwestern. 6. 

Notre Dame, 13: Southern California. 13. 

BASKETBALL 

• 

The only graduation losses suffered 

by the basketball team were John 

DeMots, reserve center; and Don 

(Ked) Allen, reser\'e guard. Capt. 

Ray Meyer was re-elected, and he 

will lead, from his forward position, 

a group containing such stars as 

Paul Nowak and Johnny Moir, all- 

American center and forward, respectively; 

Tommy Wukovits, Earl 

Brown, Ed Sadowski, and Mike 

Crowe. 

By JOSEPH S. PETRITZ, '32 

Director of Athletic Publicity 

The record for last season follows: 

Notre Dame. 41; Kalamazoo CoUese. 27. 

Notre Dame, 39; St. Mary's (Winona). 27. 

Notre Dame, 37; Western State Teachers, 22. 

Notre Dame. 19; Northwestern. 38. 

Notre Dame. 29 ; Illinois, 44. 

Notre Dame. 24 : Northwestern, 23. 

Notre Dame, 30 ; Chicaso, 27. 

Notre Dame. 41; Kentucky, 28. 

Notre Dame, 25: Butler. 24. 

Notri Dame. 31: Pittsburgh, 34. 

Notre Dame. 32; Syracuse, 31. 

Notre Dame, 41; Pennsylvania, 36. 

Notre Dame, 55; Western Reserve, 20. 

Notre Dame, 47 ; Purdue. 40. 

Notre Dame. 41; Illinois. 33. 

Notre Dame, 52; New York University, 26. 

Notre Dame. 40; Canisius Collese, 36. 

Notre Dame. 29; Pittsburgh, 18. 

Notre Dame, 41 ; Marquette University, 24. 

Notre Dame, 42; BuUer. 17. 

Notre Dame, 39; Marquette University, 35. 

Notre Dame. 44 ; Minnesota. 18 

Notre Dame, 36; Detroit University, 18. 

FENCING 

The fencers lost Capt. Telmo de 

Landero and John McAuliffe by graduatico. 

Captain-Elect Jack Zerbst, 

Bob Seco, and Salvatore Scarlatta 

form the nucleus of the 1938 team. 

In addition to the record, which follows, 

the Irish took second in the 

middle-western foils championship of 

the Amateur Fencers League of 

America. Hermanson's Fencing club 

of Chicago took first honors. The 

Irish beat out Chicago, Northwestern, 

the Lake Shore A.C., and the Edgewater 

A.C. 

Notre Dame, 8; Northwestern, 9. 

Notre Dame. 8; Wayne University, 9. 

Notre Dame, 11; Purdue, 6. 

Notre Dame. 11% ; Washington Univ., 5%. 

Notre Dame. 7?5 ; Ohio State. 954. 

Notre Dame. 14^; Cincinnati Univ., 2%. 

Notre Dame. 11: Purdue. 6. 

Notre Dame. $% : Chicago. 8^. 

Notre Dame. 10%; Wisconsin. 6%. 

TRACK 

A look at the track record shows 

that the only meet in which Notre 

Dame was really outclassed was the 

first of the indoor season with Indiana. 

Drake won by four points while 

Dan Gibbs, star Irish pole vaulter, 

was nursing a pulled muscle. Harold 

Langton, another vaulter, who did 

13 ft. 3 inches the next week, was 

unable to better 12 feet against the 

Bulldogs. 

The Irish completed their meet 

with Pittsburgh in a 63-all tie, when 

Coach Nicholson asked for a mile 

relay to settle the issue one way or 

the other. He did this knowing Pitt, 

with Art Thomas and Johnny Woodruff 

available, would probably win. 

And Pitt did win, thanks to Nick's 

sportsmanship and his dissatisfaction 

with ties in general. Had Greg Rice, 

sophomore mile sensation, not been 

laid up with a throat infection, had 

Eddie Boyle not fouled by half an


inch in what would have been the 

winning broad jump, and had Adam 

Wolf, sophomore sprinter, come into 

the shape he showed later, the Irish 

would have won comfortably mthout 

the necessity of a relay being run. 

With Bill Mahoney out of the picture 

for the entire outdoor season, 

Notre Dame was seriously handicapped 

against Pitt, Ohio State, and 

Michigan State. Ohio State slammed 

both hurdle races and the quarter 

mile, Eice showed he was still not 

ready by taking second in the mile. 

And that was the meet. 

The Michigan State dual was the 

hardest to lose, however, for the 

margin was only two points. Gibbs, 

who had been scoring 10 and 11 

points a meet, suffered a sprainea 

ankle when he slid into the muddy 

broad jump take-off, and that put 

him out of this event and out of the 

javelin throw, although he had already 

won the pole vault. There were 

plenty of other places Notre Dame 

could have won, but it was one of 

those days and one of those seasons. 

The Irish might conceivably have 

won the state meet a week later with 

everyone in shape, and everj'one coming 

through with his best performance. 

Bill Clifford pulled a muscle 

to take second in the 100 behind Bob 

Collier of Indiana who won in 9.6 

seconds, a meet record, and Clifford 

was unable to come up for the 220. 

Mahoney was unable to do anything 

with his bad leg in the hurdles, 

Rice ran 4:13 in the mile, which was 

good enough only for third, although 

it tied the previous meet record. 

Steve Szumachowski, holder of the 

Notre Dame outdoor two-mile mark, 

was unable to place in his event. Indiana's 

one-two in the pole vault, 

when Gibbs wasn't able to get off the 

ground •(vith his bad ankle, marked 

the biggest swing in points from the 

dopesters' pre-meet figures. The presence 

of schools other than Indiana 

and Notre Dame, the summary shows 

hurt Notre Dame in the field events, 

but did not affect Indiana in the 

running events. 

So far this has been pretty much 

of a negative story, telling of the 

factors which entered into Notre. 

Dame's defeats. The scores and list 

of records made during the season 

tell the other side of the story. Capt. 

Charles (Bucky) Jordan, John Cavanagh, 

Jim Parsons, Eddie Boyle, 

Arch Gott, and John Levicki—all 

valuable men but not irreplacable— 

have been graduate. The rest are 

back, plus promising freshman prospects 

in the hurdles and high jump, 

two blanks during most of the past 

season. Bill Mahoney, hurdler from 

Phoenix, Arizona, has been named 

captain. 

The record: I K D O O R 

Notre Dame. 26; Indiana. 60. 

Notre Dame, 54 ; Marquette, 41. 

Notre Dame, 50; Drake, 54. 

Notre Dame, 69; Illinois, 35. 

Central IntercollcEiate Conference — Notre 

Dame, 28 for first place. 

OUTDOO R 

Notre Dame, 63: Pittsburgh, 68. 

Notre Dame, 74 ; Navy, 52. 

Notre Dame. 64 : Ohio State, 77. 

Notre Dame, 64'^; Michigan State, 66^4- 

Indiana State meet—Indiana, 73; Notre Dame, 

48: Purdue, 22. 

Central Intercollegiate Conference — Notre 

Dame third with 28. 

TRACK MEET RECORDS ESTABUSIIED 

Marquette indoor—Levicki 46:3% in shot put; 

Slahoney—6.2 in 45-yard highs (first time 

run) ; Mahoney—5.9 in 45-yard lows (first 

time run) ; 12-Iap relay—2:68.3 (first time 

run). 

Indiana indoor—Langton 12:6 (tied meet record). 

C.I.C. indoor—Rico 4:16.2 in mile run (also 

gjTnnasium and C. L C. indooor record). 

Pittsburgh outdoor—Faymonville 146:7 in discus 

: (nifford 9.7 in 100-yard dash: Szumachowski 

9:43 in 2-miIe; Gibbs 12:6 (ties 

pole vault record). 

Na\'y outdoor—Gott 4:24 in mile: (Hifford 9.6 

in lOO-yard dash (tied meet and all-time 

Notre Dame record) ; Szumachowski — 

9:36J2 in two-mile (also Notre Dame outdoor 

record) : Parsons—50 seconds in 440 

(tied meet record) ; Gibbs—13 feet in pole 

vault (tied meet and Carticr field record) ; 

Faymonville—149:4^^ in discus (also Notre 

Dame outdoor and field record. 

Ohio State outdoor—Faj-monville 15aii% in 

discus (also Notre Dame all-time record) : 

Szumachowski—9:33.3 in two-mile (also Notre 

Dame outdoor record) ; Gibbs 13:6 (tied 

meet record in pole vault). 

Michigan State outdoor—Gibbs 13 feet in pole 

vault (tied meet record) ; Faymonville — 

140:7 in discus. 

Indiana State meet—Fa>-monvilIe 150:3 in discus 

(also Cartier field record). 

Although the Notra Dame outdoor 

mile mark is 4:21.4, set by Judge in 

1926, Rice ran 4:13 for third in the 

state meet and 4:15 for third in the 

C.I.C. outdoor meet, unofficially. Szumachowski 

holds the all-time Notre 

Dame outdoor 2-mile mark of 9:33.3 

in the C.I.C. meet. Rice ran 9:24.s 

for sixth, and Szumachowski ran 

9:25.5 for eighth, both marks being 

unofficial and thus not records. 

Only three Cartier field records, as 

they now stand, were set before 1936, 

and one of these has been tied. The 

oldest is Gene Oberst's 202:7 in the 

javelin throw (1924). Ralph Johnston's 

pole vault mark of 13 feet 

(1931) was tied this year by Gibbs. 

Don Elser set the shot put record of 

51 feet % inch in 1935. 

Jesse Owens of Ohio State set field 

records of 9.5 in the century, 20.5 in 

the furlong, and 24:10% in the broad 

jump in 193G. His teammate. Walker, 

set a high jump mark of (5:7% the 

same day. Indiana took care of every 

field record from 440 yards to 

two miles in the State meet of this 

year: Mai Hicks, 48.7 in the quarter; 

Mel Trutt, 1:54 in the half; Jimmy 

Smith 4:11 in the mile; Don Lash, 

9:17.5 in the two-mile; and the Hoosier 

relay team clipped one-tenth second 

from the mile relay mark in 

3:18,7. 

Faymonville of Notre Dame set his 

discus mark of 150:3 the same day, 

while Lawrence Holmes of Butler 

was setting a field record of 14.7 in 

the high hurdles. Ken Ryden of Pitt 

set a field mark of 23.9 seconds in the 

220-yard lows in the 1937 dual meet. 

And for that matter, 10 of the 15 

state meet records were set in the 

past three years. The oldest mark is 

Bryce Beecher's pole vault mark of 

13:5%, set in 1931 for Indiana U. 

BASEBALL 

The student manager in charge of 

batting averages and such is still to 

be heard from, so we can't give you 

final figures on individuals in baseball. 

The record shows that the team 

slumped twice each time to the extent 

of three games, and all the rest 

(11) were victories. Joe O'Neill, third 

baseman, and Oscar Rydell, pitcher, 

are the only regulars lost by grattuation. 

Chuck (Browser) Borov/ski of 

South Bend, leading hitter, basestealer, 

and star center fielder, has 

been elected to succeed Ennio Arboit, 

pitcher, who did yeoman's work with 

a sore arm this spring. Arboit will 

be back. Reinforcements from the' 

freshman team for the 1938 season 

indicate that Coach Jake Kline \vill 

have one of the strongest teams in 

the Middle West. 

At that the boys closed the season 

in a blaze of glory for the edification 

of the Commencement crowd. Borowski, 

after driving in the tying run 

against Iowa, stood on third base 

with two down in the last of the 

ninth. Having slipped up by running 

half way home on a fly ball before 

tagging third. He decided to make 

up for this mental lapse. So he stole 

home. He had it stolen when Joe 

O'Neill, seeing him coming, automatically 

bunted. The bunt was almost 

disastrous, being of the pop-up variety, 

but it dropped safely, and 

O'Neill made first, which was all that 

was necessary, for the 3 to 2 Commencement 

finish. 

The record: 

Notre Dame, 16: Chicago, 9. 

Notre Dame, Illinois, 6. 

Notre Dame, Chicago, 9. 

Notre Dame, 1: Michigan State. 7. 

Notre Dame, Northwestern, 3. 

Notre Dame, 10 Wisconsin. 9. 

Notre Dame, 4 Western State. 3. 

Notre Dame, 9 Louisiana Tech., 4. 

Notre Dame, 4 Louisiana Tech.. 3. 

Notre Dame, 15 Purdue. 0. 

Notre Dame, 6 Western State, 1. 

Notre Dame, 22 Ohio State, 3. 

Notre Dame. 6 Purdue, 1. 

Notre Dame, 3 Michigan State, 10. 

Notre Dame, 0 Wisconsin, 9. 

Notre Dame, 1 Iowa, 6. 

Notre Dame, 3 Iowa, 2. 

GOLF 

The golfers, as related, ran into a 

lot of tough luck, but still came up 

with a .778 season. Washington U. of 

St. Louis supplied the tip-off by tying 

Notre Dame in its opening match, 9 

to 9. Then Purdue had by far its 

hottest day of the year to win a 13 to 

5 decision—this was the worst beat-

Jl une, 1937 The Notre Dame Alumnus 255 

ing ever taken by Notre Dame in 

golf. Later Purdue lost a 10 to 8 

match to Indiana, and Notre Dame 

ran away with the Hoosiers in the 

State tournament. 

Wisconsin, already defeated 19% 

to 7%, visited the William J. Burke 

course and proceeded to bum it up, 

winning 14 to 13. Bowden Davis of 

the Badgers set an amateur course 

record of 68, four under par, to win 

_ his match with Capt. Lou Fehlig, ana 

he set the pace for the rest of the 

team. A well-balanced Illinois team 

gained a tie with the Irish in the 

final match of the season. 

Tom Sheehan, Jr., of Notre Dame, 

who had not been named on the Irish 

foursome for the team reckonings, 

won the state individual title with 

299 for 72 holes. The team scored 

1218 to Indiana's 1272 for the team 

championship. 

The Rev. George L. Holderith, 

C.S.C., coach of the golfers, has arranged 

for a dual match with Yale at 

Pittsburgh, June 26, t\vo days before 

the National Intercollegiate opens. 

The Irish sextet for the nationals 

and the Yale match will include Capt. 

Lou Fehlig, Captain-Elect Gene Milbourn, 

Al Mailhes, Billy Castleman, 

Bud Donovan, and Tom Sheehan. 

Fehlig is the only senior in this 

group. 

The record: 

Notre Dame, 9: 

Notre DamOt 5; 

Notre Dame, 17; 

Notre Dame, 14 : 

Notre Dame. 20 

Washington Univ., 9. 

Purdue, 13. 

CliicaRO, 1. 

Ohio State, 7. 

Minnesota, 7. 

Notre D.ime, 19V^: Wisconsin. 7^. 

Notre Dame, 22Vi : Detroit. 4\i. 

Notre Dame. 12>4 ; Northwestern, SVi. 

Notre Dame, 13 : Wisconsin, 14. 

Notre Dame, 14 : Michican State, 4, 

Notre Dame, lS\i : Illinois, ISlA. 

State meet won by Notre Dame, 1218: Tom 

Sheehan (ND) 299. Individual Champion. 

TENNIS 

The tennis year, as reported, not 

only showed an improvement over 

last season, but it held out great 

hopes for next year. Ed Kilrain, 

hard fighting Junior, was named captain 

to succeed "Wild Bill" Fallon. 

The addition of a couple of very 

promising Sophomores to the fine returning 

nucleus gives Coach Pedro de 

Landero hope of the first better-than- 

.500-season in several years. 

The record: 

Notre Dame, 5; Indiana, 4. 

Notre Dame, 3: Western State Teachers, 6, 

Notre Dame, 0: Chtcaf;o, 9. 

Notre Dame, 7: Purdue, 2. 

Notre Dame, 4 : St. Louis U., 3. 

Notre Dame, 3: Kentucky, fi, 

Notre Dame. 1: MichiKnn State, 8. 

Notre Dame, 1: Northwestern, 8. 

MONOGRAM MEN 

Monogram certificates for old mon- 

OTram men are available for $2.00 

through the Athletic Office or Elmer 

Layden, Notre Dame, Indiana. • 

Varsity Wins O'Brien Game 

Of more interest to alumni than 

the final result of the Johnny O'Brien 

Memorial football game at the stadium. 

May 2, are three other factors: 

size of the crowd, the appearance of 

both the old grads and the 1937 varsity. 

The crowd came up to highest expectations, 

totaling some 10,000. It's 

hard to say whether the varsity was 

disappointing, or the Old Timers were 

above all pre-game estimates. At any 

rate, all the varsity could get in 60 

minutes were seven points, and four 

first downs. 

The touchdown came after Mario 

(Motts) Tonelli, "Pony Express" 

backfield fullback, had broken off his 

tackle and run about 10 yards. He 

tossed a lateral to Nevin (Bunny) 

McCormick, right halfback, who 

dodged and shifted his v.ay to the 

goal line with the help of some fine 

downfield blocking. It was a total 

gain of 33 yards. Andy Puplis kicked 

the extra point from placement. 

McCormick took Lany Danbom's 

ensuing kickoff on his five yard line 

and broke into the clear, running to 

the Old Timers' 46 before Wally 

Fi-omhart, 1935 all-Western quarterback, 

nailed him with a headon tackle 

down around the heels. The varsity 

at this point put on its only sustained 

drive of the afternoon to press to the 

five-yard line. Puplis scored, but the 

play was called back because of holding, 

and Bill Shakespeare, 1935 all- 

American, kicked the alumni out of 

danger. 

Old Timers Didn't Threaten 

The Old Timers couldn't do a gi-eat 

deal for themselves, never threatening 

seriously, but they played a defensive 

game which showed that they 

had forgotten none of the tricks that 

won them the all-Western and ail- 

American mention as many as nine 

years ago. The great majority of 

those who were able to return for the 

game have not been in a football 

uniform since they hung up the moleskin 

at the end of their collegiate 

careers. 

But to see Bert Metzger, 154pound 

watch-chai-m guard who sold 

some 3,000 tickets for the game himself, 

mow down a varsity back behind 

the line of scrimmage with a 

daring shoestring tackle; to see Ed 

Krause, 1933 all - Western tackle, 

Capt. Fred Miller, of the 1928 team, 

and Joe Kurth, 1931 and 1932 ail- 

American, pile up one varsity play 

after another, made one wonder why 

the 1937 crop, consisting of lads 

Old Timers Display 

Fine Defensive Skill. 

around 19 and 20 years of age who 

have been playing football daily for 

a month, were unable to make a more 

impressive showing. 

One explanation is, of course, that 

the Old Timers, in most cases the top 

men of their day at their positions, 

knew their defensive assignments and 

played somewhat mechanically in executing 

these assignments. And we 

do not mean by this that they played 

woodenly, for they were hitting in 

there with all the zeal and zest of 

old. In the second place. Coach Elmer 

Layden limited his varsity plays to 

about six or seven, most of them of 

a simple variety not intended to deceive 

the Old Timers. But each of 

these was a potential touchdown, if 

blocking assignments had been perfectly 

executed, and none of them 

went for touchdowns, McCormick 

making his on a lateral pass. And 

that didn't come until the fourth 

quarter, after the returning stars had 

played some 20 or 25 minutes. 

Many Former Stars Play 

The following team started the 

game for the Old Timers: Paul Host, 

1932 captain, left end; Fred Miller, 

1928 captain and ail-American, left 

tackle; John Lautar, 1936 captain 

and all-Western, right end; Wally 

my Yarr, 1931 captain and all-American 

center; Bert Metzger, 1930 all- 

American, right guard; Joe Kurth, 

1931 and 1932 ail-American, right 

tackle; Tom Conley, 1930 captain 

and all-Western, right end; Wally 

FVomhart, 1935 all-Western, quarterback 

and acting captain; Mike Koken, 

1930, 1931, and 1932 varsity left 

halfback; Dan Hanley, sophomore 

fullback in 1930 who finished his career 

in 1934, right halfback; and 

Fred Carideo, 1935 varsity fullback. 

Howard "Cap" Edwards, who was 

coaching the old stars, substituted 

this team at the end of the first quarter: 

Joe O'Neill, 1936 varsity, left 

end; Al Culver, 1930 varsity, left 

tackle; Jack Cannon, 1929 all-American, 

left guard; Joe Nash, 1929 star, 

center; Bob Terlaak, 1930 sophomore, 

right guard ; Ed (Moose) 

Krause, 1932 and 1933 all-Western, 

right tackle; and Nick Vairo, 1934 

captain, right end; Emmett Murphy, 

1932 quarterback, called the signals; 

Bemie Leahy, 1931 halfback star 

teammed with George Melinkovich, 

1934 star rii^ht halfback, and Larry 

Danbom, 1936 varsity plunger, took 

over the fullback duties. 

The third Old Timers team to take 

the field consisted almost entirely of


gi-aduating 1936 stars: Lou Hickey, 

left end; Bill Steinkemper, left tackle; 

Joe McMahon, left guard; Fred 

Mundee, center; Elmer Zenner, right 

guard; Fi-ank Kopczak and Art Cronin, 

right tackle; Harrj' Marr, right 

end; Bill Bruno and Bunny Megin, 

quarterbacks; Bob Wilke, Bill Shakespeare, 

and Vic Wojcihovski, halfbacks; 

and Johnny Schulze, fullback. 

In addition Regis JIcNareara, 1929 

tackle; Tony Mazziotti, 1935 halfback; 

Frank Leahy, 1929 tackle; Paul 

Winsoeur, 1936 center; Chuck Hafron, 

1933 end; Frank Kerjes, 1931 

guard; Joe Schilling, 1936 tackle; 

Bill McCarthy, 1936 tackle; and Jim 

Hack, 1936 guard, got into the action. 

Bill Blake, Jay Wyatt, John O'Donnell, 

and Frank Hogan contributed 

their services as officials. 

Many of O'Brien's teammates who 

were unable to return for the game 

bought blocks of tickets. 

•37 ALUMNI GOLF CHAMP 

Harrison Joseph Pierce, '37, won 

the annual alumni golf championship 

on June 5, with a score of 79 over 

the William J. Burke-TJniversity 18hole 

course. Twenty-eight alumni 

officially entered the tournament. The 

play on the course. Father George 

Holderith reports, the heaviest of 

any Commencement since the course 

was completed in September, 1929. 

MOLLER WINS IN ILLINOIS 

Larry Moller, '31, Quincy, HI., who 

pioneered in Notre Dame's intercollegiate 

golf competition in 1930 as 

captain, has added his second Illinois 

State amateur title to his growing list 

of victories. -4. 9 to 8 victory over 

the favorite, Sid Richardson, Northwestern 

captain and Big 10 champion, 

turned the tiick after Moller 

had eliminated Wilbur Kokes, the defending 

champion in the opening 

round, and Bill Kostelecky of Northwestern 

in the semi-finals. Finishing 

the first nine all even with Richardson, 

Moller shot four consecutive 

threes, thi-ee of them birdies, to take 

a four-up lead. He finished the second 

nine in 35, the best round of the 

tournament, and ended it on the 10th 

hole of the afternoon round with a 

par four. 

W^hile in school, Moller was medalist 

in the 1930 national intercollegiate 

tournament, losing in the finals 

to George Dunlap of Princeton after 

being struck by lightning during the 

last 18 holes. He won the Illinois 

amateur title in 1934. 

John Banks, 1935 captain, and 

Tom Sheehan, Jr., sophomore star of 

the present season, Indiana collegiate 

champion, qualified for the tournament, 

Banks sm-viving the first round 

before losing to Gus Moreland of 

Peoria, Walker Cup star. 

Rice Wins Collesiate Two-Mile Race 

Greg Rice, the littlest man running 

distance races in these Unites 

States, brought Noti-e Dame a national 

championship and established 

a new National Collegiate -4,A. record, 

June 19 at Berkeley, California, 

when he defeated a classy field in 

the two-mile in 9 minutes 14.2 seconds. 

This also stands as an alltime 

Notre Dame outdoor record, 

bettering the official mark of 9:33.3 

made by Steve Szumachowski, Sophomore, 

this Spring, and the unofficial 

9:24 Rice ran in the C.I.C. meet 

June 4 for sixth place. 

It was the second time in his life 

Rice had run the two-mile in competition. 

Coach John Nicholson had 

spent mo5t of the Spring trying to 

convince the spunkj' little Missoula, 

Montana, runner that he was a better 

two-miler than a miler, even though 

he had run a 4:16.2 mile indoor and 

a 4:15 outdoor. Rice performed his 

record-breaking feat after finisliing 

a good fourth in the mile run, won 

by Charles Penske of Wisconsin in 

4:13.9, with Smith and Trutt of Indiana 

second and third. 

Bud Paymonrille, Irish Sophomore, 

took sixth in the discus throw at 148 

feet 5 inches, an improvement of two 

feet over his qualifjing mark. Rice's 

GREG RICE 

Big Little Man 

14 points and Faymonville's one 

point gave the Irish a total of 15 for 

a two-man team, just one point behind 

Michigan's 15-man team which 

won the Big 10 title. The Irish were 

ninth in the team standings in a field 

of 40 teams. 

West Catholic 

Wins 

Takes Fourth Prep 

Track Meet at N.D. 

A record-breaking entry list of 

more than 300 athletes from 21 

schools tried without success to cut 

the string of victories West Catholic 

high of Philadelphia has woven in 

the National Catholic Interscholastic 

track and field meet, June 4 and 5. 

Northeast Catholic of Philadelphia 

came closest, going into the relay in 

a tie ^\^th West high, at 31% points. 

The latter, however, won the relay 

for its fourth straight team victory 

while Northeast failed to place. The 

huge entry list gave the field balance 

it has not had to as great an extent 

during the first three years. And 

this factor of balance cut down Wesi 

Catholic's total from 56',i last year 

to 36% this year. 

Three meet records were set and 

another was tied, although it rained 

intermittently throughout the Saturday 

afternoon finals. Following are 

the final team standings: 

West Catholic, Philadelphia 

Northeast Catholic. Philadelphia 

Cathedral Latin. Cleveland 

Loyola. ChicaBo 

De Paul, Chicago 

Fenwick, Oak Park 

St. Ignatius, Chicajro . 

De LaSalle, ChicaKO 

Pio Nono, St. Francis, Wîs. 

Mt. Carmel, ChicaKO 

St. Ambrose, Davenport 

Leo, Chicago 

-36% 

-31% 

-24% 

. 9 

8% 

St. George. Evanston •— 4 

Aquinas. La Crosse. "Wis. . 2 

St. Patrick's, Iowa Citj-, la. 1 

Whinners, by events, follow: 

100-YARD DASH—Maher (West Catholic). 

Time. 0.9 seconds (He set meet record of 9.7 

seconds in semi-finals). 

220-YARD DASH—Maher (West Catholic). 

Time. 22.1 seconds. 

120-YARD rNTERMEDlATE HURDLES— 

Nadia (Northeast Catholic). Time 15.S seconds. 

200-YARD LOW HURDLES—May (Cathedral 

Latin). Time. 23.1 seconds (Meet Record). 

440-YARD DASH—(first section)—Mennes 

(Loyola). Time, 52.1 seconds. 

440-YARD DASH—(second section)—Bums 

(West Catholic). Time, 52.2 seconds. 

880-YARD RUN—(first section)—Kenney 

(Mt. Carmel). Time, 2 minutes 2.7 seconds. 

8S0-YARD RUN—(second section)—Esser 

(Loyola). Time 2 minutes 3.9 seconds. 

MILE RUN—(first section)—Layden (SU 

Ignatius). Time, 4 minutes 41.3 seconds. 

MILE RUN — (second section) — Foley 

(Northeast). Time, 4 minutes 43.9 seconds. 

BROAD JUMP—Juzwifc (De Paul). Distance. 

21 feet 4 inches. 

HIGH JUMP —May (Cathedral Latin). 

Height, 5 feet 8 inches. 

POLE VAULT—Hammas (Loyola). Height. 

11 feet (Ties meet record). 

SHOT PUT—Caffery (St. Ambrose). Distance 

48 feet 10-^ inches. 

JAVELIN THROW —Prokop (Cathedral 

Latin). Distance, 163 feet 8% inches (Meet 

record). 

DISCUS THROW—Looby (Northeast). Distance 

132 feet 9 inches (Meet record). 

HALF-MILE RELAY—West Catholic (Martini, 

McWilliams, Murphy, Maher). Time 1 

minute 36.4 second.


COMMENCEMENT ADDRESS 


man of the Board of Directors of the 

Commonwealth Edison Company, the 

Public Service Company of Northern 

Illinois and the People's Gas, Light 

and Coke company and former chairman 

of the board of Marshall Field 

aand Company; Mr. W. B. Traynor, 

Treasurer of Swift and Company; 

Mr. James E. Gorman, former president 

and now one of the trustees of 

the Rock Island Lines; Mr. Walter J. 

Cummings, chairman of the board of 

the Continental Illinois National 

Bank and Trust Company; and many, 

many others, including Chicago's 

mayor, Edward J. Kelly. 

Recently I was talking vith George 

A Martin, who like myself, is a director 

of one of the packing companies 

of Chicago, and President of the 

Sherwin-Williams company, one of 

America's largest manufacturing 

companies—a man recognized as one 

of America's greatest executives. We 

were reminiscing about Jim Gorman, 

who I have just mentioned, and who 

is, incidentally, probably the best 

loved individual in the transportation 

iield. Mr. Martin told me that he 

and Mr. Gorman, and the late R. J. 

Collins, were born on O'Brien Street, 

on Chicago's West Side. His first 

job was opening the door of a refrigerator 

in one of the packing houses 

of Chicago's stockyards. Today he is 

the president of one of the greatest 

corporations in the world. He takes 

pleasure in telling one that if he, Jim 

Gorman and Dick Collins had taken 

the left road, instead of the right, 

they would have gone nowhere. 

Door Is Wide Open 

To the youth of today, the door is 

\\ide open into the foyer of the Golden 

Age of .A.merican Business—the 

next few years. None are excluded 

but only those who see with the Inner 

Eye of the Soul which men call 

Courageous Vision will win the 

greater rewards of this Decisive Decade. 

There is no distinction in business 

as to race, or creed, or social position. 

A man may be a Jew or Gentile, 

Catholic or Protestant — merit and 

the \vill to do are all that count. 

Nevertheless the very fact that you 

go into the world as graduates of a 

Catholic University gives you a distinct 

advantage coupled with a grave 

responsibility. All of your schooling, 

all of your training has been based 

upon the strict principles of honesty 

and integrity. And while, unfortunately, 

we cannot truthfully maintain 

that all Catholics are honest—^nor 

would we wish to imply that non- 

Catholics are less honest — it does 

very definitely mean that the world 

expects Catholic men, educated in the 

Catholic tradition, to be absolutely 

honest in word, in deed, in thought. 

Have in mind your own desire to get 

ahead, but by all means to get ahead 

honorably. Never allow the spirit of 

Notre Dame to leave you — always 

remember that you carry the flag of 

your university into the world and 

that flag cannot and must not be 

lowered under any circumstances. 

Anything I have said that refers 

particularly to Catholics must not be 

considered by those of you who are 

not of this faith as indicating a lack 

of sympathy on my part to other 

groups or creeds. I have never permitted 

the fact that I am a Catholic 

to color my reactions in forming my 

estimates of other people. In our organization, 

while we have a number 

of Catholics and Jews, the majority 

of our employees are Protestant and 

I firmly believe that they would all 

tell you that we assume that "A 

man's a man for a' that." It is the 

man, his principles and innate character 

which form the basis of judgment 

for us, and for any right thinking 

management. 

Remember Sacrifices 

If we hark back to my own youthful 

days and the early youth of you 

boys—especially those of you whose 

fathers and mothers may have been 

forced to strain their financial resources 

to give you an education— 

we can never lose sight of the sacrifices 

that parents have made for us. 

If ever you are tempted to depart 

from the straight and narrow path 

to gain a temporary advantage or 

social position, remember Notre 

Dame, and, above all, remember your 

father and your mother. Allow no 

one to beguile you into believing that 

social prestige — especially for those 

entering the professions—\vill_ carry 

you through. Your degree carries 

with it a hallmark of sterling quality 

but it can mean nothing if you fail 

to indicate by your work and your 

character that you are worthy of 

your degree and the acclaim of your 

parents. 

Working conditions have improved 

to a vast extent since I was a boy. 

It was a common thing for me to 

work twelve to fourteen hours a day. 

I recently enjoyed reading a set of 

rules that were said to have been 

developed by the founders of one of 

the largest, most honorable and well 

managed department stores in Chicago 

when that store was established in 

a small town in Illinois more than 

80 years ago. Just imagine anyone 

being asked today to observe the following 

rules. 

"Store must be open from 6 a.m. 

to 9 p.m. the year round. 

"Store must be swept; counters, 

base shelves and showcases dusted; 

lamps trimmed, filled and chimneys 

cleaned; pens made; doors and windows 

opened; a pail of water, also 

a bucket of coal brought in before 

breakfast (if there is time to do so) 

and attend to customers who call. 

"Store must not be opened on the 

Sabbath unless necessary, and then 

only for a few minutes. 

"The employee who is in the habit 

of smoking Spanish cigars, being 

shaved at the barber's, going to 

dances and other places of amusement, 

will surely give his employer 

reason to be suspicious of his integrity 

and honesty. 

"Each employee must not pay less 

than $5.00 per year to the Church 

and must attend Sunday School regularly. 

"Men employees are given one evening 

a week for courting and two if 

they go to prayer meeting. 

"-After 14 hours of work in the 

store, the leisure time should be 

spent most in reading." 

Those of you who may be inclined 

to consider an eight hour day too 

long, may find food for thought in 

considering the hours your forebears 

casually accepted some 80 years ago. 

Those of us who might be inclined to 

look back upon these rules in a humorous 

light cannot fail to realize that 

business today offers a far more enticing 

opportunity to men of your 

generation—an opportunity of which 

young men of foresight and vision 

will be quick to take advantage. 

Commencement Is a Beginning 

.A.nd so I repeat—Commencement 

for the young man who typifies the 

spirit of Notre Dame is a thrilling 

and significant occasion. Today, with 

your diplomas, you receive the incentive 

to go out and build for yourselves 

the kind of life you, individually, 

most want. Commencement is 

exactly what the word implies—a 

beginning. Begin at once, then, to 

build a sturdy foundation so that the 

structure you erect upon it will stand 

firm and true and proud. Build for 

yourselves a future of integrity and 

honor. Tangible gains are splendid— 

material success is, indeed, much to 

be desired. But never lose sight of 

the importance of the intangibles— 

those things of the spirit for which 

your years at Notre Dame have provided 

so noble a beginning. Say, with 

Hugh Walpole, "It isn't life that 

counts, but the courage you bring into 

it."—the courage that and has always 

been synonymous with your 

Alma Mater. Carry that courage with 

you as you embark upon lives of 

richness and worth while endeavor. 

Notre Dame is proud of you today. 

See to it that throughout your lives 

she is able to retain that same justifiable 

pride in you.


CAMPUS NOTES 

NINETY-THREE 

Cliaracterized by that smoothness 

which marks all Notre Dame formal 

fimctions, the ninety - third Commencement 

exercises provided a fitting 

climax for 469 seniors. The 

record return of Notre Dame's alumni 

helped hearten these Seniors as no 

Commencement address could ever 

hope to do, with all deference to the 

address of the Commencement speaker, 

Mr. Dennis F. Kelly of Chicago. 

With 1937 ended the last of Notre 

Dame's "depression classes," classes 

so-called since they entered the University 

in those particularly discouraging 

years when sending a son to 

college mean the entailment of more 

than usual sacrifices for many parents. 

So — congratulations to the 

class of 1937 and, more especially, 

congratulations to those mothers and 

fathers whose unselfishness and courage 

were repaid by their feelings of 

pride and happiness upon hearing 

their sons pronounced graduates of 

Notre Dame. 

THREE WISE BOYS 

It was Senior Week—the week pre- 

\'ious to Commencement in which 

Seniors, released after the rigors of 

examinations, are privileged to disport 

themselves with undergraduate 

lack of dignity which would be considered 

unseemly after tha reception 

of their degrees. Exhilirated by. these 

considerations three Seniors, late one 

evening in Senior Week, decided that 

a graceful way in which to symbolize 

their feeling of good will towards the 

world would be to purchase gifts for 

"special" young ladies at St. Mary's. 

So, in a downtown drugstore, the 

Seniors each bought a life size replica 

of that popular screen star, Michael 

(Mickey) Mouse. iVnd in a nearby 

Western Union office they arranged 

for delivery of their parcels. 

Since it was then 11:30 p.m., the 

Seniors thought it superfluous to 

stipulate that delivery should not be 

made imtil the morrow. Unfortunately 

for their plans, the young messenger 

lad had just finished reading 

Hubbard's A Message to Garcia. 

Consequently, he mounted his sprocketed 

steed and pedaled to St. Mary's 

where he aroused all but the soundest 

sleepers among the students in 

his delivery duty. 

The next morning the bewildered 

donees unwrapped their- "gifts" in 

the presence of an investigating committee 

of Sisters. Mickey Mouse's infectious 

grin saved the day and all 

was well. 

Moral: Never give a messenger 

boy a Mickey Mouse doll to deliver. 

THE MONTH IN BRIEF 

Editor Tom Eadigan presented the 

smoothest Dome that we've seen in 

our five years at Notre Dame. . . . 

While general editorial make-up and 

context follovved the Domes of other 

years, Radigan's handling of the 

snapshot section was a splendid job 

of editing. . . . An innovation was an 

accurate index, making it unnecessary 

to thumb through the entire 

book to find the various features. . . 

Our story concerning Herb Jones last 

month was correct except that the 

incident occurred three years instead 

of two months ago as we reported. . . 

For timely news read your daily 

newspaper—for history read Campus 

Notes. ... 

DILLON DOMINATES 

Dillon hall won the annual interhall 

radio amateur contest. . . The 

quality of the programs was so much 

higher this year that campus opinion 

agreed that any of the three finalists 

would have won last year's 

contest with ease. . . James J. Braddock, 

world's hea%"yiveight boxing 

champion (knock on wood), visited 

the campus as the guest of the Rev. 

Wendell P. Corcoran, C.S.C. . . Jim 

was taken through the dining halls 

while the students were eating and 

later posed for pictures in the garb 

of a Notre Dame waiter. . . Brother 

-4ngelus, C.S.C, guestmaster in the 

Main building for the past three 

years, celebi-ated his 55th anniversary 

as a member of the Holy Cross 

order. . . Eichard Keid, Georgia editor 

and recipient of the Laetare medal 

in 1936 delivered several lectures 

to the entire student body in Washington 

hall. 

CLASSES ELECT 

Complete results of class elections 

follow; Seniors—John C. O'Connor, 

Indianapolis, Ind., president; George 

Fitzpatrick, North Bellingham, Massachusetts, 

vice president; Harold A. 

Williams, Jr., Baltimore, Maryland, 

secretary; and John Deane, Milwaukee, 

Wisconsin, treasurer;. . .Juniors 

—Paul McArdle, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 

president; Eugene White, 

Peoria, Illinois, vice president; Martin 

McGinnis, Memphis, Tennessee, 

secretary; and Joseph Nigro, Kansas 

City, Missouri, treasurer;. . . . Sophomores—James 

H. Mulqueen, Council 

Bluffs, Iowa, president; Charles Kel 

BY JOHN J. LECHNER. '37 

ly, Richmond, Virginia, vice president; 

Gerald Flynn, Rochester, New 

York, secretary; and John De Moss, 

Chicago, Illinois, treasurer. . . 

• 

PHILOSOPHERS DISPUTE 

The department of philosophy, un-. 

der the direction of the Rev. Thomas 

Brennan, C.S.C, and the Rev. Arthur 

J. Hope, C.S.C, sponsored its second 

annual philosophical disputation. . . 

Distinguished guests included Dr. 

Mortimer J. Adler and Dr. Scott Buchanan 

of the University of Chicago 

. . . Professor Henry C. Staunton, of 

the English department, was elected 

vice president of the Indiana College 

English Association. . . . Gerald G. 

Hogan, Brooklyn, New York, a freshman, 

won the Breen medal. . . . 

O 

INDIANA BELL INSTALLS 

The University has installed a new 

telephone exchange. It is the latest 

word in automatic features and technical 

advances. All the Scholastic 

columnists enjoyed a good cry in the 

last issue. . . . There haven't been 

so many tears shed on the campus 

since "Sonny Boy" was shown in 

AVashington hall. . . Paul Barker, 

Rochester, New York, James A. Waldron, 

Trenton, New Jersey, Eichard 

H. Meier, Paulkton, South Dakota, 

and Paul E. Foley, Grosse Pointe, 

Mich., were awarded scroll awards by 

the Dome as the four seniors outstanding 

in extra curricular activities. 

. . Publications editors for next 

year will be Eugene Vaslett, Brooklyn, 

New York, Scholastic; Charles 

Nelson, Decatur, Illinois, Scrip; and 

Frank Reppenhagen, Buffalo, New 

York, Dome. 

• 

KNIGHTS ELECT 

The local Knights of Columbus 

council inducted 73 new members. . . 

James L. Quinn, Elizabeth, New Jersey, 

succeeds F. Joseph DroUa, New 

Orleans, Louisiana, as Grand Knight 

. . . Peter Nemeth, Jr., South Bend, 

Indiana, won a 5500 bank night. . . 

Pete also will be married in June. . . 

Not cause and effect in this instance 

as the marriage was planned before 

the winning of the $500. . . Father 

Michael Quinlan, C.S.C, defeated the 

Rev. George L. Holderith, C.S.C, for 

the faculty golf championship. . . . 

The new residence hall now being 

erected will bear the name of one of 

Notre Dame's earlier priest-scientists, 

the Rev. John Zahm, C.S.C,... 

Memorial day was celebrated on the 

campus with appropriate ceremonies. 

See you all next year.


BACCALAUREATE SERMON 


merely private opinion as a rule of 

faith. 

Whilst finance-capitalism sins by 

excess in emphasizing the rights of 

individual property, Communism goes 

to the opposite extreme and repudiates 

the divine commandment "Thou 

shalt not steal." It has ruthlessly 

confiscated both productive and use 

property. It denies that the individual 

has any right in property antecedent 

to or superior to that of the 

State of the Community. In robbing 

men of property, it robs them of true 

liberty and subjects the citizens or 

the individual to the Community, 

making him a slave of the State just 

as certainly as any slave was ever 

bound to an individual master. We 

warn you, therefore, against the easy 

assumption that theories do not count 

or that principles and attitudes respecting 

property have no bearing 

upon practical life. 

Labor Disputes and Strikes 

Most of our social unrest at the 

present time in this country concerns 

itself with labor disputes and strikes. 

Now what light do Christian principles 

throw upon this dispute? At 

the outset we mast remember three 

things: first, the dignity of man as 

a child of God. Second, the right of 

private property as the sole guarantee 

of man's ultimate liberty or freedom. 

Third, the correlative nature of 

rights and duties. We cannot have 

one without the other. 

The Church, revealing to us the 

mind of Christ, teaches us that labor 

is honorable; it is divinely ordered; 

it is worthy of its hire. Most certainly 

it is not a commodity to be purchased 

in the open market. God has 

decreed that all men must work: 

"thou shalt eat thy bread in the 

sweat of thy brow." The Son of God 

coming into the world chose to be 

known as the son of Joseph the Carpenter. 

He took the status of a workingman 

in order to teach us an abiding 

lesson viz. that the work of the 

laboring man is worthy of reverence 

and respect. 

What are the consequences that 

flow from an understanding of these 

truths? If we look to ancient times, 

we find everywhere that the hard and 

disagreeable work of the world was 

done by means of the institution of 

slavery. Manual labor was treated 

with contempt in all the ancient civilizations. 

Wars were waged for the 

direct purpose of solving labor problems 

by means of captured slaves. 

With the advent of Christ's teaching 

slavery slowly disappeared from the 

face of Christian Europe. There was 

no forceful prohibition at first by 

law. The thing was simply incompatible 

with the acknowledged dignity of 

man. You could not treat a creature 

of God, redeemed by the precious 

blood, a member of the mystical body 

of Christ, a brother in grace—^yott 

could not treat him as a slave. 

In our modem social organization 

under the influence of competitive individualism 

a new doctrine took the 

place of Christianity. Men were no 

longer regarded as brothers in Christ 

but merely as so many hands. Labor 

was a commodity to be purchased. 

Wages were not determined by the 

value of the product but by the old 

slave principle of minimum subsistance 

for the worker. The principal 

that regulated relations between employers 

and employees for all too long 

a time was "Might makes right"; 

"Fortune smiles upon the strong"; 

What was the result? Long hours for 

labor. Hard work. Minimum wages. 

No wonder Leo XIII as early as 1891 

was forced to Avrite his encyclical 

deploring the condition of the working 

classes. He called the attention 

of the Christian world to fundamental 

principles of Christ's Gospel. 

The rights of labor were once more 

vindicated; namely the right to a 

decent wage; the right to humane 

working conditions in keeping with 

the dignity of man; the right of collective 

bargaining; the right of wôrkingmen's 

associations and the right 

of freely choosing their own representatives. 

Marriage and the Family 

Let us turn now to the question of 

Marriage and the Faintly. From 

the time that Christianity first made 

itself felt in the ancient world, the 

sanctity of the family has been safeguarded 

by a definite code of domestic 

ethics. When Christ began His 

family life. He worked His first miracle 

at the marriage feast of Cana 

as if to show His deep concern with 

the family as the f-ondamental social 

unit. He reminded His disciples that 

marriage is one and indisoUuble. He 

raised this most solemn contract 

amongst men to the dignity of a Sacrament. 

Now what happens when this 

teaching is disregarded? When marriage 

is completely secularized and 

amounts to nothing more than a civil 

contract or a companionate of temporary 

duration or convenience, then 

we deny the very essence of the 

Christian concept of the family. To 

break its unity, therefore, with wanton 

divorce is to let loose a host of 

evils upon the world. To frustrate 

its purpose by the suicidal practice of 

birth control is to deny its purpose 

and foster death, not life. The family 

is the social unit. Change it in essence 

or destroy its character, and 

civilization such as we have known it 

for more than a thousand years will 

be inevitably changed or destroyed. 

In analyzing the origin of oar social 

principles and onr social attitudes 

let us turn our attention finally 

to GOVEHNMENT itself. Today all 

thoughtful students of public affairs 

are watching %vith keen anxiety the 

steady drift towards state dictatorship. 

We have dictatorship of the 

right and of the left There is the 

dictatorship of the proletariat in 

Russia and there is the dictatorship 

of Nazi Germany. There are a halfdozen 

other dictatorships scattered 

throughout Europe. In these dictatorships 

we have a new concept of 

government. The citizen no longer 

has any inherent rights as a man, 

antecedent and prior to all government. 

Instead he is made the creature 

of the state. 

In America we still point proudly 

to our Declaration of Independence 

and our Constitution in which is set 

forth the doctrine that there are certain 

inalienable rights given to man 

by the Creator, namely, the right to 

life, liberty, property and the pursuit 

of happiness. Since the emergence of 

the totalitarian state these rights no 

longer are recognized in a large part 

of Europe. The state encompasses 

%vithin itself now the whole of man; 

it tells him not merely what he can 

do in public but tells him what he 

must think in private. In consequence 

there is no freedom of conscience; no 

freedom of worship; no freedom of 

assembly, nor freedom of the press. 

If you seek the explanation of 

this new phenomenon you wU find it 

in the progressive departure from 

Christian truth which has been taking 

place in the intellectual life of 

the world for the past several centuries. 

It is only now reaching its 

climax and final fruition. Christianity 

teaches that the citizen precedes 

the state. It teaches that man has a 

value and a dignity all his own; that 

he has rights that are inseparable 

from his existence as a man; rights 

given to him by His Creator which 

no state can steal away. The Church 

does not impose any particular form 

of government upon her members. 

They may choose a republic or a 

kingdom, a democracy or an empire, 

but the Church does teach that whatever 

be the form of government it is 

limited in its powers. Its authority 

is from God, but the rulers who exercise 

this authority are not divinely 

appointed. They are designated by 

the citizens themselves and restrained 

by his ordinances. 

The state, therefore, must subordinate 

its plan of human welfare to 

the prior rights of the plan that God 

Himself made. The state in other 

words must carry out its work within 

the moral order that God Himself 

established. If you accept these principles 

no matter what you call your 

government it never becomes an absolute 

dictatorship or a comprehensive 

totalitarian state.


I have repeatedly called your attention 

to the fact that we must not 

look upon these principles a§ mere 

academic theories. What philosophers 

think in one generation is popularized 

in the second and then reduced 

to practice in the third. How different 

would have been the history of the 

past 200 years if the intellectual 

leadership of the world had remained 

in Christian hands. As a matter of 

fact, the intellectual leadership passed 

from our hands to those outside the 

Church. They had little sympathy 

with and less understanding of the 

Christian philosophy of life. In politics, 

in sociology, in science and in 

economics the secularist view-point 

and the ultra-liberal spirit has predominated. 

In order to illustrate this 

fact let us cite the names of four 

men who were in the forefront of 

these respective fields of thought and 

activity during the past century and 

a half. 

Four Secular Evangelists 

In political science Jean Jacques 

Rousseau exercised more influence 

than any other writer of the past 200 

years. By reason of his "Social Contract" 

he gave direction and impetus 

to the liberal democratic movement 

but he did so by repudiating not 

merely the divine right of kings but 

also the divine right of the Lord God 

Himself. The principle of divine authority 

was shattered. The will of 

the majority was made the supreme 

law of society. Thus minorities were 

left defenseless in the face of attack 

on those inalienable rights with 

which they had been endowed by 

their Creator. 

In social science Auguste Comte, 

who coined the word Sociology, easily 

assimied the leadership and gave his 

so-called science a definitely anti- 

Christian bias. He denied the validity 

of any objective standard of morality 

and substituted in its plnce the shifting 

norm of human tradition, custom 

and fashion. Morality became mere 

conventionality. .\s a result men felt 

free to tinker with the sacred institutions 

of society such as marriage and 

the family. Experiments in stsrilization, 

birth control and euthanasia 

supplanted the right to life and personal 

integrity. 

In the field of experimental science 

no name is more significant than that 

of Charles Darwin. Even though he 

did not originate the theory of evolution, 

yet by his book the "Origin of 

Species" he created an entirely new 

spiritual mood or temper of mind in 

which to pursue experimental knowledge. 

If the theory of evolution carried 

over disastrously from biology 

into metaphysics, psychology and religion, 

it was largely due to the momentum 

which he gave by his book 

"The Descent of Man." Science after 

Darwin became irreligious in tone 

and purpose. 

In social economics Karl Marx became 

the new evangelist and his 

book "Das Kapital" became the new 

gospel from which millions of people 

were to seek in oar generation the 

inspiration of their economic and political 

activity. If Red revolution 

flames fearfully in many countries of 

the world, let us not forget that he 

who set the torch to the combustible 

material was Marx, the author of the 

"Communist Manifesto." 

Here you have the four great secular 

evangelists of the past century 

who gave a definitely anti-Christian 

bent to the trend of thought. Nothing 

can be more false than to assume 

that theories do not count. St. Paul 

understood well the mischief that can 

be done by intellectual error and it 

was no idle warning that he gave to 

his disciples at Colossae when he 

said: "Beware lest any man cheat 

you by philosophy or vain deceit; according 

to the traditions of men, according 

to elements of the world, and 

not according to Christ." 

In view of these premises what is 

the duty of the Catholic college graduate 

today? Following the scriptural 

principle that shall be held accountable 

according to the talents which 

we have received, then I am justified 

in saying that the men of Notre 

Dame have a threefold responsibility 

to discharge. 

Accept Intellectuality 

In the first place you must accept 

the responsibility of being intellectual. 

You must live henceforth on a 

high intellectual plane. The men of 

Notre Dame should never be content 

with the humdrum life of mediocrity 

but should be eager to exercise vigorous 

and active mental life. It is 

not necessary for me to labor the 

point that your practical daily lives 

must be in harmony with the Christian 

principles which have been inculcated 

in your minds and hearts 

through every part of the college 

curriculum. To fall short in this respect 

is to repudiate your Alma 

Mater. But more than this is expected 

of you. You must cultivate the intellectual 

as well as the moral virtues. 

The remedy for most of the ills which 

afflict society today is to be found in 

the intellect; in straight thinking; in 

a profound grasp of truth in all its 

dimensions and in all its implications. 

The intimate relation between religion 

and culture; bet\veen sound 

Christian philosophy and our political 

social and economic well being must 

be rediscovered. We suffer more in 

this generation from bad thinking 

than from bad will. 

The second responsibility which I 

recommend you to assume is that of 

being articulate. The Church suffers 

today not because we lack the truth 

but because the truth lacks adequate 

presentation. We lack creative artists, 

students and scholars in every 

field of intellectual endeavor. Until 

we regain our rightful prestige by 

reason of original and worthwhile 

production, we shall continue to witness 

a decline in our civilization. 

That might sound like • smug selfcomplacency 

if we did not know that 

there is no other name under heaven 

given to man whereby he can be 

saved—except the name of Jesus. 

Change to the Offensive 

The third responsibility to which 

attention may properly be directed is 

the responsibility of changing our 

strategy in the intellectual combat in 

which we are engaged. AVe have stood 

entirely too long on the defensive. We 

have been fighting a rear guard action 

for several centuries and it is 

high time that we change our tactics 

and pass to the offensive. This purpose 

can be achieved, not by assuming 

a belligerent attilsude, nor merely 

by substituting some new kind of 

political or economic program for the 

panaceas that are currently offered, 

but rather by changing the whole 

spiritual climate in which we live. We 

must have a different focus of 

thought. We must present in its full 

splendor and wide comprehension the 

glorious vision of the universal kingdom 

of God established by' Christ in 

contrast to that limited, narrow, 

earthbound vision of a kingdom full 

merely of material plenty. 

Theorists of every description are 

expending their ideas for the building 

of a better world and hurrying 

to set up the new Jerusalem at one 

according to their particular pattern. 

At the same time we who have the 

heritage of the faith—in whose veins 

flows the blood of martyrs—have lost 

somehow our enthusiasm for the 

building of the City of God. We must 

capture once more the vision which 

animated our forefathers and enter 

with new zest into the great adventure 

of reconstructing our Social 

Order by restoring all things in 

Christ. Each one has his own allotted 

task to perform according to the 

measure of his ability and training. 

But the whole enterprise in which we 

are enlisted has only one objective. 

St. Paul clearly states that objective 

when he writes thus to his people 

at Ephesus: "And he gave some 

apostles, and some prophets, and others 

some evangelists, and others some 

pastors and doctors, for the perfecting 

of the saints, for the work of the 

ministry, for the edifying of the body 

of Christ: until we all meet into the 

unity of faith, and the knowledge of 

the Son of God, unto a perfect man, 

until the measure of the age of the 

fulhiess of Christ." (Ephes. iv-11-14.)

1937 The Notre Dame Alumnus 261 

Association Officers Elected For 1937-38 

Arthur J. Hughes was the most 

effective, president the Alumni Association 

has ever had. The illustrious 

men who preceded him in the office— 

many of whom graced the head table 

at the 1937 Alumni Banquet—^^vould 

be the first to endorse this statement. 

Picking his successor to follow the 

trail he blazed was one of the major 

problems that have confronted the 

nominating committees. Their choice 

of James E. Deerj' and William E. 

Cotter was probably the finest action 

the circumstances could have asked. 

And the result was also most auspicious. 

The vote was close enough 

to indicate that both men are popular, 

representative alumni. Happily, 

the election was a double ^"ictor}- for 

the Association, as Jim Deery has another 

year to ser\'e on the Board of 

Directors and will be available to 

President Cotter with all the background 

of fraternal experience that 

has marked his career. 

Bill Cotter is undoubtedly the most 

thoroughly 100 per cent Notre Dame 

man ever to hold the office of president. 

And that says a lot. 

The assertion is based on the fact 

that Bill never went to any other 

school. 

He entered the Minims at Notre 

Dame in 1899, and for 14 years was 

a Minim, Prep and College, graduated 

in 1913, after a brilliant student 

career, as valedictorian of his class. 

Alumni who knew the Preps and 

the Minims realize that Bill's education 

was far more extensive than the 

classrooms of the famous teachers 

who influenced the curricula of those 

years. 

As manager of athletics in 1912- 

13, Bill Cotter won a lasting place 

in the Notre Dame hall of fame by 

arranging the first Notre Dame-Army 

football game. But that was only 

the climax of a most able administration 

of that important office, which 

found Notre Dame emerging from 

Cartier Field, looking for the new 

worlds that an end on the teams of 

those years was to conquer. 

Bill Cotter, together with half a 

dozen other veterans of the campus, 

lived in the Main Building, during 

his senior year, and the tales of political 

strategy which emanated from 

this small group bode well for our 

William E. Cotter, ' 13, Chosen as President; 

James E. Deery, '10, Remains as Director; 

Harry F. Kelly. '17, is First Vice-President. 

organization and the progress of the 

program Art Hughes launched. 

As lecturer of the Knights of Columbus, 

Bill gained a valuable campus 

backgi-ound in the first campus 

council of the Order, founded in his 

sophomore year at Notre Dame. It 

was while he held office, too, that the 

fund for the K. of C. Union Building 

was begun. 

Bill was business manager of the 

Players Association, a lively group 

which included such stars of the 

Washington Hall stage as Harry Scott 

(who hasn't lost the art as the '17 

Reunion found out this year), Knute 

Rockne, whose Indian Souaw and 

The 1937-1938 Board 

Negro Mammy still live in Notre 

Dame's theater traditions, and John 

F. O'Connell, Chicago's probate judge. 

Bill's student days were spent with 

a Chicago residence background. 

Since then, he has lived in New York 

with frequent trips linking him to his 

old home and to many of the cities 

in between. Geographically, therefore, 

the new president is well 

grounded in the territory holding the 

bulk of his constituency. 

His business connection, since his 

graduation, has been w-ith the Union 

Carbide and Carbon Co., of which he 

is now the legal counsel. 

He was married, in the best Notre 

Very Rev. James A. Burns, C.S.C, '88, Notre Dame, Ind Honorary President 

William E. Cotter, '13, New York City President 

Harry F. Kelly, '17, Detroit, Michigan First Vice-President 

Charles A. Mooney, Jr., '26, Cleveland, Ohio Second Vice-President 

James E. Armstrong, '25, Notre Dame Secretary-Treasurer 

William R. Dodiey, '26, Notre Dame Assistant Secretary 

James E. Deery, '10, Indianapolis, Ind Director to 1938 

Don P. O'Keefe, '03, Detroit, Michigan Director to 1939 

Joseph M. Byrne, Jr., '15, Newark, New Jersey Director to 1940 

Francis H. McKeever, '03, Chicago, Illinois Director to 1941 

Arthur J. Hughes, 'I I,Chicago, Illinois Director to 1938 (ex-officio) 

To be elected—Member of 1937 Class Director to 1938 

The 7937-7938 Distrief Governors 

A. Gordon Taylor, '18, LaPorte, Ind District I 

John M. Montague, '23, Chicago, 111 District 2 

Otis S. Winchester, '29, Cleveland, Ohio District 3 

Harold Watson, '25, Milwaukee, Wis District 4 

Joseph J. Norton, '24, Detroit, Mich District 5 

James D. Hayes, "17, Washington, D. C District 6 

Henry T. Frey, '30, New Vork City District 7 

John G. Byrne, '23, Williamsville, N. Y District 8 

Walter J. Stapleton, '24, Fairfield, Conn District 9 

Thomas A. Daffron, "30, Richmond, Virginia District 10 

Joseph E. Fitzpatrick, '25, Miami, Florida District 11 

James A. McKee, '93, Versailles, Kentucky District 12 

William H. Miller. '30, Vicksburg, Miss District 13 

M. E. Walter, '14, Houston, Texas District 14 

Daniel F. Foley, '23, Ft. Leavenworth, Kan District 15 

J. Henry Fannan, '24, Rockford, 111 District 16 

Leo F. Craig, '04, Sioux Falls, South Dakota District 17 

Raymond M. Humphreys, '17, Denver, Colorado District 18 

Anton R. Hebenstreit, 'II. Albuquerque, New Mexico District 19 

Royal Bosshard, '17, San Francisco, Calif District 20 

Natt McDougal, '00, Portland, Oregon District 21 

C. C. Fitzgerald, '94, Havana, Cuba District 22


Dame tradition, to Miss Evarista 

Brady, a graduate of St. Mary's. For 

the past 12 years, Mr. and Sirs. Cotter 

have lived in New Rochelle. They 

have a family of three children, Evarista, 

who attended Rosemont College, 

Pennsylvania, Mary, a student 

at the Ursuline Academy in New Rochelle, 

and Bill, Jr., who, after graduation 

this month from lona School, 

will enter Notre Dame in the Fall 

as a Freshman. 

The versatilitj- of the new President's 

campus background has been 

reflected in his career as a Catholic 

citizen of New York. 

Together with Father John Talbot 

Smith, he was a founder and later 

president of the Catholic Actors 

Guild, and is attorney for that group. 

Philanthropically, he is president 

of the Broad St. Hospital in New 

York City, and treasurer of the 

American Memorial Association for 

Devastated France. He was a former 

treasurer of the professional 

International Acetylene Association. 

His clubs are the Westchester Country, 

the Union League and the University. 

From all of which data, the ALUM 

NUS draws the happy conclusion that 

the affairs of the Association and the 

fine work of Art Hughes in 1936-37, 

are in the best possible guiding hands 

for 1937-38. 

Law took the laurels in the 1937 

election. 

First Vice - President is Harrj' 

Kelly, '17. Harrj' won his spurs in 

Ottawa, Illinois, where he rose to the 

state's attorneyship of La Salle County. 

From there he moved to the district 

attorney's office in Detroit and 

immediately won a reputation in the 

Michigan metropolis which has entrenched 

him in the Detroit bar. With • 

the double background of Notre Dame 

centers. La Salle County and the very 

active Detroit area, Hari-y can contribute 

greatly to the alumni progi-am 

development. 

Second Vice - President is Charles 

A. Mooney, '26. Chuck took law 

after leaving Notre Dame, but entered 

the insurance firm with his 

father, the late Congressman Charles 

A. Mooney. Chuck was a candidate 

for Congress himself, being defeated 

by a more experienced campaigner, 

but winning great commendation 

from the Cleveland press and citizenry. 

Chuck was also a student manager 

of athletics. That, together 

v/ith his presidency of both the campus 

and alumni Cleveland Clubs, 

gives Mm a most valuable background 

for the new regime. 

Director for the 4-year term, succeeding 

the veteran and able Fred L. 

Steers, is another Chicago attorney, 

Francis H. McKeever, '03. Anyone 

who followed Frank McKeever's early 

career in the Notre Dame Club of 

Chicago, and who last year was aware 

of the leadership he exerted in putting 

across the Notre Dame faculty 

series in Chicago, can feel that the 

responsibilities of the directorate 

have been placed in both able and 

willing hands. Frank is familiar with 

Notre Dame over a long period of 

Converse Studio Phalo 

PRESIDENT WILLIAM E, COTTER 

years, and aware of changes both in 

the University and in the Association 

during those years, which will be invaluable 

to the Board. 

Add to these men the fact that Art 

Hughes remains on the Board in 

1937-38 ex officio, and that the Class 

of 1937 will elect a Director for 

1937-38 with the new viewpoint of 

the latest Class to be graduated, and 

it looks like another banner year for 

the Association. 

Alumni Clubs 

AKRON 

Frank E. Steel, •23. 327 Wildwood Ave.. 

President: James E. Coulter, ex. *30, 595 

Carroll St., Secretary. 

ARIZONA 

Vincent Heniresbach. e.t.'27. 1710 E. 2nd St., 

Tucson, President; Ted A. Witz. c--c."29. Box 

628, Tucson, Secretary. 

ARKANSAS 

Burt L. Roberts, 1325 Lincoln Ave., Little 

Rock, Ark., Secretary. 

BENGAL 

EL Rev. Timothy Crowley, aS.C., "02, 

Dacca, Bcnsal, India, President; Rev. J. J. 

Hennessey, C.S.C.. '02, Dacca. Bensal, India, 

Secretary. 

Bishop Crowley recently received 

some splendid publicity in Chicago, 

when the mission society organized 

there under his name for the aid of 

the Bengalese staged its annual benefit 

party. The Holy Cross missions 

in Bengal are one of the outstanding 

works of the Congregation, but distance 

frequently obscures their merits, 

and it was a pleasure to see Bishop 

Crowley and his work receive this 

deserved tribute and practical aid. 

BERRIEN COUNTY (Michigan) 

Eugene O'TooIe, '20, 321-325 State St., St. 

Joseph, President; Frank A. Deitle, '26. 

1884 S. Colfax, Benton Harbor, Secretary. 

BOSTON 

Fred C. Solari, '35, Center SL, Pembroke, 

Mass., President: John J. Hanley, '34, 409 

Salem St., Medford, Mass.. Secretary; Paul 

McAIanus, '34, Fox & Hounds Club, Boston, 

Mass., Secretary. 

On May 20 almost a hundred Notre 

Damers, almost Notre Damers, and 

would - like - to - have - been Notre 

Damers, whooped and hollered and 

tore broiled chiken from limb to limb 

in the grandest ReWval Meeting Boston 

has seen since Gypsy Smith 

packed the Garden. (And if I'm not 

mistaken, he had to give away a 

couple of refrigerators to bring them 

in.) If there had been any doubt 

before about the spirit of the Notre 

Dame men in the Codfish Commonwealth, 

there can certainly be none 

now. From all over the State within 

a radius of 150 miles, they came, and 

the spirit was nothing short of invigorating. 

The dinner was presided over by 

Fred Solari who introduced the 

speakers. Bill Cunningham and Eddie 

Anderson, coach of Holy Cross. 

Grace was said by Father McGinn, 

CS.C. Movies of the Pitt game of 

'35 and the renowned Ohio State 

game of '35 were shown, and a running 

comment was competently handled 

by Fred who had played in the 

games. After the dinner a collection 

was taken up for the fund for Johnny 

O'Brien's children and the check 

forwarded to Elmer Layden. 

The meeting was officially a Boston 

Club get-together, but we were 

favored with the presence of Joe Mc- 

Kean, '32, and his brother, representing 

that tired section of the country, 

the South, and Tony Anzlovar, '34, 

from Cleveland. All three. I believe, 

are courting culture at Harvard. 

Paul Broderick, head of the Paramount 

Picture booking department in 

Boston, brought in a group from his 

office. He has generously offered to 

provide football movies for us any 

time we want them, which promises 

well for future meetings. Les Freres 

McManmon were there, with a combined 

displacement more awesome 

than ever. John is head of the Highway 

Beautification Department of the 

State of Massachusetts, and Art is, I 

believe, head of the Donnelly Advertising 

Company in Worcester.


Others were: Bill Ellis, '36, doing 

art work for an advertising company. 

Buck Hanley, '34, told me what he 

was doing, but memory fails. However, 

I remember noting at the time 

that it was a goodly. Christian work. 

Eddie Collins, '03, is clerk of the 

Supreme Court, and he and Joe Gargan, 

'17, who is one of Boston's foremost 

lawyers, constitute as enthusiastic 

a pair of Notre Dame men as 

I've ever met. Glynn Eraser, '34, 

left right after the banquet for 

Maine, where he is in charge of some 

Federal Youth project at Quoddy Village. 

Jack Saunders, '31, is operating 

one of those super-markets up in 

his home town of Lowell. 

Joe Gartland, '27, is with the Hornblower 

& Weeks, stock brokers. Harold 

Noonan, '34, is in the insurance 

business — Lumberman's Mutual. I 

was talking with Al Phaneuf, '34, for 

a few minutes. It was the first time 

I'd seen liim since a few days before 

Christmas, when he seemed to have 

the power of life and death over 

about 40 salesgirls in Jordan Marsh's 

department store. John Sullivan, '33, 

came down from Holyoke. He told 

me then of the illness of Gerry Teevens, 

and the other day the item appeared 

in the Boston Post. I didn't 

know Gerrj- awfully well, but in June 

of 1932 I was one of a group of 

three or four who drove home from 

school with liim in his car. It was 

the most memorable trip of my life, 

and enough excitement took place 

during it to convince anyone that 

Gerry Teevens was a remarkably fine, 

clear thinking fellow, absolutely fearless 

of anybody or anything, and endowed 

with more courage than almost 

anybody I ever knew. 

A few days after our banquet, 

John Shea, '08, co-composer of the 

"Victoiy March," dropped into the 

Fox and Hounds to express his regret 

at having missed the re-union. 

The spirit was willing, he told me, 

but the Nash was weak, and it succumbed 

en route. Father Donovan, 

at St. Philip's Church, also called me 

up to lament that he had been away 

that night. 

The final event of the season will 

be a dance conducted by the campus 

Boston Club at the Fox and Hounds, 

on Saturday night, June 19. It will 

take place in the Blue Room. I have 

aiTanged things so that, aside from 

the club's minimum charge of $1.00 

per person, the only fee will be a 

twenty-five cent tax which will go to 

the campus club's treasury. 

Although this document has assumed 

an awkward length, it wouldn't 

be quite fair to close it without making 

some special acknowledgment of 

the efforts of the three men to whom 

credit for the success of our re-union 

must go: Fred Solari, Joe Gargan 

and Glynn Eraser. 

Paul McManus. 

BUFFALO 

George E. Doyle. Jr.. '30, Liberty Bank 

Bids-. President; Itobert Measer, *34, Amherst 

Bee Co.. Main £ Kock Sts.. Willismsville, 

N. Y., Secretary. 

CALUMET DISTRICT (Ind.-Ill.) 

Frank J. Galvin. •23. First Trust Bide., 

Hammond, President; Fred J. Solman, Jr.. 

'23, 5752 Erie Ave., Hammond, Secretary. 

CAPITAL DISTRICT (New York) 

Edward J. Eckert. '33, 5 Lawnridse Ave., 

Albany, President; H. V. Canavan, '28. 254 

Patridge St., Albany, Secretary. 

At our meeting on Universal Notre 

Dame Night, the following officers 

were elected for the Notre Dame 

Club of the Capital District: president, 

Edward J. Eckert; vice-president, 

John B. Land; secretary-treasurer, 

H. V. Canavan. 

H. V. Canavan. 

CENTRAL OHIO 

Raj-mond J. Eichenlaub, '15, Hosier Realty 

BIdg., Columbus, President. 

CENTRAL MICHIGAN 

Dr. E. J. Hermes. '16. 1910 Oakland St, 

Lansing. President; J. Harvey Gauthier. '30, 

Bark River, Mich., Secretary. 

CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA 

Leonard Burns, '25. 1635 20th Ave., Altoona. 

Pa., President; William McAIeer, '31, 1518 

19th Ave., Altoona. Pa., Secretary. 

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CENTRAL NEW JERSEY 

Anthony V. Ceres. '2S. Perth Amboy Nat'l. 

Bank Bldg., Perth Amboy. President; Jonn 

Lisicki, '31, 215 Water Street. Perth Amboy, 

Secretary. 

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CHICAGO 

Francis J. Oelerich. Jr., '32, 8G4 Larrabee 

St., Chicago, President: George A. Brautigan, 

'29, 111 W. Washington St., Chicago. 

Secretary. 

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CINCINNATI 

Frank H. Sweeney, ex. '17, Kemper Lane 

Hotel, President: Oarcnce Brink, '31, 1306 

Cryer Ave., Hyde Park, Secretary. 

CLEVELAND 

George Kerver, '20. 800 Hickox Bldg., President 

; Cornelius J. Ruffing, . '32. 308 Euclid 

Bldg., Secretary*. 

We closed another successful Clubyear, 

May 10, at the annual meeting 

in Fischer-Rohr restaurant. Because 

precedent dictates a change in the 

role of officers each year, we sent 

last year's group back to their more 

lucrative jobs with our congratulations 

and thanks. Said Erie RRy's 

la^vyer, Pat Canny, who as president 

proved himself well worthy of his 

unanimous choice last year: "My 

Boss wants me to go to work for the 

Erie again." We can understand 

that, for Pat ser\'ed unstintingly and 

with little buck passing to the vicepresident, 

for Paul Castner fled 

Cleveland on a business pursuit last 

Autumn. Secretary Larry Krai's record 

of last year's events was a success 

story illustrated by Treasurer AI 

Grisanti's financial report. 

-Another staff was elected. George 

Kerver is now president; John J. Col 

lins, vice-president; George P. O'Day, 

treasurer; and your present raconteur, 

Cornelius J. RuEBng, secretary. 

With precedent rich in accomplishment 

to rival, well await another 

year for comment on the choice. 

Because now and then we meet 

someone who manifests the Notre 

Dame spirit in a manner to be envied 

by most of us, and because so often 

those loyal supporters of Notre Dame 

never walked the campus as students 

and consequently are not eligible for 

regular membership in the club, we 

here in Cleveland provided in our 

charter for the extension of honorary 

membership in the club. If George 

J. Leroux, Clayt's Dad, is proud of 

his honorary membership in the 

Notre Dame Club of Cleveland, his 

pride fals short of ours in having 

him in our group. Long time friend 

of the club, always keenly interested 

in N.D. men and their affairs, Mr. 

Leroux is well deserving of this small 

gesture on our part. To Mr. Leroux 

we presented a formal certificate of 

membership. 

As Krai wrote. Gene MilliCF is 

married; to Miss Magadeline Baeder 

in -'Vpril. Cy Matthews was best man. 

Incidentally Cy's editor of the plant 

paper at National Malleable, where 

he's also in charge of the dispensary. 

Clayt Leroux, practising for his own 

marriage to Miss Margaret Powers 

on June 19, served the MiUilFs as 

usher. Father Murphy Of St. Mary's 

parish, Sandusky, who officiated, had 

married at least one other N.D. man; 

Father Murphy married the late beloved 

Knute and Mrs. Rockne back 

in Knute's Cedar Point days. 

Don's be surprised if Jim Driscoll 

drops around some day with a convincing 

story about your need for 

more life insurance. You're safe on 

week-ends, however; Jim has another 

life problem in Delphos each Sunday. 

Central National Bank not only employs 

Ed Gough and Ralph Huller 

but there also are Phil Geoghegan, 

Cecil Hobert and Ed Hogan. Also 

in financial fields are security men 

Joe Butler, Phil Prendergast, Howy 

Richards, Ed Blatt and John Venables. 

While we're at this Classified 

Listing, there's dental surgeon Cy 

Caldwell, who, too, is marrjing this 

month. And soon completing his internship 

at St. John's Hospital are 

Drs. Mike Crawford and Dolly Cannon. 

Down at the court house almost 

daily are lawyers Marty Rin!, Don 

Miller, Pierce O'Connor, John Gleason, 

Joe Sweeney . . . and the many, 

many more. 

If Judge Dan Duffy is the Autumn 

candidate for mayor, as rumor and 

the betting odds suggest, John Butler, 

active assistant county prosecutor, 

will likely raise his voice for 

Dan. And on the municipal judiciary 

slate will be Judge Frank Celebreeze. 

One wonders what prominent public 

men Jack Flynn and Ray Miller will


have to say from their respective 

platforms. 

Past and present for all appearances, 

master of the fist-cuff game, 

Jack McGrath has turned tailor. His 

new method FOTO FIT shop is on 

Vincent Street right across from 

Chuck Rohr's side entrance. 

Just west of town, in Lorain, Al 

Thomas prastises law; just east of 

town, in Willoughby, George Thomas 

serv'es the municipality. 

George Sargus of Bellaire, on his 

last -i-isit to the city, announced opening 

his third women's dress shop; this 

fast link of the Sargus Chain is at 

Maitin's Ferrj', Ohio. 

Back and brown from a West Indies 

cruise Lou Stettler hurried right 

on through town to the Derby at 

Louis\-ille. 

Father Paul Hallinan, Scholastic, 

Dome, Santa Maria, Scrip and pink 

slips from New Yorker, is assistant 

at St. Aloysius parish here. 

Bill Van Rooy's brother, John, met 

an untimely death. Jolm was only 

29. 

Nick Ruffing. 

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CONNECTICUT VALLEY 

William A. Hurley. '28. TO Montrose St., 

Springfield. Mass.. Prpsidcnt: Francis A. 

Aheam, '27. c-o Hartford Times, Hartford, 

Conn., Secretary. 

* 

DALLAS 

James P. Swift. '24, 1202 Soutliwestcrn Life 

Bids.. Dallas, President: Francis A. McCullousfi, 

*30, 917 First National Bank Bids., 

Dallas, Secretary. 

* 

DAYTON 

Eusene Mayl, '24, 400 Ir\-ins Ave., President 

: William Cronin, "29, 418 Crafton Ave., 

Secretary. 

* 

DENVER 

Robert A. Dick. '29, 931 14th Ave., President; 

Harry Lawrence, '29. 1951 Lawrence 

St., Secretary. 

DETROIT 

Gilliert F. Schacfer. '26, 17380 Monica, President: 

John W. Brennan, "27, 632 Fisher 

Bids., Secretary. 

The club, through Harry Kelly, 

new first vice-president of the Alumni 

Association, has announced, that, 

through special arrangements, the 

club members will hereafter have a 

special Notre Dame Retreat every 

year, beginning on the Thursday 

after Ash Wednesday, at Manresa, 

the Jesuit Retreat House on the edge 

of Detroit. This definite annual date, 

ideal in everj' w-ay, was secured 

through the generous co-operation of 

Father W. E. Cogley, S.J., for many 

years the spiritual director of Manresa. 

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DES MOINES 

Harry O'Boyle, '27. 2801 Grand Ave., President: 

Bichard Hyde, '55, 678 26th St.. 

Secretary. 

DUBUQUE 

C. I. Kraicwski, *16, 321 Bank & Insurance 

Bids., President: Henry L Trenkle, '24, IS) 

S. Booth SL, Secretary. 

EASTERN INDIANA 

Thomas A. Cannon. '33, 401 Wysor Bids.. 

Muncic. Ind., President; Alvls E. Granger, 

ex. '31, 617 S. Jefferson St, Hatford City, 

Ind., Secretary, 

EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA 

Leo R. Mclntyre, •28. Bethlehem, President: 

Ernest L, Wilhelm, *27, New Jersey Zinc 

Co., Research Dept., Palmerton, Secretary. 

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ERIE, PENNSYLVANIA 

Charles J. Wittman. '31. G21 Schcnicy Dr., 

President; William K. Bayer, '36, 724 W. 

10th St.. Secretary. 

FLINT (Michigan) 

Stephen J. Roth, '31. 723 Union Industrial 

Bids.. President: Donald F. MacDonald, '31, 

1631 W. Court St., Secretary. 

FORT WAYNE, INDIANA 

Edward S. Sullivan. "24. 125 E. Suttenfidd 

St.. President: Maurice J. DeWald, '33, 2415 

Huburtus St., Secretary. 

GRAND RAPIDS 

George E. Ludwig, '25, 328 Glcnhaven Ave., 

N. W., President; Raj-mond J, Bonini, '27, 

607 Atwood, N.E., Secretary. 

GREEN BAY, WISCONSIN 

John V. Diener. '09, Mayor of the City of 

Green Bay, President: John Clancy, ex. '35, 

525 S. Qay St.. Secretary. 

GREATER LOUISVILLE 

John Bannon. '32, 2011 Shenvood Ave., 

Louisville, President: Raymond Naber, '33, 

417 S. Western Parkway, Louisville, Secretary. 

GOGEBIC RANGE (Michigan) 

Robert O'Callaghan, ex. *16, Gogebic National 

Bank, Ironwood, President: Francis 

J. Vukovieh, '35, Ridge St., Ironwood. Mich., 

Secretary. 

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HAMILTON, OHIO 

M 0. Bums. '86, 338 S. Second St., President: 

Marc A. Fiehrer, '27, 701 Rentschler 

Bids., Secretary. 

HARRISBURG 

Joseph Farrell, '15, Harrishurjr, President; 

Robert M. Johnston, '33, City Chemist. Harrisburg. 

Pa., Secretary. 

HIAWATHALAND CMich.-Wis.) 

Joseph A. Lauemian, '31, 1975 Riverside 

Ave., Marinette, Wis.. President: Francis C. 

Boyce, ex. "32, 1401 First Ave.. S., Escanaba, 

Mich.. Secretary. 

HOUSTON 

M. E. Walter, '14. 1702 Stuart Ave., President 

: Raymond B. Keating, '35, 1810 Sterlins 

Bids-, Secretary. 

INDIANAPOLIS 

Charles E. Mason. '26. Indiana Bel! Telephone 

C. President: Frank P. McCarthy, 

'28, 819 N. Gray St., Secretary. 

JACKSON, MICHIGAN 

Walter Ducey. '17. 339 W. Morrdl St.. President: 

Edward T. O'Neill, '26, Wildwood 

Apts., Secretary. 

This is a somewhat delayed report 

of our little get-together on N. D. 

Night. 

The officers for the coming year 

are: Walter Ducey, president; Ed. 

O'Neill, secretary; Carlton Maino, 

vice-president; Dr. Bernard Murphy, 

treasurer. 

We made strides for a much better 

club by definitely deciding on a 

monthly meeting on the third Tuesday 

of everj' month, and look forward 

to a successful year. 

Several newcomers are in the club 

as a result of renewed acti\'ity in the 

engineering department of the Consumers 

Power Company. 

Les Wisda. 

JOLIET, ILLINOIS 

Dr. Edward J. Mayer, '27, 301 Ruby St., 

President; Lawrence J. Dunda, ex. '33, '704 

N. Raynor .\ve., Secretary. 

An item of interest which I failed 

to include in the news for the May 

issue of the ALUMNUS was the presence 

of Francis Walsh, '20, and his 

brother, Clyde A. Walsh, '21, of 

Campus, Illinois, at our Universal 

Notre Dame Night celebration. Francis 

is a lawj'er in Campus and Clyde, 

a banker. We were cei-tainly pleased 

to have some out-of-town visitors, 

and hope that they will come again 

and that any other out-of-town members 

will pay us a call sometime. 

Two of our members, Francis J. 

Murray, who attended Nore Dame in 

'27, '28 and '29, and Joseph E. 

Dwyer, LL.B., '34, report having 

taken trips during the past several 

months. Frank traveled through Baltimore 

and the East, and Joe vacationed 

at Miami Beach, Florida during 

the Winter. 

We are planning a dance for the 

very near future and likewise other 

events during the Summer months. 

Our clubrooms in the West Pines 

hotel will soon be redecorated. 

Lawrence J. Dunda. 

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KANSAS 

Albert J. Gebert, '30, U. of Wichita, Wichita, 

Kansas, President: Dan Welchons. '30, 

623 Elm SL. Ottwa, Kansas, Secretary. 

KANSAS CITY (Missouri-Kansas) 

Robert Tyler, '29, 3616 Paseo Blvd., Kansas 

City, Mo., President: Charles E. Meyer, '29, 

420 E. Armour Blvd.. Kansas City, Mo„ 

Secretary. 

LAPORTE, INDIANA 

Nomum E. Duke. '34, 304 Niles St.. President 

: Robert E. Quinn, ex. '39, 1401 Monroe 

St,, Secretary. 

LOS ANGELES 

Douglas Daley, '30, 7S1 Ceres Ave.. President: 

Thomas Ashe. '31. 2415 Flower St, 

Huntington Park, Secretary. 

LOUISIANA-MISSISSIPPI 

P. E. Burke. '88, 307 Camp St, New Orleans, 

La., President; Cyprian A. Sporl. Jr., 

'28, Whitney-Central Bids., New Orleans, 

La., Secretary.


MANILA 

Alfonso Ponce Emile, *05. Manila. President: 

Gonzalo R, Valdes, '35, 709 San Marcelino. 

Secretary. 

Father Tom Lahey, with Father 

George Marr, represented Notre 

Dame and the Congregation at the 

recent Eucharistic Congress in Manila. 

Father Lahey was stricken vdth 

flu upon his arrival in the Philippines 

and was forced, when he had partially 

recovered, to return to the 

United States. Father Marr continued 

on a trip around the world. 

The following letter, written by 

Father Lahey at the University of 

Portland, gives an -inspiring account 

of the Notre Dame Spirit in action: 

"I want to tell you about an illustration 

of Notre Dame spirit which 

should not be allowed to pass unnoticed. 

During my recent \'isit to 

Manila, most of my time as you 

know, was spent in recovering from 

the effects of the flu. During that 

period I was the constant recipient 

of innumerable kindnesses from various 

former students of mine, particularly 

Anthony Roxas, whose unfailing 

attention was the edification 

of everj' one in the hospital. 

When time came for me to return 

to the United States, the Notre Dame 

Club of Manila climaxed the situation 

by paying the round-trip expense of 

a nui-se all the way to Portland, Oregon—a 

substantial outlay as any one 

knows who has made the trip back 

and forth. 

I wonder how many schools there 

are, the alumni of which would do 

for a member of their faculty what 

these young men did for me? That 

was not all, however. Throughout 

my entire stay in Manila, I was constantly 

hearing the highest praise 

concerning the tj'pe of young men 

representing Notre Dame in the Islands—the 

greatest compliment, after 

all, that can be paid to a University. 

I have already written a letter of appreciation, 

but I wish also to pay this 

public tribute lest the lesson of this 

fine illustration of Notre Dame spirit 

be lost through the modesty of the 

Notre Dame Club of Manila. 

(Rev.) Thomas A. Lahey, C.S.C." 

Frank Lloyd, University comptroller 

and business manager, who, with 

his daughter, visited the Islands last 

Summer, was especially enthusiastic 

as to the hospitality and kindness of 

the club and its individual members. 

The club had an election at the 

dinner given in February in honor 

of Father Marr and Father Lahey. 

(Father Lahey was unable to attend 

because of his illness.) 

Alfonso Ponce Emile, the oldest 

Notre Dame man in the Islands, was 

elected president; Tony Roxas, vicepresident; 

Gonzalo Valdes, secretary; 

and Father Vincente Catapang, chaplain. 

Father Marr gave a stirring afterdinner 

speech to the 25 members 

present, thanking them for the innumerable 

courtesies extended to 

Father Lahey and himself. 

In early May, Father O'Hara received 

a cable from Tony Roxas asking 

on behalf of himself, Jake Zobel, 

Melian Brias and Eduardo Roxas, authority 

to form a polo team to represent 

Notre Dame in the Philippines. 

Father O'Hara promptly approved 

the proposal and sent congratulations 

and best wishes. 

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MEMPHIS 

John S. Montedonico. *35. 327 Kenilworth 

PI.. President: Thcon F. Dohosne. '27, 

1072 S. Wellinston St.. Secretary. 

MIAMI, FLORIDA 

Vincent C. Giblin. 'IS. 4103 Collins Ave., 

Miami Beach, President; Daniel J. Lino, ex. 

'34, 1617 N. W. Ninth Ave., Miami, Secretary. 

MILWAUKEE 

John Clauder, '34, 1219 Vliet St., President: 

J-Tmcs Corriffan, '35, 1829 N. 69th St., Wauwatosa. 

Secretary. 

Notre Dame was well represented 

at the recent Catholic -A.ction Conference 

held in Milwaukee. Father 

Devers and Haggerty wêre representatives 

from Watertown, Wisconsin, 

and Milwaukee's Harold Watson 

took a veiy prominent part in the 

proceedings. Practically every Notre 

Dame man in town attended. On this 

occasion the Milwaukee Auditorium 

exceeded its previous attendance record 

by many hundreds. This bears 

witness to the fact that Catholic -Action 

plays an important part in the 

minds of Wisconsin Catholics. 

Hal Watson's baby son is again in 

tip top shape after having suffered 

a leg fracture some few weeks ago. 

Bill Collins, Jerry "Reddy" Fox and 

your correspondent journeyed to 

Mayslake Retreat House (Hinsdale, 

Illinois) for the purpose of participating 

in the Sixty Golden Hours 

held there every week-end. We were 

pleasantly surprised to see Bemie 

Leahy and several of his business associates 

in the same group. 

The Corrigan brothers are en route 

to Mexico, where Jim expects to get 

some valuable information on "How 

to be a Good Notre Dame Club Secretary." 

Bill Brown got around to 

the luncheon last Thui-sday. We're 

wondering if Doctor Dundan has 

strained his eating arm while rowing 

—^haven't seen Doc in a few wêeks. 

Plans are formulated for Tom 

Kelly's picnic. It's the 19th of June 

at "The Barn" on Teutonia, just 

north of Milwaukee's city limit. 

It is rumored that Vice President 

Maloney's absence from our weekly 

luncheons may be attributed to his 

growing desire to decrease his waistline. 

Ed Graham and the writer would 

like to know how Jim Armstrong 

managed to handle the swell crowd 

that turned out for the reunion. Nice 

going, Jim, and we had a grand 

week-end. It's being bruited about, 

too, that Joe McCabe, Paul O'Toole 

and Tighe Woods enjoyed themselves. 

Everyone who is an admirer of the 

Arts and Letters cannot but have a 

wholesome respect for a raconteur 

who has the faculty of putting meat 

on a seemingly flimsy topic of conversation. 

Hats off to Larry Enright 

whose detailed account of "The Rejuvenated 

Tooth Brush" covered the 

better part of an hour with short 

times out for the sale of Enright's 

beer at eight cents a bottle—two for 

fifteen. 

John Brust refuses to part with the 

shoulder pads which he claims to 

have bought from Albert, erstwhile 

N.D. paper picker. Freeman Fitzgerald, 

who hasn't been around since 

Universal Notre Dame Night, turned 

up at the Maryland last Thursday. 

Bill Collins has been singing the 

praises of Soldiers Grove, Wisconsin, 

and spending a lot of time at St. 

Joseph's Hospital. 

• It was great seeing my old playmate, 

Cleve Carey, last week-end. 

Too bad the other 3.2 boys, Monahan 

and Uprichard, weren't on hand. Glad 

to see Ed Carey, too, and learn that 

his family is enjoying good health. 

Jack Jaeger. 

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MONTANA 

William B. Jones. *28. 411 Power Bld^., 

Helena, President: Leonard D. Reuan. '33. 

Montana Power Co., Great Falls, Secretary. 

* 

NASHVILLE 

Kennedy Jones, *30, Jones Chemical Co., 

Secretary. 

* 

NEW JERSEY 

Peter J. Quinn. ex. '33. 320 Belleville Ave.. 

Bloomfield. President: Philip Heinle, '35, 76 

Oatv-iew Ave., Maplewood. Secretary. 

NEW YORK CITY 

Leo V. McLaUEhlin, '32, 39 Plaza St. 

Brooklyn, President: Henry R. Frey, '30, 

1226 Tinton St., N. Y. C. Secretary. 

NORTHERN CALIFORNIA 

Bernard J. Abrott, '27, Latham Saaare 

BIdg., Oakland, President: Panl J. Cushing, 

•31, 1221 Central Bank Bids., Oakland, Secretary. 

NORTHERN LOUISIANA 

Arthur J. Kane, '31, 307 Wilkinson, Siireve- 

Eort, President: J. Richard Nowcry, '29, 

1624 Creswell St, Shreveport Secretary. 

OKLAHOMA 

Joseph A. Moran, '32, 1611 S. Cirson. Tulsa. 

President: Marion J. Blake, '33, National 

Bank of Tulsa Bide.. Tulsa, Secretary. 

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OREGON 

Charles J. Hirschbuhl, '22, 2130 N. York, 

Portland, President: Harold J. Harstick. 

'25. 633 N.E. Everett, Portland. Secretary.


PARIS 

Louis P. Harl, '16. Paris Office." New York 

Herald-Tribune. Paris, France, President. 

PEORIA 

Al Gurr. Jr., '28. 630 W. Kichwoods Blvd.. 

President: John Sloan, '33. 233 N. Underhill. 

Socretarj'. 

• AI Gury is the new president of 

the Peoria Club, Bill Motsett is \'icepresident, 

and John Sloan is secretary-treasurer. 

A recent '*ReIigious Bulletin** âve 

a deservedly large blow to a new 

project of the club, a novena in May 

—from May 15 to. May 23. Members 

received Corrmunion in their parish 

churches each morning for eight 

mornings and then gathered at St. 

Mark's where MONSIGNOR JOHN 

J. BURKE, '83, is pastor, for Communion 

together on the ninth morning, 

a Sunday. The final Communion 

of the novena •was followed by a 

club breakfast. 

The club was to have a picnic on 

Sunday, June 13, at Dr. Ward's farm, 

just outside Peoria. 

PHOENIX, ARIZONA 

E. J. Hilkert. '22. 402 Title & Trust Bid?., 

Phoenix, President. 

PHILADELPHIA 

William E. Cooney, "32. 5725 McJIahon 

Ave., President: A. J. Wackcrman. '35, 

5350 Chew St., Secretarj-. 

ST. JOSEPH VALLEY (Indiana) 

Louis C. Chaplcau. '30, 301 Union Trust 

Bldpr., South Bend. Tnd., President: Clarence 

Hardins, '25, South Bend Tribune, South 

Bend, Ind.. Secretary. 

Joe Nyikos was chairman of the 

annual Summer dance presented by 

the club in Melody Gardens on June 

2. And Joe's efforts were crowned 

with much success, as they say, according 

to the reports of reliable 

survivors. 

An earlier club function, the annual 

golf partj', chairmaned again by 

that lean Layden lad, was pretty well 

rained out as to golf, but it was a 

large success in many other respects. 

Prizes, intended for golf prowess, 

were distributed by lot at the dinner 

in the evening at the Chain o' Lakes 

Country Club, South Bend. 

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ST. LOUIS 

Dr. Matthew W. Weis, ex. '23. 330 Metropolitan 

Bldjr.. President: David J. Riellcy, 

Jr.. '30. 214 S. Meramec. Qayton, Mo., Secretary. 

SYRACUSE AND CENTRAL N. Y. 

Donald Shcchy, 'S3. 101 Glahn Ave.. Syracuse. 

President: William S. Cate. '27, 136 

Harding Place, Syracuse, Secretary. 

* 

TIFFIN, OHIO 

C. J. Schmidt, '11. 200 Melmore St., President: 

Fred J. Wagner, '29, 152 Sycamore 


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TOLEDO 

Edward J. Hagerty, '28, 636 Woodville, 

President: Ra>Tnond L. Tillman, '25, 2027 

Brctton PL, Secretary. 

RHODE ISLAND & SOUTH. MASS. TRI-CITIES (Illinois-Iowa) 

Eobert W. Powers. Jr., ox. '23. 22 Eoscland 

Ave.. Cranston, R. I.. President: John E. 

Jolly, ex. '18, 457 Pawtuckct Ave., Pawtucket. 

R. L, Secretary. 

ROCHESTER (New York) 

Frank Norton, '32, 80 Beckwith Terrace, 

President: D. Bernard Hennessy, 'S-l, 119 

Bedford St., Secretary. 

ROCK RIVER VALLEY (niinois) 

Joseph Bittdorf, ex. '33, 105 16th St., Sterling, 

HI., President: Edward Sullivan, ex. 

'33, Amboy, HI., Secretary. 

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SAN ANTONIO 

William V. Dielmann. Jr.. '25, 107 Thdma 

Drive. President: Edward G. Conroy, '30, 

204 E. Croig PI.. Secretary. 

SAGINAW VALLEY (Michigan) 

Thomas F. Van Aarle. '21. Standard Oil Co.. 

Saginaw. Mich.. President: William C. Hurley. 

'25, 117 Cherry St., Saginaw, Mich., 

Secretary. 

SANDUSKY, OHIO 

E. H. Savord, '12. Box 135. President: 

Charles M. Mouch. '25. 925 W. Washington 


SOUTHWESTERN CONNECTICUT 

John M. Murphy, '27, 86 Liberty St., Bridgeport. 

President: Edward P. Monahan, '34, 

304 Becchmont Ave., Bridgeport, Secretary. 

SPRINGFIELD, ILLINOIS 

Charles G. Corcoran, '17, 1134 W. Monroe 

St, President; Paul D. McConncll, '32, 120 

S. Walnut St.. Secretary. 

George Uhlmcyer. '23. Peoples' Light Co., 

Molinc, 111.. President: Elmer W. Besten, 

"27. 1711 W. Sixth SL, Davenport, Iowa, 

Secretary. 

TRIPLE CITIES (New York) 

John Donnelly. '34. 37 W.ashington Street. 

Binshamton. President: John Murphy. '35, 

43 Kneeland Ave., Binghamton, Secretary. 

The Triple Cities club met at dinner 

in obser\'ance of Universal Notre 

Dame Night at the Donnelley Hotel, 

Binghamton, New York. The following 

officers were elected for the coming 

year: president, John Donnelly; 

^'icepresident, John O'Brien; treasurer, 

Donald Kennedy; secretary, 

John Murphy. Retiring officers were 

commended for their efforts and activities 

in behalf of the club. 

James Coleman, Robert Byrnes, 

both of Non\'ich, New York, and Joseph 

Knapp, of Sidney, New York, 

joined the club at the meeting. 

Plans were discussed for a summer 

dance and outing, also for the 

club to sponsor a special train to the 

.Army game. 

Some time during June, students 

and prospective students ot Notre 

Dame will be entertained at a dinner. 

John Murphy. 

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TRI-STATE (Ind.-in.-Ky.) 

F. Wendell Lensing. '30. 601 Bayard Park, 

Evansville. Ind.. President: Ralph F. Heger, 

'25. Ill Washington Ave, Apt. D., Evansville, 

Ind., Secretary. 

TWIN CITIES (Minnesota) 

Gerald F. Conway. '32. David. Inc.. First 

National Bank BIdg., St. Paul. President: 

A. K. Sullivan. '27, 264 Lowry Medical Arts 

Bids., St. Paul, Secretary. 

UTAH 

Raymond R, Brady, '24, 206 Reams Bldg.. 

Salt Lake City. President: Cyril Harbecke, 

'19. 64 F. St. Salt Lake City. Secretary. 

UTICA, NEW YORK 

Dr. John F. Kelley. '22, Peoples Gas & Electric 

Bldg.. President: Joseph W. FuUem, 

'31. 1621 Neilson St.. Secretary. 

WABASH VALLEY (Indiana) 

Paul Kennedy, '24, Templeton, Ind., President. 

Emmett Ferguson. '32, Wallace Bldg., 

Lafayette, Ind., Secretary. , 

WATERBURY, CONNECTICUT 

John Robinson, '28. 32 Farmington Ave.. 

President: James M. Monnghan, '27, 44 

Ayer St., Secretary. 

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WASHINGTON, D. C. 

Charles O. DeBarry, '24. 1601 Argonne PI., 

N.W.. President: P.-iul Bcretz. '27. 816 18th 

St., N.W., Washington, Secretary. 

WEST VIRGINIA 

Vincent Reishman, '35. 1217 Lewis St., 

Charleston. President: William Kenney, "34, 

714 State St. Charleston. Secretary. 

WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA 

D. M. "Ttirk" Mcincrt '28, 85 Grand Ave., 

Etna. Pa., President: Bernard W. Conroy, 

'30, 1109 Kenneth Ave., New Kensington, 

Pa.. Secretary. 

* 

WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA 

Ralph Jorden. '26. Bridgeport, Ohio. President: 

Leo J. ICletily, '31, 10 Zone St, 

Wheeling, Secretary. 

WOMEN'S CLUB OF NOTRE DAME 

Sister Elizabeth Scton. S.C.. Saint Mary's 

College. Holy Cross. Ind., President: Sister 

M. Angelice. B.V.M., St Joseph Convent, 

Mt. Carmel, Dubuque, Iowa, Secretary. 

Miss Antoinette Semortier, mathematics 

instructor in Central High 

School, South Bend, will exchange 

posts next year with Miss Una Cameron, 

mistress of mathematics in the 

Academy of Mont Rose, Angus, Scotland. 

Miss Semortier received her 

A.B. at Notre Dame in 1922 and her 

M..A.. in 1931. She was the first secretary 

of the Women's Club and is 

one of its best known members. 

Miss Semortier will sail for Scotland 

in midsummer. She plans to 

spend her vacations in travel on the 

Continent and the summer of 1938 in 

study, either in England or Scotland. 

Arrangements for exchange were 

made through the national headquarters 

of the American Association 

of University Women. 

WESTERN WASHINGTON 

James M. Phelan, ex. '17. University of 

Washington, Seattle, President: Emmett G. 

Lenihan, '15, 1405 Hose Bldrr-, Seattle, 

Secretary. 

YOUNGSTOWN, OHIO 

John Moran, '29. 1348 Quinn. President; 

Charles Cnshwa, *31, 463 Madera Ave., 

Secretary.


THE ALUMNI » » » » 

Engagements 

Announcement has been made of 

the following engagements: 

Miss Charlotte A. MacKinnon and 

John H. Zuber, '31, Saginaw, Michigan. 

Miss Jeanne Phelan and George 

Rohrs, New York City. 

Miss Hildegarde Bergman and 

Charles W. Dohnalek, '37, Chelsea, 

Iowa. 

Miss Julia Sheehan Kelley and 

Leonard A. Donoghue, *32, Merrill, 

Wis. 

Marriages 

Miss Jlargaret Cavanaugh and 

John W. Scallan, '25, Were married 

June 12, at St. Andrew's Church, 

Chicago. 

Miss Margaret Powers and Clayton 

Leroux, '27, weva mai-ried June 19, 

at Notre Dame. 

Miss Margaret Eileen Troughton 

and Joseph Lechowicz, '27, were married 

June 5, in the Log Chapel, Notre 

Dame. 

Miss Geraldine Sumption and 

Henry A. Persyn, '28, were married 

June 8, at St. Patrick's Church, 

South Bend. 

Miss Sara Elizabeth Robbins and 

Emniett McCabe, '29, were maiTJed 

May 31, in Emmitsburg, Maryland. 

Miss Jane Flook and Thomas S. 

Markey, '29, were married May 31, 

in the Log Chapel, Notre Dame. 

Miss Catherine Marie Hering and 

E. Richard Walter, '30, were married 

June a, at St. Angela's Church, Chicago. 

Miss Lucia Castro Zuloaga and 

Alejandro Rivera, '30, were married 

May 1, in Molina, Chile, South 

America. 

Miss Mary Ella Bristow and Richard 

P. Cogan, '30, were married May 

20, in the Log Chapel, Notre Dame. 

Miss Dorothea Eddy and John F. 

Kerner, ex. '31, were married June 

12, in South Bend. 

Miss Marie Louise Lucier and 

James D. McQuaid, '31, Were married 

June 5, in Vincennes, Indiana. 

Miss Dorothy Marcus and Forest 

Hazen, '32, were married June 19, in 

South Bend. 

Miss Ann Cahill and G. Cle:i:ens 

Theisen, '32, were married April 10, 

in Chicago. 

Miss Maxine Ferguson and James 

J. Ward, '32, were married June 8, 

in Indianapolis. 

Miss Bernadette Maher and Edward 

J. Kelly, '32, were married May 

15, in the Church of the Nativity, 

Brooklyn, New York. 

Miss Mona Geraldine MacEobert 

and Michael Clay Adams, '32, were 

married Mav 3, in Larchmont, New 

York. 

Miss Viola A. Weis and Daniel B. 

Conlin, '33, were married June 1, in 

St. Joseph's Church, South Bend. 

Miss Patricia Redfield and John H. 

Cahill, '33, v.-ere married May- 29, in 

Chicago. 

Miss Elizabeth Jane Moore and 

Laurence Vejar, '34, were married 

June 21, in the Church of the Little 

Flower, Los Angeles. 

Miss Florence Wherrett and Robert 

L. Hostetler, '34, were married 

May 23, in South Bend. 

Miss Doris Wallbaum and Francis 

Vitt, '34, were married June 19, in 

St. Joseph's Church, Cairo, Illinois. 

Bliss Euth Dolan and Vincent 

Mauren, '34, were married June 22, 

in the Church of the Ascension, Minneapolis. 

Miss Sophie Grzelak and Bert J. 

Kazmierczak, '34, were married June 

2, in St. Hedwige's Church, South 

Bend. 

Miss ."inne Nicol and Edward P. 

Carr, '34, were married May 5, in 

South Bend. 

Miss Catherine Kelker and Charles 

F. Quinn, '34, were married June 5, 

in the Sacred Heart Church, Notre 

Dame. 

Miss Elsie Goethals and Harry F. 

Wunsch, '34, were married May 17, 

in the Log Chapel, Notre Dame. 

Miss Elizabeth Ehein and Thomas 

Standish, '35, were married June 16, 

in Houston, Texas. 

Miss Joan Baldwin and Nelson L. 

Reese, '35, were married May 8, in 

the Log Chapel, Notre Dame. 

Miss Agnes Marie Smith and Edward 

L. O'Hara, '35, were married 


Dame. 

Miss Margaret Kranitz and Peter 

F. Nemeth, Jr., '3G, were married 

June 12, in St. Joseph's Church, 

Mishawaka, Indiana. 

Miss Florence Rymer and Morris 

L. Moskowitz, '37, were married June 

13, in South Bend. 

Miss Donnabelle Parvis and Wallace 

Fromhart, '37, were married' 


Dame. 

Miss Helen Puplis and Henry J. 

Pojman, '37, were married June 19, 

in Our Lady of Vilna Church, Chicago. 

Births 

Mr. and Mrs. Harry Driggs, ex. '21, 

announce the birth of a son on May 

2. 

Mr. and Mrs. John S. Brennan, '24, 

announce the birth of a daughter, 

Maiy, June 7. 

Mr. and Mi-s. William R. Dooley, 

'26, announce the birth of a daughter, 

Ellen McQuade, June 24. 

Mr. and Mrs. E. Allan Tehan, '28, 


Madelyn, March 13. 

Mr. and Mrs. Burton Toepp, '28, 


Paula Ann, on June 7. 

Mr. and Mi-s. Russell Kuehl, '29, 

announce the birth of a son, on May 

3. 

Mr. and Mrs. Francis J. Gushing, 

'29, announce the birth of a son, 

James Thomas, February 4. 

Mr. and Mrs. Walter Langford, 


James Eouleau, June 12. 

Mr. and Mrs. F. Wendell Leasing, 


Robei-t Wendell, on May 22. 

Mr. and Mrs. Walter R. Bernard, 


Walter Roman, on May 17. 

Mr. and Mrs. William P. Hunter, 


William P., Jr., May 29. 

Mr. and Mrs. William Cannon, '33, 


June 3. 

Mr. and Mrs. Frank D. Van Allen, 


Francis Anthony, May 7. 

Mr. and Mrs. William D. Ayres, 

'34, announce the birth of a son, William, 

June 3. 

Mr. and Mrs. Adolph A. Pons, Jr., 

ex. '35, announce the birth of a 

daughter, Barbara Katharine, -A.pril 

25.


Deaths 

Charles C. Kolars, B.S. '85, C.E. 

'86, Le Center, Minnesota, father of 

Frank Kolars, '24, and the late John 

Kolars, ex. '23, died suddenly in his 

home on March 25 after a heart 

attack. Mr. Kolars had practiced 

law in Le Center since 1888 and was 

one of the community's outstanding 

citizens. His wife and three children 

suriive him. 

Frank X. Hanley, '99, of South 

Bend, a football star of 1896 and 

1899, died on June 10, four hours 

after being stricken with a heart attack. 

Prominent in the Old Timers' 

reunions of the past two years and a 

leading figure, too, in the recent 

Commencement reunion, Frank was 

a familiar personage on the campus. 

He was buried from the home of his 

niece, Mrs. Bernard J. VoU. 

Arthur Hayes, of the class of 1901. 

Cincinnati, Ohio, a monogram man 

in football, basketball and track, died 

on May 5. He was 5G years old. Mr. 

Hayes played his final year of Notre 

Dame football under the coaching of 

the famous Pat O'Dea; his first two 

under Frank E. Hering, of South 

Bend. 

John M. Bosse, Lima, Ohio, who 

was a student on the campus from 

1877 to 1882, died on April 29, according 

to an Associated Press dispatch. 

Mr. Bosse, aged 71, was a 

pioneer insurance agent and a widely 

known marksman. He was the last 

surviving charter member of the 

Lima Elks. 

Attorney Earl W. Jackson, South 

Bend, who attended Notre Dame in 

1923-24, died in his home on May 2 

after a year's illness. Mr. Jackson, 

a veteran of the World War, was 

secretary of the Abstract & Title 

Corporation. 

Herman B. O'Hara, Ch.E. '14, 

Irvington, New Jersey, a first cousin 

of Rev. John F. O'Hara, C.S.C, 

president of the University, died on 

May 15. He was buried in Tipton, 

Indiana, where Father O'Hara celebrated 

the funeral Mass. He is sur- 

\'ived by his parents, one brother and 

four sisters, one of whom is Sister 

Angelista, C.S.C. 

John V. Diener, '09, former mayor 

of Green Bay, Wisconsin, and one of 

the most prominent men in the state, 

died in Green Bay on May 28 following 

an operation. Mr. Diener had 

been in ill health as the result of a 

stomach ailment. 

Always an ardent Notre Dame supporter 

and one of the most active 

members of the Notre Dame club of 

Green Bay, Mr. Diener often returned 

to the campus. As a former 

St. Joe Haller he had planned to attend 

the St. Joe Hall reunion at 

Commencement time. 

Peter J. Bosert, '32, Minot, North 

Dakota, died about a year ago, ac 

cording to information just received 

by the ALUJINUS from Jerry Greer, 

'33, also of Minot. Details are lacking. 

John Gerard Teevens, '32, died on 

June 7 in his home in Newton Highlands, 

Massachusetts. Gerry attended 

Boston University Law School after 

finishing at Notre Dame and was 

graduated there in 1935. A prep 

school athlete of note, he had won 

the tivo-m.ile championship at the 

Penn Relays in 1926. He was buried 

in Rosindale, Massachusetts after the 

funeral Mass in Newton Centre. 

The ALUMNUS extends sincere sympathy 

to: Professor Edward J. Maurus, 

'93, upon the death of his mother; 

Ray Keiser, '26, upon the death of 

his -ivife; William D. Ayres, '34, upon 

the death of his father; to Hugh, '34, 

and Francis Murphy, '33, upon the 

death of their father; to John M. 

Barrett, '33, upon the death of his 

father; to Earle D. Barry, '30, upon 

the death of his daughter; to James 

Pagan, '34, upon the death of his 

father. 

Personals 

AMONG THOSE PRESENT 

The Editors are happy to present, 

under the classes, the names 

of those vfho registered on the 

campus at any time within the 

Commencement week-end. As always, 

there "were many who did 

not register and who, on that 

account, cannot be listed here. 

Before 1880 ?"r'^%:,^?."-"^^ I;'^^laehcr. 

Fitchburs, MOBS. 

Commencement registrants: 

Vcnnet, Frank—South Bend 

In recognition of his 45th anniversarj' 

as presiding justice of the Fitchburg 

(Massachusetts) district court, 

members of the Fitchburg bar association 

on May 13 presented Judge 

Thomas F. Gallagher with a handsome 

loving cup. The presentation 

was made in his courtroom before 

a large gathering of relatives and 

friends. 

Judge Gallagher ascended to the 

bench on May 13, 1892 and has 

served with outstanding distinction 

ever since. The ALUJINUS is glad to 

Join with the Fitchburg bar association 

in offering felicitations to a distinguished 

alumnus. 

1880-1885 Secretary: Prof. Robert M. 

Anderson, Circleville, Ohio. 


Berteling, Dr. J. B.—South Bend 

1886 Secretary: Michael O. Bums, 338 S. 

xoovf gjjonj st^_ Hamilton, Ohio. 

1 Aft7.1 AAA Secretary: J. L. Heineman. 

"^ "" Connersville, Indiana. 


Bums, CS.C Very Rev. J. A.,—Notre Dame 

Heincman, J. L.—Connersville, Ind. 

* 

1889 Secretary: P. E. Burke, 301 Camp 

New Orleans, Louisiana. 

1&tin.1BQ^ Secretary: Louis P. Cfaute, 7 

xoû-xtj^d Univ. Ave., Minneapolis, Minn. 


Herman, John L.—South Bend 

Shively, Dudley M.—South Bend 

Maurus, E. J.—South Bend 

McKeo, James A.—Versailles, Ky. 

1894 Secretary; Hugh A. O'Donnell. 1 W. 

67th St., New York City. 


Cooke, John J.—Chicaso 

Schwartz, Thomas L.—Salina. Kans. 

1895 Secretary: Eustace Cullinan, Sr.. 860 

Phelan Bide., San Francisco, Calif. 


Schnur, Martin—Goshen, Ind. 

1896 Secretary: William P. Bums. 327 

Willard Ave., Michiean City, Indiana. 


Fredcll, Gcorce B.—Washington, D. C. 

1897 Secretary: Rev. J. A-MacNamara, St. 

Jos. Sanitarium, Mt. Clemens, Mich. 


Brown, R. E.—Spokane, Wash. 

Costello. Martin J.—Chicaso, 111. 

LoshbouRh, J. W.—South Bend 

MacNamara. Rev. J. A.—Mt. Clemens, Mich. 

Sullivan. Joseph V.—Chicago 

1898 Secretary: William C. Keglcr, 9th & 

Sycamore Sts., Cincinnati, Ohio. 


Bauwens, S. F.—Chicago 

Farley, CS.C, Rev. John—^Notre Dame 

Hering, Frank E.—South Bend 

Powers, John F.—Chicago 

1AQQ Secretary: Dr. Joseph F. Duane. 418 

•"'^*' Jefferson Blvd., Peoria, 111. 


Holland. E. L.—Baltimore, Md. 

Poulin, Harry E.—South Bend 

Sleincr, CS.C Rev. Thomas A.—^Notre Dame 

1900 * 

1


Most Reverend Francis C. Kelley, Bishop of Tulsa and Oklahoma City, 

conferring knighthood in the Order of the Holy Sepulchre upon George W. 

Burkitt, '02, at colorful ceremonies held in Houston, Texas, April 35. 

Father Mike Shea on June 1 observed 

the silver anniversary of his 

ordination to the priesthood, according 

to information brought to Commencement 

by President Bill Cotter. 

The observance was at St. Joseph's 

Seminaiy, Dunwoodie, Yonkers, New 

York, where Father Shea is a teacher. 

ions Secretary: Daniel J. O'Connor, 10 S. 

LaSalle St., Chicaeo. HI. 


Jamicson. "William D.—ChicaKO 

Slierry, J. J.—Tarrjtown. N. Y. 

Van Kic. Dr. L. P.—JIish.-l\val;a 

* 

1906 Secretary: Tliomas A. Lally, 811-13 

Paulsen Bldsr., Spokane, Wash. 


Burhe. C.S.C. Rev. EuKcnc P.—Notre Dame 

Doremus, C.S.C.. Rev. Charles—Notre Dame 

Finncsan, C.S.C, Rev. E. J.—Notre Dame 

HaRcrty, C.S.C, Rev. C. J.—Notre Dame 

Ryan, C.S.C Rev. John M.—Notre Dame 

Mclnerny, J. Walter. South Bond 

McNcrney, Lawrence, Elsin. III. 

1QA7 Secretary: Rev. Thomas E. Burke. 

C.S.C., Notre Dame, Ind. 


Burke, C.S.C., Rev. Thomas E.—Notre Dame 

BolKcr, C.S.C, Rev. William A.—Notre D.Tme 

Cu^ninKh.^m, James V.—Chicaijo 

Donahue, C.S.C, Very Rev. J. W.—Notre Dame 

1908 Secretary: Frank X. Cull, Bulkley 

Building, Cleveland. Ohio. 


Bertclinc. J. F.—Hamilton, Ontario, Canada 

Cull, Frank X.—Cleveland 

Daimt, William A.—New York Gty 

Quininn, C.S.C, Rev. James J.—Notre Dame 

St. George. Maximilian—ChicaKo 

Sprenjrer, Georpe W.—Peoria. III. 

Zink, Frank A,—Canton, Ohio 

1909 Secretary: £. P. Cleary, Notre Dame, 

Indiana. 


Cleary, B. P.—Notre Dame 

Hannon. L. J.—Port Arthur. Texas 

Hines. James F.—South Bend 

Slartin, Paul R.—Notre Dame 

1910 Secretary: Rev. M. L. Moriarty, IMO 

Euclid Ave., Cleveland, Ohio. 


Deery, James—Indianapolis. Ind. 

Finneffan. Wales E.—North ChicaKO, 111. 

Hehert. C.S.C. Rev. .Peter E.—Notre D.-une 

JIcIJiuKhlin. John E.—Alton. 111. 

Milter. Harry—^Wilminjrton. Del. 

Moriarty, Rev. M. L.—Ooveland. Ohio 

Sortr, Claude A.—Middlctown. Ohio 

Charles Fahy, Washington, D. C, 

is a leading possibility for appointment 

to the United States Supreme 

Court bench, according to a recent 

article in Collier's. The article, entitled 

"Judge - Hunting," said this 

about Jlr. Fahy: 

"Charles Fahy is a product of 

Notre Dame and Georgetown, and is 

the only man on the list with a highly 

distinguished war record. A naval 

aviator, and a winner of the Navy 

cross, after the Armistice he transferred 

his wounds and his law books 

to Santa Fe, New Mexico. 'Discovered' 

by Secretarj' Ickes, he was 

brought to Washington as First Assistant 

Solicitor of the Department of 

the Interior, seired later as a member 

of the Petroleum Administration 

Board, and in 1935 became chief 

counsel for the National Labor Relations 

Board. A quiet, unassuming 

man who makes no bid for newspaper 

notice, nevertheless the Administra 

tion gives him credit for the board's 

legal victories. It was Fahy who 

fought the eighty-three injunctions 

against operation of the Wagner Act, 

and it was Fahy who picked the five 

cases that went to the Supreme Court 

where his brief and oral arguments 

were followed closely by Chief Justice 

Hughes in the majority opinion." 

jgjj Secretary: Fred Steers. 1666 First 

National Bank Bids., Chtcaeo. JD. 


de Landero, Pedro A.—South Bend 

Figel, Edward L.^ChicaKo 

Funk. Elmo—Anderson. Ind. 

Hughes, Arthur J.—Chicago 

Lavvton, J. H.—South Bend 

Miltner, C.S.C.. Rev. Chas. I*.—^Notre Lame 

Murphy, Joseph B.—Dayton. Ohio 

O'Hara, C.S.C, Kcv. John F.—Notre Dame 

Ryan, William—Cleveland, Ohio 

Steers, Fred L.—Chicago 

Tully, John C—LaGrange. HI. 

Wenninger, C.S.C., Rev. Francis—Notre Dame 

IQIO Secretary: B. J. Kaiser, 324 Fourth 

St., Pittsburgh. Pa. 


Bannon. John—South Bend 

Bruce, E. W.—Chicago 

Costello. John W.—Chicago 

Daly, Hugh J.—Chicago 

Donahue, Joseph F.—South Bend 

Duncan, Wollcr^-LaSalle. III. 

Hamilton, Don M.—Columbus, Ohio 

Hintz. W. G.—South Bend 

Howard, Rev. E. J.—Brandon, Vermont 

Johnston. F. N.—New Orleans, La. 

Kaiser. B. J.—Pittsburgh, Pa. 

Lee, Jay L.—Buffalo, N. Y. 

Lemer, T. J.—South Bend 

McDonald, Donnelly P.—Fort Wayne, Ind 

McGIynn, Joseph B.—East St Louis. HI. 

McGrath, Martin C—St. Joseph. Mich. 

Mendel, F. L.—South Bend 

Murphy. John P.—Cleveland, Ohio 

Oshe. Blarccllus—Chicago 

Parish, William J.—Mom3nce, HI. 

Peak. J. Elmer—South Bend 

Philip, Philip J.—Detroit, Mich. 

Phillips, Wendell—Boston. Mass. 

Quigley, Thomas D.—Cicero. HI. 

Savord. E. H.—Sandusky, Ohio 

Weeks, Edward J.^Detroit. Mich. 

Zweck, A. C—West Allis, Wis. 

Ben Kaiser (to whom, with Fred 

Mendez, all credit for the success of 

the 1912 reunion) writes as follows: 

Twenty-seven of the 54 living active 

members of the class of 1912 

were present on the campus of the 

University to participate in the 93rd 

Commencement and, particularly, to 

celebrate their own silver anniversary 

reunion. And CELEBRATE they did. 

The festivities started with a dinner 

in the Faculty Dining Hall, Friday 

evening. In addition to the 23 

members of the class of 1912 were 

the following guests: J. L. Heineman, 

of the class of 1888; Rev. Charles C. 

Miltner, C.S.C, Edward L. Fige], 

Joseph B. Murphy, Fred L. Steers, 

William R. Ryan, and John Tully of 

the class of 1911; William E. Cotter 

and Joseph W. O'Hara of the class of 

1913, and Dan Shouvlin of the class 

of 1914. 

John P. Murphy acted as toastmaster. 

Strange as it may sound no 

speeches were made by the members 

of the 1912 class. John just would 

not permit it — he knew there were 

eight lawyers present. He did it all 

himself by reading each member's 

"Prophetic Biography" as recorded in 

the Dome of 1912. This proved to be


a very amusing diversion and also a 

happy solution of the speech-making 

problem. Short talks were made bj' 

Father Miltner and Mr. Heineman. 

A motion was made by Stony M— 

Glynn, seconded by William J. Parish 

and unanimously accepted by all, as 

follows: "that "the Class of 1912 

adopt the Rev. John J. Cavanaugh 

as the patron of the Class." 

A vei-y interesting letter from 

Russell G. Finn was read by John 

Murphy. Eussell unfortunately could 

not be present. However, his letter 

gave us several splendid ideas for 

consideration. The one that, I feel, 

should be mentioned here relates to 

the departed members of our class. 

Russell suggests that we take oiBcial 

cognizance of their deaths and send 

to their families resolutions of the 

condolences of the class. This shall 

be done. 

After this magnificent dinner 

(thanks to Mr. Connolly, manager of 

the Dining Hall) the group retired to 

Room 141 in Howard Hall, the official 

headquarters of the class, where 

an informal gathering continued until 

the early hours. Much actirity was 

in evidence in this room during the 

entire period of the Commencement. 

The class of 1912 -wishes to express 

its sincere gratitude and thanks to all 

of the members of the class of 1887, 

1911 and 1913, and to Eln:er Layden 

for their participation in our festivities, 

and to the University for the 

generous accommodations provided 

for our comfort and enjoyment. 

1913 Secretary: James J. Devitt. 921 Engineers' 

Bids.. Qeveland. Ohio. 


Bums. Dr. J. T.—Kalamazoo, Mich. 

Byrne. Paul E.—Notre Dame 

Cotter. W. E.—New York Oty 

O'Hara, James W.—Chicago 

Father John C. Kelley, C.S.C. spiritual 

director of the local St. Vincent 

de Paul conferences, was recently 

named as delegate to the National 

Conference of Catholic Charities to 

be held in St. Paul, Minnesota, from 

August 28 to September 1. Under 

the guidance of Father Kelley the 

Notre Dame conference of the St. 

Vincent de Paul Society has done 

widespread and inspiring work in the 

recent years. 

1914 Secretary: Frank H. Hayes, 40G 

Bank of America BIdg., Anaheim, Cal. 


Braun, Richard T.—Port Arthur, Texas 

Qements. Walter—South Bend 

Hayes, Frank—El Cajon. Calif. 

Kane, Eugene A.—Qeveland 

Pepin. Donat J.—Detroit 

ShouvHnJlanie] It.—Springfield. Ohio 

Smith. Joseph F.—Oeve'and. Ohio 

Sullivan, Dr. M. F.—Hammond, Ind. 

John Carroll, Portage, Wisconsin, 

was recently welcomed to the campus 

on his first visit since his graduation 

23 years ago. 

Charlie Vaughan, Lafayette, Indiana, 

who sen'ed in the naval intelligence 

in the World War, has been 

appointed a lieutenant-commander in 

the intelligence division of the United 

States naval reserves, according to 

recent word from Washington. 

1915 Secretary: James E. Santord, 1524 

Farwell Ave., Chicago, DI. , 


Bartholomew, Norm. C.—Iron Mountain, Mich. 

Curran. Arthur B.—Rochester. N. Y. 

Eichenlaub, Ray—Columbus. Ohio 

FarrcII. Joseph R.—Camp Hill. Pa. 

Kelleher. William A.—Lorain, Ohio 

Kelly. Raymond J.—Detroit 

Lenihan. Emmett G.—Seattle. Wash. 

M.ilkowski. John—South Bend 

Pliska. Joseph—Chicago 

Sanford. .Tames E.—Chicago 

1916 Secretary: Timothy P. Galvin, First 

Trust BIdg., Hammond, Ind. 


Burke. Harold P.—Rochester. N. Y. 

Delph, Dr. John F.—Chicago 

Freund, A. J.—Chicago 

Fries. Alfred F.—Peru. Ind. 

Henry, William C.—Chicago 

Malonej*. Patrick—Crown Point, Ind. 

Sylvcstre. Joseph H.—Crookston, Minn. 

1917 Secretary: Edward J. McOsker, 104 

S. Union St., Elgin, IlL 


Bemer. Leo—South Bend 

BoLind. James I.—South Bend . 

Bosshard, Roj*a1 H.—San Francisco, Calif. 

Cassidy, John E.—Peoria, 111. 

Cofall. Stanley B.—Qevcland, Ohio 

Corcoran. C. G.—Springfield, I1I| 

Daley, Richard—Erie. Pa. 

Ducey. Walter J.—Jackson, Mich. 

Feiweli, Samuel—South Bend 

Flynn, Joseph F.—Chicago 

Fogarty, Paul—Chicago 

Guendling. John E.—South Bend 

Helmen. Vernon R.—South Bend 

Hilgartner. Jr., D. E.—Chicago 

Kelly. Harry F.—Detroit. Mich. 

Kennedy. W. E.—Chicago 

McAIanus, Thomas J.—Chicago 

McOskcr. E. J.—Elgin. HI. 

McNichols, Austin A.—Chicago 

Miller. Jerry—Fort Wayne. Ind. 

Moran, E. F.—Tulsa, Okla. 

Niemier. Mel S.—South Bend 

Odem, Brian S.—Houston, Texas 

O'Donnell, F. J.Âlpena. Mich. 

O'Donnell. Dr. Leo D.—Pittsburgh, Pa. 

O'Neill. Hugh M.—Qeveland. Ohio 

Riley. John U.—Boston, Mass. 

Sacklcy. Rigney J.—Chicago 

Scott. Harry E.—Indianapolis 

Shanahan, G. W,—Lima. Ohio 

Tobin. E. C—Elgin. VI. 

Trudelle. Matthew E.—Cleveland. Ohio 

Vaughan. Vincent D.—Lafayette, Ind. 

Vogel. Leo J.—Pittsburgh. Pa. 

Voll. Bernard J.—South Bend. Ind. 

Walsh, .Tames R.—Chicago 

Welch, Lawrence J.Îndianapolis 

Vint Vaughan, Lafayette, is a new 

member of the board of the Indiana 

state department of financial institutions. 

He was appointed recently by 

Governor Townsend. 

Beraie Voll, South Bend, is the 

compiler of a digest explaining the 

provisions of the new Indiana occupational 

disease act, which is being 

distributed by the Indiana Chamber 

rf Cinmerce. The digest was prepared 

by Bemie in his capacity as 

vice-president of the South Bend 

Chamber of Commerce and chairman 

of its manufacturers' division. 

All of which gets us down to the 

fact that, under Bemie's expert guid 

ance as local chairman, and Ed Mc- 

Osker's as class secretary, the special 

20-year reunion was a sensational 

success. The large and super enthusiastic 

gang teed off at Bemie's summer 

home near the campus with a 

celebration on Friday night that will 

go down in Notre Dame history as 

several thousand per cent perfect. 

Keyed by the piano playing and the 

singing of Father Gene Burke, the 

songs and stories (many from the old 

Glee Club days) of Harry Scott, John 

Urban Riley and Paul Fogarty and 

the expert and generous piano playing 

of Mike Duffecy, '27, the party 

was unbeatable. Bemie's unexcelled 

hospitality added to it from every 

angle. 

The '17 gang gathered informally 

all through Saturday and, 'tis said, 

through Saturday night, too. Cheer 

Leader Scott was signed up for a 

return engagement at the 25-year 

reunion, which, incidentally, will be 

in the University's centennial year. 

1918 Secretary: John A. Lenuner, 1110— 

8th Ave., S., Escanaba, Mich. 


Hurley, Frank J.—Chicago 

Riley, Joseph T.—Muskegon, Mich. 

Schock, George A.—South Bend 

Father Raymond W. Murray, C. S. 

C, head of the Department of Sociology 

at Noti'e Dame, left in early June 

to join a scientific expedition that 

vdll search in Alaska for evidence of 

^ FATHER RAY MURRAY 

Alaskan ExcavatioTis 

the first Americans. The expedition 

is under the direction of the American 

Museum of Natural History and 

the University of Alaska. The group 

will excavate in the Mastodon Creek 

district, near Fairbanks, and will return 

to the United States next Fall. 

It is attempting to verify the theory 

of many anthropologists that man 

first came to the American continents 

from Asia by way of -Alaska. 

Father Murray has conducted similar 

research in the southwestern 

part of the United States in search 

for information on the earliest American 

Indian tribes. 

|Q|Q Secretary: Clarence Bader. 650 Fierce 

Street. Gary. Indiana.



Bums, Joseph—Indianapolis 

Fenlon, Paul R.—Notre Dame 

Hallcr, George—Detroit 

McDonald, C.S.C.. Rev. J. H.—Notre Darae 

O'Connor. Joe—Rochester, N. Y. 

Rademacher, Theodore C.—Peru, Ind. 

"Wcinrich, Art—Chicago 

1920 Secretary: Leo B. Ward. 1012 Black 

BIdg., Los Angeles, Calif. 


Bray, Anthony T.—Bellefontaine, Ohio 

Conaghan. Paul R.-—Chicago 

Dixon, Sherwood—Dixon. III. 

Farrington. Frank—South Bond 

Hope. C.S.C.. Rev. A. J.—Notre Dame 

Ker\-er, George G.—Cleveland 

Leslie, H. L.—Waverly, Iowa 

Malonc, Grovcr J.—South Bend 

Moehan. E. J.—South Bend 

Miller, Walter—Defiance, Ohio 

Moore, Elwj-n M.—South Bend 

Patterson, Dillon J.—South Bend 

Richwine, Harry A.—South Bend 

Dillcn Patterson, head of the men's 

division; J. H. B. McCarthy, head of 

the sales anny; Professor Ray Hoyer, 

head of the "mop-up" division, and 

Earl Reedsr, adjutant, were among 

the Notre Dame men most active in 

the recent Community Fund solicitation 

in South Bend. 

1921 Secretary: Dan W. Duffy. 1600 Terminal 

Tower. Cleveland. Ohio. 


Allen. William S.—Winnotka. HI. 

Duffy, Dan W.—Qeveland. Ohio 

Easloy, Drinald J.—Notre Dame 

Miller Callix E.—South Bend 

Sanford. Joseph F.—Muskegon, Mich. 

Schubmehl, Ray—South Bend 

1922 Secretary: Gerald Ashe. Buffalo Athletic 

Club, Buffalo, New York. 


Ashe, Gerald—Buffalo, N. Y. 

Connelly. Frank W.—Chicago 

Dixon. Jerome F.—Chicago 

Gallagher. Rev. R, E.—Van Wert. Ohio 

Ilcneghan. George P.—South Bond 

Huguonard, Aaron H.—South Bend 

McCabe. Thomas—Chicago 

McCarthv. Edwin M.—Lafayette. Ind. 

Phelan. Robert R.—East Orange, N. J. 

Wenzkc, H. II.—Notre Dame 

1923 ^""' ^^- Castner. 191 Tralton Rd.. 

Springfield, Mass. 


Bruggner, Louis V.—South Bend 

Castner, Paul—Springfield. Mass. 

Cbnnell. John F.—Green Bay, Wis. 

Desch, Gus—Chicago 

Doran. Dr. P. C—Akron. Ohio 

Flynn, John R.—Cleveland 

Furey, W. J.—South Bend 

Gleason. John W.—Cleveland 

Hines. Eugene 5L—Chicago 

Holmberg. Bruce J.—Chicago 

Kiley. Roger J.—Chicago 

Martin. James R.—Chicago 

Montague. J. M.—Chicago 

Nash. Richard J-—Chicago 

Norton. John—Chicago 

Nyikos. Joseph W.—South Bond 

Reddington, CSX., Rev. J. J.—Notre Dame 

Ricdcr. Iô P.—South Bond 

Rohrbach. John M. —Crown Point. Ind. 

Shea. William E.—D.-iyton. Ohio 

Wallace. Frank—Bellaire, Ohio 

1Q24 Secretary: J. F. Hayes. Wm. F. Ped- 

*" rick & Co.. Emp. State BIdg., N.Y.C. 


Kelly. C.S.C.. Rev. Thomas A.—Notre Dame 

Mayl, Eugene A.—Dayton. Ohio 

Meehan. .Tames—South Bend 

Noonan. T. Qifford—Chicago 

Norton, Joseph J.—Detroit 

Riordan. Robert B.—Notre Damo 

Spiiller, Lawrence—Chicago 

Stillmnn. Harry B.—Birmingham. Mich. 

1925 Secretary: John W. Scallan, 79 E. 

Adams St., Chicago, III. 


Armstrong. J. E.—Notre Dame 

Barry. Thomas J.—Notre Dame 

Baumgartner. C. L.—SDuth Bond 

Braunsdorf, W. IL—South Bend 

Bunco, Clarence—LaPorte. Ind. 

Cerney. Bill—Notre Dame 

Coty. G. J.—Notre Damo 

Cunningham. Ray—Detroit 

DeCourcoy. Ray—Decatur. III. 

Dixon. Robert—Dixon. 111. 

Harding. Qaronce—South Bend 

Hurley, John P.. Jr.—Toloda. Ohio 

Ludwig, George E.—Grand Rapids. Mich. 

McAvoy, C.S.C.. Rev. T.—Notre Dame 

Miller, Don—Cleveland. Ohio 

Murray. Frank—Toledo. Ohio 

O'Toole. E. F.—Chicago 

Porta. A. J.—South Bend 

Potts. J. Clifford—South Bend 

Powers. Leo J.—Chicago 

Schaofor, Gil—Detroit 

Sheehan. Bill—South Bend 

Shcche. George B.—South Bend 

Tillman. Ray L.—Toledo. Ohio 

Uhl. Gilbert E.—South Bend 

Frank Murray, formerly with the 

Acme Fast Freight in Toledo, is now 

associated with the Toledo Cartage 

Co. as general manager. 

Phil Mahoney, with all the other 

Notre Dame Mahoneys in "Wyoming, 

is operating the Rocking H. Ranch, 

a mere trifle of some 80,000 acres 

near Arminto, Wyoming. The Rocking 

H. specializes in vacations, in the 

form of GO-day pack trips, for boys 

bet%veen the ages of 14 and 22. The 

business address of the ranch is Henning 

Hotel, Casper, Wyoming. 

1926 Secretary: Dr. Gerald W. Hayes. 86 

Hawthorne Ave., East Orange, N.J. 


Bailey, Joseph A.—Chicago 

Barr, William R.—Chalmers. Ind. 

Brown. F. Eugene—Elkhart. Ind. 

Dooley. William R.—Notre Dame 

Driscoll, J. H.. Jr.—Cleveland. Ohio 

Engels, Norbort—Notre Dame 

Haley. J. A.—Notre Dame 

LaFolIctte. Clarence A.—Chicago 

Mandevillo, Ed—Jacksonville. III. 

i^Fason. Charles E.—Indianapolis, Ind. 

Mooney. Charles—Cleveland. Ohio 

O'Day. George P.—Clovaland 

Ronnn. James A.—Chicago 

Schaeffer. Carl F.—Toledo. Ohio 

Tuohy, John—Oak Park. 111. 

Wagner. J. R.—Toledo 

Weisberger, Seymour—South Bend 

Vince Capano, referee for the 

Workmen^s Compensation Board in 

Pennsylvania, was a welcome visitor 

to the campus on June 7. Vince's 

office is at 223 Fourth Avenue, Pittsburgh. 

1927 Secretary: Edmund DeQerq. 8118 

Ellis Ave., Chicago, HI. 


Boland. Joe—South Bend 

Braun. Herbert J.—Aurora. HI. 

Byrne. Thomas F.—Geveland 

Campbell. Hugh L.—Haazlcton, Pa. 

Canny. Pat—Lakowood, Ohio 

Cate. W. S.—Syracuse. N. Y. 

Clarke, William B.. Jr.—^Toledo 

Conlin, John R.—DoKalb. HI. 

Conroy, T. R.—Evansville. Ind. 

Cooney. Robert R.—Adrian. Mich. 

Corcoran. H. J.—Cortland. N. Y. 

Dognan, William J.—Detroit 

Doherty, George W.—Chicago 

Duffecy, Michael J., Jr.—Îndianapolis 

Dugan. Rome—Kansas City, Mo. 

Dunn. Thomas B.—Morris. III. 

Fitzgerald. Donald—Mundelein. 111. 

Fry. Raymond J.—Jlorris. 111. 

Galono. Andrew—Mt. Pleasant, Pa. 

Glaska. John M.—Indianapolis 

Guettler. George W.—Monroe. IVIich. 

Halpin, John—Chicago 

Henry, M. Albert—Hammond, Ind. 

Hillenbrand, William A.—Batcsville. Ind. 

Holland, William M.—Indianapolis 

Irmiger. Robert—Chicago 

Jones, Herb—^Notre Dame 

Kavanaugh, W. D.—Chicago 

Leroux, Clayton G.—Cleveland 

Martin. Charles W.—Pittsburgh. Pa. 

McCabe, Harold—Chicago 

McCaffery, Lt. Hugh F.—Langley Field, Va. 

McCuHough. William H.—Warren, Ohio 

SIcCurrie, Francis—Chicago 

JIcFarlane, James P.—Detroit, ^^lich. 

SIcNellis. John—Chicago 

Moran. Frank—South Bend 

Morsches. John F.—Fort Wayne 

Mullen, Dr. George—Chicago 

O'Boyle, Harry—Des Moines, Iowa 

O'Connor. Thomas E.—Bellefontaine, Ohio 

O'Donnell. Joseph F.—Chicago 

Pendergast, Frank J.—Chicago 

Reidy, John—Cleveland 

Ruddy, Darence J.—Âurora, HI. 

Rj-an. Edwin L.—Chicago 

Ryan. Rev. Harry—Iowa City, Iowa 

Schickler, Carl—Aurora. HI. 

Schill. George J.—Pittsburgh. Pa. 

Snyder, Raymond—South Bond 

Sullivan. John E.—Chicago 

Sullivan, W. B.—Indianapolis 

S\vygcrt, Luther 51.—Hammond. Ind. 

Travis. William L.—Hammond. Ind. 

Wallner. George—Peoria, HI. 

Wilkins. Don—Chicago 

1Q9R Secretary: Louis Buckley, 718 E. 


Allan. James A.—Chicago 

Bradley. Dr. Daniel J-—Amityville. N. Y. 

Ducey. Vincent P.—Chicago 

Haslcy. Henry—Fort Wayne. Ind. 

Jones; William B.—Helena. Mont. 

Konop. W. H.—Îndianapolis. Ind. 

McCarthy. Frank P.—Indianapolis. Ind. 

McGuire. Edward P.—Chicago 

Murphy. William H.—Chicago 

O'Brien, Eugene A.^Îinncapolis. Mmn. 

Phalin. Howard V.—Chicago 

Phelan. Richard L.—Chicago 

Rice. Chet—Chicago 

Rich. R. E.—South Bend 

Thomas. AI—Lorain. Ohio 

Tobin. Paul G.—Elgin. HI. 

Toepp. Burton—South Bend 

Wagner. Willard F.—South Bend 

Wordcn, Ray A.—Goshen. Ind. 

Larry Wingerter, formerly with 

the Indianapolis Railways, Indianapolis, 

Indiana, is now with the American 

Transit Company, 202 Madison 

Avenue, New York City. 

Bob Bannon has moved from Niagara 

Falls, New York, to Cranford, 

New Jersey, where he is residing at 

9 Besler Avenue. 

Terry Donahue has just resigned 

his position as superintendent of 

schools in Rockham, South Dakota, 

to accept a $2,000 scholarship in 

Teachers* College in Columbia University, 

New York City, according to 

a clipping very kindly relayed to the 

ALUJINUS by George Wilmarth, ex. 

'96, of Aberdeen, South Dakota. The 

scholarship award was made on the 

basis of a national competitive examination. 

Terry received his master's degree 

at Ohio State and will study for his 

doctor's at Columbia. He is married 

and the father of two daughters. 

1929 Secretary: Joseph P. McNamara. 231 

**^ Wiscnsin Street, Indianapolis. Ind. 


Bartholomew. Paul C.—South Bend 

Bocskoy. S. C.—South Bend 

Gibbons, C.S.C.. Rev. James—Chicago 

Grossman. Jules—South Bend 

Haas, Gay—Dayton. Ohio 

Jones, Frank—South Bend 

Lyons, John J.—Chicago


McMani;^!, Hush J.—Cleveland 

Plunkott. Don—South Bend 

Riordan, John S.—Chicago 

Smola. Frank A.—Chicago 

Sullivan. Joseph S.—Chicago 

Tobin, E. C.—Elgin. III. 

To'ai McNichoIas, formerly secretary 

to the late Father Charles L. 

O'Donnell, C.S.C., president of Notre 

Dame, and more recently secretary to 

the president of the Marj'land Casualty 

Company, Baltimore, is now 

secretary and ti-easurer of the H. A. 

Douglas Manufacturing Company, 

Bronson, Michigan. In the new job 

Tom is within the w. k. stone's throw 

of the familiar campus. 

1930 Secretary: Bernard W. Conroy, 1109 

Kenneth St., New Kensington, Pa. 

Commencement registi-ants: 

Apodaca. Joseph L.—South Bend 

Callahan, James L.—Cleveland, Ohio 

Chapleau, Louis—South Bond 

Conway. Pat—Philadelphia. P.T. 

Gallagher. Arthur J.—Cleveland. Ohio 

Hasloy, Louis—Sjuth Rend 

Heidkamp, Paul C.—Chicago 

Jerome P. Holland—Chicago 

Holmes. Robert A.—South Bend 

Jennings, Harold L-—South Bond 

Langford. Walter—South Bend 

Loyce, Ray A.—Crown Point. Ind. 

McCarthy, William J.—Chicago 

Moran. .Joseph—Tulsa. Okla. 

Parent, Fred R.—South Bond 

Parent. Walter E.—South Bend 

Plunkett. Deverc T.—South Bend 

Ready, Francis—Monroe. Mich. 

Reidy, Jerry—Qeveland 

Rohr, Charles E.—Oeveland 

Rooney, Francis J.—Bridgeport. Conn. 

Shipacasse. Albert J.—Qeveland 

Sraallwood. Charles T.—Chicago 

Howard S. Webster—South Bend 

Ed Halloran has announced the 

opening of law offices in the Kariher 

Building, Champaign, Illinois, in conjunction 

with Key C. Freeman. 

Word comes from Berkeley that 

William L. Engels received his Ph.D. 

in zoology att he Universitj' of California 

on May 22. Preceding his 

work at California he taught in the 

Department of Science at Notre Dame 

for two years, then spent one year at 

the University of Munich (Germany). 

Next Fall he will begin his duties as 

instructor in zoologj- at the University 

of North Carolina. 

Bill Jones, '28, sent word that 

Martin John Pluth has moved from 

Roundup, Montana, to 7375 North 

Damen Avenue, Chicago. 

Professor Dick Sullivan, following 

up previous literary successes, combined 

his first year of teaching on the 

campus with short story appearances 

in, or acceptances from, Colnmbia, 

Scribncr's, The Nejv Republic, and 

The Atlantic Monthly. Not content 

with that fame, the prof, was also 

one of the leading contributors at the 

meetings of the local unit of the 

Catholic Poetry Society. With his 

wife and his daughter, Jill, Dick is 

spending the Summer in Kenosha, 

Wisconsin. 

John Nanovic, editor of The Shadow 

Magazine and other Street and 

Smith publications, is the author 

(under the name of Henry Lysing) 

of two new books on codes and cryptograms. 

One is "Secret Writing: 

How to Code and Decode" and the 

other is "The Crj-ptogram Book." 

Both are published by the Kemp Publishing 

Company and are now in their 

second edition. They may be secured, 

if necessary, from John Nanovic, 79 

Seventh Avenue, New York City. 

In addition to writing the books, 

John is in steady demand as a lecturer 

on codes and cryptograms before 

various organizations in and 

near New York City. He and his wife 

reside in Sunnyside, Long Island. 

Con Carey is the new county judge 

and suiTogate of Franklin County, 

New York, according to word from 

Warren Fogel. 

Marty Travers, of the credit depai-tment 

of the Marine Trust Company, 

Buffalo, New York, is the new 

president of the Buffalo chapter of 

the -American Bankers' Association. 

This dope was passed along to the 

ALUMNUS by Bob Measer. 

Bob sent other dope. He said that 

Gene Weber, Olney, Illinois, is the 

father of a son, La^vrence James, 

bom May 12. Bob himself was recently 

elected secretai-y and treasurer 

of the New York Newspaper Publishers' 

Association and, in that capacity, 

attended, with his brother 

Bill, the association's convention in 

Cleveland on June 4, 5 and 6. Bob 

was chairman of the convention. 

Dr. Ed Yorke, Linden, New Jersey, 

was recently appointed medical supervisor 

in the home office of the 

Prudential Insurance Company, Newark, 

New Jersey. 

1931 Secretary: John Bergan, 828 E. Colfax 

Ave., South Bend, Ind. 


Baldingcr. Lawrence H.—South Bend 

Benitz. Timothy E.—New York City 

Bergan. John—South Bend 

Bohling, Nick—Chicago 

Chawgo, William B.—Aurora. III. 

Collins, Ray F.—Chicago 

Crowley, Jerry—South Bend 

Dayberrj-, C.S.C, Rev. Aloj-sius—Notre Dame 

Desenberg, William—Buchanan. Mich. 

Doyle. James—Chicago 

Hgan, Daniel J.—Chicago 

Field. Oliver F.—Springfield. HI. 

Futter, Clarence—Mishawaka 

Gannon. Dr. F. J.—Cleveland 

Garland, Leo E.—LaGrange, HI. 

Grisanti, Alfred—Cleveland 

H.-Jpin, Dan D.—New York City 

Hartzer, Norman—South Bend 

Hilgor. J. R.—Columbus. Ind. 

Hosinski. Ed—South Bend 

Jones, C.S.C.. Rev. Thomas P.—Notre Dame 

Kearney. Jim—Chicago 

Kopek. Henry S.—Detroit 

Krai. Larry—Qeveland 

Murphy, C.S.C, Rev. Richard D.—Notre Dame 

Murray, Ed ,T.—^Notre Dame 

Neydon. Robert L.—Detroit. Mich. 

Cakes. Ben—Chicago 

O'Connor. Tom—Indianapolis 

O'Donnell. Richard J.—Pittsburgh. Pa. 

Pendergast. Robert L.—Chicago 

Pctrauskas. Alex A.-—Cicero. 111. 

Poulin. Rolland J.—South Bond 

Rigney, Eugene D.—Chillicotho. Ohio 

Ruppo. Bob^South Bend 

Salmon, Gordon—Trenton, N. J. 

Seaman. H. Gilbert—Chicago 

Sheeran, Ed—Long Beach, Calif. 

Shively, John C—South Bend 

Smith. Robert L.—Chicago 

Stnllk.-unp. Charles F.—Delphos, Ohio 

Sullivan, John R.—Chicago 

Lambert Reinhart is the new credit 

manager for Robert Porter and Sons, 

Inc., Las Cruces, New Mexico, 

according to a clipping from the Las 

Cruces Citizen. Previously with the 

United States Treasury Department 

as an auditor, Lambert is married 

and the father of two children. 

John Bergan continues his splendid 

job with these final notes for the 

year: 

Members of the class li^nng in Chicago 

held a very successful dinner 

last month at Eitel's restaurant. 

Jimmy Doyle, the Chicago banker, 

handled arrangements very capably, 

and among those present were: Eddie 

Ryan, vice-president of the International 

Rail Weld Co., who just returned 

fro ma business trip through 

the Southwest; Walt Cahill, of the 

Board of Trade; Red O'Connell, of 

Sears Roebuck; Dick Breen, who is 

in the claims department of the Lumbermans 

Mutual Insurance company, 

and holds the unusual distinction of 

having an active atorney for a wife; 

Jack Lynch, South side politician and 

employe of the County Treasurer; 

Gil Seaman, still going strong in the 

general insui-ance business; Barristers 

Vince Ponic, Nick Bohling and 

Bob Prendsrgast; Ed Griffin, who is 

with the Board of Education of Cook 

County; Don McPartland, who is 

completing his law course at Kent 

this month; Frank Holland, dynamic 

salesman; Jim Kearney, law brief 

writer; Chemist Al Stepan; Roofer 

Ben Oakes; Jack- Geddes and Don 

O'TooIe were also present. 

Wedding bells are sounding out 

this month for the old combination 

of Cannon and Monahan. Tom Cannon 

will be man'ied to Miss Margaret 

Alward, of South Bend, on June 26 

in South Bend, and Tom Monahan 

will be man'ied tlu'ee days later to 

Miss Mary Cunningham, at Areola. 

A large number of friends from the 

class will attend these nuptials to 

wish the former Corby Hall duo 

good luck. 

Bert Maloney was passing out 

cigars on the birth of his second 

daughter to his many Milwaukee 

friends last month. Word has leaked 

of Bloomington, Illinois of the marriage 

of Ralph Dalton last winter. 

Father Bourke Motsett performed the 

ceremony, and Frank Dewinter was 

best man. Ralph is with the Com 

Exchange Bank of Bloomington. It 

is a girl at the Joe Lauerman's, making 

a family of three children. Joe 

disclosed in his letter that Emil Telfel 

has again signed a contract to teach 

at Jordan College next year, and 

that Norb Christman is legal ad\iser 

to a large Green Bay trucking concern. 

Maurice Luther was married in 

Detroit on Memorial Day. He is with 

the Norge Refrigerator Company in 

that citj'. Dick O'Donnell, on the 

campus for Commencement, reports 

that he is with the Pennsylvania 

Democrat in Harrisburg, and is still

June, 1937 The Notre D a nn e Alumnus 273 

a confirmed bachelor. Dan Halpin, 

with his wife, flew in from Burbank, 

California, for Commencement. Among 

those present at the informal 

reunion of Friday were: Gordie Salmon, 

hardware man from New York; 

Bob Neydon, Chrysler exporter; Tim 

Benitz, New York mortgager; Ed Hosinski, 

South Bend tireman; Jerry 

Crowley, paint promoter; Ed Sherran, 

Los Angeles loan man, and probably 

the one traveling the longest 

distance for Commenceemnt; Clarence 

Futter, Mishawaka shoe merchant; 

Jim Kearney, of the Chicago 

Kearneys, and Bill Desenberg, Buchanan 

barrister. 

Oklahoma City note: the Askews 

have the local insurance situation 

well in hand, with Jim having a large 

agency, and Haskell adjusting claims 

for the central part of the state. Haskell 

has been married for the past 

year, and wishes to be remembered 

to all of the old gang. 

Although the members of the class 

at Commencement this year was not 

so large, there was a a gi'eat deal of 

enthusiasm shown toward an effort 

to contact some of the members of 

the class not heard from in the past 

six years. So with Summer coming 

on, more information about class 

members is requested for Jim Armstrong's 

banner September ALUMNUS. 

A postal card will be sufficient, as 

we do want to know where you are 

and what you are doing. 

Following a trip East, Ben Oakes 

wrote from Chicago as follows: 

I called Bob Neydon, '31, going 

through Detroit, but did not catch 

him in. I had only about five minutes 

while the train stopped there. 

I saw the following at Harvard 

Business College: Bill Leahy, '31, is 

in the "short" session there starting, 

Februaiy 1, 1937 and ending in 

August. He is getting along fine. 

Saw Jack Gleason, '36, who is a first 

year man there. jVlso Joe and John 

McKean from Alexandria, Louisiana, 

who are both in their first year, as 

well as Tony Anzlovar from Cleveland. 

Also saw George Cannon, '36, 

who rooms with Jack Gleason. I 

spent two days in New York. Saw 

Bud Touhy, '31, who expects to visit 

the campus for the first game next 

Fall, as does Joe Lenihan, '29, whom 

I saw at his Belle Harbor, Long Island 

home. Also saw George Rohrs, 

'32, at his office with Hornblower & 

Weeks, 40 Wall Street. Ran into 

Jack Finneran, '33, at the Biltmore 

just before catching the ti-ain for 

Chicago. 

1932 Secretary: Herbert Gioreio, 9005 

'^ 188th St.. Hollis. L. I.. New York. 


Altman, Nate—South Bend 

Arehart. GeorKe A.—Lowell, Mich. 

Asman. Dr. Henry B.—Louisville, Ky. 

Bannon. John—Louisville. Ky. 

Barton, A- P.—Cincinnati, Ohio 

Behrman, Harry—Glenwood, 111. 

Belden, Paul—Canton, Ohio 

Booth, Murray J.—Jersey City, N. J. 

Boyce, Raymond P.—Hempstead, L. L, N- Y. 

Brasseur, Al—Mishawaka, Ind. 

Bums, Thomas A.—Rochester, New York 

Calhoun, Eugene C.—Los Angeles, Calif. 

Cannon, Richard G.—Elgin, III. 

Carey, Ed—Chiaigo 

Carney, John D.—Hartford, Conn. 

Chadwick, James H.—Amityville, New York 

Collins, James K.—Indianapolis. Ind. 

Collins, John J.—Cleveland 

Colville. John—Yonkers, N. Y. 

Comcford. William P.—River Forest, 111. 

Conboy, Francis J—Gene%-a, New York 

Connelly, Gene—Elmhurst. N. Y. 

Connolly, John—Toledo, Ohio 

Conway, Jerrj—St, Paul, Minn. 

Crawford. Dr. Myron E.—Cleveland 

Czapalski, S. J.—Chicago 

Davis, John—Tamaqua. Maryland 

DeBartolo. Edward—Youngstown, Ohio 

Dolan. Martin E.—Minneapolis. Minn. 

Downs, James E.—-Oak Park, III. 

DriscoU, John E.—Jersey City. N. J. 

Dubbs. James H.—Mendota, 111. 

Duffy. Thomas E.. Jr.—Chicago 

Dunleavy, Philip H.—Chicago 

Edwards. Eskine C.—Waukegan. III. 

Ernst. Frank R.—Chicago 

Fabrycki. Richard E.—South Bend 

Feely, Thomjis P.—Joliet. 111. 

Ferguson, David E.—Lafayette, Ind. 

Fitzgerald, William F.—New Yôrk City 

Flanagan, Paul—Detroit. Mich. 

Frank. Felix G.—New York City 

Freidhoff. William F.—Johnstown, Pa. 

Gcddcs. John J.—Chicago 

Geiger, Raymond A.—Irvington, N. J. 

Giorgio. Herbert P.—New York City 

Gorman. Bob—Chicago 

Gorman. William J.—Whiting. Ind. 

Gostisha, John R.—Waukegan. HI. 

Graham, Frank—Chicago 

Guerin, Jack P.—New York City 

Hallinan. Rev. Paul J.—Cleveland 

Halpin. Theodore—Louisville. Ky. 

Hamilton, John W.—Ann Arbor. Alich. 

Harbaugh. Noble P.—South Bend 

Hayes, Cornelius M.—-Evanston, III. 

Hechinger. Ernest C.—Peoria, HI. 

Hcnnion. George F.—Notre Dame 

Hodges. Gerard R.—South Bend 

Howe, Paul A.—New York City 

Huber, Verne W.—Racine. Wis. 

Hurley, Neil C. Jr.—River Forest. III. 

Igoc, James T.—Chicago 

J.-iuch. John W.—Niles. Mich. 

Johnson. Clay—Washington. D. C. 

Judge. Joe—Di.ôn. III. 

Kcanoy, John—Louisville. Ky. 

Kenny. Joseph—Chicago 

Kienor, John A.—Cleveland 

Kilburger, Harrj-—Lancaster, Ohio 

Killian. Donald B.—Wilmington, Del. 

Kiolbasa. Walter—Chicago 

Kirby. William T.—Waukegan. III. 

Klein. Arnold J.—^[inncapolis, Alinn. 

Klein. Jerry—Akron, Ohio 

Kolski. Edwin—Chicago 

Laughna, John P.—Grosse Pointe. Mich. 

Lawler. Russcl A.—Lansing. Mich. 

Lindenberg, John—Hutchinson, Minn. 

Linn. Jerry—Lansing. Mich. 

Maloy. K. Daniel—Qyde. N. Y". 

Marley. Francis M.—Fostoria. Ohio 

McCabe. Joe—Chicago 

McCarthy. Florence J.. Jr.—New York City 

McConnell. Paul D.—Springfield. Til. 

McEachern. Allan P.—Indianapolis. Ind, 

McGee, Frank N.—Chicago 

JIcGrath. John T.—South Bend 

McKevitt. Thomas L.—Washington. D. C. 

McLaughlin. Leo V.—BrookU-n, N. Y. 

Jlelchione, Edgar J.—Chicago 

Mikes. Bon—Cihcago 

Jliller. Bud—South Bond 

Miller. Howard A.—Cleveland. Ohio 

Mohler. Dennison D.—Grand Rapids. Mich. 

Moran, Gabriel E.—Y'oungstown. Ohio 

Morrison, Frank J.—Rochester. N. Y. 

Alulhall. John L.—Sioux City. Iowa 

Murphy. Paul J.—Alamosa. Colo, 

Murphy. William F.—Newark. N. J. 

^[urray. Francis L.—Battle Creek. ^lich. 

Murray. Joe—Elmhurst. 111. 

Nash. Charles B.—Chicago 

Nesbit. R. J.—Pittsfield. M.iss. 

Newman. Leo A.—South Bend 

Oberkoetter. Frank F.—Peoria. HI. 

Ockuly, Or\ille—Dclphos. Ohio 

O'Connor. Thomas—Indianapolis 

0*Keefe. J. Barry—Chicago 

O'Malley. Edward A.—Notre Dame 

O'Malley. Frank—Notre Dame 

O'Malley. Thomas A.—Chicago 

O'Malley. Thomas P.—Aurora. III. 

O'Shaughnessy. James B.—Chicago 

Ostrander. Joel W.—Chicago 

O'Toole. Paul L.—Chicago 

Petrctic. Charles .1.-South Bend 

Petritz. .Toseph—South Bend 

Power, James W.—Baralwo. Wis. 

Powers. M. Kelly—Chicago 

Powers. Oliver P.—Chicago 

Quigley, Joseph J.—Shenandoah. Pa. 

Quirk, Patrick J.—Cortland, N. Y. 

Reaume, Edward—South Bend 

Roethele, Bernard J.—South Bend 

Rohlof. Louis R.—Michigan City, Ind. 

Roney, Richard T.—Chicago 

Rohrbach, Robert J.—St. Louis. Mo. 

Ruffing, Comeliiu J.—Cleveland 

Salvaty, Benjamin B.—Chicago 

Scanlan. John M.—Indianapolis 

Schiavone. Leo V.—Chicago 

Shicbler, Andrew—Brooklyn, N, Y. 

Sinkule, Joseph F.—Ypsilanti. Mich. 

Slader, William T.—New York City 

Staunton. John J.—Chicago 

Sullivan. Richard—Rochester, N. Y. 

Terry. Walter—Baraboo, Wis, 

Thiesen, Cyril C—St. Joseph, Mich. 

Theisen, G. Clemens—Detroit. Mich. 

Tholen, Henry S.—Quincy, HI. 

Torborg. Martin P.—Fort Wayne, Ind, 

Toussaint, Joseph A.—Chicago, lU. 

Troost, Garence W.—Chicago 

Van Rooy. William J.—Cleveland 

Ward, James—Brooklyn. N. Y. 

Waterson. Robert R.—Niles, Mich. 

Watson. Ginton H.—Pontine, Mich. 

Weir. William G.—Brooklyn, N. Y. 

Weiss. Charles F.—South Bend 

Weiner, Arnold A.—Chicago 

Wilson. Jerome—Pittsburgh, Pa. 

Witt. Ralph D.—LaPortc, Ind. 

Wright. Ed—Mitchell. S. D. 

Xelowski. Thaddeus Z.—Chicago 

A personal letter from, the reunion 

chairman to the members of the class 

of 1932: 

To each and every one of the 170 

alumni of 1932 who returned for 

this, our five-year Reunion, I want 

to extend my heartfelt thanks. Your 

splendid co-operation, and the personal 

sacrifice you made to come back 

to the campus for this Commencement 

week-end, truly merited the enjoyable 

time we had together. I am 

sure that not a single one of you regrets 

the trip. 

Especially are thanks in order to 

the committee of local alumni who 

made our Reunion party of Friday 

evening the gi'and success it unquestionably 

was—Jack McGratb, George 

Hennion, Bemie Roethele, and Joe 

Petritz. 

To the felows who could not come 

back, I want to summarize briefly 

what happened: 

Friday evening at the Columbia 

Athletic Club in South Bend, (the 

Knights of Columbus building in our 

days) we- had our Reunion Party. 

Nearly 150 of the boys were there. 

Father Frank Cavanaugh, rector of 

Corby Hall in 1931-1932, spoke to 

the boys. Neil Hurley, editor of the 

Scholastic; Gene Connelly, president 

of the 1932 Senior Class; Herb 

Giorgio, Chairman of the S.A.C., and 

class secretary; Flo McCartby, and 

Jim Armstrong, secretary of the 

Alumni Association, also briefly addressed 

the gang. A bit of entertainment, 

buffet supper and refreshments 

topped off the evening. 

The Mass Saturday morning for 

all the deceased alumni included in 

its remembrance the souls of Rollie 

"Lucky" Baldwin, Ted Scholzen and 

Johnny Higgins. 

Saturday eevning, the regular 

.\lumni Banquet was held, at which 

the Class of 1932 occupied a special 

section. The headquarters on the 

campus for the class were two floors 

of Dillon Hall.


Sunday morning, at a special Mass 

for the 1932 Class, Father Paul Hallinan, 

'32, editor of the Dome, offered 

the Mass for Fred Snite, who sailed 

Sunday from Shanghai, still in the 

"iron lung." Father Hallinan also 

remembered another 1932 Class 

member — Jerry Teevens, who died 

that same Sunday evening from an 

incurable illness. Harry Stegman 

and Hack Wilson, both '32ers, and 

now studjnng for Holy Orders in 

Moreau Seminar}', served Father Hallinan's 

Mass. 

All in all, fellows, it was a grand 

week-end, and let's remember the 

good times we had together when, in 

1942, we are deciding to return 

again for the ten-year reunion, which 

also happens to be the Centennial 

Year. 

Ed O'Malley. 

George CuUinan, of the Union Carbide 

and Carbon Company, sailed 

from San Francisco for Shanghai in 

Februarj'. He expects to remain in 

China for three years, according to 

information from Father Doremus. 

Benedict Harrington has announced 

the opening of law offices in the Ritz 

Theatre Building, 46 Washington 

Avenue, Carteret, New Jersey. 

Ed Mehren's new address, as vicepresident 

of the Citrus Club Products, 

Inc., is the Security Building, Phoenix, 

Arizona. 

The latest success of Joe Lopker is 

evidenced by his full page drawing 

on the front page of the magazine 

section of the El Paso (Texas) 

Times (and probably on other front 

pages, since it was a King Features 

job). The page was forwarded to 

Father O'Hara by Fran Oelerich, Chicago, 

who was visiting in El Paso 

parts. 

* 

1933 Secretary: Donald Wise. 110 Pleasant 

St, Joliet, m. 


Augsburger, AVilliam N.—South Bend 

Cannon, William M.—South Bend 

Carey, Oeve—Cleveland 

Coshman. Ben J.—South Bend 

Chawgo, Louis E.—Aurora, HI. 

Crinunins. John M.—Chicago 

Donnelly, James A.—^Westfield. N. J. 

Duke. Norman E-—LaPorte. Ind. 

Fitzpatrick. J. D.—South Bend 

Hafron. Charles F.—South Bend 

Harter, Vermont C.—South Bend 

Hess, C J.—Kalamazoo, Mich. 

Killecn, Ed B.—Cleveland. Ohio 

Koken, Mike—South Bend 

Lahey, Michael J.—LaPorte, Ind. 

Lauehna. Fred—Grosse Pointe Park, Mich. 

Locher, S. E.—^Monticello, Iowa 

Naber, Ray J.—Louisville. Kentucky 

Nolan, Theodore A.—Ironwood, Mich. 

O'Shea, Russell J.—Cairo, HI. 

Reilly, Georse H.—Ellwood City, Pa. 

Ruppe, Arthur T.—South Bend 

Sartoretto. Paul A.—Rock Springs, Wyo. 

Sexton, William L.—Indianapolis, Ind. 

Shcolnik. Harry—South Bend 

Sloan, John—Peoria. 111. 

Smith, Lionel V.—New York City 

Stewart, Al—Syracuse. N. Y. 

Troy, Edward—South Bend 

Wiatrowski, Feliks U—South Bend 

Woods, TiEhe E.—Chicago 

Wunsch, Harry F.—South Bend 

With his dues, George Bolger, 

Sault Ste Marie, Jlichigan, recently 

sent a lot of news. He said: 

"Since I last wrote several things 

have happened. My mother died in 

April, 1935, and I was married to 

Elizabeth Koppi, a graduate of St. 

Marj''s Hospital in Rochester, Minnesota, 

that following Fall. 

"Peter Cameron, '30, was married 

in July of 1935 and is the proud 

father of a baby son now. Robert 

Powell, '33, of Detroit, is a summer 

visitor here, being a hay feverite (the 

Sault is great for those with hay 

fever) and is associated with his 

father in the real estate business in 

Detroit. 

"In a letter from William Rupp, 

'33, he told me that Thoma» V. Wade, 

'33, is employed in Washington, D. 

C, as is Roger Brennan, '33, in some 

governmental office. Bill himself is a 

full fledged lawyer now and gives his 

office as Room 900, 140 N. Dearborn 

Street, Chicago, 111. William Wittenburg, 

'33, was, when I saw him last 

Summer, employed by the state of 

Michigan as an auditor." 

Vince Burke has opened a law 

office at 1100 Peoples Bank Building, 

Pittsburgh, in association with Campbell, 

Wick, Houck & Thomas. 

Jack Gary finished his med work at 

Loyola in Chicago on June 9 and is 

now interning in the Milwaukee 

County Hospital, Wauwatosa, Wisconsin. 

2934 Secretary: James Moscow, 2320 N. 

Lawndale Ave., Chicago, HI. 


Abraham, Eli—Niles. Ohio 

Blaha. George A.—Chicago 

Brannan. Paul R.—Madison, Wis. 

Cahill, M. Robert—Notre Dame 

Carey, Ed—Cleveland 

Crane, Elmer—Chicago 

Curran, Maurice—Chicago 

Doyle, Frank A.-—Chicago 

Doyle, William E.—Chicago 

Fesler, James C.—Akron, Ohio 

Garland, Maurice—Kewanee, IIL 

Graham, Ed A,—Milwaukee, Wis. 

Grimes, Thomas R.— Niles, Mich. 

Hamilton. Robert—Racine, Wis. 

Hiegel, Alfred—Fort Wayne, Ind. 

Huisking, William W.—Huntington. N. Y. 

Kelley, Joseph F.—Grand Rapids, Mich. 

Kelley, Robert K.—South Bend 

Kennedy, Walter—Stamford, Conn. 

Kiop, Erwin J.—Chicago 

Kroeger, John W.—Philadelphia, Pa. 

Lacey, John—Notre Dame 

Leonard, John N.—Buffalo, N. Y. 

Manoski, Paul A.—Huntington, Ind. 

SIatth>'s, Francis W.—Chicago 

McGlone, Gerald J.—Chicago 

McNerney. John—Elgin, HI. 

Mizerski. Norbert T.—Chicago 

Moran, Edward M.—Chicago 

Morrison, James R.—Chicago 

Moscow, James V.—Chicago 

O'Connor. John J.—Pittsburgh. Pa. 

O'Donnell. Frank J.—Pittsburgh 

O'Toole. William G.—Pittsburgh 

Sheridan, William J.—Jersey City. N. J. 

Templeton. John G.—South Bend 

TresscI, John P.—^Waukogan, HI. 

Van Bcersum. Anthony G.—St. Paul, Minn. 

Waldron. T. Howard—Trenton, N. J. 

Wicdl, Mike F.—Chicago 

Zimmerer, Carl E.—South Bend 

Charlie Cashman, associated with 

Edward H. Orser, is now practicing 

as a consulting mining engineer and 

geologist in Kirkland Lake, Ontario, 

Canada. He was formerly with the 

Lake Shore Gold Mine in Kirkland 

Lake. 

Word has just come through that 

Leo Hendricks and Ihliss Helen Claussen 

were married in Logansport, Indiana, 

in February. 

1935 Secretary: F. C. Hochreiter, 1014 N. 

Eddy St., South Bend, Indiana. 


Annas, John T.—^Detroit, Mich. 

Argus, Joe—Indianapolis, Ind. 

Beyrer, J. Benjamin—South Bend 

Boyle, Jerome M.—Gary, Ind. 

Brett. Rai-mond C—Detroit, Mich. 

Bried, Edward A.—St. Petersburg, Fla. 

Burger, Clare B.—South Bend 

Burkhardt, William—Âkron, Ohio 

Byrnes, Robert C.—Chicago 

Campbell, J. Thomas—Grand Rapids, Mich. 

Collins, J. A.—Clinton, Iowa 

Cronin, James R,—Chicago 

Demetrio, George T.—Chicago 

Flanagan, John T.'—Grand Rapids, Mich. 

Flynn, Joseph F.—Chicago 

Foss, George J.—Chicago 

Goebel, Harold L.—South Bend 

Graves, Tom V.—Galesburg, III. 

Hochreiter, Franklyn C.—UuSalo, N. Y. 

Howard, James K.—Chicago 

Hruby, Louis R.—Qeveland Heights, Ohio 

Kelly, Luke F.—South Bend 

Lord, William K.—Pittsburgh, Pa. 

Loritsch, Al—Wheeling, W. Va. 

Lynch, P. J.^New Castle, Ind. 

McGuire, Frank—Âurora, III. 

Morrison Arnold B.—Rochester. N. Y. 

Oakcs. Raymond W.—Canton, Ohio 

Pendergast, John F.—Chicago 

Proctor, Thomas G.—Elkhart, Ind. 

Schager, Richard J.—^Wilmette, 111. 

Scolaro, Anthony—Arlington Heights, 111. 

Shecdy, Mike—Buffalo, N. Y. 

Shields, Bob—Kalamazoo, Mich. 

Tourek, Claude W.—Chicago 

Verbanc, John J.—Notre Dame 

Vitter. A. L.—New Orleans, La. 

Wiggins. Cyril A.—South Bend 

Wllliamscn. Charles T.—Dayton. Ohio 

Witchger, Eugene—Saginaw, Mich. 

Wunderly. Harry L.—Pittsburgh, Pa. 

Wurzer, Lincoln—Detroit, Mich. 

Hoch closes his second year of 

super service with the unbeatable 

record of having "made" every issue 

of the ALUSINUS since he took over 

in November, 1935. The editors 

thank him heartily. He says: 

Another Commencement and another 

year since the '35ers took their 

sheepskins home to stow away in the 

bottom of the trunk. For two months 

we appealed for notification of your 

return over the week-end, but none 

was forthcoming. On Friday night 

only seven had shown up, but by Saturday 

evening over 30 had crossed 

the threshold to register. Of course, 

nothing had been planned, so small 

groups were seen to gather in various 

spots to add their hilarity to the 

week-end. 

We have been asked to "boil down" 

everything in this report. We'll try! 

Fran Dunn became the father of a 

baby girl on May 24. We wish Mr. 

and Mrs. Dunn much happiness. 

Three Morrisons have taken degrees 

at Notre Dame; the last was 

Reginald this year. To see their 

brother take his scroll came Frank 

and Arnold. The latter is one of us. 

Since our hoys returned to the 

fold unannounced many had to stay 

in the far away sanctums of Lyons 

instead of in Dillon. Among them 

were Jim Howard and Bob Byrnes,


who took a room together. We spent 

a pleasant hour in the midst of their 

conviviality Sunday morning. Jim 

has been working for A. C. Allan Investment 

Company in Chicago. 

We understand, from sources that 

should be accurate, that Phil Jacobs 

is employed in a bank in native 

Alexandria. 

Frank McGuire returned to spend 

the three days with us, and said that 

he is going abroad this Summer. At 

the moment he is not working, but 

he has expectations for September. 

Frank informed us that he had met 

Jerry Cushing at a Bull Fight in 

Mexico City. Jerry is reputed to 

have spent a well earned vacation in 

San Antonio, Texas, but is now back 

on the job with the Great Lakes Dock 

and Dredge Company getting the 

dope from the "bottom." 

Joe Flynn and Claude ..Tourek 

rested their bodies in Dillon Hall, 

having been among those who arrived 

Friday. Joe started Monday, 

June 7, on a six week's training 

course with the Thomas people (the 

hair growers). After that he anticipates 

being sent East with a sales 

manager's diploma. 

Joe told us that Frank Leonard 

has been with the Thomas organization 

for some time, and is located in 

Rochester, New York. 

On Saturday night we made up a 

party consisting of Bill Lord, Bill 

Burkhardt, Louis Hruby, Ray Oakes, 

Tom Proctor and Bob Proctor, '33. 

During the course of the night we 

learned from the Lord boy that 

Norge and Company is prospering 

through his efforts. 

Jim Cronin blew in for a while. 

He is peddling radiators (American) 

through the north-east counties of 

Iowa. 

Several weeks ago we learned from 

Gene Witchger's brother (Freshman 

this year) that friend Gene had invented 

something. Not being an 

engineer we cannot pass on the dope 

to you—but it is an accomplished 

fact. Gene is now located in Detroit. 

We endeavored to get more evidence 

from Gene, but all he would admit 

was the intention and nothing further. 

A short while back we received a 

wedding invitation from Tom Standish 

way down in Texas. The wedding 

is June 16. We appreciate the 

bid, Tom, and wish you and Mrs. 

Standish, the former Miss Elizabeth 

Rhein, much happiness. Vic Arcadi 

stopped on the campus just after 

Commencement on his way back to 

California. Vic, with Roy Scholz, 

had just finished his second year at 

Johns Hopkins Med School, Baltimore. 

Tom Proctor has gone East for 

the Summer, and is working as a tour 

conductor for Tauck Tours of New 

York City. Tom obtained the position 

through an old Chicago World's 

Fair friend. He will have the Gaspe 

route, which will take him to French 

Canada. 

For the summer your scribe anticipates 

attending the University of Chicago, 

taking further courses in Social 

Work. During the period we 

shall be living in the heart of the 

Italian quarter at 1300 South Newberry 

Avenue (off Roosevelt Road) 

in the Old To\vn Boys' Club. Drop 

down and see us any week-end, as 

that will be the time we will most 

likely be there. 

This brings us to the end of another 

year of writing your chatter. 

We sincerely hope that you have 

found it interesting and worthwhile. 

Your letters have indicated that you 

found it so. We would like to hear 

from those of you who have been sisent 

these past two years. How about 

a postcard or a letter? We promise 

to answer all the correspondence received 

during the summer months, 

and any of the outstanding missives 

of the past winter. 

What the column has been during 

the past months has been due entirely 

to your co-operation, for without it, 

we would have had nothing to write 

about. For your fine spirit and wholehearted 

support we extend our sincere 

appreciation. Let us keep the 

'35ers alive and interested through a 

bigger and better column as the 

yeai-s go by. It is up to you. We 

think it can be done. 

Baseball news says that Vic Metller 

is a reserve outfielder -vfith the 

Indianapolis team. Frankie Gaul, 

'36, is with the Moline, Illinois, club, 

in the Three-I league as the property 

of the Chicago Cubs, and Andy Pilney, 

the property of the Boston Bees, 

is with Columbia of the Sally League, 

by way of Albany of the International 

League and Scranton of the New- 

York Pennsylvania league. 

Misinformation caused the report 

to be published in the Religious Bulletin 

and, in consequence, in the May 

ALUMNUS, that Luke Kelly's mother 

had died. The Editors are glad to 

say that this news was unfounded. 

Irving Garnitz, state representative 

from South Bend, sponsored a bill 

in the House of the latest Indiana 

legislature which repealed an act relating 

to damages and amended an 

act relating to procedure. Professor 

Rollison of the Law School, brought 

this information to the attention of 

the ALUMNUS. 

193fi Join Moran. 61 E. 95th St, Apt. 2. 

"'*"' New York Qty. 


Batun, Arthur A.—Battle Creek. Mich. 

Blake. Glenn—Canton, Ohio 

Brick, Anthony, Jr.—North Tonawanda. N.Y. 

Deely, Ray—Tarrytown. N. Y. 

DcGarmo, John J.—Nilcs, Ohio 

de Landero, Carlos A.—Mexico City, Mexico 

Dunn. Francis—Joliet. HI. 

Ervin. Robert—^Notre Dame 

Fisher. Patrick J.—Indianapolis. Ind. 

Geerts, Marcellus J.—Notre Dame 

Gorman. John E.—^Mishawalca, Ind. 

Grady, Thomas H.—Chicaso 

Grejrory. Arthur C.—Canon City, Colo. 

Grubb, Henry W.—South Bend 

Guamieri. Paul A.—^Warren, Ohio 

Hertel, Morris—South Bend 

Huber. Arthur—South Bend 

Jones, TV. L.—Centralis. III. 

Kolka. Alfred—Irma, Wis. 

Lee, John M.—Salamanca. N. Y. 

Loritsch. John A.—Wheeline, W. Va. 

Lowell, J. Wesley—Washinston, D. C. 

McKenna, James F.—Portland. Ore. 

Meagher. Georse B.—DePue, HI. 

Moran. John—New York City 

MulhoUand. Art—Kalamazoo. Mich. 

O'Kane, Joseph—South Bend 

Stillwagon, Woodrow—Mt. Vernon, Ohio 

Struck. William L.—Dayton. Ohio 

Tulchinsky, Maurice—South Bend 

Vervaet. ArthuiÔakland, N. J. 

Viviano. Peter—St, Louis. Mo. 

Weber. Fred C—St. Louis. Mo. 

Youncerman. Daniel J.—Davenport. Iowa 

Pepped up by a visit to the Publications 

Office, Uncle Sam Moran does 

the following beautiful job for you: 

Inasmuch as the events of Universal 

Notre Dame Night came too late 

to be included in the May column, I 

have carried them over to this issue. 

About 400 were present for the 

celebration at the Hotel McAlpin here 

in New York. From '36 were Walt 

Matusevich, Joe Waldron, Jim Sherry. 

Bill Walsh. Jim Kirby. Bill Gillespie, 

and Joe Schmidt. From the 

neighboring class of '35 were Jim 

IVIcDevitt. Al Lawton, Jerry Doyle. 

Bill Schmidt and others. -Also present 

was Ralph Christensen. ex. '35, 

who told me he had gone to M.I.T. 

to continue his architectural studies 

and had recently returned from a 

stay in South America. 

Had a card from Bill Macdonald 

some time back. Bill writes that he 

is studying, with Lindell Kinman, at 

Washington University (St. Louis) 

Medical School. Bill didn't send any 

address, so that's the best I can do. 

Let's hear from you again. Bill, with 

more information on the boys in your 

section. 

Via Frank Murray, still studying 

hard at Cornell Med School here in 

New York, comes the following information 

gleaned from various correspondents. 

We trust it as accurate, 

for Prank telephoned it in one evening 

and the connection was very 

bad. 

Justin O'Toole is now in the real 

estate business in Chicago's South 

Side. Al Rohol is reported selling insurance, 

but his whereabouts is unknown. 

Jack Bray, from down Kentucky 

way, after surviving the recent 

floods, is also selling insurance, probably 

back in Faducah. 

Reno Zarantonello is in line for 

congratulations, as he is reported to 

be happily married, and living in 

Gary, Indiana. 

Bill Baer is located with an oil 

company somewhere in West Virginia 

but his exact whereabouts are also 

unknown.


Don MacKay and Fred Cox are 

roommates at Northwestern Med 

School. 

Lou Hansman, the pride of Walsh's 

fourth floor, is reported here, there 

and everj-where. The latest rumor 

has hira located in the wholesale merchandise 

department of Carson, Pirie 

and Scott, Chicago. How about a 

letter, Lou, since you didn't answer 

my card of some months ago? Also, 

let's hear from that other accounting 

demon, Tommy Vicars. 

Gene Tobin is distributing a fast 

selling insulating material back in 

the home town. According to reports. 

Gene is plugging up every rat 

hole in the vicinity of Galesburg, 

Ilinois. And that about concludes 

the flow of information from the 

Muri-ay source. Thanks, Frank, and 

thanks, too, to Paul Doyle, who supplied 

much of it. 

Having the good fortune to merit 

a vacation from the government service, 

I took ten days for a trip which 

included a five-day stop over at 

Notre Dame for Commencement. 

Those from '36 who returned to the 

campus for the week-end included 

Tommy Campbell, who although graduating 

a half year before most of us, 

states that he has adopted the class 

of '3G: AI Donahue; Van Baur; Bud 

Veravet; Art Huber, who is an accountant, 

with the South Bend Lumber 

Co, I believe; Ray Deely, who 

came back to be best man at his 

brother's wedding in the Log Chapel; 

and Paul Doyle, who is with the Cities 

Construction Co. in Hammond, Indiana. 

A large number of lawyers, formerly 

of '3G, received their A.B. degrees 

at the exercises, -•imong the 

many seen over the week-end were 

ex-roommate Cliff Brown, Hank Pojman. 

Bill Bowes (who tlimmed me 

very badly at golf), Prial Curran, 

John Lechner, Bus Meyer, Joe Mc- 

Mahon, Sam Minella, Steve Miller, 

Frank Smith, Bob Schmelzle (who 

also doubled as class oiâtor), Maury 

Quinn, and others. 

A fair number of '36%'rs returned. 

Those I bumped into included 

Marty Bayer, Art Cronin, Joe 

Dreuker, and Miller Mallet, who is 

now writing dramatic scripts for 

i-adio stations in Cincinnati. 

Wally Fromhart has taken unto 

himself a better half. Congi-atulations, 

Wally. I might suggest that 

the members of the class, who have 

the time, drop me a line when they 

announce an engagement, get married, 

or become "proud pappas." The 

-ALUMNUS is always glad to print such 

notices. 

A letter from Tommy Campbell, 

whom I also saw at Commencement, 

informed me that Tom is now an accountant 

^^^th the fii-m of Seidman 

& Seidman, in Grand Rapids, Mich 

igan. Tommy also writes that Tom 

Bott has announced his engagement 

to a Grand Rapids girl. Congi-atulations 

also, Tom. 

Further congratulations go to Art 

Varneau, also of Grand Rapids, who 

is married and already has an offspring. 

.4rt is working with the Haskelite 

Mfg. Co. in Grand Rapids. Tom 

Campbell can be reached at 1458 

Wilcox Parke Drive, S.E., Grand 

Rapids, Mich. 

Also had a card from Jerry Vogel 

who states that he is doing graduate 

work in sociologj- at Notre Dame. I 

didn't see Jeriy w-hile on the campus 

as he had to leave for samp in advance. 

-A.n item in the paper stated that 

Bill Shakespeare undenvent an emergencv 

operation for appendicitis on 

May "28. 

From the New York Times of recent 

date: Art Neuman, ex. '36, won 

second prize in a drama contest at 

Cornell University, where he is now 

a student. 

-A.nd that concludes the work of 

your class secretary until the next 

issue of the ALUM.NUS in the Fall. In 

the meantime, let me hear from some 

of you '3Gers in the West—Curly 

Reagan, and others. -A.nd how about 

a little information on the New Englanders 

from Joe Mansfield, Doc 

Murphy, or Joe Prendergast? And 

what about a few letters from the 

South and Mid West — or from any 

other section for that mater. I promise 

to ansker all communications as 

promptly as possible, so keep the 

wires hot. 

-\nd so until next Fall, a happy 

Summer to youse and youse. 

Morris Hertel is now designing 

Catholic churches in the offices of 

McCarthy, Smith and Eppig (George 

Eppig, '33) architects of Chicago. He 

had been with General Houses, Inc. 

1937 

Marvin Krueger is associated with 

Bob Glasscott, '24, in the practice 

of law in the Citizens Bank Building, 

Michigan City, Indiana. 

JOBS 

Three good jobs for experienced 

commercial refrigeration salesmen 

were open at the time of going to 

press. .A.pplicants write Mark E. 

Mooney, '27, Carrier Corporation, 

Merchandise Mart, Chicago. Salary 

$175-200 monthly with additional 

opportunities. 

MET.A.LLURGIST major, e.xperience 

not essential. Write or contact 

Michael Gi-aham, superintendent, 

West Pullman shops of the International 

Hai-\-ester Co., 1000 W. 120th 

St., Chicago, 111. 

FOR THE DECEASED ALUMNI 

June 1. 1936-June 1. 1937 

"Whereas God, in His wisdom, has 

during this past year taken from this 

life the alumni hereinafter listed, and 

"Whereas these members have 

scn-ed their -4.1ma Mater with gloiy 

in their respective avocations, 

"Be it resolved that this Association 

extend its heartfelt sympathy to 

the relatives with promise of prayers 

that the same God in His mercy will 

be generous to their souls and grant 

them that eternal rest which we all 

so earnestly seek. 

"Be it further resolved that an expression 

of the above be written into 

the official records of the -•Uumni 

-Association and a copy sent to the 

bereaved relatives." 

Bceson. Pjiul O.. "OS, St. tauis. Mo. 

BcrKnn, Willintn N., ex. 'OS, South Bend, Ind. 

Black. Rt. Rev. JIsKr. James H., '89, Portland, 

Oregon 

Boyle. Rev. Joseph J., C.S.C, 'OS, Notre 

Dame, Ind. 

Boo5c, John M.. os.'S2, Lima, Ohio 

Burke, Rt. Rev. Jlsgr. John J.. C.S.P., LL.D. 

'30, WashinKton, D. C. 

Carticr, W. Ray, '13, Ludington, Michigan 

Chesterton, Gilbert K., LL.D., '30, England 

Coady, George T., '33, Charleston, \V. Va. 

Curtis, Brother Michael, F.S.C.H., '28, Seattle, 

Washington 

Dunn. Francis, .loliet. III. 

Diener, John, '09, Green Bay. Wis. 

Eggeman, John W., '00, Fort Wayne, Indiana 

Enking, Clement J., '26, Tupinga, Calif. 

Flaherty, James A., LL.D. '26, Philadelphia, 

Pennsylvania 

Foley, Charles, '22, Burns, Oregon 

Franzwa, Gregory, '32, SiUcm, Oregon 

Gooley. Philip E., '17, Syracuse, New York 

Graham, Ernest R„ LL.D., '26, Chicago, III. 

Hayes. Arthur I., os.'Ol, Cincinnati, Ohio 

Hennebry, Michael F„ '96, Wilmington, III, 

Ilenncssy, Joseph P., os.'31, Columbus, Ohio 

Houlihan, Patrick J., '92. South Bend, Indiana 

Jackson. Earl W., os.'2-l. South Bend, Indiana 

Jones, Rev. Leo J., 31.^1., 'IS, Kwangsi, South 

China 

Janowski. Vera, '12, South Bend, Ind. 

Kerby, Rt. Rev. Msgr. William J., LL.D. '12, 

Washington, D. C. 

Kolnrs, Charles C, 'S.i, LeCenter, Minn. 

Lavengood, Francis, *34. South Bend, Ind. 

Lynch, Dr. Jiunes J,, '15, Brighton, Mass. 

Mallon. Francis L., ex.'29, Chicago, III. 

McCormack, James M„ '67, Memphis, Tenn. 

McDonnell, Alexander A., ex,'00, St. Paul, 

Slinnesota 

Mclntyre, Richard J., '31, South Bend, Ind, 

McVean, Malcolm R., '31, Rochester, N. Y. 

Moroney, John, '32, Philadelphia, Pa. 

Mott, Y. L., os.'9S, San Francisco, Calif. 

Nieuwiand, Rev. Julius A., C.S.C., '99, Notre 

Dame, Indiana 

O'Brien, John J.. '31, South Bend, Ind. 

O'Connor, Paul, '35, Springiicld. Mass. 

O'Neill John T., '30, Masscna, New York 

O'Phelan, Jlartin J., '29, Port Jcr^-is. N. Y. 

Itagan, Paul J., '97, Toledo, Ohio 

Rdzok, Francis J„ C.S.C., "35, Washington. 

D.C. 

Schnull. Gustavc A., os.'SO, Indianapolis, Ind. 

Schreiber, .Alfred J., C.S.C, '32, Washington, 

. D.C. 

Sheridan, Thomas J., '86, Oakland, Calif, 

Sherlock, J.-mies B. cx.'U, Great Falls, Mont. 

Staudt, Clement. os,'01. Canton, Ohio 

Terry, Dr. S.imuel P., 'S3. Alaraeila. Calif. 

Torbctt, M.-itthe«- B.. os.'73, Atlanta, Ga. 

Turner, Most Rev. Wm. H., D.D., LL.D., '26, 

BufTalo, N. Y. 

Vath, Paul J., '29, Sidney, Nebraska 

Vennelt, Louis J., os.*27, Cleveland, Ohio 

Waldor, Edward J., Jr., '33, Cairo, HI. 

Walton, John C, e.'C.'3S, Cleveland Heights, 

Ohio 

Weiscnburger, Frank J.. '75. Chicago, 111. 

White, L.aurence Daly, '2S, Wilmette. III. 

Y'ockey, Chaunccy AV., '01, Milwaukee, Wis.

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