Notre Dame Alumnus, Vol. 27, No. 04 -- July - Archives - University ...

fluential in forming the ideals and thought
of the community. There are a few other
examples. But they are not yet sufficient
in number.
"The University hopes that in every communit)'
of the United States its alumni will
make the sacrifice of personal interest and
personal amusement, to become a dominating
influence for good in the thought and
the conununal action of the community.
"The third point: What does the University
think of the Alumni Association and the
local alumni clubs?
"The University, frankly, thinks that in
the main the alumni clubs have not yet begun
to realize and to use their power.
"A handful of men with a single purpose
and self-sacrificing devotion to a cause took
over control of Russia. They now control almost
half the people in the world.
"And a handful of men with a single
purpose could shape public opinion in your
community.
"Your strength is in knowing what is right
and what is wrong. Most present-day graduates
of public institutions are not sure there
is a difference. They cannot be sure that
you are wrong, because they are not sure
that anything is wrong. And they cannot
be sure they are right, because they do not
know exactly what is right.
"This is the desire of the University with
regard to your local clubs: that you select
a worthwhile purpose that all can agree on
—avoiding political matters and controversial
matters; that you unite in energetic action
toward that worthwhile purpose.
"Because you agree on the basic principles
that you learned at Notre Dame, if you
unite in energetic, concerted action . . . you
can transform your town.
"With unity, you can change the world.
"The influence of a University is not in
a \'acuum. It is in people.
"The influence, the prestige of Notre
Dame has been steadily increasing. There
are many impartial obser\'ers who say that
Notre Dame today is the outstanding, the
most influential Catholic university in the
land.
"Even if this be true, it is not enough. It
is only a beginning. It is our purpose to
make Notre Dame the most influential university
in this land . . . excepting none.
"The influence of a Universit)' is in two
things: First, the scholarly work that it
produces. It is our firm and dogged purpose,
wthin the academic fields that the Universit)'
enters, to produce the works of scholarship
that suffer by comparison with no
other universit>'. Fifty years ago this might
have seemed presumptuous.
"But you, as Notre Dame men, would not
want Frank Leahy to aim at producing a
team that was better than all the teams in
the countrj-—except the top teams. You
want Frank Leahy to try to produce the best
team in the country.
"And you would not want us to try to
develop a school that was better than all
the schools of the country—except the top
schools. You want us to aim at the very top.
Frank Leahy does not produce a national
champion ever>' year. But you never need
be ashamed of a Notre Dame team.
"It is our purpose to keep you from being
ashamed of Notre Dame in any way. We
want you to be proud of Notre Dame when
you come back here. When you bring your
wife and your children here to the campus,
we want you to be proud as you say: iTiis
is MY school . . . the greatest in the world."
Having just registered in the Law Building these alumni stopped outside ior the phetogropher.
Leh to right Elmer Silha, '44; Floyd Vincent '44; ItCke Fox, '34; Paul Martin-
Dillon. "OS; Vmiiom D. lamieson, '05; Daniel J. O'Connor, 'OS, and Bob Cahill. '34.
The Notre Dame Alumnus
20 Holy Cross Priests
Are Ordained
Twenty priests of the Congregation of
Holy Cross who had finished their theological
studies in Holy Cross College, Washington,
D. C, were ordained in February, May
and June.
The ordained of this year include Rev.
Michael J. Murphy, Butte, Mont; Rev.
Richard W. Timm, Michigan City, Ind.;
Rev. John J. Murphy, Watertown, Mass.;
Rev. Mark G. McGrath, Panama City, Panama;
Rev. John E. Walsh, Milwaukee; Rev.
William H. Donahue, Philadelphia, Rev.
Jerome J. Wilson, Pittsburgh; Rev. Charles
A. Delaney, Binghamton, N. Y.; Rev. Stanislaus
J. Rdzok, Chicago; Rev. Robert S.
Pelton, Evanston, 111.; Rev. George C. Bernard,
Springfield, 111.; Rev. Harold L.
Bride, Independence, Ore.; Rev. William
C. O'Connor, Green Bay, Wis.; Rev. Edwin
J. Kadzielawski, Chicago; Rev. Charles P.
Gillespie, Philadelphia; Rev. Thomas G. La
Pine, Danbury, Conn.; Rev. D. Farley Curtin,
Chicago; Rev. John L. Van Wolvlear,
Grand Rapids, Mich.; Rev. Edmund P.
Joyce, Spartanburg, S. C, and Rev. Anthony
B. MazeroUe, Kingsclear, N. B., Can.
Eleven of the 20 new priests were ordained
at Notre Dame on June 8 and five others
were ordained in Washington, D. C, on
Jund 7. Because of the critical illness of his
mother. Father Wilson was ordained in
Washington on Feb. 7. Father Michael Murphy
was ordained in Portland, Ore., on May
28, Father McGrath in Panama on June II
and Father MazeroUe in St. John, N. B., on
June 16.
President of Stonehill
Rev. Francis J. Boland, C.S.C, head of
the Department of Political Science at Notre
Dame, has been appointed president of
Stonehill College in North Easton, Mass.,
according to an announcement by the Rev.
James Connerton, C.S.C, vice-provincial of
the Eastern Vice-Province of the Priests of
Holy Cross.
Father Boland, a native of Everett, Mass.,
taught Economics at Notre Dame from 1924
until 1930. He was vice-president of St.
Edward's University in Austin, Tex., from
1930 until 1934, and returned to Notre
Dame in the latter year as prefect of discipline,
a position' he held for three years.
A graduate of Notre Dame in 1918,
Father Boland served as dean of the College
of Arts and Letters at Notre Dame from
1940 until he entered the service a a chaplain
in 1943. During his service as a chaplain
in the Navy, Father Boland, served
aboard the U.S.S. Highland, an attack transport,
in the latter stages of the war. He participated
in the invasion of Iwo Jima and
Okinawa, and his ship carried the first occupation
troops to Japan on V-J Day. He returned
to Notre Dame as head of the Department
of Political Science following his
discharge in 1947, and recently received the
permanent rank of lieutenant commander in
the Naval Reserve.