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?:lte Notre Dame Alumnus This magazine is published bi-monthly by the University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana. Entered as second class matter October 1, 1939, at the Post Office, Notre Dame, Indiana, under the act of August 24, 1912.

James E. Armstrong, '25, Editor? William R. Dooley, '26, Managing Editor

Vol. 27. NOVEMBER-DECEMBER, 1949

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Natural Law Institute Brigadier General ·Carlos P. Romulo,

LL.D., '35, president of the General Assem-bly of the United Nations, will address the third annual Natural Law Institute to be held Dec 9 .and 10 in the College of Law at Notre Dame.

General Romulo -will speak on "The Na-tural Law ai1d ,!e,r,pational Law" at the, last session of e two-day Institute. Othei: ·-.," speakers on e program include the Hon-orable Ricqllrd O'Sullivan, of London, Eng-hnd, fo#er King's Counsel of Great Bri-. tain; Df:~· Edward S. Corwin, retired Prince-ton University authority on constitutional prob~s; and Dr. Stephan Kuttner, noted ~ani?!!' law expert at the Catholic University of

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Engagements

Miss Betty Thompson and J.:tmes J. Atkinson, '47.

Miss Helen Elise Hornchuk and Patrick D. Dlack-(ord, Jr., '49.

1\!i,s Kay McMahon and Godfrey F. Buranich, '43.

Miss Mary Barany and Dudley D. Birder, '50.

Miss Rosalind Burgett and William H. Grafe, Jr., '44.

Miss Freda 1\l. Kuzmic and Mathew J. Grasbe~ger, '49.

1\liss Gertrude Kazmierzak and Robert E. Ker• ger, '48.

Miss Alice S=ha(er and Graham W. McGowan, '44.

Miss Patricia Anne McEntegart and Arthur J. Murphy, ex-45.

Miss Ruth Elizabeth Kelly and Bernard A. O'Con-nor, Jr., '44.

Mi~s Betty Lue Shaum and Joseph T. O'Har.:t, Jr., '49

Miss Yvonne De Sonia and Joseph P. O'Toole, Jr., '48.

Miss Agnes Arata and Joseph A. Pappalardo, '47.

Miss Marjorie Ann Hutchins and Julio D. Petti-nati, '50.

Miss Marion Joyce Seely and Thonus F. Quin-lan, '38 ..

!\{iss Betty Earl and Bruce W. RafT, Jr., '49.

Miss Irene Stachura and William E. Scanlan, '42.

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Marriages· Miss Jacqueline Marie Doyle and James F. Ihrk,

Jr., '48, South Bend, Sept. 17. -

Miss Sally Zygowicz and Theodore J. Buczynski, '33, Chicago, Oct. I.

Miss Patricia O'Connor and William H. Chitten· den, '48, Monmouth, Ill., Oct. 8.

Miss Dolloretta Rogers and John R. Cleary, ex• 46, White Plains, N. Y., Oct. 8.

Miss Rosemary Teagarden and John F. Coleman, '44, Oak Harbor, 0., May 21.

Miss Benita Anne Guthrie and John M. Consi~ dine, '49, South Bend, Oct. I.

Miss Margaret Debald and Fred H. Couch, ex-52, Michigan City, Ind., Oct. 8.

Miss Elizabeth Jane Jennings and Orville E. Dunn, Jr., '48, Lead, S. D., Sept. 18.

Miss Mary Ligouri Ertel and William j. Dunn, ex-47, Aurora, Ill., Sept.· 5.

Miss Evelyn Murray and Francis Fitzgibbon, '45, Iowa City, Ia., Oct. 8.

Miss Isabel Margaret Ho!Tma·n and Raymond R. Flynn, '43, Detroit, Mich., Oct. 22.

Miss Irene Catherine Kuzmic and Robert F. Gre-gorits, '49, South Bend, Sept. 17.

!\Hiss Jacqueline Mostaert and Frank L. Hanei, Jr., '48, South Bend, Stpt. 17. ·

Miss Dorothy Coughlin and Norman A. Hennessy, '49, River Forest. Ill., Oct. 22.

Miss Barbara Florence Steinho(er and Elmer F. Horvath, '49, South Bend, Oct. I.

Miss Gertrude Lorraine Vodoy and Robert P. Lonergan, '43, Notre Dame, Oct. 22.

Miss Christina Louise Thau and Ch.3rles E. Mc-Guire, '49, Mishawaka, Ind., Oct. 8.

Miss Dorothy Waldeck and Edmund V. Marshall, '46, Sept. 1:.!.

Miss Mary Ellen Neufeld and Patrick H. Martin, '48, Green Bay, Wis., June 25.

Miss Margaret Anne Clarkson and Daniel D. Meaney, '47, Corpus Christi, Texas, July 2.

Miss Barbara Jean Freeman and Thomas E. Mills, '42, Beloit, Wis., Nov. 5 •.

· Miss Anne Cecile Barany and James H. Monserez, ex-49, South Bend, Oct. 29.

Miss Mary Lou Seibert and Peter F. Moritz, '43, Mansfield, 0., Oct. 8.

Miss Nadine Belton and Harry D. Mosier, Jr., '48, Baltimore, Md., Aug. 24.

Miss Kathlyn Ann Hammes and John C. Mow-bray, '49, Marycrest, Ill., Oct. 15.

Miss Nancy McKenna a~d John Murrin, IV, '38, Pittsburgh, Pa.,. Sept. 17. ·· -

Miss Helen Lee Dlack and Edw.:tnl A. Ostroski, '48, South Bend, Oct. 8.

Miss Marilyn Brennan and Harry C. Reich, '48, Chillicothe, ~{o., June 7.

Miss Ann Trautschold and Frederick j. Sheedy, '48, Waco, Texas, Sept. 5,

Miss Eleanor Wolfberg and Loren I. Smith, '48, South Bend, Oct. 23.

Miss Maryjane Mcllvenny and Ervin A. Steianik, '41, Chicago, Oct. I.

Miss Margaret Catherine Cook, daughter o£ Leo L. Cook, '18 and Edward L. Twohey, '49, Notre Dame, Sept. 17.

Miss Elizabeth Boulden and Thomas J. Var1p, ex-46, South Bend, Oct. 15.

Miss Lora May Nimtz and Donald B. White, '49, South Bend, Sept. 17.

Miss Valeria J. Kulka and Norbert S. Wleklinski, '44, N?tre Dame, recently.

.Miss Betty Ann Wendland and Robert W. Witch-ger, ex-40, Ba.y City, Mich., Feb. 26. ·

Miss Cecelia Speel and John H. Zwicker, '44, Appleton, Wis., July 9. :

Born to Dr. and Mrs. Henry B. Asman, '32, a son, Henry

B., Jr., Aug. 17.

Mr. and. Mrs. David R. Cartwright, '4:>, .. son, Thomas Joseph, Sept. 17.

Mr. and Mrs. John F. Clifford, '38, a daughter, Mary Victoria, Atig. 24.

Mr. and Mrs. Louis B. Cohen, '49, a son, Alan, Sept. 26.

Mr. and Mrs. James M. Constantin, '44, a daugh-ter, Sept. 20.

The Notre Dame Alumrtus

Mr. and Mrs. John P. Crimmins, cx-43, a daugh-ter, Nov. 3.

Mr. and Mrs. William E. Dacey, '49, a daughter, Maureen Ann, Aug. 20.

Mr. and Mrs. Charles F. Daly, '38, a daughter, Sharon Elizabeth, Sept. 16. ·

Mr. and Mrs. James L. Delahanty, '40, a son, o

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Mr. and Mrs. Charles R. Le Fevre, '47, a son, Robert Daniel, Sep.t. 4.

Mr. and Mrs. Raymond M. Leliaert, '49, a daughter, Sept. 16.

Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence L. Loughlin, '48, a daugh-ter, Katherine Mary, Oct. 17.

Mr. and Mrs. John A. Lynch, '44, a son, Thomas John, Aug. 25.

Mr. and Mrs. Patrick J. Lynch, Jr., '35, a son, Oct. 19.

Mr. and Mrs. John G. Mack, Jr., '45, a daugh-ter, Marjorie Susan, Aug. 25.

Mr. and l\frs. William A. Madden, ·'44, a daugh-ter,· Mary Teresa, June 17. Harold F. Madden, tx-16, is the proud grandfather.

Mr. and Mrs. Thomas J. Magee, '32, a daughter, Sheila, Oct. 7.

Mr. and Mrs. William P. Mahoney, Jr., '39, a daughter, Mary Alice, Sept. 9.

Mr. and Mrs. James L. Meagher, Jr., '44, a daughter, Virginia, Aug. 9.

Mr. and Mrs. William J. Meyer,. '43, a daughter, in mid-September.

· Mr. and Mrs. William B. Middendorf, '43, a son, Michael Richard, ·their fourth child, Sept. 8.

Mr. and Mrs. Ferdinand E. Miholich, Jr., '40. a son, Sept. 9.

Mr. and Mrs. Otto J. l\fileti, Jr., '44, a sun, Otto Joseph, III, Aug. 16.

Mr. and Mrs. · R.:iymond W. Oakes, '35, a son, Mark Christopher, Sept. 30.

Mr. and Mrs. Eugene L. O'Brien, '35, a daugh-ter, Mary Ellen, their sixth child, Oct. 22. They have five sons.

Mr. and Mrs. John D. O'Malley, Jr., '43, a son, John Daniel, III, July 13.

Mr. and Mrs. Donald J. O'Neill, '40, a son, Brian Francis, Sept. ~2.

Mr. and. Mrs. Charles V. Owens, Jr., '48, a daughter, Kathleen Elizabeth, Sept. 27.

Mr. and Mrs. Charles J. Patterson, '47, a daugh-ter, Ann Elizabeth, July 28. > -

' Mr. and Mrs. Anton Pojman, Jr., '49, a son,

Andrew Patrick, Sept. 28.

Mr. and Mrs. Joseph P. Rud, '46, a daughter, Mary Jo, Aug. 27.

Mr. and Mrs. Raymond J. Ruetz, '44, a. son, Oct. 12.

Mr. and Mrs. T. Gordon Salmon, '31, a daughter, Kathleen Marie, Oct. 3.

Mr· .and Mrs. Robert G. Sanford, '40, a son, Gerald Lee, Oct. 24.

Mr. and Mrs. George H. Schilling,' '48, a daugh-ter; Carol Marie, Aug. 19.

Mr. and Mrs. Robert W. Sesterhenn, '49, a son, Oct. 21.

Mr. and Mrs. Joseph J. Sherer, '43, ·a daugi1ter, Susan Mary, Sept. 14.

Mr. and Mrs. Walter C. Steffen, '40, a daughter, Ann Marie, Aug. 20.

Mr .. and Mrs. Willhm H. Strycker, '43, a son, Oct. 14.

Mr. and Mrs, Hugh R; Sullivan, Jr., '48, a son, Hugh Richard, III, July I.

Mr. and Mrs. John F. Sul:ivan, Jr., '33, a daugh-ter, Cornelia, their seventh child, Sept. 9.

Mr. and Mrs. Leonard F. Swoyer, '47, a son, Leonard F., Jr., Oct. 12.

Mr. and Mrs. Donald C. Tiedemann, '41, a daughter, Ann, Oct. 25.

Mr. and Mrs. ·Jesse N. Torres, '23, a son, Greg-ory Thomas, Sept. 29. .

Mr. and Mr~. Albert F. Van HuiTel, '41, a daugh-ter, Oct. 14.

Mr. and Mrs. Hawley E. Van Swall, '41, a daughter, Mary Ann, Sept. I.

Mr. and Mrs. James E. Wade, '33, a daughter, Maureen Ann, July 22.

Mr. and Mrs. James H. Walsh, '41, a daughter, Mary, Aug. 17.

Mr. and Mrs. John F. Werner, '32, a daughter, Margaret Ann, Feb .. II.·

Deaths Raymond J. Eichenlaub, '15, Columbus, 0.,

president of the Alumni Association in 1940-41 and one of the most widely known and popular of all

Notre Dame men, died of a heart attack in Co-lumbus on Nov. 9. He had also su!Tercd a se-vere heart attack h\'O years before and at that time was confined to a Columbus hospital.

Recognized 3s one of the nation's and No-tre Dame's outstanding football players of all time, "Eich". gained his greatest fame as the Notre Dame fullback in the first Notre Dame-Army game, played at West Point in 1913.

"Eich" There his crushing of the Army line, and the

threat of it, made possible the sensational forward passing attack staged by Rockne and Dorais.

Of "Eich," Arthur Daley wrote in the "New York Times" on Nov. 16: "And what a fullback he was! lie ,,·as good enough to be named on Walter Camp's second All-America team at a time when that patron saint of Yale football rarely bothered to look beyond the Big Three for candi-dates and practically never went digging down in the depths where N otrc Dame was then located. So he must have been twice the performer he even was credited with being." ·

A notable weight man on the track team for three years, "Eich" won three track monograms, as '''ell as four football monograms.

\Vhen his own playing days were over "Eich" continued in the football world, not only as an ardent Notre Dame fan, but also, until 1933, as an official in the Western Conference. His business was insurance and he operated his own insurallce agency in Columbus for 30 years.

Engaged in innumerable activities, and with his own splendid family. to care for, uEich" aln·ays found time to give innumerable hours out of his days to the service to Notre Dame. Always a lead-ing figure in his local Notre Dame club, he was its president· for many· years. One· of the deeper joys of his life was the Ohio St:.te-Notre Dame football series played in 1935 and 1936 and no man was happier than he when Notre Dame won both games, and particularly the ever-memorable game of 1935 in Columbus.

"Eich" is· survived by his ,,,.ife and five sons at 100 N. Stanwood Rd., Bexley, Columbus, 0. The youngest son, Rupert (named for the late Rupert ~fills, '15, "Eich's" Notre Dame roommate and close friend) is at present a sophomore at Notre Dame. The o:her sons arc Raymond J., Thomas A., and Albert J., who also were students at Notre Dame, and Richard E. ·

Rev. Eugene 1'. Burke, C.S.C., professor of reli-gion at Notre Dame, and a . longtime friend of "Eich,, was the official University representative at the funeral in Columbus.

Philip P. Paschel, of the class of 1889, San Fran-cisco, Calif., died on March 3, 1949, after an illness of two months. Word of his death reached the University only recently.

A native of Council ··mu!Ts, Ia., Mr. Paschel moved t Sa·n Francisco in 1900 and in 1910 be-

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r.amc assocbted with the real estate firm of Bald-win and !lowell, of which he became president in 1925. He was well known as one of the Bay Area's large tract developers and as an expert appraiser.

His survivors include his sister, Mrs. Hugh Gal-Ja.ghcr, as well as a number of nephews and nieces.

Dr. William J. Johnson, of the class of 1890, a Philadelphia dentist for more than 50 years, died on Aug. 3. He was graduated from the Baltimore Medical College after attending Notre Dame. Dr. Johnson is survived by his wife.

William T. Flynn, Chicago, student at Notre Dame in the 1890's, died on Sept. 22. He is sur• .vived by a niece and four nephews. Mr. Flynn was a well-known realtor and investment broker on the northwest side of Chicago.

Thomas l\1. Healy, Fort Dodge, Ia., attorney and brother of Rev. Kerndt M. Healy, C.S.C., '15, died suddenly on Sept. II, victim of a heart condition. Mr. Healy was a student at Notre Dame, in the "preps" and in the University, from 1912 until 1917. In July, 1918, at the time of World War I, he enlisted in the Army.

A lifelong resident of Fort Dodge, Mr. Healy was admitted to the bar there in 1921 and became as-iodated with his father in the practice of law. Since his father's death in 1929, he had practiced alone.

Surviving ~Ir. Healy in addition to Father Healy are four sisters.

John F. Gleason, of the class of 1920, Shaker Heights, 0., died of a heart attack on July 5. He is survived by his wife, two sons, his parents, two sisters and five brothers.

One of the best kno,,·n insurance men in the Cleveland 'area, l.Ir. Gleason was a trustee of the Insurance Board of CJe,·cland and a director of many corporations. lie was a fourth degree mem-ber of the Knights of Columbus.

Gyan C. Sharma, Pi1.D., '27, died early in 1945, according to· word recently received from the Tide Water Oil Co., Calcutta, India, where he was employed.

Linus C. Niemeyer, '29, Ottumwa, Ia., died sud-denly on Aug. 25 following a heart attack in !1is room in the l\layer Hotel, Peoria, Ill.

1fr. Niemeyer was president of Niemeyer Dros., wholesale distributors of paper products and manu-facturers of paper boxes. Surviving him are his wife; two sons and a daughter. and his mother.

Carl L. Sabo, '39, Los Angeles, died there on Sept. 12 after a short illness following an appen-dectomy. Surviving him are his parents, two sisters and a brother.

Born in New Jersey, he resided in South Bend until three years ago, \'trhen he moved to Los Angeles. ·

James William Bellis, Oradell, N. J., a gradu-ate student in the· University and a residen: in Vetville, died on· Oct. 12 of polio. · Receiving his A.B. from Wesleyan University, 1\Iid-dleto\\·n, Conn., and his master's from Emory Uni-versity, EmorY, Ga., ~Ir. Bellis was working on his· doctor's degree in chemistry· at Notre Dame at the time of his death. Surviving him are his wife and young son, as well as his parents and two brothers.·

The "Alumnus" extends sincere sympathy to Ray-mond ·J. Angsten, '29,,Philip J., '33, and Edward F., ex-34, on the death of their father; to Edwin A. Berkery, '27,: on the death of his mother; to James H. Brennan, ex-20, on the death of his mother; to Robert E. Brooks, ·Jr., '43, on the death of his father; to Louis C. Colleran, '47, on the death of his in£ant son; to James C. Curran, '34, on the death of his wife; to John W. Davis, '32, and DeLancy J ., '37, on the death of. their father; to Rev. William P. Emns, C.S.C., '41, on the death of his father; to Rev. Arthur J. Hope, C.S.C., '20, on the dea'h of his brother; to Earle C. Hurley, '24, and James D., '24, on the death of their mother; to Daniel C. Leary, '48, on the death of his father; to Rev. Thomas McAvoy, C.S.C., '25, and Rev. Bernard L., C.S.C., '29, -on the death of their aunt; to Varnum A. Parish, '08, on the death of his daughter; . to Rev. Joseph l\1. Rick, C.S.C., '24, on the death of his father; to Rev. Chester J. Schneider, C.S.C., '43, on the death of his mother;

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to Frank Walerko, ex-47, on the dea:h of his mother; to Rev. Jerome J. Wilson, C.S.C., '32, and Francis J ., '28, on the death of their mother; to Adam J. Wolf, e:

. Volume 27, No. 6, November-December, ·1949

1920 Leo B. Ward, 458 Spring St.,

Los Angeles 3, Calif. ·

Thirty-year Class Reunion the week-end following .Commencement, June 9, 10, and II, 1950.

·CLASS REUNION CHAIRMAN: Edward J. Mee-han, South Bend Tribune, South Bend, Ind.

"sECRETARY: Leo B. W.ard, 458 South Spring St., Los Angeles 13, Calif.

COMMITTEE MEMBERS: Rev. Arthur J. Hope, C.S.C., Rev. Francis P. Goodall, C.S.C., Vincent F. Fagan, Mishawaka, Ind., Michael Edward Doran, South Bend, Ind., William Francis Fox, Indianapolis, Ind., Harry A. Richwine, South Bend, Ind.

ReligioUs, please arrange with your superiors to get out this week-end. Married men, get pcrmi

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1924 Rev. Thomas A. Kelly, C.S.C.

Cavanaugh Hall, Notre Dame, Ind.

Again not much news of the class of '24, the re-spon::e· to appeals being meagre. First, however, the congratulations of the men of '24 go out to our cla.ssmatc, R. Conroy Scoggins, on his election as a member of the Supreme Board of the Knights of Columbus for a term of three years, starting Sept. I 1949. Conroy, as a director of the Alumni Asso-ciation, made a recent, albeit hurried, call on his Alma Mater the week of the N.D.-Tulane game, but had to rush off to Canada to a meeting of the Supreme Board of the K. of C.

Among other recent visitors to- the campus was T. Cliff Noonan. Your secretary had the pleasure of a surprise meeting on the stairway of Cav~naugh Hall with Cliff and Mrs. Noonan, and the shU fur-ther surprise that ClifT's son, Edward, resides in Cavanaugh. An~ther son, Tom, was also here; Tom is entering Maryknoll Seminary to prepare for the foreign missions. Cliff already has another son studying for the priesthood at Our Lady of the Lake Seminary, :\[undelein, Ill.

John N. Stanton, Gary, now chief deputy prose-cutor of Lake County, Indiana, has a son, John N ., a )Ophomore, also resident of Cavanaugh and an-other son, james F., a freshman in Zahm.

John Gotuaco, now in the Philippines, h~ a son enrolled as a freshman at N.D.· Did you see the son's pictur~ in the ALUMNUS before this one?

News of other '24 sons here or '24 daughters at St. Mary's will be welcome. Your secretary hopes, to complete the roster for the next issue. How about some help_?

Bob Rink on Oct. 26 last lost his ten-year-old son, Michael, who died of head injuries sustained i.n a fall off ·his bicycle. The youngster was on hiS way to school for afternoon classes, when he lost control of his bicycle and fell in the path of an oncoming truck. The truck driver swerved and avoided hitting the fallen boy. Bob has the heart-felt sympathy of all his classmates in his sad bereavement.

Four days after our Commencement in 1924, 'Valter R. Rader, son of the founder of the Buck-eye Clothing Store of Coshocton, 0., lost hi• father· Walt took over the management of the store, 'which is nO\V celebrating its fouttieth year of service to its community. The Buckeye Cloth-ing Store has long been a great figure in the civic and athletic life of Coshocton and th< congratula-tions of all his classmates go out to. Walt on his successful management of a gn•at enterprise.

Ben Ong's latest ~ddress is Paramount Motors Co., First Floor, 8 F Po Ai Road, Taipeh, Formo-sa, China.

Conroy Scoggins '"''as honored at a dinner in Houston, Texas, in recognition of his election as a supreme director of the Knights of Columbus. He is the immediate past state deputy of the Knights of Columbus, having retired from that office on June 30 after serving three terms.

Frank Kelly, of the Department of Speech at Notre Dame, spoke at the postgraduate college of the American Legion in Indianapolis in October on "Public Speaking."

In the September issue of "The Houston Chron-icle 1lagazine" there was a picture of Buck Hennes and an article entitled "He Remembers 'Rock'." Duck '"''as "the first official trainer" at Notre Dame and is now a professor of government in the Uni· versity of Houston.

1925 John P. Hurley, The Toledo Parlor

Furniture Co., Toledo, 0. ·

From John Hurley: Twenty-five years is a. long time, and the boys

will have a lot of territory to cover at next June's reunion. In case you missed the list in the last ALUMNUS there are ten fathers who have sons as first-year students at the University. Edward Abler-

ing, Herman Centlivre, James Chisholm, William Clemens August Fipp, Irvin-; Lammers, John Lightner: George Ludwig, Willhm Merriman and Armando Porta.

Bill Cerney will be a grandfather by June, and Elmer Layden is the father of a varsity player.

Jim Armstrong just received word that Bernie Livergood is in a hospital with a, serious heart at-tack. Remember Bernie and the rest of your class-mates in your prayers. This brings up a poi'!t that Jim and some of the boys I've talked to tins P.ast month thought was a good start for our reumon year.

Let every member of our class pin a dollar bill to a note about himself, his family, and any other information he may have on his fellow '25ers. These dollars will go into a fund for Masses for our de-ceased classmates, as well 'as the living ones. These Masses will start in November-as the '25crs in To-ledo have already started the bills rolling. If you don't have tiine for the note send the "green note" anyway. The Mass stipends, will go to the Bengal ~fission priests.

Don Miller our class president, sent this fine lei-ter: "I was delighted to hear from you regarding our class reunion ·next June. You may rest assured that I shall do everything in my power to plan a successful reunion. In my opinion we had the finest cla.s that ever graduated. I believe that the 1925 group accomplished more and bad more spirit than almost any other class.

" ••• I have two of our classmates, Frank Steel and Jack Kane on, my staff in the United States Attorney's Ollie~. • .• We have six children-five daughters and the youngest, a boy, who is entered in the class of 1961.

"As you Perhaps know, I worked along with T~m Clark in his juvenile delinquency program as cha1r·

man of the sports. writers and broadcasters group through the country for the past four years. I was also elected national secretary of the United States Attorneys' Association and in 1948 was elected presi-dent.

"I received a call from Joe Boiand and he in-formed me that the Four Horsemen will iii(;et in New. York on Oct. 24, and will be on the "We, the Peo- · pie" program on Oct. 25. Our week-end reunion for the '24 team will be at the Southern California game."

In Bill Cerney's letter accepting the chairmanship of the executive committee he said the list of thirty in South Bend \Vas certainly larger than he realized, and if all made the reunion, it will be 25 years since he will have seen many of them.

I recalled that there were half a dozen '25ers in Toledo and that I hadn't seen some of them in quite a while so I gave them all a call. This plan seems to be ~ "painless" way of getting news, and after the "dollar for Ma.ses" drive is over, I will call on someone in the big cities to contact the boys on the 'phone. ·

· Den Kesting's h,·o sons are finished at Notre Dame. Jim, his younger one, graduated in architectural engineering last June. Ben is with the Comte Con-struction Co. He saw Paul Hartman in Pittsburgh this summer. Paul has one son and a. daughter. He is still in his father's business, the Pittsburgh Empire Oil & Gas Products.

Paul Dooley couldn't talk on the 'phone an

Ray Tillman has a married daughter, Kathleen; then Barbara, Lawrence, Sherry and baby Judy. Ray is assistant secretary of the Unitcast Corp., here in Toledo. Reunion week will be a "red letter" one for Ray. If you remember, Ray "jumped the gun" on the rest of us so he is celebrating his 25th wedding anniversary on June 8, and then comes our r

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~£ Dill Defferari ( '22-'24) around Dec. 3-his 21-year-old son is a student at Southern Methodist. Bill writes that after he left N.D. he spent many years in the educational publishing field. Five years ago he went with Hiram Walker. (We should get him and Uncle John (Calvert's) Roach together-how many volunteer judge• can we get?) Bill is now located in Dallas "" the Walker Texas manager.

Many years ago Phil Donovan proved a friend in need when I got my signals mixed and failed to meet my gal (and still my gal) on her arrival for the Prom. So he comes through again in ans\\'er to my call. Phil writes from his country home at In-gomar, Pa. (and it's a lovely one, as I remember it) that he has returned to Recordah Corporation in Pittsburgh after four years in the Navy, most o£ which was in North Africa, England and on the Continent. But I'll bet he didn't serve in the "black gang," as he did on that summer cruisC to the Orient.

"Bert Dunne Productions" is the letterhead carry-ing a very complete story of the old reporter's life. Most o£ you remember Bert standing up to the plate ready to take his cut at that ball. But I re-mtmLcr Bert lor his reportorial duties. Get him to tell you the story of that Penn State trip. I still think they wouldn't have stopped the train up there in the Pennsylvania· hills. Bert was at N.D. in Oc-tober visiting his son, Patrick. He has four other children, two o£ whom should appear at N.D. in '56 and '63. Bert spent some years with Campbell-Ewald (advertising agency), then went into adver-tising and public relations work for three years and for the past five years has been producing motion pictures. Probably many o£ you have. seen some o£ his work or read some o£ his books. Bert reports . that he sees Ed Fallon and Jim Dwyer when he gets to New York and also sees Red Conroy in San Mateo. We'll be seeing you, Bert, in '51.

Father Isidore Fussnecker, O.S.B., who got his 1\!.A~ with: m, writes £rom Florence, Ala:, that he established Blessed Martin de Porres Church and has built a congregation for colored people in Florence. He sent a picture of his little church· and another of his converts. If any o£ you want to helo in his work, his address is 648 West College St., Flor-ence, Ala .•

Father William Green writes that he has been on the faculty o£ Loras College at Dubuque, Ia., since 1930.

Bernie Hurley of Ponca, Nebr., says he hears from Gerry McGinley in Ogallala, Nebr., once in a while. He must have a pretty fair law practice for he planned to •ce the Southern California, Southern Methodist and one other game this fall. He'll have a son ·r~ady for N.D. in about four years. His two daughters, ages six and one, will wait a few· years yet for their college education. And Bernie is an-other who says "will certainly plan to make the '51 reunion."

How Pete La Cava even found time to· answer my card is niore than I can figure. Listen to this: Member of St. Joseph Bar Association, justice o£ the peace in Mishawaka for 21· years, choir direc-tor, leader o£ family orchestra and quartette, pro-prietor of "Casa ~fari~" at Lake \V"awasec, Ind., which is an outgrowth of private catering in his home; and father o£ four daughters and one son. He reports seeing lrwing Hurwich, Art and George -Farage in South Bend and Gene Brown and Alex Sie,·ers in Elkhart.

Harold N eu reports from Des Moines that he has celebrated his 20th anniversary and that the munici-pal bond business-Ballard-Bassett Company-pro-duces the groceries for his family which includes " 12-ycar-old daughter and a nine-year-old son. He expects to see the Southern Cali£ornia game. What about the reunion, Harold?

Brother Stanislaus Rusilowski, C.S.C., wrote a nice letter telling o£ his teaching work. For 18 years he was stationed at Holy Trinity High School in Chicago. For the past three years he has been at St. Anthony's High School in Long Beach, Cali£.

Look back £or ~ second .at Pete LaCava's story. See that "justice Or. the ·peace." llere is one of his customers. Allen Travis reports that back in 1933 Pete put that "through the power invested in me by the State o£ Indiana I now pronounce you" stuff on him for il£e. As this is written, Allen is preparing to take the California Bar exam. He practiced for

years in South Bend, Mishawaka and East Chicago, until the Army beckoned in 1942. After his service, which included 15 months in New Guinea, he did what so many guys in the Army said they were . going to d-he settled in Cali£ornia (at 1334 14th Street, Santa Monica). Eddie Duggan and Harold N•u, please note address. ·Allen said he'd like to hear from you. He will try to be on hand in '51.

The members of the class for whom we have no current address arc: Norbin Arehart, J. Cullen Brown, Lester J.· Clarke, Dr. Fred R. Davis, Fran-cis l\1. Esch, Dwight L. Field, Harold J. Gallagher, Edward J. Gebben, Linsung Hahn, Joseph P. Ru-vey, John W. Keelin, Harold J. Kiley, Gerard D. Left, John B. Lenihan, William D. Minter, Rev. P. Herman Mossman, O.S.B., Leon J. Pallanck, John E. Probst, William. J. Regan, Emmett T. Rohwer, Manuel V. Sanchei, Joseph W. Tatham, Gerald L. Timmins, John H. W.agner, Maurice P. Welsh.

If anybody can give us a missing address, or even any clues as to how to get it, we'll be mighty grateful. Write to me or to Bill Dooley.

Well, fellows, there it is. I hope Bill Dooley loses his blue pencils and uses it all. Sorry I couldn't just send your letters on and say "Print in." For the rest of you who couldn't make the "deadline"__: forget the date and send in the dope. It will go in the next issue.

"Remember '26-Prcpare for '51."

Clem Crowe, former line coach of the Buffalo Bills, was named head coach.

Dan Kelly, South Bend, who has one o£ the largest collections of historical newspapers in the United States, had his papers on exhibit in the pub-lic schools in South Bend and Mishawaka from Oct. I to Oct. 8. Dan accompanied the display to the various schools and told about i:ems o£ out-standing interest.

Rudy Goepfrich, South Bend, has been appointed chief en'!ineer o£ the automotive brake department in the Bendix Aviation Corp. Rudy. has been with Bendix since 1927 and headed the new brake de-velopment section from 1935 to 1943, when he became assistant chief engineer.

"Man Around the House," published by Prentice-Hall, New York, is Norb Engels' latest book. More about it later, after the Pro!efssor lets me read a copy. For the present, all I can say about it is that it concerns the simple business o£ making-yoursel£, that is-Chippendale chests, hurricane lamps and other such pieces o£ this and that-WRD.

7927 Joseph l\1. Boland, Radio Station WSBT,

South Bend, Ind.

From Joe Boland: Somewhere the sun is shining •.. and somen·hcre

secretaries are safe .•• but, with Lou Buckley on • the prowl, these sections of the ALUMNUS have to come-through with readable material or we're likely to lose our franchise. So, brethren, check-in with the Sec. whenever possible-in person; by mail; dog-team; or carrier-pigeon. I'll accept anything but collect-wires!

Don Wilkins ••. now, a colonel in the Army Air Forces • . . showed·up on the campus for the Tulane-game week-end, in charge of the AAF head-quarters detail handling the ·ABC broadcast of the · ga.me, ,-.,-hich was aired in the interest of AAF re-cruiting. Don, air·and-chair-borne, not only likes his. assignment ••. but it evidently likes him, be-cause the job he's doing is a good one. .

Regis Lavelle did the right thing: whit~ in South Bend, he called me and left word that he was in town £rom his native Pittsburgh • . • even though we failed to get together (my fault) his name gets in l1ere.

Ralph R. De Leo, sales manager £or (hold your hats on this one, boys!) the Anne Alt Brassiere Co., Compton, Cali£., was a station-caller after the In-diana game-he was en route to New .York on busi-ness. Looks fine, feels better ••. said "hello" to everyone via this space.

Frank Pendergast's father died recently in Gales-burg, Ill., ••• according to Lou Buckley, who be-longs in the next room but who has just come in !or a visit with this item, and a fe\\· more to follow.

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Lou adds that Bill Coyne is with the legal division of the Atomic Energy Commission and living in Joliet, Ill. Buck spent an evening with Bill and Dr. Ed Mayer. The Coynes have one boy. .

Mike McDermott - who lives at 1895 Oakdell Drive, Menlo Park, Cali£., got far enough off home-base to see the \Vashington-Notre Dame game in Seattle and we held·up the corner o£ the Olymp•c Hotel there for hours while we batted-out flies about '27 and adjacent years. Mike is west-coast represen-tative £or Hill-Rom Furniture ••• and, naturally, had "business" in Seattle the week-end of Oct. I!

Mike passes on the word that Dave Hickey io living at Millbrae, Cali£., working for the Cali£ornia Power and Light Co. and that Ray Sulli,·an is a native now of 1t.lanhattan Beach, one of Los An·

. geles' many suburbs. Pat Heney and Byrle Grose-close \'t'ere somewhere in the throng at Seattle, both McDermott and Herb Jones agreed • • • because they had met, and talked: but I missed connections with both, sorry to say.

Ed De Clercq is now making his home once again in his native South Bend-after Chicago, Peoria, and war-time sojourns in the Army. Ed is planning to return to the wholesale-grocery field: his activity before the war. He's feeling swell ••• ready to roll once more, after a long siege o£ illness that followed his military service.

From the Alumni Office came word of the death in 1945 o£ Dr. Gyan Sharma, Ph.D., '27. Remember him in your prayers.

That's about "thirty" for now; but remember ... Buckley's looking over that fence, inspecting the growth o£ pasture here •.. so keep that stuff ·com-ing in for proper plant production!

Art Bmdley is recreation director at the Newark School, Newark, N. Y.

Elmer Marchino announced the opening o£ his law offices specializing in the law of taxation and related matters at 529 Circle Tower, Indianapolis 4. He lives at 125 East 51st St. ·James Griffin J,:.y, 302 N. Alpine Dr., Beverly

Hills, Cali£. writes the story for "Chip Grant" in the "Catholic Boy," published at Notre Dame. The Jays have three children: Bob, a Jesuit scolas-tic; Anne, a candidate for the Sisters o£ the Holy Cross, and Mike, aged 13.

Lyle Morency is with Knouse Foods at Peach Glenn, Pa.

Vic Lemmer, '26, writes that he took care of Tom "Red" Bearden and his St. Norbert football team while they stayed at an Ironwood, Mich., hotel for several .nights. They played and beat Northland College (54-0) at Ashland, Wis. Red and his players attended Mass in a body and received Holy Communion. Red had his usual top team.

7928 Louis F. Buckley,

4700 W. Adams St., Chicago 44, Ill.

From Lou Buckley:

I spent a very e~joyable evening with Father J.~~es GaHagan,. C.S.C., recently in Watertown, '' JS., where he. u pastor of St. Bernard's Church. It was like old times getting up early to be pres-ent at his Mas" I was unable to give him any recent information on Ed .McGauley. Ed, by the way, recently moved to 1058 Main St., Leicester, Mass. How about a report from you, Ed? Father GaHagan mentioned that Swede Schroeder has a son at St. Tl10mas College in St. Paul. The deceased members of the Class o£ 1928 are continuously re-membered by Fr. GaHagan, and especially during the month o£ November.

A business trip: to LaCrosse, Wis., gave me the opportunity to see Augie Grams and Joe Doyle. It seemed like only a few years ago when I saw a pic .... ture of Augie's four little daughters in "Life." When Augie informed me that on¢ o[ his daughters is now in her second year o£ college at St. Mary's, I realized that the "Life" picture appeared some 12 years ago. I was sorry to hear that Augie's father died very recently. · Augie has a feed mill in La-Crosse and a farm near the city. Although Augie is as ' modest as ever, I heard from a number ·of people in LaCrosse o£ the outstanding work he has done in religious, civic and Notre Dame fund and club affairs.

It was a pleaso.nt surprise to meet Joe Doyle o£

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Sparta, Wis., who was with us in Freshman hall, on the staff of the LaCrosse district office of the Wis-consin State Employment Service. Joe lives in Sparta and has three girls and two boys. Two of his daugh-ten are in nunes• training. Joe inquired about Vince Carney and about the Evansville gllng with whom he roomed in Freshman Hall.

I had an opportunity to talk to a number of the '28 men in Milwaukee recently. Art Sla\in, who is married and with the Soil Conservation Srrvice, mentioned that he saw Gus Jenkins recently in Mil-waukee. Since Gus seems to travel more than most of us, I think he should give us a report for the next issue. Let's hear from you, Gus. Paul Brust and his brother have an architectural firm in Mil-waukee. Paul has five· children. I enjoyed having the opportunity of spending some time with Frank Hold:.mpf who is doing structural engineering work in Milwaukee. Frank is married and has three chil-dren. He is quite active in K. of C. affairs and makes a number of trips throughout the country in K. of ·c. bowling tournaments. I was unable to reach Bill Brown, another Milwaukee '28er; however, I have seen Bill recently in Cleveland and Chicago at Catholic Economic Asociation meetings. Bill is in the legal department of Allis-Chalmers.

I met Jack Lavelle at the Chicago airport not long ago. He had been in this area attendin~ some games. Jack tells me he has lost weight, which was not evident to me since I had not seen him in some time. He promised to send me some news soon. I understand from the N. Y. fellows that in addition to his C.Y.O. work in N. Y., Jack is kept busy as an after-dinner speaker and as a scout at games throughout the country.

A recent trip to New York did not allow time to see many of the fellows there. However, I did have an opportunity to see Bernie Garber and Steve Sherry. They are working together with the Corbin Co., 33 W. 60th St., N.Y. 23, in fund raising activ-ities for Catholic organizations. Bernie mentioned that Dan Verrilli, who is in business in Morris-town, N. J ., stopped in to see him a short time ago. Steve Sherry, like Bernie, retains the youthful ap-pearance o£ campus days. Steve was in service dur ..

·ing the war and had taught in California prior to that time. I discussed plans for our 25-year reunion in 1953 with Bernie. I am hoping he will take over the job of promoting that reunion as he did so well in 1948.

Bill Murphy called me . recently to let me know that Bill Cronin had been in Chicago to attend the funeral of his father-in-law while I was out of town. Rill Cronin previously had been at Notre Dame where his son, Vaughn, began this year as a fresh-man. Bill Murphy is in sales work for a chemical concern in Chicago. He is still sin~le. Bill reports that Bill Armin is in public accounting work in Chi-cago.

Bill Jones and his wife and daughter stopped in Chicago on their way from California to_ Washing-ton, Bill reported that my old Freshman Hall room-mate, Joe Brannon, is now with Sears Roebuck Co. in Los Angeles, Cali£. The address of Joe's store is 4550 W. Pico Blvd. Joe is married and has. a family. He was in the Navy cluing the war.

I met Vince Ducey's brother in Chicago who told me that Vince is with the California State Employ-· ment Service in Sacramento, Calif. His address is 1421 • 16th St. there. Vince was in service during the war. It was good·to-get..a.~eport on Vince and I understand he is. still. single.· : '

The. other day I met Frank Meyer in the loop. Frank lives in Hammond, is married and has three daughters. I see Father Mark Fitzgerald, C.S.C., quite often, as he comes into Chicago to do re· search work on his Ph.D. thesis. He has completed his class work at Chicago University on his Ph.D. I met Ed Keenan at the Labor Day Mass at Holy Name Cathedral in Chicago. I understand that Joe Doran of Lafayette is now in Atlanta, Ga., with Sears Roebuck & Co.

Leo Walsh ·wrote from Grand Rapids, Mich., where he is a member of. the law firm of Carmody, Geib, Walsh & Block. Leo married his St. Mary's girl friend of campus days, Mildred Ronan. They have three children, two boys and a girl. Leo has attended the annual Notre Dame Retreat for the P""t 12 years and has seen Henry Hasley and Spike McAdams at the retreats. By the way, Spike is very much in the news in Chicago these days as at· torriey for Preston Tucker in the case before the

U. S. District Court here. Spike was a most suc-cessful campaign manager a year ago for Senator Paul Douglas.

Joe Horan reports from Fort Wayne where he is with the General Electric Co. Joe is married and has a 16-year-old son. Joe mentioned that he sees. Fronk McCarthy, who still looks fit enough to play on anybody's team, and Frank Metrailer, '29, who is with General Electric.

Father Andy Mulreany writes with his usual en· thusiasm over his parish work at St. Mary's Church, 209 E. Tenth St., Austin, Texas. Father Andy feels like a real Texan, as he starts on his sixth year there. He visited his brother, AI, in Laurence tillS summer. AI is active in Notre Dame Foundation work there. Father Andy mentioned that he called Frank Creadon between trains in Chicago and that he heard from Fred 'Vagner of Tiffin, 0. Andy re· ports that Brother Patrick, C.S.C., is on the staff at St. Edward's University. Keep up the good work, FathCr, and please continue to remember us in your prayers.

Vince Stace came through with a newsy letter from Dearborn, 1\lich. Vin is still with the Detroit Edison Co. as assistant purchasing agent. He spends a good share of his time placing their major con-struction projects. He sees Joe Simonin quite often in their construction engineering department and Art Scheberle who has rejoined that same depart· ment after being away for quite a few years. Vince was in the Air Force fighting the Battle of the Pentagon during the war years. He observed that his civil engineering gang will get a laugh to hear that l1is primary classification was finally listed as an "Electronics Officer." He was chief of the Guided Missiles Branch of the Research Development and Production Division of the Army Air Force.

Another Michiganer from whom I have not had a report for some time, Dr. Guy L. Loranger, wrote from 250 Rayson St., Northville, Mich. I was sorry to hear that Guy has been quite ill during recent years, which accounts for his inability to attend the 20-year reunion. He was in New Guinea. and the Philippines two years serving with the Fifth Field Hospital. Guy was married in 1935 and has six children, five girls and a boy.

I assigned Joe Morrissey the job of roving '28 re• porter for the football games. Joe saw the following at the .Indiana game, in addition to regulars Pat Canny and John Frederick: Bob Graham, George Coury, and Bert Korzen. Joe's coverage of the Pur-due, game included Frank Donovan, Vince 'Valsh, Bob Mohlman, Francis Meyer, Pat Canny and John

. Wallace. Joe noted that the little man from Indian-apolis, Bob Kirby, was conspicuous by his absence. How about that, Bob?

Joe's report also mentioned that he talked to l\.1arion Heffernan recently in Louisville. Marion is at the First National Bank there and is still single.

Fred Pfortner is with the Indianapolis Power and Light Co. in Indianapolis.

Former Congressman Bob Grant has joined the public relations firm of Grant, Ploeser, Dixon and Murphy with offices at 111 West Washington St., Chicago. Bob will remain in South Bend where he is also a member of the law firm of Voor, Jackson, Grant and McMichael.

Dr. Frank Ford is a resident surgeon at Cook County Hospital, Chicago.

Jim Shocknessy, Columbus, 0., was named chair-man~ of the Ohio Turnpike Commission by Governor Lausche. The Commission is organized to determine the location of th estate's first super toll road.

F. X. James O'Brien is ·a securities specialist for the government and is located in Tokyo, Japan. His address is ESS/AC-GHQ, SCAP-APO No. 500, San Francisco, Calif.

George Coury visited the campus on Oct. 8 and delivered lectures to two sections of Father Mc-Donagh's labor-management class in the Department of Economics. On Nov. 5 he delivered another lec-ture to the finance majors in the College of Com-merce.

The body of Capt. Tom R~ckelshaus, Indianapolis, Army Air Force officer who was killed in a plane crash in a mountainous area of India on a war ... time flight, has been returned to Indiana. 'Memorial and burial services were held at the United States National Cemetery, New Albany, Ind.

The Purple Heart awarded to a Marine Corps hero, Lt. Col. Joseph P. McCaffrey, who was killed lead-

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ing a Raider Battalion on Bougainville in 1943, \vas presented to his nine-year-old nephew and name-sake Joseph Patrick McCaffrey, son of the late Lt. 'eot. Hugh McC31Trey, who was also killed in the war. The ceremony was held on board the de-stroyer U.S.S. McCaffrey at Pier 26, Hudson River, New York City.

7929' Don J. Plunkett, Biology Department,

Notre Dame, Ind.

From Don Plunkett:

Here are some letters and news bits of interest to 1929.

Rev. Theo. J. Mehling, C.S.C., president of Port• land University, writes: "I have just been reappoint· cd for a second three-year term as president •. Before being made president in 1946, ·I was dean of ·studies for eight years. The following members of the class of 1929 arc on the faculty at Portland University: Rev. Regis H. Riter is head· of the Philosophy De~ partment. Rev. Cornelius Hooyboer is a member o£ the English Department. Rev. George L. Dum is teaching philosophy and is active in the School of Music. He also has charge of a very fine cultural series o£ lectures and concerts. Rev. John A. Molter is head of the Department o£ Biology. Rev. William Coughlan is head of the Department of Mathematics. Rev. John W. Scheberle ,is head of the Department of English." · ~ ·

Doc Dough~rty writes: "My wife and I dropped in on James 'Red' Curry and family at Broad Lawn Harbor, Kings Point, Long Island, early in August. Red as you know is doing nicely in the real estate business. Red sees Jim O'Connor, Bill Cronin (N. Y.), and Jerry Crowley occasionally. :

"We also visited with Tom Mahaffey and family. Tom is the father of three and is in business in N. Y. and lives at Scarsdale, N. Y. He sees John H. Flanagan, attorney of Newburgh, N. Y. Tom would like to hear from John Dorgan and Ralph Zimmerman.

"Saw Jo~ Timlin who is in advertising and li~es in Scarsdale. Lou Bestin (Louisville) is now wou· ing for Revere Copper and Brass and living in Manaroneck, N. Y. John Polisky, John Niemiec and Paul O'Brien make the Ohio Valley Notre Dame Club meetings regularly. Bill Yaeger, brother of Lou and Jack, is president of the club. Francis 'Vallace, alumni president, also attends· these gath-erings.

"I missed. Charley E. McDermott at the reunion in the group of steel plant metallurgists and oper-ators including Walt Mu!Our, Bill Johnson, Clyde Atchinson and myself. I would like to know the whereabouts of Phil Tompkins ·and John Patrick O'Conner.''

Tony Kopecky (Lawndale National Bank, Chicago) writes: "My Corby Hall bunk-mate, Irv Corcoran, even though not present at the Oliver Hotel party when we needed a piano player, is still the big noise at the Acme Furnace . in Chicago. · Air condi-tioning needs in July kept him from attending the reunion.

"Bill Dowdall invited me to see Niagara Falls on my 'second honeymoon,' so I may take him up on this in the near future. Saw Fred How at the I.A.C.

~ here in Chicago some time ago. Fred can be reached at 4911 West Washington Blvd. I would like to hear from Bill Donelan of Colorado Springs." (Bill is with the Manufacturer's Services Co. and has a son enrolled at Notre Dame.)

·saw Larry Stauder on tlie campus recently. He is using some special laboratory equipment developed by Elmo Moyer, E.E. '29, who for the past year has been doing research , and teaching at R.P.I. · Larry has been counselor for the active Notre Dame branch of A.I.E.E. Recently Larry was elected to office in the Catholic Forum, South Bend. Francis Jones is a charter memtier and past governor of the Forum. He or Larry would be glad to acquaint-interested readers of the ALUMNUS with this Cath-olic activity.

We regret to inform you o£ the death o£ Linw. C. Niemeyer, '29, who died Aug. 25. He is sur~ vived by Mrs. Linus C. Niemeyer who lives at 222 S. Market St.,· Ottumwa, Ia. The class of 1929 ex• tends our sincerest sympathies to Mrs. Niemeyer and had a month's mind celebrated on Linus' ·anniver• sary,

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Mickey Mci.lahon writes: "I was extremely pleased that so many of-our class could attend the reunion and I only hope that even more will be ahle to br' back five years from now, The picture I have in-cluding' Walt MulOur, Larry Moore, Bob McVety, Father Otie Winchester, Don Schettig, John Cush-man, Hank Bums and Doc Dougherty, while not a photographer's dream, is one I hope can be used as a pattern for taking a duplicate of this group at our 25th. reunion."

Rev. Bernard McAvoy, C.S.C., writes that he cele-brated the reunion Masses for deceased members of our class during the early part of August.

Congratulations to Mr. and Mrs. Paul A. Bertsch· on the arrival of a son, Robert Louis, born July 29.

Twenty-five Masses have been celebrated by priests of our class for deceased members of 1929. If you wish to increase this number let me know.

MIDSEMESTER REPORTS The Prof would like to have the following men

turn in their written duties this week-the midsemes-trr pink slips will soon be out: Pat Greene, Dill Dowdall, Roy Shulze, Art Morley, William S. O'Connor, Elmo Moyer, Ed Garrity, Rolly Schlager, Joe Fitzgerald, Tom Jorden and Frank Betting.

WHAT ARE THE '29ERS DOING? John C. Murray-is president of the Murray and

Co. Inc. (Management & Research Consultants) and is located at 7027 Merrill· Ave., Chicago. He sends his best wishes to his '29 classmates and plans to be present at the 25th reunion,

John W. Withey-is with. the U. S. Veterans Ad-ministration in Grand Rapids. He was unable to get to our reunion. 'He can be reached at 35 Home St., S. E.

Maurice Feldman-writes as a civil and architec-tural design engineer (U. S. Engineers) from Louis-ville, Ky. Mail will reach him at.322 W. Broadway, where his two sons, Tony, 6, and Nick, 3, rule the

·household.

William ·T. Byrne-sends "Hello to All.'' He has been with the San Francisco School Department since 1930. Dill's duties include coaching, teaching physical education and hygiene and director of_ in-tramural activities. He plans to attend the 25th reunion. The Byrne's have two children· and live at 875 - 34th Ave., San Francisco.

J, Thad Heinlein-is manager of the Austin & Son Lumber Co. in Erie, Pa. The Heinleins have two children and live at 44 W. 28th St.

John J, Donahue-lives at 535 S. 49th St., Phila-delphia. He is with the Bureau of Reclamation, U. S. Dept .. of the Interior, and has been electrical inspector at Grand Coulee Dam, Davis Dam and Hoover Dam. · ·

Joseph T. Barnett-is in the.· insurance business in Ogdensbu-rg, N.Y. The Darnetts have. two children.-Caesare S. Janeskeski-is chief adult probation officer of South Bend ·and can be reached at the Court House.

Rev. James F. Mulcaire-is pastor at St. John's, Hanover, III. '

Edward G. Darch-is assistant of the Social Secur-ity, Administration in Akron, 0.

Daniel J. MeN ~ly, attorney for the Milwaukee Association of Commerce, · resides at 611 N, Broad-way.

Anthony J, De Dario-is an attorney in Elkhart, Ind. He has two children and is very active· in the K. C.'s and alumni. work. ·

Paul D. Holahan-rate engineer on special prob-lems for the Ohio Dell Telephone, Cleveland. The Holahans are proud of their tackle prosper! son, Daniel J.

Bernie Hugger-is manager for the Amerir.an Air-lines at Cincinnati. He is located at Lunken Air-port.·

Rocco D. Perone-is division training supervisor for the AT&T and can be reached at 1538 Union Commerce Bldg., Cleveland, The Perones have three children,

Paul H. Drokhage-is secretary and treasurer of the Blackford Glass Co. of Vincennes and can be reached at 537 Willow St.

Helmer E. Heuer-is assistant pro at the Johnson Park golf course in Racine, Wis.

John K. Rowland-is executive director of the St. Louis Regional Inter-American Center at 419 Olive Street.

William G. Fitzpatrick-is an attorney in Detroit and has offices at 2437 National ~ank Bldg.

John T. P. Burke-is teaching at Clinton High School (Mass.) and lives at 297 Chestnut St. The Burkes are the proud parents of four children.

John D. Harrington-is a partner in George S. Olive & Co. (certified public accountants) of Indian-apolis. John writes that- he was unable to attend the reunion because of conflicting engagements but is planning on the 25th reunion. The Harringtons have two children and live at 4104 Ruckle St.

Leon ,V, Archer-spends his time real estating in Denver.

Rev. Norbert C. HolT-former president of Carroll College, Helena, Mont., under Bishop Fin-nigan (former vice-president of N.D.) is a pastor in Butte, Mont. Father HolT delivered the '29 bacca-laureate sermon.

James C. Roy-is a law partner with Poland & Doirs at 75 Federal St., Boston.

Don P. Alexander-sends his greetings from Colo-rado Springs, Colo.

Cyril A. Jones-is supervisor for the Pennsylvania. Department of Public assistance in Reading. Mail will reach him at 919 .N. Front St. Jim Brady-is general manager of station KIFI, Idaho Falls, Idaho. The Bra.dys have four cltildren, all interested in radio and television.

Theodore A. Witz-is secretary of the old Pueblo Savings and Loan Association in Tucson, Ariz. Jim Keating-of South Bend is assistant U. S. district at-torney and has offices at 332 Federal Bldg.

Joseph Keefe-of 1616 Elm Road, Lakeland, Fla., is manager of the Dundee Citrus Growers Assocta-tion. The Keefes have five children and Joe is active in Rotary, Holy Name, and alumni work.

Joe Angelina-is a life insurance undenvriter and in the real estate business in Buffalo, N. Y. You can find Joe at 578 West Ave. Paul A. Drysslbout-architect, Bay City, Mich., is a member of the board of directors of the Michigan Society of Architects. His office is at 1003 Washington Ave.

Jim Digan-is president of the Logansport Foun-dry Industries, Inc., and president of the Digan Sales Corp. at 2100 Erleave Ave., Logansport.

Francis J. Haverlick-is an airline pilot and can be ; reached cfo Pan American Grace Airways, Lima,

Peru, South America.

Clet Schneider-is secretary of the Schneider Transportation Co. at 800 Marshall Bldg., Lake-wood, 0. The Schneiders have four children and Clet is active in the propeller club of the U.S. and the N.D. club of Cleveland.

Frank Smola-is educational director of the N a-tiona! Dairy Council at Ill N. Canal St., Chica.go. Dill Wilbur-is division engineer for the C.&N.W. Railway in Green Bay, Wis.

Leo Rees-is sales engineer for the Durotest Corp. of North Bergen, N. J. The Reeses have three children and live at 312 N. George St., Rome, N.-Y. Ed Krick-is- manager of the H. L. Green Stores in St. Paul, Minn. The Kricks have four children: Stuart, Edward Jr., Antoinette and Carolyn. Ed is on the board of directors, Twin Cities N. D. Club.

An ultra-modern $12,500,000 expansion program has recently been completed by the Miller Brewing Co., Milwaukee, Wis., und.r the direction of Fred Miller, president. The dedication was celebrated in the presence of state. and city notables, as .well as representatives from other Milwaukee breweries.

Hugh McManigal, Miami, Fla., was here over the Tulane weekend. Hugh has two daughters, both

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married, and is the proud grandfather of one grand-child, with another grandchild due momentarily,

Paul Bartholomew and Fred Daer, '33, took part in a panel discussion sponsored by the St. Joseph County League of Women Voters, South Bend, at its first general meeting of the season. Paul's topic was "Tools of Town Government" and Fred discus-sed Iodil forms of government. Paul teaches politi-cal science at Notre Dame and Fred is city attorney in South Bend. Murr~y Gbsgow, president of the Glasgow Brew-

ing Co:, Inc., Norfolk, Va., recently entertained about 80 members of the crew of HMS Glasgow in the tap room of the brewery-it was "Glasgow Day" in Glasgow.

1930 Harold E. Duke, 4030 N. Broad St.,

Philadelphia, Pa.

Mrs. Louis Hasley was honored at a meet-the-author party in the Aquinas Library and Book Shop in South Bend. Her new book; "Reproachfully Yours," has just come oiT the presses and is the first collection of her articles to appear in book form. It is published by Sheed & Ward.

Dan Cannon reports both by letter and by word of mouth (he and the managing editor had two quick conferences in New York on Nov. II and 12) that plans for the 1930 reunion next June are pro-gressing admirably. Dan expects, as this is written, to be up for the Southern Cal game on Nov. 26 and will at that time get together with Devere Plunkett, local class chairman, and the Alumni Office staiT to do more planning. The heavy firing on arrange-ments and mailings will of course start after the first of the year.

But remember now-the dates are June 9, 10 and II. Round up your best pals and be sure they'll be here with you for that weekend:

Walt Langford, head of the Department of Mod-ern Languages at the University, was guest speaker at a Knights of Columbus Communion Breakfast in Connersville, Ind. · -

Fred Schoppman was elected president of St. Mary's alumni at the annual picnic of the organiza-tion in Fort 'Vayne, Ind. (Ed.'s note: We're not referring to St. Mary's College, Notre Dame.)

Ed Conroy, San Antonio, Texas, is executive vice-president of the Planning Board of San Antonio, Texas, and Bexar County and as director of the Bureau of Governmental Research, which is an ac-tivity supported by the Planning Board to conduct research in problems of local government. ·

1931 Walter F. Philipp, 4 Pickwick Lane,

Newton Square, Pa.

Rev. Thomas J- Culhane, C.S.C., pastor of St. Helen's Church, Georgetown, Texas, has been unan-imously chosen a director of the newly formed Georgetown Community Welfare Association. Pur-pose of the association is to co-ordinate all relief organizations in the city so that there will be no duplication of charity. Father Culhane was also selected as a director of the newly formed 'Vil-liamson County Tuberculosis Society.

The "Chicago Tribune" carried a picture with the caption, "Sons get football tips from famous dads.'' Bert Metzger and Hank Bruder, former

·., .• Northwestern.back~.,vere gh·ing Jlert, Jx:.,_ and Hank, Jr.; some valuable -tips.· · ·

1932 James K. Collins, 17 Triangle Ave.,

D~yton 9, 0.

rrom Jim Collins: Dill Waltz reports from behind· the Cashier's desk

of the Ohio-Merchants Trust Co. of Massillon in a manner that touched me deeply. He wrote:

"My heart went out to you and the '32ers when I read your terrific 'four-line' account of the old men in our class in the Sept.-Oct. issue of the ALUM-NUS. The obituary did not show it, but I guess that old:writing spirit has died. Otherwise they are all alive and kicking.

"You have probably heard that the N.D. Glee Club (of happy memory) gave a splendid perform-ance in Canton under the auspices of the Canton

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Club during Holy Week last April. One of our own Massillon boys, Dick Blaumeiser, performed as soloist. The concert was well received but next time we hope to have the choice of a betier date.

"My job at the bank is still taking the majority of my time what with auditing, comptrolling and purchasing. Next ,,·cck I hope to renew acquaint-ances with several '32 fellows as I am flying to Philadelphia to the national convention of the bank auditors and comptrollers. I am also president of the Holy Name Society her~ and recently organized a Catholic Action· committee."

Bart O'Hara brougiJt me up to date on his activ-itios with a fine letter. After taking his law degree at Catholic University, he returned to Denver and has been practising law there since. He was public administrator for several years, until 1943, when he became assistant U. S. district attorney. In 1947 he resigned that to concentrate on private practice.

Bart is married and has five little red-heads, three boys-Bartley, Daniel and Thomas, and two girls-Halley and Kcarin.

He writes that John Humphries is with Travelers Insurance, married and has four lovely children, one boy and three girls. Bart and John see each other almost daily. Bart further wrote,

"Tex Simmons, who still lives in Dallas, gets up to Denver during the summer. 'Ve always have a splendid visit. Tex is married and at the last ses-sion had four children. His wife is a very charming Texa• girl and we always enjoy the visit.

"Phil Dunleavy was stationed here during the war and when it was over he set up a law office in Al-buquerque,_ New Mex. He is now deputy attorney general of New Mexico with offices in Santa Fe. He is married and had two children at the last reading.

"DiU Vaughn lives in Denver now, married a Denver girl, and has four children. He has a uni-form business for nurses, chefs, etc., and I sec him at the N.D. club meetings regularly.

"I am going to the S.~f.U. game in Dallas and will see Tex, and I hope many others, there. I lmve not been able to get to any of the reunions but I hope to get to the next one." Bart's home address is 2065 Fairfax St., Dem·er 7, Colo.

Licut Bob Lee is the legal officer on the staff of the Chief of Naval Air Training, and is living at 210 Payne Road, Warrington, Fla. He wrote in ~art,

"I hit my 40th birthday ! .. t month, and it is hard to believe that all of us are getting to be old timers. Our twin daughters are 13 now and in the eighth grade.

'4Things are going along pretty well for me in

the Navy, and the work is very interesting. I ex-pect to get a promotion soon which will be quite welcome. I travel around some on the job, getting to Washington, Chicago, Memphis .. and Corpus Christi regularly.

"I helped entertain the NROTC boy' from N.D. \\hen they were here this summer, and· we also took in the N.D. Band concert when the boys were here around Easter. Outside of that, I've had very little contact with N.D. people-and, as you can imagine, I read every word in the ALUMNUS for news.

"When I last saw my brother Maury in June, he and his fine family were in good health, and things were going fine for him in the law business.

"Sorry I have not mol-e news for you but I just found out that I am the only N.D. alumnus in northwest Florida. You might print that and maybe someone will pop uP around here to prove it is not true."

Ernie Hechinger, from his office with the Central Architectural Iron Works, 4227 N. Knox Ave., Chicago, gives a fine report as follows:

"Frankly, news regarding fellon·s in our class is about as scarce as corn picker orders. For your information, I am purchasing agent of the above concern and also the Farm-Rite Implement Co. of Chicago, and \\o"C are in the farm implement busineSs. Only I regret to advise that business at this writing is very, very slow.

"I recently had a phone call from Barney Bern-hardt. He reports everything is fine and dandy in Sturgeon Bay, and is looking for four tickets to the Northwestern-,Visconsin game. No doubt, I'll see him over that week-end.

"I might also report that Bud Dyniewicz is going great guns with the Deep Rock Oil Co. and has recently been appointed their general advertising manager. I am also in correspondence with Denny Salvaty and Dick Roney, both of whom report busi-ness conditions very favorable, and I might abo add that each has recently announced the arrival of' his fourth child."

Thank you, gentlemen, for those fine letters. May-be the idea will finally ca.tch on and I shall hear from someone else bcfo~e another issue goes to press.

Congratulations to Bill Hall-he is the first mcm-b~r of the class to have a son enter the University as a student, according to all the information I have.

Col. C. D. Jones has been transferred to Head-quarters, Sheppard Air Force Base, Wichita Falls, Texas.

The Alumni Office is w.ithout the present address o! several members of the class, and this information is desired. Anyone knowing the address o( any of the following is asked to send it to the Alumni Of-lice. They are, Louie Brennan, Bob Briggs, Jim Carmody, William Cronk, George Cullinan, Frank Emerick, Tom Finnegan, Larry Fischer, Bill Fitz-gerald, Tom Gately, Bob Gerharz, Bill Glass (Law), Bob Hartman, Arthur Hoctel (Law), Gerry Hodges, Morris Hull, Marty Kennedy, Jim Koons, John La-Uame, Bill Langenbahn, Don McManus, Frank Maas, Myles Mullen, Maurice Neville, Louis Orgera (MA), Mike Papas, Tom Rossie, John Rush, Bill Ryan, Richert Schneider, George Seelinger, ·Rabbi Maurice Stiskin, Dorotea Sumabat (MA), Jim Wil-liams, Willie Willigan, and Aziz El-Araj. Mail has been returned unclaimed from each of the above.

Frank O'Malley, of the department of English in the University was one of the principal speakers at a luncheon discussion meeting of the Chicago Institute for Religious and Social Studies.

His Holiness Pope Pius XII conferred .ihe papal honor of domestic prelate on Rt. Rev. Msgr. Loras T. Lane, according to an announcement by the Most Rev. Henry P. Rohlman, archbishop of Du-buque, Ia. Monsignor Lane is vice-chancellor and defender of the matrimonial bond ··in the arch-diocese.

1933 Joseph D. A. McCabe,

Rosary College, River Forest, Ill.

From Joe McCabe: Dear '33s: Never saw such a group of bashful guys!

Look, if you're too modest to write me about your· •elf, send a few words about the other ND's you !mow. (Then they may write about you, and we can fill this column with names instead of my type-writer's aimless prose.) I do liave a few names this time for a change-not all '33s, of course, but in that neighborhood. The postcard program fell down, hut I met a few people and heard about a few more. Here's hoping the next column will do better.

Introit: Thought I'd put the spiritual ahead of the factual this time-more as a reminder to myself than anyone else. November is the Poor Souls' month, and if you have the same trouble I used to have in remembering whose poor soul to remember, maybe you'd like to have a simple solution to the problem: offer all your .Prayers and intentions to our Blessed Mother and let her do the remembering. There's no one that can do it better! If you get· yawned off at all these plugs for the poor souls, and wonder why the aitch they can't take r.are of themselves, I've re-phrased a well· known· traffic safe-ty slogan to read like this: "Pray carefully-the soul you save may be your own." Not good, but maybe true.

HEARSAYi Here's the result of a few chance meetings and conversations: Fr.ank (Francis X.) Fal-lon has moved into a nice spot-litigation chief for one of the nation's big corporations . . . Gc.-neral Electric, I think. Spike McAdams and Bill Kirby are getting ne\\'Spaper space out here in Chicago as representatives of Preston Tucker, the no-auto mag .. nate.

Doing a swell job, too. This is no plug for the nation's biggest· former nickcl·a-copy magazine, but they did have a swell profile on Marchie Schwartz -a NDcr makes tradition at Stanford. Good luck, 1\farchie-hope you beat 'em all, except the home

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team of course. Speaking of Schwartz brings to mind Nordic Hoffman-who at last reports is still! in Washington, representing the CIO. Talked with Tom (Kitty) Gorman shortly after the Tulane boffo. Kitty says he never saw any team anywhere explode the way this year's club did in the first quarter a1.tainst the· Suthners, sah. lle expressed his regrets, i.; which we joined, that it had to happen to Andy Pilney. But we were both consoled by the thought that it could have been worse-Andy could have been head coach!

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and is it true that Ed Rhatigan is now managing a large convalescents' ·home in New York? Heard something· like that about Ed-and that it was a good spot. Heard also that John Maguire, of some years behind us,. is glad to be back in Aurora, Ill., after spending some time in Lake Geneva . . . the country life is· not for him, and he found business a little off up there. Pete Trolio is an architect, and Frank Prichacek. is with Universal Wine & Liquor Co. 'Ed Ryan is with the insurance plan division of General Motors. 'N that's all· for now, folks!

One last ave before the vale •.• hope youse guys who started saying the Rosary daily during October will keep it up November, December, and always. It's like taking vitamins ••• it doesn't take long, doesn't taste bad, and there's a lot of unseen good gained by it!

Theodore Buczynski, · Chicago, is a substitute teacher in the Chicago public high schools, and is preparing to take the teacher examination in Polish for the same schools. Ted received his M.A. in Polish from DePaul University -and an M.A. from the University of Chicago.

Ed Sargus, Bellaire, 0., is now attending law school at Notre Dame and resides in South Bend

, with his wife a-nd two-year-old child. They reside at 325 Lincoln \~ay West.

John McNamara, director of personnel and pub-lications for the. school city in South Bend, gave the first in a series of talks before the local Catholic Forum. His subject was ':The Catholic Teacher in the Public School." The talks will stress the role of Catholics in different professions. Larry Stauder, '29, secretary of the Forum has announced that "The Catholic Home -and the Delinquent Child" will be discussed by a panel of Tom Tear-ney, '42; AI Doyle, '27; Anthony Kuharich, '35, and Dr. Sherman Egan. Aaron Huguen3rd, '22, will discuss "The Catholic in the Legal Profession" and Rev. Michaal Mathis, C.S.C., will end the series with a sum~ary of the obligations and opportunities of the Catholic professional man.

1934 Edward F. Mansfield, 6575 Glenwood,

Chicago 26, Ill.

From Ed Mansfield:

"Mr. SRO of '49," Bob. Cahill, knee-deep in thanks and threats this snake-pit period at the football ticket office, won't like to hear this, but it does appear that we'll have to bugle for another· reunion at once. That's the only way vie can brin~ in another stack of news notes from men of '34. '. Chairman Cahill, can you hear us behind that pile of mail?

Business at the mailbox has been bad since the last time page forms were locked gently around your obedient servant's prose. We are particularly anxious to hear from that part of .the roster absent

·from_ the reunion and the mailbag.

Through such divers devices as the Indiana and Tulane games, a convention .encounter, phone .calls, a trip to Louisville, and. a pair· of news letters, the following words have been lined up for you this · month:

The two games brought not one encounter with a man of '34. Maybe Iowa and USC will bring 'em out. Ed· Stephan, '33, "Scholastic" editor of our time, was about the only first cousin of '34 to whom we gave the Father Farley salute.

A Louisville trip did allow ·a pleasant chaLwith Carl Zimmerer, a journalism graduate actually still doing business as such on 3-to-midnight hours. Carl is~a ten·year veteran at the esteemed "Courier Journal," now resplendent in a plant that must be the finest in the land. He has a transferred South Bend wife and a two-year-old son, and reports that brothers Mark and Leo of earlier Classes are with Kingston Products in Kokomo. Carl reported a minimum of· activity with the fine N. D.· Club of Kentucky because of his night hours, but he had--good words for their good works-particularly their trips to N. D. games for Louisville orphans. :

Phone calls failed to reach Bill Veenemait, former golf team member now heading the George Gould wholesale- drug firm in Louisville. Bill's dad has been headlined frequently since the ·passing of Col. Matt Winn, Mr. Derby. Mr. Veenenian,- Sr., is now chairman of the American Turf Association and its co-run Churchill Downs group, and was fre-

quently quoted during the selection period leading to Bill Corum's new job in Derbytown.

At the first Bear-Cardinal game in Comiskey park, I almost bumped heads in the low Sox dug-out runway with R.3y Morrissy of Delavan, Wis. He was looking for the Bear dressing room, and such a veteran Sorin porch playmaker would undoubt-edly be loaded with x-and-o battle blueprints for guaranteed TD's.

Welcome copy came from County Kennedy, area surrounding New Hampton, Ia., was penned by William J. Kennedy, Bunk the Barrister. He warned all traveling law men that he would come a-dustin' into Dallas for the SMU round-up.

In the sports sections some few of you may read, you have no doubt seen that Jim Leonard has a "representative" team at . Villanova, and that Hughie Devore is doing well against a tough line-up of St. Bonaventure foes.

A quick encounter with Jack Lacey didn't lead to any '34 news, but it did sho;v that Jack is busy '"'ith insurance, very happy with his new family, and keeping the lichens off his· colonel's wings with air reserve flying.

The American Gas Association convention at the Palmer House led to pleasant tones from a voice long unheard. Owner of the voice: Stew Osborn, ex-New Yorker now in Shreveport with· the Texas-Eastern Transmission Corp. (big pipe-liners). Sorin Stew is married, has one child, and has seen Frank Nary,. Judge John Logan, Jack Hagen, and Jack Quirk in the recent past. Smiling Stew looks good, likes Shreveport, likes his job. He also liked his lunch-a birthday meal. On the somber side, he felt that many of the class would be saddened to hear that his brother. Phidell, died last year.

Dr. Robert Nachtwey, now on the Mayo staff, will undoubtedly hear from Stew's brother, one-year N. D. man now doctoring at Rochester, Minn. (Bob, how about news from medics Gannon, Gab-reski, Murphy, Tobin? See the reunion story for Kenney's latest).

Osborn would like to play pen pal with Paul K3ne, Johnny Carr, and Bill Mackey as a starter. He's at 216 Arthur Drive, Shreveport, La.

And now th~ Smiling Irishman! Last month, Jim Fitzpatrick was a big help with a fine letter from Paris (Seine et Oise, that is). Now another Fitz, Hugh Fitzgerald, brighten's the secretary's mail-less gloom with good copy from 2 Rector St., New Yuk-New Yuk. He reiterated his disappoint-ment over missing reunion trips with Bill Sheils; Jim Reville, lhrry Burchell.

The ex-Wrangler and suave debate master was last at Notre Dame in a popular type of blue and gold uniform in '44. He's now back with Coudert Brothers law plant after four Navy years. From here on it's body-type by Fitz-Hugh:

"I had four full years in the Navy, from '42 to '46, and wound up in command of an LST in the Pacific. I remember meeting Dan Brick in Pearl Harbor in January, 1945 ••.. John Montedonieo at lwo Jima (light commander in charge of the Moore, a destroyer escort) • • •

"Back here I see Tom Dalton once in a while-although I'm ashamed to say not of late. You all know about his' condition, I'm -sure. Oh, yes,' I used to see him, too, in the old days. We spent many happy hours together in Miami in 1943. I saw Bob J,3ynes regularly in Miami while he \,·as iit training-but not a word since; Do you have any idea where he is? [We'd be glad to get an address for Bob; haven't had one for several years -Ed.)

"About those three children-I married a wonder-ful Florida girl in 1942. She and the first two waited out the latter part of the war with her folks .in the land of sunshine. We have one boy, 5Y,, . a candidate for the Wranglers if ever I. saw one.

"I am all talked out. You are doing an excellent job in your column; the "Alumnus" is well worth while. (I couldn't break up a fine sentence like that-Sec.) If you know of any nice small com-munities that need a good lawyer, keep me in mind, will you? Crowds and commuting have lost their appeal-if they ever had any."

That is a helpful letter. See how it's done, chums?

As a reward for spelling out the words this far, here are new addresses for your Christmas cards. Use them for a letter, huh? ·

George J. Blaine, Butler High School, Butler, N. J •••. Emmett V. Conkling, 8421 Lock Raven Bh·d., Towson, Md. . • • , Thomas C. David, 126

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·Hudson, Pineville, La .••• Russell J. Leonard, 37 Clonavor Terrace, West· Orange, N. J .•.. Nicholas P. Lukats, 5406Y, Franklin, Los Angeles. •.• John L. Ruppel, R No. 5 Box 465-D, Enchanta Vista, San Jose, Calif •••• C. F. Sausville, 302 Meeken St., South Orange, N. J •.•• John E. Tobin, 106 Lansing St., Madison, Wis.

Don't forget to talk about yourself in writing to the ex·Sorin night watchman, now your message center chief. Where ·else can you write to 540 classmates for three cents? See you 'round.

Father Bernard Shanley moved from his post in Strool, S. D., to St. Patrick's Church in Lead, S. D. St. Pat's is the second largest parish in the diocese and has just recently opened a high school.

J. Albert Smith, vice-president, trust officer and a director of the Fidelity Trust Co., was appointed a member of the Indianapolis Redevelopment Com-mission. AI has three children. ·

Clyde Lewis was on the radio "Town Meeting of the Air" on Nov. 8. The subject of his talk was "Should Communism be Outlawed in the United States?" As national commander of the VFW, Clyde was in South Bend and at Notre Dame for the Indiana game weekend. A glimpse of him was also caught at the North ·Carolina game in New York.

Frank Reilly, '37 class secretary, reports recent contact with Dr. Paul Sartoretto of the W. A. Cleary Co., New York City. Frank and Paul work and reside in the same buildings.

1935 Franklyn C. Hochreiter, 1327 Pentwood

Rd., Baltimore 12; l\ld.

The mo!or is humming, the '"·heels are moving! Bill Ry,3n and Joe (Pat) Lynch were out to the campus in mid·Novcmber for a general discussion of 1935 reunion plans. They're the boys, you'll recall, who are going to carry the local burden for you.

Bill and Joe went back to town pledged to get the reunion program all lined up, as to planning, that is, by the first of the year. Then, they'll start feeding you mailing pieces in early January. One of the first of these pieces will be a roster of the class, with current addresses, for ever)·body.

Hochreiter got sunk in a sea of gold braid at the time of the Navy game in Baltimore-he's presi-dent of the Baltimore N.D. Club, you'll. remember -and hasn't been heard from since. But we guar· an tee that he'll be dredged ·back into action for the next issue of the "Alumnus." ~leanwhile, carry on, especially by way of urging your special pals in the class to meet you at Notre Dame on June 9, 10 and 11, 1950.

Father Vincent Thilman, C.S.C., pastor of St. Augustine's parish, South Bend, ""·as elected presi-dent of the Clergy Conference of the 1\!idwest on Negro Welfare at the recent semi-annual meeting held at St. Edward's parish, Cleveland, 0.

john T. LaForge, Jr., has just finished as president of the National Renderen' Association. He has been in the rendering business for 20 years, associated with his father in the John T. LaForge Co., Free-port, III. He is also a director of the National Hide Association and has been president and director from the fifth regional area of that association for the past several year:;.

1936 Joseph F. Mansfield, 349 Weaver St.,

R.F.D. 4, 'Greenwich, Conn.

Joe Schmidt is associated with the Greshoff Ad-vertising Agency, Inc., 406 East !49th St., New York 55.

jack Joyce, formerly of Chicago, now resides at 6754 Richard Ave., North College Hill, Cincinnati 31, 0.

Joe McGrath is teaching in the University of Washington in Seattle while workinJ for his doc-torate.

Pete Nemeth has resigned as supervisor of the vocational rehabilitation area of ·the state depart-ment of education and has opened offices for the practice of law at 201 Tower Building, South Bend. He has two children.

Henry Pojman is personnel director for the Thor Corporation (electrical appliances), Chicago.

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1937 Frank J, Reilly, 1651 Metropolitan

Ave., New York City 62, N. Y.

From Frank J. Reilly: Although mail has been non-existent of late-ap-

parently the three cent stamp went out with gas rationing coupons-! have been lucky in seeing a few of the members of the class. They also passed on word of some of tlui others. Jack Gillespie of West-field, N. J., for instance, has been by a few times. He brought tidings of himself and others of our class-mates. Jack has just been appointed secretary of the United States Cuban Sugar Council, and is as-sociated with h·ey·Lee & T. J. Ross, New York publicity counsel. Jack had previously been with Merck & Co., Rahway, N. J., where he worked in the publicity department. Jack, as was mentioned earlier, lives with his wife and two daughters in their new home in Westfield, N. J.

Paul Diagione was recently spotted on one of this city's streets recently. Paul having been transferred from the Chicago office of D.-ncer, Fitzgerald, Sam-ple to the New York headquarters of the firm. Paul thought the assignment \vas temporary but now finds he will be here permanently.· He is reported to have bought a home in nearby Englewood, N. J. Paul is continuing his work as a copywriter--on one of the soap accounts, I believe.

Our ;\[r. Gillespie is also the source of some in-{orm.-tion on Paul Foley, another copywriter, or is it account executive by now? At any rate, the story has it that Paul, who is with MacManus, John and Adams, Detroit, is writing the copy for Cadillac ad-vertising, which is a most likely· place for a former 41Scholastic" editor to wind up.

Another recent visitor was Jack Walsh, who makes his home in this hamlet. John Judge, who has been with the Better· Business Bureau of New York since 1945, is ·living in Peter Cooper Village, New York, the abode of Vince Hartnett, among others. Jack is married and has a five-month-old daughter. He reports seeing Bill Foley, who commutes between his New York apartment and Washington job a.s coun-sel for the Small Business Committee of the House of Representatives. Another 'Vashingtonian from the class of 1937 is Joe Loftus. According to Jack 'Valsh, Joe is teaching at Catholic University, where he received his Ph.D. Jack told me of attending :Mass one morning .-t his parish church, the other two people present in the church being Vince Hart-nett and Mark Lonergan, who works in the neigh-borhood.

Frank Carroll of printing ink fame recently was in South America on a business trip. He was to visit the cities of Cali and Bogota in Colombia, Lima, Peru, and Quito, Ecuador. The visit, I un-derstand, was to last about a month. I haven't had a chance to speak to Pinky lately, but I presume he is still living in Hasbrouck Heights, N. J. I be-lieve earlier in the year he visited Mrs. Carroll's home in Salina, Kans. ·

Father Joe English, about whose elevation to the "Maryknoll House in New York, you read in the last issue, called the other day. He seems to be doing vtry well, the promotion being taken in Joe's calm, modest style.

Another of our classmates in the clergy, Father Cronan F. Kelly, O.F.M., whom you all remember as Bob Kelly of Pittsburgh, returned from his as• · signment in Rome earlier in the summer. We had a nice visit with him. He returned to Europe in mid-September, following an illness which had him con-fined to the hospital for about 10 days.

o.; my way home the other night I ran into Ed Hoyt, whom I see too little of, even though he is a neighbor. Ed and family: one boy, one girl, are moving to Fairlawn, N. J., fairly soon. He told me he was completing his thesis {or his master's de-gree in business administration. Ed has been plug-ging away at night school pretty regularly since his return from service. His present work is with the export department of Vick Chemical Co.

Vince Hartnett continues to do his free lance writing, I hear .-nd see. He's also added lecturing to his list of things to do, recently speaking in St. Louis, and scheduled to discuss "Reds in Radio" before one of the local councils of the Knights of Columbus. As I mentioned earlier Jack Walsh has put me hept to Vince's activities, since Jack and

Vince are neighbors and see each other rather fre-quently. ·

Justin McCann is still in the trade publishing field, devoting most of his attention to the interests of "Home Furnishings Merchandising." I spoke with him on the telephone not too long ago. That lurch date we hope to have is still to materialize.

On a golf outing during September I ran into Bill Huisking, brother of Ed and the late Frank of our class. Ed's whereabouts arc somewhat of a mystery to me, although occasionally I bump into him at drug, cl!emical or toilet goods affairs.

Members of the class for whom changes of ad-dress have been recorded recently include: Rev. Wil-liam C. Kunsch, who switched from Chicago to Loras College, Dubuque, Ia.; Dr. Paul F. Mueller from 214 E. 45th St. to 4329 Park Ave., Indianapolis; Nicholas P. Romanko from Perth Amboy to 6 Rut-gers St., New Brunswick, N. J.; and Cyril Stroker from Baltimore to Box 775, Salisbury, Md. Cy, in-cidentally, still continues with Waterman Steamship Co., New York, and is doing very well the grape vine. ha.s it. Dr. Paul Mueller, mentioned above, made a quiet departure fro"m ·ihis city; the last I heard he was at Ne•v York Hospital. Maybe he will write and give us a full account of his present setup.

Jack Hurley called on me one day during the sum-mer when I was On vacation or out of the office at some affair, which is the last word I've had on the boy. He's still with G.E. in Schenectady.

Herb Kenyon is representative for the Associated Hospital Service of New York with his office at 20 E'ast First St., Mt. Vernon, N. Y. Herb lives at 26 Tappan Landing Road, Tarrytown, N.Y.

1938 Charles l\1. Callahan, Sports Publicity

Department, Notre Dame," Ind.

With this issue, Charlie Callahan, publicitor ex-traordinary and super t"raveler, takes over as sec-retary for the Class of 1938 replacing Hal Williams, who is in Germany for the "Baltimore .Sun." Tak-ing a few minutes from his strenuous job of keep-ing the 1949 football team undefeated (up to now), Charlie says:

Three liours hence, accor~ing to the emi-nent William . Dooley, managmg editor of this sheet, will be the deadline for all material to go into this issue. Therefore, dear classmates, you cari see that I'm no more ahead of mysel£ than I was almost 15 years ago when I used to be 10 minutes late to morning classes and five minutes . tard