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VOL. XIV, NO. 10 SUMMER, 1971

CARMICHAEL ELECTED INDIANA HIGHER EDUCATION COMMISSION CHAIRMAN

Dr. 0. C. Carmichael, J r . , a member of Notre Dame*s Board of Trustees

and i t s Executive Committee, has been e lec ted chairman of the newly-

c rea ted Commission for Higher Education fo r the S ta te of Ind iana .

Governor Edgar Whitcomb e a r l i e r had named Carmichael to the 12-member

commission which w i l l make policy and coordinate planning of the s t a t e

u n i v e r s i t i e s , th e i r reg ional campuses and o the r s ta te -su p p o r ted i n s t i ­

tu t io n s of post-h igh school education . Carmichael, chairman of the

board of the Associates Corporation of North America, i s a former

p res iden t of Converse College as w ell as a t r u s te e and former dean of

s tudents a t Vanderbilt U nivers i ty . He is a graduate of Vanderbilt with

a law degree from Duke U niversity and a doc to ra te from Columbia Univer­

s i t y . The l e g i s l a t i o n c rea t in g the commission provides th a t i t s members

must, during th e i r te n u re , re l in q u ish o f f i c i a l r e la t io n sh ip s with

Hoosier co lleges and u n iv e r s i t i e s , p u b lic and p r i v a t e ,

FATHER BARTELL NAMED COLLEGE PRESIDENT

Rev. Ernes t J . Barte 11. C. IS, C. , d irector ofNotre Dame’s Center fo r the Study of Man in Contemporary Society , has been appointed p re s id en t of S to n e h i l l College, North Easton , Mass*, e f f e c t iv e September 1st* The C ollege , operated by the Holy Cross F a th e r s ’ Eastern Province, i s a fo u r -y e a r , coeducational i n s t i ­tu t io n w ith an enrollment of 1,500 *

F a r th e r B a r te l l formerly served as chairman of Notre Dame’s economics department, and cur­re n t ly i s d i r e c t in g an economic an a ly s is of nonpublic education in the U* S. fo r the P re s id e n t ’s Commission on School Finance, He i s a Notre Dame graduate and holds m a s te r ’s and doc to ra l degrees from the U nivers i ty of Chicago and P rince ton re sp e c t iv e ly ,

UNDERWRITE TWO ENDOWED CHAIRS

Endowed p ro fe sso rsh ip s In chemistry and the­ology a re being e s ta b l ish e d a t Notre Dame with a g ran t of $1 m il l io n from the Frank R. Huis- king Foundation of Greenwich, Conn*

The chemistry p ro fesso rsh ip w i l l bear the name of the l a t e Charles L. Huisking, S r . , who served fo r seventeen years on the U n iv e rs i ty ’s Advisory Council fo r Science and Engineering * The cha ir in theology w i l l be named fo r h is w ife , C atherine , a lso deceased.

Their f iv e sons a l l a re Notre Dame alumni, in ­cluding William W. Huisking, a member of the College of Science Advisory Council.

UNIFICATION PROCEEDS AS ACADEMIC YEAR BEGINS

Notre Dame begins i t s 129th academic year September 8th following marked summertime pro­gress toward u n i f ic a t io n with S a in t Mary’s College,

With S i s t e r M. Alma P e te r , C .S .C ., ac ting p re s id en t of the College serving as the Uni­v e r s i t y ’s v ice p re s id en t for s p e c ia l p r o j e c t s , former chairmen of academic departments a t S t . Mary * s w i l l be a s so c ia te chairmen of cognate Notre Dame u n i t s .

Among the i n s t i t u t i o n s ’ operations a lready u n if ie d a re those of the r e g i s t r a r , admissions and inform ation s e rv ic e s o f f i c e s , and planning continues in other a r e a s .

While no change in s tu d e n t housing arrangements ; i s a n t i c i p a t e d t h i s y e a r , i t i s expected th a t th e s tu d e n t governments of th e two schools w i l l be i n t e g r a t e d . Myriad and complex problems concern ing th e f i n a n c i a l a sp ec ts or u n i f i c a t i o n remain under study w ith an in i t ia l report g;cheduled to be presanted to the schools ’ t r u s t e e s a t t h e i r f a l l m ee tin g s .

A to ta l enrollment of 8,050, including 1,625 freshm en, i s f o r e c a s t fo r Notre Daze, w hile S t . Mary’s ex p ec ts an undergradua te s tu cen t body of 1,775 including 515 freshmen.

NAME THREE ADVISORY COUNCIL MEMBERS

Three Notre Dame alumni have accepted member- ship on U niversity advisory councils,

Thomas J . White, ’37, developer of shopping c e n t e r s , i n d u s t r i a l parks and o f f ic e b u i ld in g s in the S t. Louis area, w ill serve cn the Law School Advisory C ouncil .

Joining the College of Engineering Advisory Council a re Leo L inbeck , J r . , ’ 56, a Houston c o n t r a c t o r , and Bernard J . Hank, 51,chairman of the board of Montgomery Elevator Company, M oline , 111*

FORD FOUNDATION FUNDS CHI CANO PROGRAM

Prof. Ju lian Samora w i l l d irect an in terd isc i­p lin ary , doctoral program in Mexicaa-American Studies which is being funded for a five-year period by a $499,545 Ford Foundation grant.

The program w i l l in v o lv e the departments of so c io lo g y and an th ro p o lo g y , economics and h istory with doctoral students pursuing re­search and f ie ld work dealing with Chicanoprob lem s.

I Samora, a s p e c i a l i s t in the problems of Span ish -speak ing peop le in the United S t a t e s ,

I i s th e au th o r of th e new book, Los do j a d o s ;| The Wetback S to ry .

UNIVERSITY APPOINTMENTS NOTED|

U n iv e rs i ty appointm ents not p reviously reported in the P resident’s Newsletter in c l.ie the fo l lo w in g :

Dr. John L. Magee, p ro fe s s o r of chem istry ,

i s the new d i r e c to r of the Radia tion Labora­to ry , succeeding Dr. H ilton Burton. Magee, a Notre Dame facu lty member s ince 1948, had been serving as a sso c ia te d i r e c to r of the AEC-sup- ported research o rgan iza t ion .

Dr. Darwin J . Mead, a sso c ia ted p ro fe sso r of p h y s ic s , has assumed a d d i t io n a l du tie s as a s s i s t a n t dean of the College of Science.

Dr. W illis B a r t l e t t , chairman of the depart­ment of graduate s tu d ie s in educa tion , i s serving as ac ting d ean -d irec to r of the I n s t i ­tu te for Studies in Education, succeeding Rev. |Neil McCluskey, S. J . , res igned .

Brian R. Walsh has been named d i r e c to r of the Computing Center, having served as ac ting d i­re c to r during the p a s t year.

C yri l A. DeVliegher has been appointed manager of events a t the A th le t ic and Convocation Center, and Miss Mary Hopkins holds the new post of Law School a d m in is t ra to r .

REPORT 1970-71 AWARDS TOTAL

During the f i s c a l year ending June 30, 1971, Notre Dame received awards to t a l in g $8,704,058, an increase of $329,294 over the previous year.

Of the o v e ra l l t o t a l , $6,881,592 was earmarked fo r re sea rch , $1,490,316 went to educa tional programs, $105,883 was a l lo ca te d to se rv ice [programs, and $226,267 underwrote f a c i l i t i e s .J}government agencies awarded g ran ts to ta l in g ($6,886,730 w hile non-government sources pro- jvided $ 1,83 7,3128.I{The College of Science received a record grant [total of $3,897,874. Other co llege t o t a l s in ­cluded Arts and L e t te r s , $809,481; Engineer­in g , $725,626; Business A dm in is tra tion , $51,000; land Law, $8,400.st!th e U niversity received awards to ta l in g $233,598 fLn Ju ly , the f i r s t month of the new f i s c a l year .iHesburgh accepts odc chairmanshipliIRev. Theodore M. Hesburgh, C .S .C .. Notre Dame p re s id en t , has accepted the chairmanship of the Overseas Development Council, a p r iv a te organ i-

Father Hesburgh i s one of sev e ra l u n iv e r s i ty p re s id e n ts in terviewed in the August i s su e of MADEMOISELLE in an a r t i c l e e n t i t l e d "College P res iden ts and S tuden ts ; Are Their Heads Ever in the Same P lace?"

REILLY LECTURERS NAMED FOR 1971-72

Five d is t in g u ish e d s c i e n t i s t s w i l l se rve as Pe te r C. R eil ly le c tu r e r s in the department of chemistry during th e new school year.

They a re Dr. E arl L. M uette r t ies of E. I . du Pont de Nemours & Company; P ro f , Leo A. P aque tte , Ohio S ta te U nivers i ty ; Dr. Joseph J . Katz, Argonne N ational Laboratory; P r o f . George Re S ta rk , Stanford U nivers i ty ; and P ro f . Frank­l i n A. Long, Cornell U n ivers i ty .

The s e r i e s was endowed in 1945 by a $1 m il l io n d o l la r g i f t from the la te P. C. R e i l ly , Indian­apo lis i n d u s t r i a l i s t and Notre Dame t r u s t e e . More than one hundred s c i e n t i s t s from through­out the world have lec tu red a t Notre Dame under i t s auspices through the y ea rs .

THE UNIVERSITY-AT-LARGE

Notre Dame conferred 29 d o c to ra te s , 439 mas­t e r ’s degrees and 31 undergraduate diplomas a t i t s summer sess io n commencement August 6 th .

Brother Columba Curran, C .S .C ., p ro fesso r of chem istry , i s p resen ting a paper a t th e F i f th In te rn a t io n a l Conference on Organometallic Chemistry in Moscow August 15-21,

Notre Dame alumni groups in Washington, D. C . , Dayton and San Diego have been c ited by the Alumni A sso c ia t io n ’s board of d i re c to r s fo r "outstanding and sus ta ined e f f o r t s which produced e f f e c t iv e club o rgan iza tion , e f f i c i e n t club a d m in is tra t io n and d iverse club program­ming." The D allas Club received a s p e c ia l c i t a t i o n " fo r exce llence in p rep a ra t io n and fo r p a r t i c ip a t io n in Cotton Bowl a c t i v i t i e s during the past two y e a rs ."

P h i l ip J. Faccenda, vice p res iden t and general counse l, has been e lec ted a d i re c to r of the N ational A ssocia tion of College and U nivers i ty A ttorneys.

Prof. James Massey of the e l e c t r i c a l eng lneer- fcation formed in 1969 to promote e f f e c t iv e aid ing department w i l l teach and conduct research F° underdeveloped c o u n t r ie s . He succeeds Eugene a t the Laboratory fo r Communication Theory ofJ. Biack as head of the ODC which has Washington Denmarks' Royal Technical U niversity during

o f f ic e s and a p ro fe ss io n a l s t a f f of ten . 1971-72,

Rev, Thomas E. B la n tz , C .S .C . , v ic e p r e s id e n tfor s tuden t a f f a i r s and U niversity a r c h iv i s t , has received the $250 Solon J , Buck Award for the b e s t a r t i c l e to appear in the p u b l ic a t io n , MINNESOTA HISTORY, during 1970,

Don M cNeill, ve te ran e n te r ta in e r of r a d io ’s ’’B reakfast Club, 11 w i l l be a v i s i t i n g p ro fesso r |in communication a r t s , conducting a s e r i e s of

weekly seminars during the f a l l sem ester.

Prof, Donald P, Kommers of the department of government and in te rn a t io n a l s tu d ie s , w i l l conduct research a t the U niversity of Cologne during 1971-72 on a fellowship provided by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation of West Ger­many,

jParseghian and Notre Dame Foo tball is a new boolw ri t te n by Notre Dame1s head fo o tb a l l coach in c o l la b o ra t io n with a s s i s t a n t coach Tom Pagna,

[The Agency fo r In te rn a t io n a l Development has awarded the U nivers i ty a $258,900 grant to sup­p o r t a th re e -y ea r eco log ica l study of yellow- fever mosquito populations in East A frica under the d i r e c t io n of P ro fs , George B, Craig, J r , , and Karamjit S, R ai,

Col, John J , Lavin, p ro fesso r of m i l i ta ry science a t Notre Dame since 1968, r e t i r e d from [the s e rv ic e July 1 s t following a m i l i ta ry review he ld in h i s honor a t Fort Sheridan, 111, I

!Dean Thomas P. Berg in of the Center fo r ContimH ling Education, has been appointed vice chairman | of the Ind iana S ta te Arts Commission. J

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James E. Murphy * a s s i s t a n t v ice p res iden t for j

Ecumenical I n s t i t u t e fo r Advanced Theological j Studies in Jerusalem, j

iIP ro f . Harvey Bender of the biology department j has accepted the campus chairmanship of the j 1971 United Fund, I

iINSIGHT: NOTRE DAME, the Universi t y ’s q u a r te r jly fea tu re magazine, received five awards a t j the recent n a t io n a l conventions of the Ameri- | can College Pub lic Relations Association and j the American Alumni Council. I t s e d i to r i s | Ronald R. P a re n t , a sso c ia te d irec to r of in fo r - j n a t io n s e r v i c e s . |

|Rev. James D, Shaughnessy, Creve Coeur, 111., 1 who heads the Federation of Diocesan L i tu rg i- | c a l Commissions, has been named d ire c to r of j the George and Mary Murphy Center for L i tu rg i­ca l Studies a t Notre Dame.

The U niversity of Notre Dame Credit Union, wit! a membership of 3,250 and a sse ts exceeding $3 m il l io n , r e c e n t ly observed i t s t h i r t i e t h anni­ve rsa ry .

Rev, Ernan McMullin, chairman of the philosophy department, and a s p e c i a l i s t in the philosophy of sc ience , de livered papers a t recent pro­fe s s io n a l meetings in Bucharest and Moscow,

In recen t testimony before a Foreign A ffa irs Subcommittee of the House of Representatives, P rof, James K r i tz e c k , a Near East scho la r , proposed a new system of in te rn a t io n a l guar­antees to safeguard Jerusalem and the Holy P la c e s .

pub lic r e l a t io n s and development, has been named! to a th re e -y ea r term on the Committee on Pub li- j ca tions and Service of the North Central Associ-j a t io n of Colleges and Secondary Schools. '

o t re Dame and S t . Mary’s w i l l cooperate in a jjone-year re-exam ination of teaching methods and j c u r r i c u la r s t ru c tu re in the humanities with the j {support of a $28,000 g ran t from the National j[Endowment fo r the Humanities. |1 IjDr. Nikolaus Lobkowicz, p ro fesso r of philosophy ! jat Notre Dame from 1960 to 1967, has been elect-1

d re c to r of the U niversity of Munich, !

key, Charles Sheedy, C .S .C ,, dean of theo log ica l s t u d i e s a n d i n s t i t u t e s , w i l l be on leave during (the coming year to engage in research a t the

In a worldwide com petition, an a r t i c l e by Prof A. L. Soens has been se lec ted for pub lica tion in Vanderbilt U n iv e rs i ty ’s 1971 volume of Shakespeare S tu d ie s .

P ro f . Gerhart Niemeyer of the department of government re c e n t ly appeared as a guest on columnist William Buckley’s ’’F iring Line" program.

Prof. Roger K. B re tthauer of the department of chemistry was recen tly e lec ted to membership in the American Society of Biological Chemists

Rev. Henry Geuss, C. S,C. , former professor of c la s s ic s a t Notre Dame, died in Holy Cross House Ju ly 1 s t .