Word: hesburgh
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...where, in such respects as wealth, numbers, and strength of organization, it is so powerful," wrote Historian D. W. Brogan. "The general Catholic community in America does not know what scholarship is," said Jesuit Theologian Gustave Weigel of Maryland's Woodstock College. And the Rev. John J. Cavanaugh, Hesburgh's predecessor at Notre Dame, asked sorrowfully, "Where are the Catholic Salks, Oppenheimers, Einsteins...
...Notre Dame's President Hesburgh, all this means that "we have our work...
...year after becoming head of the religion department, Hesburgh at 32 was made executive vice president of the university. Among his first acts: replacing Clarence Manion, the far-right dean of the law school, with Joseph O'Meara, a Cincinnati lawyer active in the American Civil Liberties Union. Hesburgh also took charge of the university's rapidly expanding building program, got it moving even faster. President John Cavanaugh knew a brilliant successor when he saw one: "You would have had to be blind not to spot his talents." At 35, Hesburgh became Notre Dame's 16th president...
Ready for Take-Off. What Hesburgh inherited was a university ready for takeoff. Father Cavanaugh, a onetime Studebaker salesman who dreamed of a grown-up university, had sold the necessity of change not only to his conservative congregation but also to the standpat alumni. Money began to flow, buildings to rise. Though 80% of Notre Dame's 30,000 alumni have graduated since 1940, and few are rich, they have chipped in at the rate of $700,000 a year, may hit $1,000,000 this year-a considerable feat considering what they also give to parochial schools...
...Under Hesburgh, Notre Dame has put up twelve new buildings worth $12.6 million, started another $13.5 million construction program, increased faculty salaries by 90%, tripled endowment to $25 million. The school's operating budget is up threefold, its science spending tenfold. On completion, the new $8,000,000 library will house 2,000,000 books, five times more than the present library. All this is part of a ten-year (deadline: 1968) $66 million "Program for Excellence...