Word: hesburgh
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Father Theodore Hesburgh, then only 35, was appointed president of the University of Notre Dame. Over the following quarter-century-a longer term than that of any other major university president-he has changed the school profoundly and become one of the most influential figures in the country. As Notre Dame prepared for its 25th graduation of the Hesburgh era, TIME Correspondent Robert Ajemian talked with the priest and wrote this report...
...familiar Roman collar had been pulled off and hung up with the black jacket. It was well past midnight and Father Hesburgh was still working through the piles of mail in his old, highceilinged office. He routinely stays up until 3 or 4 o'clock in the morning...
Traces of his fame are all around him. On the walls and tables of the big room are autographed photos of a younger Ted Hesburgh standing comfortably beside Popes and Presidents. His hair is less black now and his heavy jaw fuller, but he still has the handsome black-Irish looks of his mother. There is an inscribed silver plate from Jackie Kennedy and an emerald-studded ring from Pope Paul. He has become a virtual prince among priests. The sound of a Beethoven recording, a gift from the president of RCA, plays softly in the background...
Monastic Life. On the other hand, Hesburgh for all his years at Notre Dame has continued to sleep on the same iron cot in his tiny room at nearby Corby Hall. The shelves of his outer office are stacked with cans of orange juice and Campbell soup, a sharp reminder of his monastic life. His rickety hot plate sits on the counter. It is the mark of an asceticism that Ted Hesburgh seems to impose on himself-almost as though he felt a need to reassure himself that he still is a priest. "After all these years, 1 haven...
...Theodore M. Hesburgh, LL.D., president of the University of Notre Dame...