Word: meara
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...LAST PORTAGE, by Walfer O'Meara (289 pp.; Houghfon Mifflin; $5). In 1789 a ten-year-old boy named John Tanner was stolen from a frontier farm in Kentucky by a band of Ojibway Indians. Tanner was raised by the tribe; he wore a breechcloth, carried a tomahawk, and married an Indian woman. But he never really felt at ease among the Indians...
...mature man, he found the same sense of alienation when he tried to return to the whites. In 1830 a U.S. Army doctor at Sault Ste. Marie recorded Tanner's narrative. To flesh out the account, Author O'Meara, a former advertising copywriter turned historical novelist, falls back on his formidable store of frontier lore and suggests that the American Indian was something less than nature's nobleman, e.g., some tribes had a habit of roasting captured children alive. But O'Meara cannot get away from the fact that he just does not know enough about...
...then president of Notre Dame, in accepting Dean Manion's resignation, said that "his career has marked the personal, the professional and the spiritual that add up to a remarkable epitome of what Notre Dame means by moral, responsible leadership." Fa ther Cavanaugh then named Joseph O'Meara to succeed Dean Manion...
...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...