ND Class of 1968

News of the classmates and those they love

Menu

Skip to content
  • Home
  • 50th Reunion
  • Contact NDClass1968
ND Class of 1968

Monthly Archives: November 2011

Class notes submitted November 1, 2011

Posted on November 2, 2011 by admin • Posted in Class notes submitted to ND Magazine • Leave a comment

Notes, ND Class of 1968                 Contact: Thomas Figel, 312-223-9536 x 301

November, 2011

 Proud Moments

Holy Cross College, which is becoming much more than a dot on the western edge of the Notre Dame campus, has had our classmate Brother John R. Paige, C.S.C. as president since January.  John’s installation took place on Friday, September 23rd with ceremonies attended by many of the school’s students along with officials from Notre Dame (Father John Jenkins was a co-celebrant with approximately 20 other priests at the morning Mass), many C.S.C. brothers and John’s friends from local and distant communities.  This is no glide-into-retirement role for John, who had returned to South Bend from Rome, where he was vicar general of the Congregation of Holy Cross.  The speakers lauding John kept referring to his “acceptance” of the position offered by Holy Cross.  Did John have an option?  He would have been content to keep teaching in Nairobi, he said, but, yes, he did accept an offer. The remarks that day as well as his own statements attested to plenty of vision: The 150-acre school is going to add another 14 as well as a new center that will train professionals for health services to the aging populations of the U.S. and the world.  The full-time student population, which has about 80 percent of the students studying for bachelor degrees, will grow from about 450 to 750 in John’s plan.  Bill Giles, the former W. Hudson Giles Observer sports editor, is on the board of trustees along with Kathy Malone Beeler, SMC69.

With John, our class has at least two college presidents.  Tom Chema is president of the liberal arts Ohio school, Hiram College.

Father John Pearson, C.S.C., one of the friends who attended John’s installation, is now part of St. Mary’s College, where he is part of the ministerial services staff.  A job working with 1,500 intelligent, young women?  “Someone’s got to do it,” said Father John.

Activities inside the football stadium took some wrong turns during the early part of the season but, outside, in the area demarked as the Great Class of 1968 tailgate section, the work has been flawless.  With Gene Cavanaugh arriving at dawn and Fred Ferlic and others helping preserve space for a cluster of cars, the tailgate area is ready for hospitality (and some post-game ministering) many hours before kickoff.  On the sunny weekend of the Michigan State game, class president Tom Weyer represented all of us at the celebration of the 1966 team.  The tailgate crowd included Dave Martin, Mike Ryan, John McCoy, Tom (Madison) McKenna and plenty of the South Bend-Chicago regulars: Tom Weyer and Mary; Tom Gibbs and Sheila,  Chris Murphy and Carmie, Tom (Rock) McKenna and Mary Pat, Roger Guerin and Jean, and Bryan Dunigan.  Gene Cavanaugh said that the turnout for the USC Saturday was great, too: Paul Nowak and John O’Connor were there along with many others from California and the east coast.  Dick Kelly came from Maine for Navy and will be back in November for Boston College.

The Chicagoland Sports Hall of Fame honored Rocky Bleier with investiture during September.  In December, St. Ignatius High School in Chicago will dedicate its basketball court floor to Coach Tom (Rock) McKenna.  This will give the Bryan Dunigan golf outing group a chance to gather again in a friend’s honor.  Watch Bryan’s emails and the class blog, http://ndclass-1968.lake-effect.com, for details about celebration plans.  At the blog, you can see photos and additional messages sent by classmates.

One of the photos is a Vietnam image of Brian Peters, shown with one of the friends who supplied it.  The Army friend who re-connected with Brian recently said that Brian was in charge of the cleanup of Ground Zero, maybe when Brian, a New Jersey resident, was with Bovis Lend Lease.

Sandy Carrigan had more than 200 supporters walking and raising money for ALS research, in Sandy’s honor when the Les Turner group held its Chicago area event.

In your prayers, please remember Bill Clifford, who died at the end of May.  Bill and Jim Davis were roommates for three years.

Please send news to: Tom Figel, 1054 West North Shore, Apt. 3-E, Chicago, IL 60626, tel. 312-223-9536 x 301, tfigel@lake-effect.com.

Post navigation

Categories

  • 50th Reunion
  • Class notes submitted to ND Magazine
  • Classmates Gone Home
  • Game thoughts
  • How to find Notre Dame alumni
  • Main Page
  • Photos of the Photogenic
  • Reunion and Other Rendezvous News
  • This just in. . .

Recent Posts

  • Class notes submitted January 20, 2022
  • George Shultz memorial, Richard Pivnicka notes
  • Class notes submitted October 14, 2021
  • Class notes submitted July 19, 2021
  • Raymond DeFabio death May 8, 2021

Recent Comments

  • Tom Curtin on Joe Kernan and Tom Blum remember John Roche, killed in Vietnam
  • Tylik Railey on Dr. James K. Flanagan died September 3, 2012
  • Ted Ojarovsky on Tom Fitzharris work at NYC Metropolitan Museum till Nov. 10, 2019
  • Richard Harrer, ND '66 on Contact NDClass1968
  • Jack Lavelle on George Shultz memorial, Richard Pivnicka notes
November 2011
M T W T F S S
 123456
78910111213
14151617181920
21222324252627
282930  
« Sep   Feb »

Archives

  • January 2022
  • October 2021
  • July 2021
  • June 2021
  • May 2021
  • April 2021
  • January 2021
  • October 2020
  • August 2020
  • July 2020
  • April 2020
  • January 2020
  • November 2019
  • October 2019
  • August 2019
  • July 2019
  • May 2019
  • April 2019
  • January 2019
  • November 2018
  • September 2018
  • July 2018
  • May 2018
  • April 2018
  • February 2018
  • January 2018
  • October 2017
  • September 2017
  • July 2017
  • May 2017
  • February 2017
  • October 2016
  • August 2016
  • July 2016
  • May 2016
  • April 2016
  • February 2016
  • November 2015
  • October 2015
  • September 2015
  • July 2015
  • May 2015
  • April 2015
  • February 2015
  • October 2014
  • August 2014
  • June 2014
  • May 2014
  • March 2014
  • February 2014
  • January 2014
  • November 2013
  • September 2013
  • August 2013
  • June 2013
  • May 2013
  • March 2013
  • February 2013
  • January 2013
  • December 2012
  • November 2012
  • October 2012
  • September 2012
  • May 2012
  • February 2012
  • November 2011
  • September 2011
  • August 2011
  • July 2011
  • May 2011
  • April 2011
  • March 2011
  • February 2011
  • January 2011
  • November 2010
  • July 2010
  • June 2010
  • May 2010
  • February 2010
  • January 2010
  • November 2009
  • August 2009
  • July 2009
  • June 2009
  • May 2009
  • February 2009
  • January 2009
  • November 2008
  • October 2008
  • September 2008
  • August 2008
  • July 2008
  • June 2008
  • May 2008
  • April 2008
  • March 2008
  • February 2008
  • January 2008
  • December 2007
  • November 2007
  • August 2007
  • June 2007
  • May 2007
  • February 2007
  • January 2007
  • December 2006
  • November 2006
  • October 2006
  • September 2006
  • August 2006
  • May 2006
  • November 2004

Meta

  • Log in
  • Entries feed
  • Comments feed
  • WordPress.org
Proudly powered by WordPress Theme: Skylark by Blank Themes.