"The Epistle today reminds us that, while this day is a special point in history for each of you, a completion of what is past and a commencement of what is yet to come, God for each of us extends across the whole spectrum of our lives as the Alpha and Omega (A to Z for those who never studied Greek), the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End."

With the sermon a draft of speech: "Remarks made by the Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh, C.S.C., President, University of Notre Dame, at the Commencement Exercises." 2 pages

"... with its telling diagnosis of human behavior have left us more uncertain."

Early draft encloses some random, seemingly disconnected, pages and ideas. Includes annotated pages with notes from other speeches, but actual speech missing. Draft consists of: 4 pages of handwritten notes "Looking out window - at bank office", 1 printed page titled "Service: The Great Modern Prayer", and 6 typed numbered pages, not in order. Also includes a printed program of the Baccalaureate Services at Utah State University: "The Spectrum," and its Academic Procession, 4 pages.

"During the past few years higher education in this country - and indeed throughout the world - has undergone a baptism of fire."

Resurrection for Higher Education

Remarks prepared for delivery 9:00 a.m., Thursday, October 7, 1971, Opening General Session, in Shoreham Hotel, Washington, D.C.

Same as (UDIS H2/04.05). Also reprint of the text of the

"Equal Opportunity Day has special meaning for those of us who possesses the capacity to assist in the creation of opportunities."

Draft of speech to be given at the at the Equal Opportunity Day. Exact date unknown. With the draft a United States Mission to the United Nations Press Release: "Statement by Mr. Roy Wilkins, Chairman of the United States Delegation, at the International Conference on Human Rights, Teheran, Iran, April 24, 1968." 6 pages. Father Hesburgh's actual talk, titled 'On Human Rights,' was written in Teheran, Iran, and delivered there to a United Nations Conference. It is filed in (CPHS 143/09.03). This talk was possibly used by Father Hesburgh when giving the Equal Opportunity Day Address.

'Whitney Young's Contribution to the Civil Rights Movement,' and 'Whitney Young's Contribution to Civil Rights Negotiation,' also 'Civil Rights Battles are Unfinished, not Completely Won' are different titles of the draft.

"All it takes to find America's most serious problem nowadays is to get under the wheel and drive around one of our big metropolitan areas."

"Change: greatest reality in your lives."

Handwritten notes Father Hesburgh used for Commencement speech he gave at Stonehill College. Correspondence about the actual address is filed under "Hesburgh's Stonehill Commencement Ceremonies" in subseries (CPHS 144/29). He urged graduates to practice commitment, confidence, and compassion in order to solve societal problems.

"America's national psyche is troubled today, although we hide it in multiple ways."

Not a speech, but an article by Theodore M. Hesburgh, president of the University of Notre Dame and chairman of the United States Commission on Civil Rights, published in Sunday New York Times Magazine, dated October 29, 1972. This article is based on a speech he made at Union Theological Seminary upon receiving the Reinhold Niebuhr Award.

Same as "America's Unfinished Human Agenda" filed in (UDIS H2/05.04). Also same as (CPHS 143/09.04).

"Lord God of Justice, we pause for a moment in our busy lives, to ask Your blessing on this bright new institution - the Antioch School of Law - and upon the whole new endeavor and the deans and their helpers who gave birth to this new approach to legal education."

Ceremony took place in the Eugene and Agnes E. Meyer Home in the City of Washington. With the speech a printed program: "Inaugural Convocation" 5 pages.

"During the past few years higher education in this country - and indeed throughout the world - has undergone a baptism of fire."

Reprint of talk by Theodore M. Hesburgh originally published in the Winter 1972 issue of the Educational Record, published by the American Council on Education. This text is based on a speech he made at the 54th Annual Meeting of the of the American Council on Education, Washington, D.C., October 7, 1971, pp. 5-11

Same as (UDIS H2/04.05) and (CPHS 142/04.07).

"I greet fellow priests and all of you members of the Notre Dame family who are here together to offer this holy sacrifice of the Mass with us, and to share what I hope will be a Christian reflection on our times."

"Higher Education - Carnegie Commission"

Handwritten notes. Not clear if Father Hesburgh gave a speech based on the notes.

Enclosed is a Memorandum "Toward A Learning Society" from Clark Kerr, Chairman of Carnegie Commission on Higher Education, Berkeley, California, to the Members of the Commission, including Father Hesburgh, dated May 18, 1973. 1 page

Not clear if Father Hesburgh delivered a speech at this ceremony. Enclosed a printed program, 16 pages.

Father Hesburgh visited Harvard University to give a commencement address at the Alumni Exercises on June 13, 1973. Actual address, titled "A New Vision for Spaceship Earth," is filed in (CPHS 143/10.01) with Terry Lectures. Also included is a partial program of the Alumni Meeting on Wednesday, June 13, 1973, where Father Hesburgh delivered the 20 to 30 minutes long main speech.

With the letter a confidential memorandum from the Board of Overseers of Harvard College, dated 8 June 1973, including the honorary degree candidates' guest list attending dinner. Father Hesburgh also received an honorary degree from Harvard.

"It was 52 years ago this month that Howard Kenna first walked onto this campus and into this church."

"Ite, Missa Est." Sermon printed in the program of the funeral mass, pp. 3-6

Same as (UDIS H2/06.01).

"Higher Education came into the 1970s with a certain number of built-in inequities."

With the speech an essay: "Legislating Attitudes", which will form a portion of a book to be published early in 1974. Essay same as the ACE speech, 8 pages. Also enclosed is Father Hesburgh's handwritten outline and notes, used for the speech, on the "Basic question: to promote justice."

"Historians of the next century may well regard the decade of the seventies, and perhaps the entire final quarter-century of this, the second millenium, as a unique period, rich in the recasting of old international systems and the creation of new ones."

International Fair Play

With the IDC speech an addendum by James W. Howe, Overseas Development Council, 2 pages.

Also enclosed: "Conflict and Interdependence," address delivered by John H. Knowles, M.D., President of The Rockefeller Foundation, on the Occasion of the Fifteenth Anniversary of the Wien International Scholarship Program at Brandeis University, dated April 28, 1973, 15 pages.

"We are all here today to pay a last tribute to Ignatius Aloysius O'Shaughnessy and to pray for the repose of his soul."

Same as (UDIS H2/06.05).

"Pacem in Terris - peace on earth - may now seem more likely than it did eleven years ago when Pope John XXIII began his far-sighted encyclical with these words."

The theme of the conversation: "Yale/Student Moods", was about the spirit among the nation's college students

Father Hesburgh spoke on the "Yale Reports" radio program. He was interviewed at Yale in December 1973, but the recording for broadcast was released on Sunday 13 January 1974.

Actual transcript of the whole interview: "Reality and the Inner World" filed in (UDIS H2/07.02).

"It is with a very special kind of pleasure that I introduce your Gantt Medal awardee here today."

With the speech a printed brochure: "The Henry Laurence Gantt Memorial Medal." 12 pages. Also enclosed a schedule of activities and the Gantt luncheon schedule. Father Hesburgh presented brief biography and personal comments about Mr. Connor. Also delivered Invocation.

"One of our alumni recently asked me: Where is the Church going?"

Same as (UDIS H2/07.05) except the first 2 pages. In UDIS the 1st sentence of the introduction: "Many times throughout these essays I have used the word 'Church'."

Excerpt of this talk to Catholic Press Conference, called "An Opening," is filed in (CPHS 143/03.05) and (UDIS H2/07.06), but not clear if this is a speech.

"One of the greatest intellectual and moral needs of mankind is to find a workable rationale for continuity in times of change."

The Problems and Opportunities on a Very Interdependent Planet

2 copies, 2nd copy annotated with Father Hesburgh's handwritten corrections and remarks.

Same as (UDIS H2/07.09).

"Two hundred years after the Declaration of Independence, America and the rest of the world need a Declaration of Interdependence."

Food in an Interdependent World

With the speech a printed version of the hearing: "Liberty and Justice for All. First Preparatory Hearing. 'Humankind'." February 3-5, 1975, Washington D.C. The end of his presentation concludes with Father Hesburgh answering questions of Cardinal Dearden, Father Henriot, Dr. Dominguez, and Ms. Acevedo, members of the bicentannial panel. 12 pages

Same as (UDIS H2/08.03). Enclosed introduction lists Father Hesburgh's titles and accomplishments, 1 page.

"On behalf of His Eminence, Terence Cardinal Cooke, who is offering this Memorial Mass, and especially on behalf of the family of Richard Tucker, his dear wife, Sara, and his sons, Barry, David, and Henry, I welcome all of you, his friends, to this memorial service in the great Cathedral of Saint Patrick, in the great City in which Richard was born, grew up, performed as few others have, so well and so long and so thrillingly, and where so sadly last January he was laid to rest after a heartrending service at the Met in Lincoln Center."

"One cannot answer this question for everyone, except to say that no one is completely educated until the end of one's life."

Draft of article. Unclear if Father Hesburgh delivered a speech based on this article.

... "Perceptions of Interdependence"

Notes by Abraham Sirkin for the Aspen Program in International Affairs, Princeton, N.J., with Father Hesburgh's comments and suggestions. Not an actual speech.

On role of government in raising public awareness of interdependence.