Revised version of the Toronto address with Father Hesburgh's handwritten annotations and a handwritten outline of "Free to choose - Milton Freedman, a few facts", 1 page insert. Also encloses remarks by The Honorable Dixy Lee Ray, The Business Council, dated 9 May 1980, 8 pages. Actual address in (CPHS 142/15.05).

Father Hesburgh revised the Commemoration Day address he gave at The Johns Hopkins University in February to deliver his address in Toronto. This earlier version of the Toronto speech with Father Hesburgh's handwritten changes on it is also enclosed. The scope is changed by Father Hesburgh accordingly.

"I would like to speak to you about the future of liberal education."

2 early drafts of speech, both with Father Hesburgh's handwritten notes and changes.

"I am delighted to be with all of you distinguished members of the National Association of Secondary School Principals tonight and most honored and grateful to recieve your Association's Distinguished Service Award."

Same as (UDIS H2/14.01).

"I am happy this evening to bring to the members of the Hibernian Society of Baltimore hearty festal greetings from the University of Notre Dame, the home of the 'Fighting Irish'."

The "Fighting Irish"

Similar to the 1953 "Fighting Irish" speech in (CPHS 141/04.02): although they have the same title, the two addresses are different.

" ... There are many themes that I might address, but it seemed best to present to you one of the great problems of our day and the way that it has been addressed in the past year or so."

Father Hesburgh examines the problems concerning immigration and refugees.

Also UDIS Files

"Most priests love weddings and baptisms, but find funerals painful, as do those who attend them."

Same as (UDIS H2/14.03).

"What does one say in addressing the faculty of this University for the thirtieth time as President?"

With a note from Richard W. Conklin, Director of Information Services, University of Notre Dame to Father Hesburgh: "Some thoughts for your remarks on United Way at Monday's meeting," dated 9 October 1981, with Father Hesburgh's handwritten remarks on Notre Dame Faculty Meeting, statistics and details, 2 pages

Also enclosed Father Hesburgh's handwritten note and outline preparing for the annual faculty meeting: "Faculty Meeting" and "Potential Problems from Senate," 2 pages.

Same as (UDIS H2/14.04).

"I take great pleasure in delivering greetings to John Brademas, on behalf of all the universities here present, as we welcome him to the ranks of university presidents."

"May I bring to all of the delegates here today best greetings from The University of Notre Dame, a place where we are really building character these days."

Rerum Novarum - Laborem Exercens

Handwritten speech on labor, illegal immigration and its impact on U.S. workforce, solution to legalize undocumented workers.

"One of the most perceptive tourist ever to visit America made his trip to our shores about 150 years ago (1831)."

Voluntarism: An American Legacy

Same as (UDIS H2/14.05).

"In times of plentiful victories, of which we have had many, the task of the University speaker is to be a gracious winner."

Same as (UDIS H2/14.06).

"One of the most perceptive tourist ever to visit America made his trip to our shores about 150 years ago (1831)."

Enclosed with the address a handwritten insert, included in the speech on pp. 7-10, about the synergy between American voluntarism and government help in higher education, 12 pages. He wrote this part of the Phoenix, Arizona, speech in 1981 but delivered it in 1982.

This is a later version of the "Voluntarism in America" speech. The first part of speech is the same as Father Hesburgh's previous 2 speeches on voluntarism, which he gave at Toronto and The Johns Hopkins University. Last part of speech is revised.

Same as (UDIS H2/15.01).

"... File with talks: Two decades later, I think it is all the more obvious that domestic and foreign concerns not only in the Western hemisphere but throughout the world, can no longer be separated."

Not Father Hesburgh's speech. Enclosed are: 1st, Father Hesburgh's note: "Please file with talks, adaptation of this given at Leopoldskron, Salzburg," dated February 1982, 1 page; 2nd, John Brademas' speech with Father Hesburgh's handwritten annotations, 12 pages.

"One should begin, I think, by admitting that the Catholic Church could very well achieve its mission in this world, to spread the Kingdom of God, through the proclamation of the Word and the conferring of the Sacraments, without engaging in formal or organized education at all on any level."

The Catholic Church and Education

Same as (UDIS H2/15.02).

"I am delighted to be with you for this ceremony commemorating the founding of this great New York University over a century and a half ago."

"If one might judge from the advent of the first millenium in the year of Our Lord 1000, this unusual benchmark of history is by its very nature the occasion of prophecies of gloom and doom."

Preparing for the Millenium

Same as (UDIS H2/15.05).

"In 1967, together with twenty some other educators and national leaders from public sector, I became a member of the Carnegie Commission on the Future of Higher Education."

This speech is an earlier version of the actual Faculty Address given in October 1982 in (CPHS 142/19.05). The first half of the two speeches the same.

"When I reminisced last night about the times and places I had been privileged to visit with Vince McCauley, two strange facts emerged: we had met more often than not in a hospital and mainly overseas."

Address with Father Hesburgh's handwritten corrections.

"Several years ago at The Wilson Center in Washington, a great Polish sociologist and educator, Jan Szczepanski, shocked an academic audience with the suggestion that universities as we have known them during the last century would probably cease to exist by the end of this century."

Not a speech, might be an excerpt from Father Hesburgh's speech or writing. Undated, 3 pages: pp. 12-14.

"... I want to share some thoughts with this class because these are times when each one of you, I think, is thinking long thoughts."

Another copy of speech filed in (CPHS 144/03).

"It has been suggested that I speak today of priesthood, since I celebrated last June my fortieth anniversary of Ordination."

Reflections on Priesthood

3 copies: 1st the latest copy of actual speech, 2nd and 3rd copies are earlier versions with Father Hesburgh's handwritten revisions and remarks.

Same as (UDIS H2/16.02).

"This is the thirty-second time that I have addressed our faculty at the beginning of the school year."

Starting the 2nd page, this is the same speech as "Moral Dimensions of Higher Education" in (CPHS 142/20.04) except the last page. With handwritten annotations and corrections, this being the early draft of the keynote address Father Hesburgh gave later in October 1983 in Toronto, Canada, which is files in (CPHS 142/20.04).

Same as (UDIS H2/16.03).

"It is a great personal pleasure for me to be here with so many friends and colleagues, not only from my own country, but from this great country of Canada where we are meeting together."

The Moral Dimensions of Higher Education

Same as (CPHS 142/20.03) except the first and last pages. This is the formal, actual talk Father Hesburgh gave, for the first time, at the joint Meeting of the American Council on Education and the Association of Colleges and Universities of Canada. An earlier version of the the same speech was given at Notre Dame and is filed in (CPHS 142/20.03).

Same as (UDIS H2/16.04).

"... May I say for all of us who have already graduated, the easy way, that we are delighted to be here at Saint Leo College for its 25th anniversary, its Silver Anniversary."

Copy of the address is filed in Hesburgh Commencement Addresses (CPHS 144/24).

"If I were going to wish the Business and Professional People for the Public Interest a toast for a happy 15th birthday, I think I should use the statement made by a wise man who said that all that is required for evil to triumph is for good people to remain silent."

"I would like to consider the possibility of our academic institutions to shape the future and I would presume to speak particularly of the moral dimensions of higher education and some of the impending ethical questions that attend such a consideration."

Universities and the Nuclear Threat

With the address a copy of Father Hesburgh's review of the book: "The Bishops and Nuclear Weapons: The Catholic Pastoral Letter on War and Peace" by James E. Dougherty. Published in association with the Institute of Policy Analysis, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Archon Books, 1984. 3 pages. Not a speech.

Also enclosed 2 copies of the summary of the first, joint endeavor of scientists and religious leaders worldwide to combat nuclear terror, by Father Hesburgh and Thomas Malone, Foreign Secretary of National Academies of Sciences. Details the meetings, participants, and statements on nuclear threat. Actual statements, released by the participants after deliberations, are missing. Not a speech. 3 pages.