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Theodore Martin Hesburgh Papers (PHS), University of Notre Dame Archives (UNDA), Notre Dame, IN 46556
Correspondence, memoranda, speeches, agenda, dockets, minutes, handbooks, proposals, plans, reports, financial papers, lists, circulars, newsletters, bulletins, press releases, offprints, contracts, bylaws, and material distributed at meetings of boards of directors, committees, and commissions on which Hesburgh served; including the United States Commission on Civil Rights (1958-1973), National Science Board (1954-1966), Rockefeller Foundation (1962-1982), International Atomic Energy Agency (1956-1977), Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and Carnegie Commission on the Future of Higher Education (1967-1976), National Cambodia Crisis Committee and Cambodia Crisis Center (1979-1980), Overseas Development Council (1971-1982), International Federation of Catholic Universities (1955-1978), Chase Manhattan Bank (1972-1981), United States Advisory Commission for International Educational and Cultural Affairs (1961-1965), Presidential Clemency Board (1974-1975), United Nations Conference on Science and Technology for Development (1977-1979), Midwest Universities Research Association (1954-1968), Institute of International Education (1955-1973), Peace Corps (1961-1965), Institute for World Order (1968-1982), Teachers' Insurance and Annuity Association of America and College Retirement Equities Fund (1975-1982), Council on Foreign Relations (1976-1982), and Select Commission on Immigration and Refugee Policy (1980-1981); representing Hesburgh's interest in civil rights, social justice, peaceful uses of atomic energy, and international concerns.
Also photographs, audio-visual material, and artifacts such as plaques and trophies associated with Hesburgh's awards and the robes and diplomas associated with his honorary degrees.
Civil rights material also available on microfilm.
Priest of the Congregation of Holy Cross; executive vice-president (1949-1952) and president (1952-1987) of the University of Notre Dame; member (1957-1972) and chairman (1969-1972) of the United States Commission on Civil Rights.
"At the end of each year comes the tender heart-warming message of Christmas."
Dated 21 January 1948, but encloses speech from December 1947.
"By now, the last whistle has sounded. The cleats are cleaned and stored away."
"Today is a happy and blessed day for St. Francis Parish."
"Our subject this evening is very broad. Perhaps its breadth is more understandable if we consider the position of this lecture as introductory to those which are to follow."
"For better or for worse, I have elected to speak to you this evening on The True Meaning of Peace."
Sermon delivered at University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, on Sunday, November 18, 1951.
3 copies: 1st an annotated draft, 2nd a ribbon copy, 3rd a carbon copy.
With the sermon a printed program: "The University Sermon under the sponsorship of the young women's Christian association." 3 pages
"I would like to say from the outset, at the risk of shocking you, that I am not particularly in favor of Religious Emphasis Week."
Address delivered at Tulane University for Religious Emphasis Week.
"The Catholic law school, like other Catholic professional schools, faces a double danger."
"To arrive at the Catholic spirit of Christmas, one must first move patiently and prayerfully through Advent, meditating on the great wonder that will come to pass."
"The University of Notre Dame strenously objects to the paid political advertisements which have been placed by the Volunteers for Stevenson Organization in several metropolitan newspapers in an attempt to identify the University of Notre Dame with one side of the presidential political campaign."
"The Reverend Theodore M. Hesburgh ... reiterated this morning the fact that the University is non-partisan in this and other campaigns."
"The Spirit of Notre Dame is legend. Strange to say, it was born before the first game of football was played."
"All over the U.S. today, Notre Dame men are gathering in the Notre Dame way - at the Communion Rail."
1 handwritten copy
"The University of Notre Dame Television Service Presents the Notre Dame Glee Club."
"This problem of what is the mission of a layman in the Church will certainly have to depend on a layman's status in the Church."
4th and concluding speech given by Father Hesburgh in the series titled "The Mission of the Laity in the Church". The series consists of 3 earlier speeches. The 1st "Lay Apostle is the Church's Answer to Secularism" given by Thomas McDonough on March 16, 1951; the 2nd "The Promotion of the Lay Apostle" given by Michael Putman on April 6, 1951; and the 3rd "The Mission of the Laity in the Church" given by Thomas Wainwright on April 20, 1951.
"I was very happy to learn that the local 364 of the Transfers Union is sponsoring this new + significant program ... I was a communist for the FBI."
1 handwritten copy
"The best advice I could offer to the Sister Superiors and Novice Mistresses at this Institute of Spirituality is to ponder the lessons we have, by the Grace of God and the abiding providence of Our Lady, been incarnated in the life of Notre Dame."
This speech, which actually dates from 1954, has moved to CPHS 141/05.06.
"Hail holy Queen, our life, our sweetness, and our hope: On this feast of your Immaculate Conception, which brings to a close this year dedicated to you, we kneel about the altar of your Son, to dedicate anew in all solemnity this University to your patronage."
2 copies: 1st a ribbon copy, 2nd a carbon copy.
Same as in (CPHS 143/01.01)
"How many times in life do you feel the problems piling up, solutions hard to find, and you wonder: now where am I going to get help?"
2 copies
"One of the greatest thrills that comes to a new president of Notre Dame is the opportunity to present the story of the University to many people across the length and breadth of America."
"My intention this morning is to develop one aspect of the Catholic university process, the formative, as distinguished from the purely educative."
Father Hesburgh examines three main qualities of formative education at Notre Dame: 1st professional competence, 2nd personal excellence, 3rd social resposibility.
"After what happened at Notre Dame last Saturday, it has been suggested that I would be more welcome at the Methodist Congress presently being held in Chicago."
Address given at the Third National Catholic Youth Conference on Tuesday, October 16, 1952.
With the speech a program of the session.
"What concerns us most is that this fanatical philosophy daily becomes more and more threatening as the huge rearmament program of the Soviet orbit continues to grow."
Encloses 3 annotated pages drawing from Bishop Pursley's Baccalaureate Sermon.
"For many of you, the past few days at Notre Dame have been like a retreat."
Sermon given at the Alumni Reunion Mass
"As well count the sand, as try to fathom them; and, were that skill mine, thy own being still confronts me."
"Introduction: The Drama of Mankind - Theologically."
Handwritten and annotated lecture outline including five headlines: Introduction, Original State of Man, Fall of Man (and Woman), the Theological Nature of Original Sin, Modern Reaction to Doctrine of Original Sin.
"It is more than somewhat presumptuous to attempt to cover the Theology of Catholic Action in a few moments."
Manuscript written by Father Hesburgh; not clear if it was delivered as a speech.
"Several weeks ago, when mentioning to a fellow priest that I was having trouble with this paper, he said: "Well, it shouldn't be too difficult. You know what theology is, and what a layman is.""
Paper written by Father Hesburgh; not clear if he delivered a speech based on this text.
Also encloses "Observations on Religion and Religious Training received from Notre Dame Alumni and Undergraduate GIs" 2 pages.
"If we were to cast about this morning for one word that could adequately describe this occasion, I would chose the word happy."
Saint Mary's Academy Commencement
"As a member of a religious community and a University already abundantly blessed, we consider it a singular blessing to be able to welcome here this evening the first National Congress for Religious in the United States."
Parallel drawn between devotion to Mary at Notre Dame and in the United States at large
"Bless us, O Almighty God, Creator of heaven and earth, whose physics is the rainbow by day and the flash of lightning etched against the blackness of the night, whose mathematics are the stars, whose canvas is the bended heavens upon which Thou dost paint the glory of the morning and of the evening sun."
"... it is a particular pleasure to welcome you for the Institute of Spirituality, since in God's Providence this is the best that we have to offer you."
Father Hesburgh notes that Notre Dame has always been a blessed spot in America.
"I am happy this evening, Ladies and Gentlemen, to bring to the members of the Irish Fellowship Club hearty festal greetings from the home of the 'Fighting Irish'".
3 copies: 1 ribbon copy, 2 annotated carbon copies with Father Hesburgh's handwritten annotations.
Similar to the 1981 "Fighting Irish" speech in (CPHS 142/18.02): although they have the same title, the two addresses are different.
"It has been a distinct pleasure to have the annual meeting of the American Catholic Philosophical Association at the University of Notre Dame this year."
Philosophy: Mediator between Science and Theology
Same as (UDIS H1/35.06)
2 copies
"An ever-increasing number of educators in America are becoming more concerned with the place and adequacy of religious education of our times."
"These brief words of Saint Paul are the key to sanctity."
"I live, now not I, but Christ liveth in me." - Gal.2:20
Father Hesburgh describes in detail the life of St. Thomas More. Included with the sermon a poem written by Phyllis McGinley, "Pater Familias", on More's family life, 1 page.
Same as (UDIS H1/35.09). Ribbon filed in UDIS.
2 copies: 1st copy with Father Hesburgh handwritten annotations, 2nd carbon copy
"What does one say to young lawyers, just graduated, that they might remember the next day, maybe even the next year? I give you only three words to remember: compassion, competence, and integrity."
This is an early draft of the speech with handwritten annotations and several missing pages in the middle. It is filed together with the 1 November 1953 speech regarding the life of St. Thomas More in (CPHS 141/04.05). Father Hesburgh combined these two speeches when delivering his Georgetown Law Center Graduation address, dated 29 May 1977, which is filed in (CPHS 142/11.04).
"During the first four years of its existence, the Natural Law Institute concerned itself with various aspects and applications of the natural law as understood by eminent jurists of the Western World, particularly America."
Manuscript. Conclusion written for the Natural Law Institute Proceedings, Volume 5, published in 1953. Not a speech.
"Everyone recognizes and appreciates brotherhood in action."
cc in (CPHS 141/06)
DuMont Television Network, Chicago, Man of the Future, a tribute to the Class of '54, Father Hesburgh presenting Leadership Message, Butler Story, with ROTC Award winners presented at close of message.
Total time 6 minutes
"Anyone speaking today to the fiftieth graduating class of Trinity College would be remiss if he did not mention the significance of this present anniversary."
"I would like to speak to you today about Christian womanhood."
The place of Woman in the Modern World Today
Same as "The Place of Catholic Alumnae in the World Today" in (CPHS 141/10.02). Also same as "The Divine Idea of Womanhood in (CPHS 141/15.04)."
2 copies: 1st ribbon copy, 2nd mimeograph
"Twenty years ago this month, I wrote a graduation talk to be delivered to another graduating class in this fair city of Syracuse, it happened to be my own graduating class, the class of 1934 from Most Holy Rosary High School."
On the Occasion of The Fourth Annual Commencement Exercises of Le Moyne College held in the Onondaga War Memorial Building at 3 P.M.
cc in (CPHS 141/06)
2 copies: 1st ribbon copy, 2nd mimeograph
"We begin the schoolyear today, as a faculty and student body, in prayer."
With the sermon a printed copy of a prayer invoking two graces: wisdom and courage.
cc in (CPHS 141/06)
2 copies: 1st ribbon copy, 2nd mimeograph
"... I would like to speak for all those who, while not being members of the Pangborn family or of the Pangborn Corporation, have felt the blessings of the advice, and the counsel, and the material assistance that has flowed from your hands and hearts."
Closing speech given at the Golden Anniversary Ceremony of the Pangborn Corporation, Hagerstown, Maryland. Company was founded in 1904.
"When Pius XII proclaimed 1954 as a Marian Year, all Catholic institutions dreamed of making some special contribution to the honor of Mary."
Father Hesburgh details the three key Catholic beliefs about the Blessed Virgin Mary.
cc in (CPHS 141/08)
2 copies: 1st handwritten original copy, 2nd carbon copy
"An educator may take several lines of approach to the subject of liberal education in the world today."
Liberal Education In The World Today
Same as (UDIS H1/36.02).
cc in (CPHS 141/08)
"I would like to speak to you this morning about two Notre Dame men: the one, a graduate of more than twenty-five years; and the other, his son who was this past year a junior in the College of Liberal Arts at the University. Neither of them is living today."
Notre Dame Men - Father and Son
Both Fred Miller, Sr., all-American tackle, and his son, Fred Miller, Jr. were killed on 17 December 1955 in an airplane crash in Milwaukee.
Same as (UDIS H1/36.03).
"... If I might particularize the specific blessings that we young presidents seek, I would ask that we be granted an abundance of those special virtues that characterize good administrators - that by God's grace and the consecrated use of our talents, we may be equal to the opportunity that is ours in these times."
A standing ovation by 250 industrial young presidents followed this invocation.
cc in (CPHS 141/08)
7 copies: 1st ribbon copy, 6 mimeographs
"The surest path to fame and prestige in the world today lies in cultivating science."
Science and Modern Man
cc in (CPHS 141/08)
5 pages
"Every minute of every day, someone is born and someone dies on earth."
"I should like to make three observations this evening. Surely, all three have occured to all of you who have participated in this evening's convocation to bestow the doctorate of science upon General Sarnoff."
cc in (CPHS 141/08)
"At the beginning of each schoolyear, we pause for a solemn moment of prayer: that God may bless our common endeavor of the months to come, and that He may also confirm each of us in our dedication to this lofty endeavor that demands the best that is in each of us."
"I once heard a young man in Junior Achievement say that he was looking for a product that cost ten cents, sold for a dollar, and was habit forming."
There was probably another address given by Father Hesburgh at this conference, in Washington, titled: The Price and Promise of Junior Achievement.
"Youth is a time of fancy and dreams."
There was probably another address given by Father Hesburgh at this conference, in Washington, on the procedure of education for business.
"This morning, as we begin a new schoolyear with the Solemn Mass of the Holy Spirit, I would like to ponder with you some of the implications of the inspired words of St. Paul which we have just read."
"You may wonder why I have chosen to speak today not about science in the modern world, not about science and progress, not about science and the future, but about science and man."
2 copies: 1st ribbon copy, 2nd carbon copy
Included with the address "Science and Man" is an anonymus note: "Comments on Science and Man", 3 pages
"Nothing in this article will be intelligible unless we are agreed upon a general approach to a very special problem."
Writing by Father Hesburgh on sex education from the Catholic point of view. Not a speech. Father Hesburgh possibly used part of this text when he wrote "The Place of Catholic Woman in the World Today" and "The Divine Idea of Womanhood" speeches.
"I would like to speak to you alumnae this evening about Christian womanhood."
The Place of Catholic Alumnae in the World Today
Same as "The Place of Catholic Woman in the World Today" in (CPHS 141/05.03). Also same as "The Divine Idea of Womanhood" in (CPHS 141/15.04).
cc in (CPHS 141/11).
"It is a great honor for me this evening to be here with the Staff Chaplains of the United States Air Force."
cc in (CPHS 141/11)
"For a man who has to talk frequently on a wide variety of subjects, I have approached my task this evening with an unusual degree of trepidation."
Given his first-hand experience with scientists, especially physicists, Father Hesburgh speculates on building a peaceful and constructive future to close the gap between science and theology, a bridge linking knowledge gained by scientific pursuits and ultimate religious truths.
cc in (CPHS 141/11)
"... If one would seek a common theme in my sermons of other years, it would be this: that we are all committed here at Notre Dame to a common task of uncommon importance; that this task must somehow be doubly related, first, to the modern world in which we live, with all its tensions, its agonies, its new developments, and its vivid opportunities."
Father Hesburgh describes the difficult task of the University of Notre Dame, and of liberal education, to teach students in a scientifically oriented, secular world.
cc in (CPHS 141/11)
2 copies: 1st ribbon copy, 2nd mimeograph
"It has often seemed to me during these past six years that a university President is always, and perhaps ex officio, in danger of becoming illiterate."
Dedicated to the Faculty of the University of Notre Dame.
"At hundreds of state and secular universities throughout this land there are Catholic chapels and student associations called Newman Clubs."
cc in (CPHS 141/13)
Same as (UDIS H1/37.03).
"There are many ways in which one might approach the subject of theology in the university."
Address delivered at Johns Hopkins University on March 19, 1958. Another address delivered on the same day at Johns Hopkins University: "The Spiritual and Moral Foundations of Democracy". Possibly Father Hesburgh was invited to deliver two addresses on this day at Johns Hopkins. Handwritten date and place by Father Hesburgh.
Same as (UDIS H1/37.05)
Also corrected cc in (CPHS 141/13)
"What I really propose to discuss here today is the necessity of faith in a living democracy."
Address delivered at Johns Hopkins University on March 19, 1958. Another address delivered on the same day at Johns Hopkins: "Theology in the University". Possibly Father Hesburgh was invited to deliver two address on this day at Johns Hopkins. Handwritten date and place by Father Hesburgh.
Hesburgh describes in detail the necessity of religious faith, as opposed to secular faith, in a living democracy; reflects on the American democratic ideal versus Communism as two opposing political orders.
cc in (CPHS 141/13)
"The history of the Catholic Church and of Catholic education in America is a story of giants."
That God May Be Glorified in All Things - Motto of the Order of St. Benedict
Same as in (UDIS H1/37.04)
cc in (CPHS 141/13)
"If there is any single topic that has captured the attention of our times, it is education."
The Divine Romance of Catholic Education
Same as (UDIS H1/37.06).
"Many weeks ago, one of the editors of your student paper called me to ask what I was going to talk about today."
The Examined Life
cc in (CPHS 141/13)
Same as (UDIS H1/37.07).
"Almighty God ... make us ever mindful that this highway is also a gift of Thy heavenly bounty."
"... When, in the fashion of all commencement speakers, I remind you that you are about to go out into a cold, cold, world, I am sure that this admonition is not only figuratively, but literally true."
Preparation For Tomorrow
"I would like to talk today about things that are close to my heart and relating to the general problem of Catholics and civil rights."
2 edited copies of the original talk.
Dated 30 November 1959, but encloses transcription from the tape of Father Hesburgh's original talk at communion breakfast from October 1959. Includes Father Hesburgh's corrections.
"O Lord God, Father, Guide, and Guardian of us all, we ask Thee this day to send Thy Holy Spirit upon us, to grant us the virtues that our profession demands and that our times require."
"My function here today is to introduce a distinguished American scientist and educator, not to give a speech."
"I like to approach the subject of Civil Rights by going back to the first day the United State Commission on Civil Rights walked into the President's office to get sworn in."
"You and I today have something in common. We have been educated by the Sisters of the Immaculate Heart of Mary - you for at least four years, and I for twelve."
Father Hesburgh delivered same speech at Saint Mary's College Commencement in 1960, but exact date is unclear.
The Divine Idea of Womanhood
Same as "The Place of Woman in the Modern World Today" (CPHS 141/05.03) except introductory remarks on 1st page. Also same as "The Place of Catholic Alumnae in the World Today" (CPHS 141/10.02).
"One of the most popular endeavors today is the quest for goals, personal, national, international, and, even to some extent, interplanetary."
With the address a printed program: "The Seventy-Fourth Commencement, University of Rhode Island, on the Quadrangle." 4 pages
"There have been many claims in our day that philosophy and theology are no longer really relevant."
cc in (CPHS 141/17)
Same as "Change and the Changeless" (CPHS 141/16.08) except first and last paragraphs.
"When anyone writes about the idea of a Catholic university today, or any other day in the last century, there is always the temptation to repeat in substance what Cardinal Newman said in his incomparable classic on the subject."
Father Hesburgh discusses in detail Cardinal Newman's idea of a Catholic university where philosophy and theology are of ultimate importance, but adds that the problems and challenges that face modern Catholic universities today are different than a century ago.
cc in (CPHS 141/17)
Unclear if Father Hesburgh gave a speech with the title "Newman Revisited".
"Newman Revisited" is the same as a published paper: "Looking Back at Newman." Published in America, on March 3, 1962. 3 pages. A printed version of paper attached.
"My remarks today concern about one-half of the institutions of higher learning in America."
The Concerns of Private Colleges
"There is a theme to what I have to say today ... I am attempting to discuss the objectives of Catholic Higher Education in Twentieth Century America."
Catholic Higher Education in Twentieth Century America
1 ribbon copy and 2 mimeographs
cc in (CPHS 141/17)
Enclosed with the address is a copy of printed paper: "The Work of Mediation", by Theodore M. Hesburgh, published in 'The Commonweal', dated October 6, 1961, 3 pages.
Father Hesburgh discusses the important task of Catholic universities being mediators between the true theological wisdom and the incomplete, natural truths often revealed at secular or state universities.
Same as (CPHS 143/01.04) and (UDIS H1/39.01).
Same as (UDIS H1/38.02) except the first 2 introductory pages
"Every university, worthy of note, has its own proper spirit, tradition, potentialities, and accomplishments."
Note includes remarks on Father Hesburgh's original text. Unclear if Father Hesburgh delivered a speech based this text, but filed with speeches.
"May I begin this evening by thanking The Massachusetts Committee Catholics, Protestants, and Jews for your generosity in making this award ... One is constantly hearing these days about brotherhood."
"The alumni are the butt of an inordinate number of academic jokes, and fare no better in the rather sparse literature that depicts life in the groves of academe."
The Modern Alumnus
Same as (UDIS H1/38.03).
2 mimeograph copies
"I come to you today as an erstwhile philosopher and an erstwhile theologian."
"Change and the Changeless"
cc in (CPHS 141/17)
Same as "Change and the Changeless" (CPHS 141/16.01) except the first and last paragraphs.
Same as (UDIS H1/38.04)
"If there is any single topic that has captured the attention of our times, it is education."
The Divine Romance of Catholic Education
cc in (CPHS 141/19)
Same as "The Divine Romance of Catholic Education", (CPHS 141/12.06).
"The greatest temptation facing a commencement speaker at M.I.T. is to tell you what you want to hear and probably believe: that in a world deeply committed to science and technology you have completed an education that assures you of great success."
Science and Technology in Modern Perspective
cc in (CPHS 141/19)
Same as (UDIS H1/39.02) except the first 2 pages.
"I wish to address you this evening on the subject of science and man. It is a fair assumption that the majority of this audience knows much more about science and technology than I do."
cc in (CPHS 141/19)
Science and Man
With the address a printed program: "Dinner in honor of the National Science Board tendered by the Board of Trustees and the Associates of the California Institute of Technology," 2 pages
"If there is any single topic that has captured the attention of our times, it is education."
Same as (UDIS H1/40.01) except the first page.
The Theology of Catholic Education
4 copies. Pages 2-12 are missing from the original copy.
With the address a printed program "Commencement, Rosary College." 2 pages.
"President Miller asked me to make some brief remarks in a light vein."
4 copies: 1st ribbon copy, 3 carbon copies.
"Our ceremony began this morning with the blessing of a new plaque attached to the old statue of Father William Corby, one of Notre Dame's distinguished Presidents, standing on a rock raising his hand in eternal absolution on a battlefield now empty of the troops who once stood before him on that fateful July 2nd morning, one hundred years ago, except for those who rest forever beneath this hallowed soil."
Same as (UDIS H1/40.02).
Gettysburg - Yesterday and Today
Address delivered at the Battle of Gettysburg Centennial Observance
With the address a printed program: "Gettysburg Centennial" by Rev. Thomas J. O'Donnell, C.S.C., General Chairman, 1 page. Also enclosed a pamphlet "Notre Dame at Gettysburg, 1863-1963, Centennial Field Mass" printed by Ave Maria Press.
Event sponsored by The Alumni Association of the University of Notre Dame and in the program referred to as "Notre Dame Remembers Gettysburg."
2nd copy corrected and annotated by Father Hesburgh
"Lord God, Creator of all that is, and has been and will be, we thank Thee this day for the blessings that have prospered the first hundred years of the National Academy of Sciences."
"We are celebrating today the tenth anniversary of the famous Brown decision of the Supreme Court - a decision that reversed for all time the immoral and fallacious compromise of "separate but equal" opportunity for education.
"The greatest shock of this past academic year was the assassination of President Kennedy."
Our Stake in America
Same as (UDIS H1/41.01).
"For the past six and a half years, the United States Commission on Civil Rights has made extensive studies on the matter of equal opportunity all across the United States, North and South, East and West."
Same as (UDIS H1/41.02).
cc in (CPHS 141/21)
"Lord God, Father of all our people, grant us, we pray, the special virtues we need in this hour of decision."
Speech "What do you want from life?", given probably after this invocation, in the (UDIS H1/45.01) file.
"The one recurring theme in today's world is development. This is understandable when one considers that more new nations have into being since the last war then existed prior to 1945."
The Cultural and Educational Aspects of Development
Address delivered at the Biennial Interfederal Assembly of Pax Romana, Georgetown University. Published in a pamphlet by the International Federation of Catholic Universities, France: "The cultural and educational aspects of development." July 21, 1964. 23 pages
With the address a clipping "UN Report on Science for Underdeveloped Countries," published in Federation of American Scientists Newsletter, Volume 17, No.7, dated September 1964.
Memorandum with the subject heading "Father Hesburgh's Speech." Few remarks on Father's Hesburgh speech, but speech is not included. Also encloses a list of church bombings and burnings in Mississippi, Summer 1964, dated 8 October 1964.
304 page report to be released on Sunday, 1 November 1964, by the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, Washington, D.C., titled "Public Education: 1964 Staff Report."
Unclear if Father Hesburgh delivered a speech based on the summary.
"Several years ago I attended a lecture by a distinguished South African scholar at Capetown University on the subject: 'The Moral Justification of Apartheid'."
The Moral Dimensions of the Civil Rights Movement
With the address a newspaper clipping: "Non-Violence Re-Affrimed." 1 page
cc in (CPHS 141/22)
"The theme of your conference is new answers to old and new questions."
The University in the World of Change
Same as (UDIS H1/41.03).
"One afternoon several weeks ago, I was flying at 35,000 feet above the Atlantic, about half way along a line that would curve between the middle of France and the Northern part of Labrador."
Also UDIS Files.
"This is the time of year when graduates all over the country are treated to an enormous, and often unwelcome, load of free advice."
Same as (UDIS H1/42.01).
Father Hesburgh outlines three revolutionary changes of our modern era. He states that a meaningful life is a compassionate, committed, and consecrated life.
With the address a printed program: "Indiana University Baccalaureate." 2 pages
Same as (CPHS 141/24.04) and "Our Revolutionary Age" (CPHS 141/24.05).
"Every life has its peaks and valleys."
With the address a printed program: "Seventy-Ninth Annual Commencement." Thursday, June 17, 1965, in Philadelphia's Convention Hall. 63 pages
"First of all, I would like to associate myself with my companions in honor today to express my personal gratitude and joy at becoming an honorary alumnus of this great University."
"I have a triple task this afternoon: to dedicate this new Kellogg Center for Continuing Education; to open a spectacular international and ecumenical Theological Conference; and to announce two very important new academic programs at the University of Notre Dame."
Dated 8 March 1966, but encloses speech from 20 March 1966.
"A popular cultural history of the great ages of Western civilization characterizes the early and late Middle Ages as the Age of Faith, followed by the Romantic Rennaissance, the Reformation, the Age of Reason, the Enlightenment, the Age of Political Revolution, and, for better part of the last century, increasingly in this century, we have the Age of Social Revolution."
The Social Sciences in an Age of Social Revolution
With the address a printed program: "Institute for Social Research Dedication Conference Banquet" 2 pages
Same as (UDIS H1/43.01) except 2 more introductory pages added to the address.
"I come to you today as one having great longevity in your society of the young."
The Forefront of Tomorrow's Knowledge
cc in (CPHS 141/25)
Copy of speech printed in booklet "Still more Thoughts for Our Times," (UDIS H1/43.01), pp. 12.
"This is the time of year when graduates all over the country are treated to an enormous, and often unwelcome, load of free advice."
Same as (CPHS 141/23.02), "Our Revolutionary Age" in (CPHS 141/24.05), and (UDIS H1/42.01)
cc in (CPHS 141/25)
"This is the time of year when graduates all over the country are treated to an enormous, and often unwelcome, load of free advice."
Our Revolutionary Age
cc in (CPHS 141/25)
Same as (CPHS 141/23.02), (CPHS 141/24.04), and (UDIS H1/42.01)
With the printed address a printed Honorary Degree Citation presented by the University of Illinois conferring the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws upon the Reverend Theodore M. Hesburgh, C.S.C., in the Assembly Hall on the Urbana-Champaign Campus, June 18, 1966. 1 page
"About nine years ago, I stood in the White House with your distinguished President, Dr. John Hannah, and took the oath of office as a member of the United States Commission on Civil Rights, under his Chairmanship."
With the remarks a printed program "John A. Hannah Recognition Dinner November 18, 1966." 6 pages
cc in (CPHS 141/25)
"Heavenly Father, Lord of Wisdom and Might, we pray You for a blessing upon this assembly and upon the purposes it represents."
The Challenge Ahead
"Everyone is likely to agree that the 817 Church-related colleges and universities in the United States face a future challenge."
With the address a printed program "The Theme: The Christian College Confronts Alienation." 4 pages. Also enclosed a printed pamphlet with foreword to Father Hesburgh's address written by A. Blair Helman.
Same as (UDIS H1/44.02) except the first 2 introductory pages.
"I would like to begin this morning by quoting to you something that may sound familiar: 'What is happening to our young people?' - Plato."
Service: The Great Modern Prayer
"My remarks today will have as their theme a historical review of the attitude of Catholics towards Martin Luther."
The Historical Evolution of the Catholic View of Luther
Same as (UDIS H1/44.03).
Speech was written in Guatemala City on 9 August 1967, but delivered on 1 November 1967. Encloses references.
With the address an annotated, printed program "A Meditation for the Festival of the Reformation" 4 pages. All Saints' Eve, October 31, 1967, Memorial Chapel, Valparaiso University. Also with the address are 4 copies of articles titled "Luther Material": the 1st paper "Ecumenism in Development: Germany up to Vatican II" by Erwin Iserloh, the 2nd paper "A Protestant's View of the Vatican Council" by Peter Meinhold, the 3rd paper "The Significance of Patristic Study for the Present Situation within Roman Catholicism and beyond" by Jaroslav Pelikan, and the 4th paper "Ecumenism and Ecumenical Theology in Germany" by Heinrich Fries.
"I am very happy to have the opportunity of speaking to the University community this afternoon on the Year of Faith, recently proclaimed by our Holy Father, Pope Paul VI."
"One hundred and twenty-five years are not considered a very long time as the lives of great world universities are reckoned."
The Vision of a Great Catholic University in the World of Today
With the address a handwritten note about the 125th anniversary.
Same as (UDIS H1/44.04) except the first 2 pages and the last sentence. Printed version of the talk in pamphlet "Thoughts IV" group of papers, in (CPHS 143/09.01). Most important talk Father Hesburgh has ever written, according to Father Hesburgh.
Elmer Peterson, from NBC television, will attempt to reach Father Hesburgh to interview him.
"I am grateful to the Editors of this important book, Prejudice, U.S.A., for their kindness in requesting me to present a Foreword."
Father Hesburgh delivered speeches on Prejudice, but it is unclear if he gave a speech based on the actual text of this Foreword, published in Prejudice, U.S.A., dated 1968.
Dated 17 January 1968. Suggests sources about churches being against prejudice for Father Hesburgh's speech delivered March 1968.
Lists documentation for Father Hesburgh's speech: "The Churches and the Struggle Against Prejudice", planning to be delivered in March 1968.
Encloses References for Father Hesburgh for his speech in March 1968 on Prejudice.
After delivering his speech at Berkeley, Father Hesburgh will be featured on a half-hour television program with Dore Schary in San Francisco, on 24 March 1968.
Encloses a rough draft of Glock's paper: "Religion and Prejudice." 31 pages
"My task today is one of prescription rather than analysis, although within a single personal point of view and presentation it is difficult to prescribe a remedy without some indication of one's own analytical judgement of the malady."
With the address two printed programs: "Patterns of American Prejudice, a Centennial Symposium." March 24, 25, 26, 1968, University of California, Berkeley. 6 pages
The Churches and the Struggle against Prejudice.
"On the way across town to the University of Southern California this morning, I stopped at the Good Samaritan Hospital, where Senator Kennedy died a few hours ago, to sympathize for a moment with his brother, Senator Ted Kennedy, and the widows of John and Bob."
In Defense of the Younger Generation
Same as "In Defense of the Younger Generation" in (CPHS 142/01.13) except different introduction, 1 page.
Same as (UDIS H2/01.03) except 3 different introductions to the 3 copies filed in UDIS.
"I was faced with some real difficulty in preparing this presidential address for our Eighth General Conference opening today at this amazingly splendid Catholic University of Lovanium in Kinshasa, Congo, our first Federation Conference on this Continent of Africa."
Same as (UDIS H1/44.01) except the last 2 pages. These at the end of address, in (UDIS H1/44.01), summarize the work of the International Federation of Catholic Universities.
"Lord God, Father of us all, we thank you for this new day and we ask your blessing upon this University and upon all of us who are gathered here to greet a new President and to pay tribute to his predecessor."
"Several weeks ago at Notre Dame, an alumnus asked me: What will the world be like in the year 2000?"
"... I need not remind all of our local citizens, although some of the others who come from afar may not know it, that for some eight years the Chairman of our Board of Trustees was the founder of Associates Investment Company, Mr. Ernest Morris."
Dated 20 November 1968, but encloses speech from 18 October 1968.
"I am grateful to President John Hannah, the faculty, students, administration, and Trustees of Michigan State University for the wonderful opportunity of being with you today and of becoming an alumnus of this great institution."
In Defense of the Younger Generation
Same as "In Defense of the Younger Generation" in (CPHS 142/01.08) except the first page. Also same as in (UDIS H2/01.03) except the 3 various introductions attached to the 3 different copies of the USC talk.
"It is with great gratitude, and some relief, that one comes to the end of one hundred years of legal education at Notre Dame, and to the end of a sprightly weekend celebrating this happy occasion."
Father Hesburgh describes in detail the life of St. Thomas More.
With the address a handwritten note with instructions: "Please clip on to Thomas More talk." 3 pages
"Change has often been described as a condition of life - what does not change, dies."
The Changing Face of Catholic Higher Education
Same as (UDIS H2/02.04) except a 1 page introduction, written by Father Hesburgh, is filed with the UDIS copy.
"The university is among the most traditional of all the institutions of our society and, at the same time, it is the institution most responsible for the changes that make our society the most changing in the history man."
The Nature of the Challenge: Traditional Organization and Attitudes of Universities towards Contemporary Realities
"Today's Commencement brings to a close the brilliant year-long Sesquicentennial observances of this University."
"Your young men see visions and your old men shall dream dreams. (Joel, 3,1)"
Same as (UDIS H2/02.03) except the first paragraph.
"... First, I want to congratulate you, the graduates, for your achievements and for the contributions you have made to the excellence of this young institution which in a short five years has acquired both stature and status."
Father Hesburgh explores three typical responses to social change: denial, anarchism / nihilism, and simplism. He explaines is detail why all these responses are inadequate and unrealistic solutions to the phenomenon of change.
"In the beginning, the Lord God created the heavens and the earth. We have these opening words of the Bible across a great span of time, and recently we heard them again across a great span of space from astronauts circling our moon."
"When Saint Mary's College reached its centenary year in 1944, the United States - in fact all the world - was at war."
Same as (UDIS H2/02.05).
"I appreciate more than I can say the generosity and sensitivity of Terence Cardinal Cooke, the Archbishop of New York, in inviting me to say these few words at the Funeral Mass we are celebrating for our dear friend, Francis Marion Folsom."
"So much has been written lately about students that, by now, everyone must be tired of the subject, especially the students."
The Student Today
With the address a printed program: "The Fifth Centennial Symposium - Higher Education: Unity or Diversity." 5 pages. Also a Memorandum from the Special Assistant to the President, University of Notre Dame, to Father Hesburgh, dated 6 April 1970, 1 page
Same as in (UDIS H2/03.01).
"I find it difficult to express adequately how very pleased, honored, and grateful I am to receive the Alexander Meiklejohn Award."
Same as (UDIS H2/03.02) except the first page introduction files with the UDIS copy.
"In 1917, the year I was born four days before John Kennedy, Joseph T. Wilson, a Church of God minister, became President of the Gospel Trumpet Company, founded by Daniel Sidney Warner, here in Anderson."
Same as (UDIS H2/03.04).
With the address a printed program: "Anderson College Fifty-Second Annual Commencement." 5 pages
"... If I were answering [student unrest] a year ago I'd have said it was a great minority, maybe one-tenth of one percent, going up to one percent on occasion or two percent on occasion, depending on the individual cause; I think this past year, under the influence of the Cambodian invasion and Kent State and Jackson State, the number just leaped tremendously to what might be - at least on an individual campus - 70 or 80 percent of the students."
Father Hesburgh Talks About Youth
Enclosed is a photocopy of the interview, given in Alaska, dated 23 July 1970. Not a speech.
Same as (UDIS H2/03.05).
"At the risk of being confused with Ernest Hemingway, may I begin by saying that there is a well-known resort in Acapulco called Las Tres Vidas. That is as good a title as any for my brief remarks: the three lives of Harris Wofford as I have known him and followed his career over the past dozen years."
"Thank you, Mr. Chairman, I think the problem that faces every participant in these symposiums is that the further down the list you are put you find that many, many, of your points have been taken by those who preceded you; and that the only secret is somehow to wangle yourself on to the first place on the program - it's a little late for that."
Symposium called "Man and the Twenty-First Century".
Dated 14 March 1968, encloses speech from 14 November 1970.
"We are gathered here this morning to pay a final and well-deserved tribute to Charles Stone Jones ... It might seem strange to you that this tribute is being delivered for a Texas Baptist by a Catholic priest from Notre Dame." Or "My dear friends, before beginning the service this morning, I would like to read for you a telegram, which just arrived from the President of the United States ... Those of you who know President Nixon can read between the lines of this telegram and see that it was certainly done by his hand."
Eulogy delivered at the Memorial Service for Charles S. Jones at the Church of the Recessional, Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, California, December 12, 1970. Enclosed are 2 different revisions of the same speech: unclear which one was actually delivered at the memorial service.
"Social responsibility is a concept as old as Plato and as new as the latest student protest regarding local or national priorities."
Social Responsibility and Continuing Education
With the address a printed program: "Continuing Education and the University." 15 pages
Same as (UDIS H2/04.01).
"I come to you today with a minimum of official credentials."
Same as (UDIS H2/04.02).
With the address a published article: "Celibacy Vote Seen As Serious Mistake" published in A.D. Correspondence, Vol.2, Number 7, Ave Maria Press, Notre Dame, Indiana, April 3, 1971. Editorial comment on the NFPC vote, 3 pages.
"Catholic education on all levels enters the seventies in better and in worse shape than ever in any previous age."
Father Hesburgh presents a detailed picture of student political involvement, the meaning, direction, and lessons we can learn from it in the context of human dignity.
"Yes, I'm really maybe more optimistic than I should be, but I'm generally very optimistic [about young men who are leaving Notre Dame now.]"
Not an actual speech. Unedited interview on 4 rolls.
Same as (UDIS H2/04.03) except UDIS file contains a shorter, edited version of interview.
Dated 7 June 1971, but encloses transcript of discussion from 19 May 1971.
"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.
Dated 28 January 1974, but encloses speech from 14 February 1974
"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.
"It's been a long time since a Chase Manhattan Board member received something so wonderful from the President of the First National City Bank."
Same as (UDIS H2/08.06)
Speech about Intercollegiate Athletics
"I am very much for the Equal Rights Amendement and would like to see it passed in the Bicentennial year as part of the fulfillment of the promise of this nation."
Father Hesburgh's comments during this interview were also shared with the Chicago Tribune.
"If one were to ask ten years ago what society at large can expect for and from the American university, the answer would have been quite different than today."
"American aspiration is like love, a many splendored thing."
Also titled "American Aspirations and the Grounds of Hope" in printed brochure in (CPHS 142/09.07).
With the address a handwritten outline for bicentennial speech, 5 pages.
Also enclosed an earlier draft of the speech with Father Hesburgh's handwritten annotations.
Same as (UDIS H2/09.03).
"It is a curious paradox that America is one of the most criticized countries on earth, especially if one listens to U.N. debates, and yet, at the same time, America is the country which most people would prefer to live in, if they were free to choose."
Two titles: "Religious Liberty in the International Scene" and "An Almost Chosen People: The Moral Aspirations of Americans", but this copy is without title.
cc in (CPHS 142/10)
"What message does one bring to America on our 200th birthday?"
Justice in America: The Dream and the Reality
Same as (UDIS H2/09.04).
"Yesterday, together with the President of the United States, I had the opportunity of speaking to Americans from the American Philosophical Society, next to Independence Hall, in Philadelphia."
Same as (UDIS H2/09.05).
cc in (CPHS 142/10).
This is a shorter version of the Notre Dame-Saint Mary's bicentennial speech in (CPHS 142/09.03).
Text of address in English. Talk was delivered by Father Hesburgh in English. Enclosed is a German translation of the intoductory remarks, 1 page, with Father Hesburgh's handwritten note: "For facility - just make it a 'free' translation ..."
"I have been asked to say something today about presidential leadership in the field of higher education."
The Presidency: A Personalist Manifesto
2 copies; 2nd copy with Father Hesburgh's handwritten annotations.
Same as (UDIS H2/09.06) except the first 2 pages.
"The Bicentennial was a great experience for all Americans, in that it made all of us think about the inner meaning of America - something we mainly take for granted."
Prited brochure containing 3 main speeches Father Hesburgh gave in 1976. Published by The Office of the President, University of Notre Dame, dated 1 November 1976. Introduction written by Father Hesburgh, 2 pages. Includes: 1. "Justice in America: The Dream and the Reality", 2. "Religious Liberty in the International Scene" and 3. "American Aspirations and the Grounds of Hope." Manuscripts of speeches are filed in 1. (CPHS 142/09.05), 2. (CPHS 142/09.04), and 3. (CPHS 142/09.03), respectively.
"'Whoever lives and believes in Me will never die.' These simple reassuring words of Jesus to the grieving Martha are our best consolation today as we gather in this holy place to bid goodbye to an old friend and associate and to pray powerfully in the Mass for the repose of his noble soul."
"As an educator, I would like to take the second part of the question, since the answer to the first part is factual - who runs America, whereas the answer to the second part - who should - is normative, a moral imperative, not necessarily a fact, but at least an ideal."
Who Runs America ... Who Should?
7 ribbon copies
"I would like to say a few words about Catholic education."
"... First, on behalf of all my fellow honorees, I would like to say how pleased we are to join your class today and to receive this wonderful honor from the nation's oldest Catholic university."
Georgetown speech in Washington was ordered to be printed in the Senate Congressional Record, with unanimous consent, on June 13, 1977, and addressed to the President, Mr. Kennedy.
Copy of Congessional Record offprint, pp. S9538-S9540.
To give this address, Father Hesburgh combined two earlier speeches from 1953: 1st "I live, now not I, but Christ liveth in me" in (CPHS 141/04.05) and 2nd a draft of an earlier speech in (CPHS 141/04.06)
"Antes de entrar en materia, por decirlo asÃ, quiero agradecerle sinceramente al Rector de esta Universidad, el Monseñor Agripino Núñez, su muy amable invitatión que me permite compartir con todos ustedes esta ocasión tan importante."
2 copies, both in Spanish. Also enclosed a printed program in Spanish.
"Each acedemic year begins in a burst of hope, shared by faculty and students alike, that a new time of inner growth is at hand, awaiting all the subtle influences of the educational process."
"I am very happy to be with all of you today on this happy occasion for Laval University, to become a member of this academic community, and to share with you a few thoughts on 'The University and Society.'"
Also UDIS files: similar to "The University and Society" in (UDIS H2/10.02), but different speech.
3 copies: 1st in English, 2nd and 3rd copies in French
With the address a printed program in French: "Album Souvenir, Université Laval, 1852-1977."
Not clear if this is a 125th Anniversary Address or a convocation address, or both.
"First a brief word about the University of Notre Dame itself ... This institution of Catholic higher learning was founded in late November (tradition has it on or about the Feast of St. Andrew) of 1842 by a priest of the Congregation of Holy Cross, Rev. Edward Sorin, C.S.C."
Not an actual speech. Printed pages from "Insight: Notre Dame", first 3 pages possibly from 1977 and the last page from Summer 1971. Father Hesburgh explores recent developments at Notre Dame and presents his vision of a great Catholic university.
Also encloses a handwritten note by Father Hesburgh possibly written in 1977: "Between the years 1945 and 1977, the operating budget grew from ... millions to ... millions of dollars," 1 page.
"This is a very special day for you and for me. If you will permit me to mention first the personal specialness of this day for me, may I share with you the fact that I would not have had the wonderful opportunity to be with you today, if my father and my mother had not pledged their love for each other in marriage, on this day, sixty-five years ago, at St. Augustine's Church in New York City."
Same as (UDIS H2/11.02).
cc in (CPHS 142/13)
"You have all heard the French saying that is a tribute to the ancient Greek cyclical theory of history: 'Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose,' the more things change, the more they are the same."
The Past and Present of American Higher Education
Same title as in (CPHS 142/12.10), but different speech.
"I wish to speak to you about the poorest part of the world which is now called the Fourth World."
A New Vision for the Year 2000
Same as (UDIS H2/11.04).
"I'd like tonight to reminisce a bit with you about where we are and where, maybe, we are going."
"I am especially happy to be with you today, to celebrate with you this Red Mass, in which we invoke the power, the wisdom, the grace of the Holy Spirit upon each of you and your profession of law."
With the speech a printed program, the prayers and the Solemn Blessing for the Red Mass, 2 pages.
"If this subject were being discussed in the 13th Century, we could dispense with the adjective Catholic in the title, since to speak of universities in the first century or two of their existence in the Western world would be to speak of them as Catholic, since there were no others."
The Catholic University in the Modern Context
With the address two printed programs: "Centennial Lecture Series: The Future of Religiously Affiliated Private Higher Education in America."
cc in (CPHS 142/13)
Same as "The Catholic University in the Modern Context" in (CPHS 142/15.03) and in (CPHS 142/15.07).
"Reverend Theodore M. Hesburgh, C.S.C., priest, educator, guardian of human dignity ..."
"Universities began with the thirteenth century in France."
Unclear if this is an actual speech. Dated 1978, but date is not certain. Could also be a draft of a speech or article by Father Hesburgh.
"I am happy to be with all of you, especially our visitors from afar, from Japan, Australia, France, Great Britain, and Canada - as we dedicate the new quarters of this company that has contributed so much to education, all around the world."
Enclosed a printed program of the dedication, but the speech is missing except the first page and the last. These pages are the same as the first and last pages of the speech Father Hesburgh used in the address he gave at St. Francis Xavier University, in Antigonish, Nova Scotia in (CPHS 142/12.09)
"I cannot recall exactly when it was that I first heard of the great work going on for human development here at St. Francis Xavier University, but it had to be at least forty years ago, long before developmental studies and cooperatives were popular pioneering work was going on at Antigonish."
Address is missing except the first page and the last page.
"You have all heard the French saying that is a tribute to the ancient Greek cyclical theory of history: 'Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose,' the more things change, the more they are the same."
The Past and Present of American Higher Education
cc in (CPHS 142/13)
Same title and beginning as in (CPHS 142/12.02), but a different speech. With Father Hesburgh's handwritten annotations.
"A year ago in Washington, I was sworn in as the United States Ambassador for the United Nations Conference on Science and Technology for Development, which will take place next August in Vienna."
Address is missing except the first page and the last page.
"Let me say first of all, I am very happy to be with you. This is a conference that I have looked forward to for a long time and I only regret that my being with you is so short lived as this luncheon."
Same as (UDIS H2/11.05).
cc in (CPHS 142/13)
"This is a day and an occasion on which all of you graduates tend to think long thoughts: a chapter of your life ending, a new one beginning; something accomplished, something yet to be done; a time for planning, dreaming, hoping."
Service to Others
Same as (UDIS H2/12.04).
"Before addressing my subject tonight, may I tell each of you how delighted I am to welcome you to Notre Dame."
Reflections on a Church-Related University
Same as (UDIS H2/12.05).
With the address: 1st "National Congress on Church-Related Colleges and Universities Board of Directors' By-Laws" 3 pages, 2nd a "Question and Suggestion Sheet" 1 page, 3rd the "Role of National Committee" 1 page, and 4th a Memorandum from The White House, Washington, to the Delegates at the National Congress on Church-Related Colleges and Universities, dated June 13, 1979, 2 pages.
"I am both honored and happy to be with you today to celebrate the 75th anniversary of Assumption College."
2 copies: 1st copy with Father Hesburgh's handwritten corrections, 2nd photopcopy.
"About twelve years ago, the Carnegie Commission on the Future of Higher Education produced its first, and one of the slimmest reports."
Same as (UDIS H2/12.07).
"We are gathered here on this last day of the seventies and the eve of the eighties to pay our final respects to one of the all-time great men of Holy Cross and Notre Dame, our good friend and colleague, Father John J. Cavanaugh."
Homily preached by Father Hesburgh at the Liturgy of Christian Burial, December 31, 1979, in the Sacred Heart Church, Notre Dame.
With the speech a printed brochure: "A Eulogy; John J. Cavanaugh, C.S.C., 14th President of the University of Notre Dame, 1899-1979."
"All of America must be grateful to Thomas Jefferson, then Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia, and to the Board of Visitors of William and Mary who two hundred years ago 'formed it into a university,' to quote that famous letter of the student, John Brown, to his uncle in December of 1779."
The Future of Liberal Education
Also a revised copy (CPHS 142/16.01)
Same as (CPHS 142/15.09) except the 1st page and the last 2 pages.
Same as (UDIS H2/13.03).
"One of the most perceptive tourists ever to visit America made his trip to our shores about 150 years ago (1831)."
Same as (UDIS H2/13.04). Also same as (CPHS 142/24.01): a speech Father Hesburgh gave in Indianapolis in 1987.
Similar to (CPHS 142/15.05) and (UDIS H2/13.06): the speech Father Hesburgh delivered at Toronto, later, dated 21 April 1980. This address is an earlier version of the Toronto address.
Also a revised copy (CPHS 142/16.02)
Enclosed with the commemoration address is Father Hesburgh's handwritten introduction to John Hopkins graduation talk: "Johns Hopkins Graduation Intro," 5 pages. Father Hesburgh received an honorary degree from The Johns Hopkins University in 1980 and it is possible that he gave a graduation speech there in 1980, but his commencement speech is missing. The text of the 22 February 1980 Commemoration Address starts where his introduction to graduation talk is left off: with Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America. He might have used the 104th anniversary talk for the graduation speech too.
Also on audio-cassette tape
"If this subject were being discussed in the 13th Century, we could dispense with the adjective Catholic in the title, since to speak of universities in the first century or two of their existence in the Western world would be to speak of them as Catholic, since there were no others."
The Catholic University in the Modern Context
Also revised copy (CPHS 142/16.03)
Same as "The Catholic University in the Modern Context" in (CPHS 142/12.06) and in (CPHS 142/15.07), except attached here is an introductory page about Elizabeth Ann Seton: "It was St. Elizabeth Ann Seton's instinctive interest in education that attracted other dedicated women to her and led to the founding of the Sisters of Charity in 1809 in Emmitsburg, Maryland", 1 page. Also the last paragraph is different.
"I am delighted to be here with you today to celebrate Founder's Day on this Palm Sunday, the eve of your Centenary Year."
Same as (UDIS H2/13.05).
cc in (CPHS 142/17)
"I am deeply grateful to the United Way of America for the great honor of the 1980 Alexis de Tocqueville Award."
With the speech a paper "Independent Sector" by John Gardner, dated November 1979, published in AGB Reports, and a copy of an article "The Spirit of Democratic Capitalism" by Michael Novak.
Same as (UDIS H2/13.06) except the first introductory page.
Also revised copy (CPHS 142/16.04), Father Hesburgh revised the text of the address he gave earlier in 1980 at The John Hopkins University to deliver this address on the occasion of the United Way of America's Alexis de Tocqueville Award in Toronto.
cc in (CPHS 142/17)
Similar to (CPHS 142/15.02), (CPHS 142/24.01), and (UDIS H2/13.04).
"One of the most perceptive tourists ever to visit America made his trip to our shores about 150 years ago, in 1831."
Reprint of speech on voluntarism. Enclosed is the address Father Hesburgh delivered in Toronto in April 1980 and used the text as an early draft for the Commencement Address he presented at RPI, Troy, New York, 14 pages.
"If this subject were being discussed in the 13th Century, we could dispense with the adjective Catholic in the title, since to speak of universities in the first century or two of their existence in the Western world would be to speak of the as catholic, since there were no others."
Catholic Education in the Modern Context
With the address a printed program: "The Twenty-Seventh Commencement at the University of San Diego" 10 pages.
Same as (CPHS 142/12.06) and (CPHS 142/15.03) except the introduction and the last paragraph.
Also revised copy (CPHS 142/16.03)
"I am greatly honored to receive the Sylvanus Thayer Award here at the United States Military Academy today."
Same as (UDIS H2/13.07).
cc in (CPHS 142/17)
With Father Hesburgh's handwritten annotations.
"... I would like to speak to you today quite seriously about the future of liberal education, and while I speak to this campus and its needs I speak also to the world at large on this issue."
President's Address to the Faculty
Address is printed in Notre Dame Report 10:08, Documentation, pp. 280-285. Also includes Father Hesburgh's remarks, made before delivering his address, at the Annual Faculty Convocation, October 13, 1980, in Documentation, pp. 278-280.
Enclosed with Father Hesburgh's remarks and speech an earlier draft of address, 17 pages.
cc in (CPHS 142/17)
Also 2 revised copies (CPHS 142/16.05)
Similar to "The Future of Liberal Education" in (CPHS 142/15.01), but the beginning and ending of the speeches are different.
"All of America must be grateful to Thomas Jefferson, then Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia, and to the Board of Visitors of William and Mary who two hundred years ago 'formed it into a university,' to quote that famous letter of the student, John Brown, to his uncle in December of 1779."
The Future of Liberal Education
Copy of address Father Hesburgh delivered at College of William and Mary with his handwritten corrections and remarks. Manuscript of address is filed in (CPHS 142/15.01).
"One of the most perceptive tourists ever to visit America made his trip to our shores about 150 years ago (1831)."
Revised copy with Father Hesburgh's handwritten changes and remarks.
"If this subject were being discussed in the 13th Century, we could dispense with the adjective Catholic in the title, since to speak of universities in the first century or two of their existence in the Western world would be to speak of the as catholic, since there were no others."
Copy of the 12 March 1980 address delivered at Seton Hall University with Father Hesburgh's handwritten remarks and annotations.
"One of the most perceptive tourists ever to visit America made his trip to our shore about 150 years ago (1831)."
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."
Dated 13 August 1984, but encloses speech from 1 May 1984.
Also UDIS Files
"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.
Also enclosed an address given by Joseph Cardinal Bernardin, Archbishop of Chicago, at the American Bar Association Annual Convention, Chicago, Illinois, August 4, 1984, entitled "Role of the Religious Leader in the Development of Public Policy" 18 pages, together with his remarks at the End of the 50th Anniversary Red Mass, Holy Name Cathedral, Chicago, September 30, 1984, 3 pages.
"I was happy to learn that your 24th Annual Meeting is addressing itself to the issue of quality for the needs of the needs of the nation."
The Social Responsibility of Graduate Education
With the keynote speech a printed program: "Importance of Graduate Education and Research", 23 pages, and various copies of newspaper articles and reports Father Hesburgh used as sources for his speech, 10 pages.
Compiled in separate folder within (CPHS 142/21.04): "CPHS Speeches: Hesburgh." Includes folder with Father Hesburgh's handwritten outline of speech with notes and annotations he used for the speech.
"May I confess at the outset of this personal account that it is difficult, if not impossible, to write of oneself or one's activity without straining objectivity and, at times, credulity."
Not an actual speech, a biographical account prepared for a book and its editors.
" ... I can remember back to the year 1943 when I walked into Gene Burke's cluttered room ... ."
Copy of the text of the speech Father Hesburgh gave in San Diego with handwritten changes on pp. 1-37. Transcription of the Question and Answer session after the speech on pp. 38-53.
Same as (UDIS H2/18.03).
Dated 12 July 1986, but encloses speech from 3 April 1985.
Dated 29 July 1986, but encloses speech from 3 April 1985.
"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."
Summarizes report, published in 1973, "The Purposes and the Performance of Higher Education in the United States: Approaching the Year 2000."
Similar to (CPHS 142/19.04). Father Hesburgh rewrote his earlier speech from 1982: "Preparing for the Millenium" in (CPHS 142/19.04) to deliver this speech. The first part is the same but the second part is different.
Preparing for the Millenium?
Also UDIS Files?
Enclosed with the address a printed program: "Second General Session," 4 pages. Father Hesburgh received the Signature of Excellence Award, after which he delivered his new version of "Preparing for the Millenium" speech.
"It is with very great pleasure that I am with you today to celebrate and commemorate the completion of long and ditinguished years of service on the part of your wonderful President, Dr. Terry Sanford."
"This is the 34th time that I have had the opportunity of addressing the University faculty at the beginning of the new school year."
"I'm glad to see so many of you out on this cold afternoon to manifest your interest in social justice and particularly in the situation of apartheid, and particularly against the situation of apartheid in South Africa."
Father Hesburgh addressed students from University of Notre Dame. Date is uncertain.
"On behalf of all of us in Holy Cross who knew and loved Father Tom McDonagh, may I offer a word of heartfelt sympathy to his relatives, especially his sister, Georgina, and his brother, Jack, and their families."
"There are very few groups I would rather address on the nuclear threat to humanity."
Also UDIS Files
"Good to be here with you."
Delivered speech missing, but a handwritten outline of speech is enclosed, 5 pages, with a printed program, 10 pages.
Also enclosed Joseph Cardinal Bernardin's address to the Chicago Bar Association dated 30 January 1986, 11 pages.
"Catholic Education in America is a very complex reality with a rich history."
Catholic Education in America
"Dear Lord, we have only a few requests today, but they are all important."
"This is the thirty-fifth and last time that I address the faculty as President, early in a new academic year."
Same as (UDIS H2/19.03).
"One of the most perceptive tourists ever to visit America made his trip to our shores over 150 years ago (1831)."
Same as: (CPHS 142/15.02) and (UDIS H2/13.04). Similar to (CPHS 142/15.05) and (UDIS H2/13.06).
"In preparation for these remarks, I read Miriam Mason Wood's book on Trusteeship."
Same as (UDIS H2/20.01).
"How does one exit quickly and gracefully after thirty-five years on center stage? Certainly, not easily."
Same as (UDIS H2/20.02).
Also on video.
"Happy 200th Birthday! ... If I had to choose a text for my words today, I would take it from something your distinguished President wrote a year ago: 'The University today is, of course, an incomparably different institution, in scale and complexity, than it was in all its phases since its founding 200 years ago.'"
In the Heart of the City
With the address a short description of the city of Pittsburgh, followed by details about the faculty, students, presidents, and historical development in general of Pittsburgh University, 5 pages.
Also UDIS Files
"Fr. Ned Joyce and I must have established some sort of record to be with all of you tonight."
Joyce Proposal: An Internal Monitoring Procedure to ensure the integrity of University Athletic Programs
Same as (UDIS H2/20.04).
2 copies titled: "Draft"; 2nd copy of draft with Father Hesburgh's handwritten corrections
Also enclosed Father Hesburgh's handwritten copy of the draft, 20 pages.
"I am grateful to the Aquinas Center of Theology, its Director, Father Bob Perry, and its Associate Director, Anne Russell Mayeaux, for their generous invitation to address a few welcoming words to the participants to this conference, 'For the Trumpet Shall Sound: Protest, Prayer and Prophecy.'"
"I am happy to be with you here tonight under the aegis of Hans J. Morgenthau."
"Almost twenty-five years ago, I had a rather mysterious letter from Amleto Cardinal Cicognani, the Secretary of State in Rome, saying the Pope Paul VI wanted to see me."
"I am delighted to have been invited by Karl Harr, Senior Fellow of the Eisenhower World Affairs Institute, to deliver this keynote address at the Conference on Space Policy."
A Vision of Space
" ... The vitality of Catholic higher education over the past generation is my biggest surprise."
What Makes a Catholic University Great? Father Theodore Hesburgh on the future of American Catholic higher education
Not a speech. Excerpts from an Interview with Father Hesburgh in Forham University Magazine, Fall issue, 1990, Vol. 23, No. 2. Father Hesburgh spoke with Fordham Magazine contributing editor Jerry Buckley.
"Hail holy Queen, our life, our sweetness, and our hope: On this feast of your Immaculate Conception, which brings to a close this year dedicated to you, we kneel about the altar of your Son, to dedicate anew in all solemnity this University to your patronage."
Same as (CPHS 141/02.05)
"Almost everyone has something to say about intercollegiate athletics - especially during the Fall of the year when experts are born as the multi-colored leaves drift downward."
2 copies: 1st typewritten copy, 2nd carbon copy
"At first glance, one might see little connection between higher education and the nuclear threat to humanity."
"There is a theme to what I have to say today ... I am attempting to discuss the objectives of Catholic Higher Education in Twentieth Century America."
Same as (CPHS 141/16.04) and (UDIS H1/39.01). Same as (UDIS H1/38.02) except the first 2 pages.
Date of speech: 4 April 1961.
"Few persons have a lasting effect on the times in which they live. Philip Sharper is one who has influenced his times through the many memorable books he has published."
"During recent years, I have been severely criticized for being forthrightly and enthusiastically in favor of the Equal Rights Amendment."
"As we read the newspapers and watch the nightly news broadcasts, we are appalled by what is taking place in South Africa."
Dated February 1986. Not clear if this is a speech.
"If prophesy one must, and it is a chancy business at best given the paucity of authentic prophets, the millennial year just ahead of us will probably find everyone prophesying."
"One can say, without much fear of contradiction, that the last thirty years have seen more dramatic and positive change in the matter of racial eqaulity than all of the 178 preceding years since the Declaration of Independence declared that 'All men are created equal.'"
Enclosed is the final draft of speech with editor's notes and comments, including endnotes and references. Might be a speech Father Hesburgh delivered at the Symposium on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties from 1986. Might be both a speech and an article. With the draft a reprint of the speech from The George Washington Law Review, Vol. 54, Numbers 2 and 3, January and March 1986, pp. 244-252.
"For the fruits of his creation, thanks be to God."
"Greeting Governor Otis Bowen on behalf of the educational institutions of Indiana is like introducing Papa Halas to the Chicago Bears."
"It was only yesterday that human rights were the stepchildren of foreign policy."
Could be a proposal written by Theodore M. Hesburgh and Tom J. Farer, might not be a speech.
" ... I hope you take what I say in that context. I'm not trying to make any political points."
Transcribed conference talk with Father Hesburgh's handwritten annotations. Also on tape 13. Meeting took place in 1985 probably in Vienna.
"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 considerations."
"With some fanfare last month, the Immigration and Naturalization Service announced that it had apprehended 131,500 aliens trying to cross our borders in January."
Speech possibly dated 1986
"It is commonplace today to say that U.S. - Soviet relations have never been at a lower ebb."
Speech was probably given in 1985.
"More than four decades in higher education as a teacher and an administrator has taught me to take a long view."
Speech possibly given in 1987.
"One of the greatest intellectual and moral needs of mankind is to find a workable rationale for continuity in times of change."
Not clear if this is a speech.
"When I grew up, the Church had all the answers to every conceivable question and the answers were always black and white."
Excerpt from 24 April 1974 talk to the National Conference of the Catholic Press. For the complete talk see (CPHS 142/07.03) or (UDIS H2/07.05).
Same as (UDIS H2/07.06)
"One would think this would be an easy assignment - to discuss concerns for human life from the perspective of social justice."
"I would like to address myself this evening to the issue of quality education for the needs of the nation."
Later draft of "The Social Responsibility of Graduate Education and Research" in (CPHS 142/21.04) conference talk. With Father Hesburgh's handwritten annotations.
3rd page missing
"Santayana once remarked that those who neglect history and its lessons are condemned to repeat all the mistakes of the past."
This speech was possibly delivered in 1985, but month and day unknown.
Same as (UDIS H2/18.02).
"This question is the leitmotiv of all that follows. What I am trying to do is the opposite of history and something short of prophecy."
Lecture notes on 183 handwritten pages in 4 booklets, numbered 1-5.
"What will the world be like in the year 2000? This question is the leitmotiv of all that follows."
Final draft of Terry Lecture Series, Chapters I-X, pp. 1-100.
"What will the world be like in the year 2000?"
Earlier draft of the Lecture Notes Series filed in (CPHS 143/05.01). New title.
With Father Hesburgh handwritten annotations.
"What will the world be like in the year 2000?"
Early draft, pp. 1-85, Chapters I-IX, pp. 1-85.
"Prelude: What will the world be like in the year 2000?"
Preface written by Kingman Brewster: "This lectureship is a pulpit as well as a learned podium; this lecturer is above all a priest."
Page proof copy of Father Hesburgh's printed book with few corrections. Comprises speeches he gave as part of the Terry lectures at Yale University in 1974. Encloses preface for the book by Kingman Brewster, Jr., New Haven, April 1974. Published by Yale University Press, 1974, pp. 1-115.
"I appreciate the opportunity to discuss with you various proposals to strenghten the United Nations in the human rights field and to increase the priority given to human rights considerations in the United States foreign policy decision-making."
Same as (UDIS H2/06.02)
Dated 2 October 1974, but encloses Statement from October 1973.
Also encloses: Father Hesburgh's address "Social Responsibility and Continuing Education" same as in (CPHS 142/04.01), a reprint of Father Hesburgh's article "The Moral Purpose of Higher Education" published in 1973 by The New York Times, article "Wastrel of the Western World", published in New Republic, Vol. 170, 5 January 1974, and 3 additional programs and brochures used for the Terry Lectures.
"I appreciate the opportunity to discuss with you the experience of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights during its more than 13 years."
"Once more, I am back with 'Thoughts for Our Time' ... The first talk, 'The Mission of the Catholic University in the Modern World', was delivered on September 10 of this year at Lovanium University in Kinshasa, Congo.
Some additional speeches used for Yale - Terry Lectures book. 4 addresses delivered by Father Hesburgh during 1968 grouped together in a booklet: 1st "The Mission of the Catholic University in the Modern World," 2nd "In Defense of the Younger Generation," 3rd "The Churches and the Struggle against Prejudice," and 4th "On Human Rights."
"America's national psyche is troubled today, although we hide it in multiple ways."
Not a speech. Article, published by Sunday New York Times Magazine, and used as additional material for Father Hesburgh's Terry Lecture book. This article is based on a speech he made at Union Theological Seminary upon receiving the Reinhold Niebuhr Award. Same as (CPHS 142/05.02). Also same as "America's Unfinished Human Agenda" in (UDIS H2/05.04).
"It is a strange paradox that the most striking photograph brought back from the moon by the astronauts was not a close-up picture of the moon itself, but a faraway picture of the earth."
2 printed copies of speech in 2 brochures. Additional correspondence and printed programs of the event filed in (CPHS 142/06.04).
Comments on Father Hesburgh's speech at Harvard University delivered 13 June 1973.
Encloses "Alternative Futures for the United Nations System," Comments on the United Nations by Stephen D. Kertesz, University of Notre Dame, March 14, 1973, 6 pages.
With the letter are additional materials used by Father Hesburgh for the Terry Lecture Series but written by different authors: "Is the University an Agent for Social Reform?" by James A. Perkins, dated September 1973, 28 pages, "Brief Status Report on the U.S. Civilian Nuclear Power Program," report published by the United States Atomic Energy Commission, dated 1 November 1973, 3 pages, "Information on AEC Development of Liquid Metal Fast Breeder Reactor", study published by U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, dates August 1973, "Multinationals and Industrialization in the Low-Income Countries, article published by the National Academy of Engineering, dated October 1973, 8 pages, "The Need for a World Food Reserve," copy of article by Lester R. Brown, published in The Wall Street Journal, dated 10 October 1973, 2 pages.
"The rapid expansion of global economic activity against the backdrop of increasing environmental pressure is compelling mankind to address the issue of social justice on a world scale and in a new context."
Brief summary of speech by Lester R. Brown, Senior Fellow, Overseas Developmental Council, at International Development Conference. Not a speech given by Father Hesburgh.
Study published in the Bulletin of the Overseas Development Council, dated 23 October 1973. Also encloses article, by Lester R. Brown, based on his book "World Without Border," 10 pages. Not a speech given by Father Hesburgh.
Copy of article by Denis Goulet, published in Journal of Comment and Criticism, Winter 1973, pp. 71-90. Not a speech given by Father Hesburgh.
"What right does anyone have to say that the underdeveloped two-thirds of the world should not use the same methods that the United States, Europe, and Japan used - to make life better for its people?"
Speech given by Kenneth Cooper at the International Conference on "War: Its Causes and Correlates," University of Notre Dame, August 27-31. Sent to Father Hesburgh as reference for his "Spaceship Earth" talk. Not a speech given by Father Hesburgh.
Letter encloses a brief summary of the talk for immediate release of University of Notre Dame News.
All correspondence, no Father Hesburgh's speech.
Copy of Father Hesburgh's address enclosed. Same as (CPHS 142/14.03).
Copy of speech enclosed. Same as (CPHS 142/20.01).
Same as (CPHS 144/05). Same as (CPHS 142/15.01). Same as (CPHS 142/15.09) except the 1st page and the last 2 pages. Same as (UDIS H2/13.03). Also a revised copy (CPHS 142/16.01).
Copy of speech enclosed. Same as (CPHS 144/04). Same as (CPHS 142/15.01). Same as (CPHS 142/15.09) except the 1st page and the last 2 pages. Same as (UDIS H2/13.03). Also a revised copy (CPHS 142/16.01).
Copy of Father Hesburgh's speech enclosed. Same as (CPHS 141/16.07) and (UDIS H1/38.03).
Copy of Father Hesburgh's commencement address, from the Dartmouth Alumni Magazin, enclosed. Same as (CPHS 141/12.07) and (UDIS H1/37.07).
Text of speech enclosed. Same as (CPHS 142/07.04) and (UDIS H2/07.09).
No speech enclosed. Same as (CPHS 142/15.02), (CPHS 142/24.01), and (UDIS H2/13.04).
Unedited copy of Father Hesburgh's address is enclosed. Same as (CPHS 142/22.03).
Copy of Father Hesburgh's address enclosed. Same as (CPHS 142/12.06), (CPHS 142/15.03), and (CPHS 142/15.07).
All correspondence as well as newspaper clippings, no Father Hesburgh's speech.
Copy of Father Hesburgh's address enclosed. Same as (CPHS 142/20.02) and (UDIS H2/16.02).
Centennial Academic Convocation Address given by Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh, C.S.C., President, University of Notre Dame, at The Incarnate Word College, San Antonio, Texas, October 23-24, 1980 {13 pages
"Chairman of the Board Dr. Amy Freeman Lee, Sister President Margaret Patrice Slattery, members of the Board of Trustees, distinguished guests, faculty members, students, dear friends: Sister, it's a shame that my old Irish mother, Anne Marie Murphy could not have been here because she would have believed all those nice things you said about me.
The Catholic University Today
Speech was made as part of the centennial celebration. Father Hesburgh was the keynote speaker for the 1980 lecture series. The text of his address is printed "In Words Commemorated" pp.13-24.
Copy of speech enclosed. Same as (CPHS 142/15.02), (UDIS H2/13.04).
All correspondence, no Father Hesburgh's speech.
Address given by the Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh, C.S.C., President, University of Notre Dame, at the Aquinas Assembly, Honors Convocation, King's College, Wilkes-Barre, PA, March 7, 1972 {6 pages
"I'm always a little embarrassed when I hear so many nice things said about me; I wish my dear departed mother could be here because she would believe them all.
Address given by the Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh, C.S.C., President, University of Notre Dame, at the Loretto Heights College '82 Banquet, Denver, CO, October 13, 1982 {12 pages
"Thank you very much for the kind words, Adele. I remember with great poignancy a wonderful saying of that master of words, Adlai Stevenson.
Will Liberal Arts Survive?
Copy of Fall Term Commencement speech enclosed. Same as (CPHS 142/01.13) and (CPHS 142/01.08).
Address given by the Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh, C.S.C., President, University of Notre Dame, at the Commencement Exercises, Providence College, Providence, RI, June 4, 1968
"I should confess to you that last Thursday, I was flying from London to New York along the Great Arc, and as the clouds seemed to pass endlessly far beneath me, it suddenly occured to me that time was running out.
Compassion means involvement
Speech reprint enclosed. Same as (CPHS 142/15.06).
All correspondence, no Father Hesburgh's speech.
The entire text of Father Hesburgh's address filed here, pp. 1-9. Same as (CPHS 142/12.09) where only p.1 and p.9 are filed, with the rest missing. Also same as (CPHS 142/12.03) and (UDIS H2/11.04) - except the first page - the speech Father Hesburgh gave at Universite Catholique de Louvain in Belgium in September titled "A New Vision for the Year 2000".
Unedited draft copy including Father Hesburgh's handwriting, no formal speech was prepared for this address. Same as (CPHS 142/21.01).
Copy from Saint Mary's Chimes enclosed. Same as (CPHS 141/07.05).
Copy of address enclosed. Same as (CPHS 141/18.01), (CPHS 141/12.06), and (UDIS H1/37.06).
Copy of speech enclosed. Same as (CPHS 142/02.07) and (UDIS H2/02.05). An honorary degree was bestowed upon Father Hesburgh during the celebration of Saint Mary's 125th anniversary.
Address given by the Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh, C.S.C., President, University of Notre Dame, at Seattle University, Seattle, WA, April 21, 1981 {14 pages
"I must say that it's an enormous honor to receive the honorary doctorate and become a member of this family of Seattle University.
The Future of the Liberal Arts Education
All correspondence, no actual Father Hesburgh's speech.
Copy of address enclosed as prepared for press release, 5 pages. Same as (CPHS 141/23.03).
Address given by the Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh, C.S.C., President, University of Notre Dame, at Fundacao Universidade de Brasilia, Asa Norte, Brazil, December, 1981 {5 pages
"Estou profunda mente agradecido ao Magnifico Reitor e a todos os membros da comunidade academica da Universidade de Brasilia.
Enclosed is a Portuguese translation of the address, 5 pages, pp. 20-24, entitled "Discurso do Padre Theodore Martin Hesburgh".
Speech was given on September 18, 1978. Copy of speech enclosed. Same as (CPHS 142/12.03) and (UDIS H2/11.04).
Address given by the Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh, C.S.C., President, University of Notre Dame, at the University of Denver Summer Commencement, August 13, 1976 {16 pages
"I am particularly happy to be with you today, not only because I cherish the opportunity to belong to your graduating class in this great University, but also because I have such a deep and abiding admiration, plus friendship, for your Chancellor, Dr. Maurice Mitchell.
Justice in America - The Ideal and the Reality
Similar to "Justice in America: The Dream and the Reality" in (CPHS 142/09.05).
Same as (CPHS 141/24.05), (CPHS 141/23.02), (CPHS 141/24.04), and (UDIS H1/42.01)
Copy of speech is enclosed. Same as (CPHS 142/18.03).
Copy of speech is enclosed. Same as (CPHS 141/23.04).
Copy of speech enclosed. Same as (CPHS 142/24.03) and (UDIS H2/20.02).
Same as (CPHS 142/24.04).
1.Address given by the Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh, C.S.C., President, University of Notre Dame, at the University of Portland, Portland, Oregon, Commencement Ceremonies, May 4, 1975 {4 pages
"Somewhere, in that vague morass of rethoric that has always characterized descriptions of liberal education, one always finds a mention of values.
Inaugural Address for President Fr. Thomas Oddo is dated October 10, 1982.
2. Address given by the Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh, C.S.C., President, University of Notre Dame, at the Inauguration of President Father Thomas Oddo, C.S.C., University of Portland, Portland, Oregon, October 10, 1982 {11 pages
"It's wonderful to be back home again since I joined this family during the reign of Father Waldschmidt, then president of the university, now Bishop Waldschmidt, many years ago, and I am delighted to be back in the family.
Copy of speech enclosed. Same as (CPHS 141/15.05).
Copy of speech enclosed. Same as "The Catholic Education in the Modern Context" in (CPHS 142/15.07).
Also same as (CPHS 142/12.06) and (CPHS 142/15.03) except the introduction and the last paragraph.
All correspondence. No Father Hesburgh speech, except a copy of a news release including lenghty quotes from the speech.
Oration given by the Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh, C.S.C., President, University of Notre Dame, at Founder's Day, University of the South, Sewanee, TN, October 10, 1974
"I cannot tell you how happy I am to be with you for this Founder's Day celebration, and I do bring you greeting from my alma mater, The University of Notre Dame, founded about the same timea few years earlier, having endured many of the same hardships of growth.
If you were Truly Brothers
13 pages, pp.38-51, printed in "The Saint Lukes Journal of Theology".
Copy of speech enclosed. Same as (CPHS 142/01.08).
Also same as (CPHS 142/01.13) except different introduction.
Same as (UDIS H2/01.03) except 3 different introductions to the 3 copies filed in UDIS.
Copy of speech enclosed. Same as (CPHS 142/14.01) and (UDIS H2/12.04).
All correspondence. No Father Hesburgh speech enclosed.
Actual address, titled "The Historical Evolution of the Catholic View of Luther", is filed in (CPHS 141/26.03). Also same as (UDIS H1/44.03).
Copy of speech enclosed. Same as (CPHS 141/12.06) and (UDIS H1/37.06).
All correspondence. No Father Hesburgh speech.
1st: sermon delivered at the "Repect Life" Mass, is the same as (UDIS H2/08.02); 2nd: remarks made in Washington following the signing of the Peace Treaty, is the same as (UDIS H2/12.03); 3rd: homily delivered at the funeral of Bernard Voll, is the same as (CPHS 142/18.04) and (UDIS H2/14.03); 4th: titled "Liberal Education, a Human Imperative", received from the Office of Financial Aid on 9 September 1985, starting "While the words "liberal education" linger in college and university catalogues, their meaning might not be entirely clear to high school students who confuse being trained for a career with being educated for life";5th: remarks at the Heisman Memorial Trophy Award Dinner, same as (CPHS 142/24.05) and (UDIS H2/20.04).
Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh's secretary initially separated his photos from his paper files in this first chronological run. Unfortunately, she did not maintain provenance with most of the photos, so many of the photos are lacking identifications that may exist somewhere in the paper files. The chronological run at the beginning of the collection reflects when Fr. Hesburgh received the photo, not necessarily when the photograph was taken. The processing archivist did move a few photos to their proper chronological folder. If it is uncertain when a photograph was taken, the archivist used "circa," but kept the date maintained by Hesburgh's secretary.
This microfilm, representing the Theodore M. Hesburgh Civil Rights Collection, came from the Notre Dame Law School's Center for Civil Rights. The description below is largely based on the Directory of the collection prepared by William R. Valentine in 1976. The first series of Hesburgh's papers contains paper copies of many of the documents on the microfilm.