JUNE 2009 ARCHIVE

F E A T U R E   S T O R I E S

Get an Advantage with USC and BC Packages
   If you are looking to attend the USC or Boston College game this fall, consider participating in Notre Dame Alumni Travel’s Home Field Advantage program. Similar to the alumni trips to various destinations around the world, Home Field Advantage is a travel program designed to bring alumni together. But instead of taking alumni far away, this program brings them back home—to Notre Dame’s campus. [Full Story]
 

Letter from Father Jenkins
   In a letter to Notre Dame alumni, family and friends, University President Rev. John I. Jenkins, C.S.C., discusses the 2009 Commencement and the vital engagement with the issues highlighted by this event.  [Full Story]

Five Questions with Jan Botz
    In this issue of ND Today, meet Jan Botz, Notre Dame vice president for public affairs and communications. Formerly the executive director and chief communications officer for Dow Corning Corp., Botz is responsible for advancing Notre Dame’s interests and contributions in the public arena and directing the University’s communications with its multiple internal and external audiences.  [Full Story]
 

Record Number of Alumni Return for Reunion
   Every year, Reunion reinvigorates not only those who participate, but also the University they so love. This year’s theme, “Wake Up the Echoes” references this energizing weekend, when a record-setting 2,700 Domers and some 540 guests came home June 4-7, their greetings to each other echoing across the quads. [Full Story]

Dancing with the Stars: ND Style
   Notre Dame legend Knute Rockne coined the phrase, “When the going gets tough, the tough get going.” The Ballroom Dance Club has taken a unique approach to his words, donning a similar version, “When the going gets tough, the tough go dancing,” on its club t-shirts. The Notre Dame Ballroom Club president and fourth year architecture major Aimee Sunny remembers this phrase from her first year with the club.  [Full Story]

• ND Launches Video Channel
• Patty O'Hara Fellowship Announced
• Still Time to Make a Reunion Gift!
• The World is Her Classroom
• What's on Tap at DPAC
• ND Strives to Save Energy

'Emil's Army' on the March
   ND Dean Emeritus Emil T. Hofman traveled to Haiti in January and March, and he was on his way back this May. At 88 years old, Hofman is a man with a mission—bringing volunteer physician support to Notre Dame’s Haiti Program, which, under the direction of Rev. Thomas G. Streit, C.S.C., seeks to prevent lymphatic filariasis, a mosquito-borne disease affecting 25 percent of the population, as much as 50 percent in some areas.“I was in my 80s when I started this,” Hofman says. “I wanted to do something worthwhile with these final years of my life.”  [Full Story]

• Dean Receives Distinguished Alumni Award
• Teaching Award Winners
• Class Acts
• Gender Studies Celebrates 20 Years
• The Happiest Senior Thesis on Earth
  

Legacy Reception Photo Gallery
   Of the more than 2,900 graduates at Commencement 2009, 513 were the children of alumni. And on May 15, more than 500 people, including ND legacies and their families, gathered in the Eck Visitors Center for the Alumni Association’s annual pre-Commencement Legacy Reception. View the photo gallery. 

• Students Meet Their New Neighbors
• Nominate Outstanding Alumni
• Tell Us What You Think About Travel

Graduating Seniors Honored for Postgraduate Service
  Some 196 Notre Dame graduating seniors embarking on a year or more of service in the U.S. and abroad were honored during the University’s annual Senior Service Send-Off ceremony on May 16.
   Notre Dame President Rev. John I. Jenkins, C.S.C., addressed the seniors and their families on the University’s commitment to service in education at Notre Dame and beyond.  [Full Story]

• Attend a Weekend of Prayer

• Irish Athletes Excel in Academics
• Irish Athletics on Twitter
• Raffle for Notre Dame VIP Weekend 

Astronaut Alumnus Aboard Space Shuttle Flight
   Notre Dame alumnus Michael T. Good ’84, ’86 M.A., an Air Force colonel, was a member of the Space Shuttle Atlantis Mission STS-125 crew that lifted off May 11 for NASA’s final mission to service the Hubble Space Telescope. The flight was Good’s first shuttle mission and he flew as a mission specialist. He took a Notre Dame pennant with him into space. [Full Story]

• Notre Dame Traditions—Mentors
• Spend the Summer in  Family Hall
• Reunion Turns into Family Reunion