May I Have Your Attention Please... excerpt
By Mike Collins ’67 & Sergeant Tim McCarthy
A chapter from the book May I Have Your Attention Please … Wit & Wisdom from the Notre Dame Press Box.
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Forgotten Four excerpt
By Donald J. Hubbard ’84J.D., Mark O. Hubbard ’72
A chapter from the book Forgotten Four: Notre Dame’s Greatest Backfield and the 1953 Undefeated Season.
The Irish Way of Life excerpt
By John Shaughnessy' 77
A chapter from The Irish Way of Life: Stores of Family, Faith and Friendship
25 things to do on a home football weekend
By Notre Dame Magazine staff
Light a candle and say a prayer at the Grotto, and leave double the suggested offering “just to be sure.”
I love the smell of barbecue in the morning
By Steve Wojcikiewicz, '97, '99ACE
Barbecue at sunrise seemed to me perfectly appropriate after four years of football Saturdays in South Bend.
One shimmering Saturday
By John F. Marszalek '63M.A., '68Ph.D
Anyone with any interest in college football has either watched or heard about some miracle comeback by some Notre Dame football team at one time or another.
The tooth of the matter
By John Nagy '00M.A.
The total tonnage of my parental incompetence is staggering.
After 9/11 are we any safer?
By Dan Lindley
On September 11, 2001 almost 3,000 people were killed in New York City, Washington, D.C., and Pennsylvania. Are we any safer in 2009?
The dust is off a priceless resource
By John Nagy ’00M.A.
The story goes that Father Sorin obtained Notre Dame’s first natural history museum collection through an exchange with a physician for land Sorin held near Detroit.
Nieuwland’s own: Journal traces a century of scholarly evolution
By John Nagy '00M.A.
Father Julius A. Nieuwland’s renowned contribution to chemistry was his laboratory research on acetylene, which famously led to the invention of that durable synthetic rubber, neoprene, by DuPont developers in 1930.
All the campus a stage
By Jeremy D. Bonfiglio
Peter Holland spread his blanket in front of the Golden Dome. The Notre Dame Shakespeare Festival was in full swing.
A great bookie, a center found
By Kate Bird ’75M.A.
My most cherished memory of my father is seeing him rush out of his home study, finger in a book, eyes alight, reading a passage that enthralled him. I couldn’t always understand why he was so excited, but his enthusiasm was catching.
Fighting . . . for unborn human life
By John Nagy '00M.A.
A month before the 2008 presidential election and a day after ND students chose Barack Obama over John McCain 52 to 41 percent in a mock election, students flooded into McKenna Hall to hear law professors Gerard Bradley and Vincent Rougeau answer the question, “What constitutes a sufficient ‘proportionate’ reason to justify a vote for a pro-abortion candidate?”…
Scaring the clan across the way
By John Nagy '00M.A.
Dan Gezelter played trumpet as a kid, but made the switch to bagpipes in high school. “I wasn’t getting beaten up enough,” the associate professor of chemistry says.
Haunt thee, Notre Dame?
By John Nagy
Growing up, Bryce Chung saw things going up and down the stairs of his home in Hawaii. He’d be at the piano and feel a presence, or play a computer game and catch the reflection of someone behind him in the monitor.
Seen & heard on campus
By John Nagy '00M.A.
Seen and heard on the campus of Notre Dame.
Echoes: As ND as football, Mother's Day and community service
By Jason A. Kelly '95
Frank Hering’s name has long been obscured in the shadows of Rockne and Leahy, Parseghian and Holtz.
Letter from campus: Happy to oblige
By John Heisler
Linda and Rich O’Leary’s large circle of friends called the couple’s house on Cedar Street in South Bend the “Cedar Club.”
Letters to the editor
By Readers
Letters to the editor about the magazine’s 2009 commencement coverage
More letters about commencement coverage
By Readers
More letters to the editor about Commencement 2009 and its coverage in the Summer 2009 issue of the magazine.
More letters to the editor
By Readers
Letters to the editor about stories in Summer 2009 and earlier issues.
Jet lag gene
By John Monczunski
Most people feel exhausted and disoriented after they travel quickly across several time zones. Not a problem for Giles Duffield’s special mice.
Curing arthritis with fat
By John Monczunski
Nearly one in three American adults suffers from some form of arthritis.
Why we look away
By John Monczunski
An interesting thing happens when people talk to one another. They engage in an intricate dance with their eyes
Domers calling
By Walton Collins ’51
Over the last four years, Kevin Gaffney ’09 spent the lion’s share of his evenings in a crowded, noisy, third-floor room in Grace Hall where students sit in carrels and telephone alumni, parents and friends of the University to ask for money.
Water on the moon
By John Monczunski
They say you can’t squeeze water from a stone, but some rocks securely locked away in a safe in Clive Neal’s office prove otherwise.
Reunion, reflection, renewal
By Angela Sienko
Reunion 2009 offered Ed Stubbing ’64 much more than a chance to see some of his classmates, although he relished the opportunity. “Meeting classmates I hadn’t seen in 45 years was magnificent,” he says.
Man in motion
By Brendan O’Shaughnessy ’93
Max Siegel ’86, ’92J.D. has yet to slow a pace that began with life literally on the run.
Domers in the news
By John Monczunski
Astronaut Kevin Ford ’82 piloted the space shuttle Discovery in August on a mission to bring supplies to the International Space Station. Among the items delivered were a freezer, storage racks, a new sleeping compartment and the Colbert Treadmill, named after TV comedian Stephen Colbert. . . . Martha Larzelere Campbell ’73M.A…
Deaths of Notre Dame alumni
By Notre Dame Magazine
Deaths of Notre Dame alumni