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Observer Staff Report | Monday, December 4, 2017
Dr. William Hickey, who served as the ninth president of Saint Mary’s from 1986-1997, died Tuesday at age 81 in Sanibel, Florida, according to an email College President Jan Cervelli sent to the College community Friday. A biology professor and nationally acclaimed insect geneticist, Dr. Hickey spent almost 40 years at Saint Mary’s — during
Selena Ponio | Thursday, March 17, 2016
Family, friends and members of the Notre Dame community filled the Basilica of the Sacred Heart Wednesday evening to honor the life of Theresa Sagartz, a junior and former resident of Pangborn Hall, who died last week in her off-campus apartment due to apparent natural causes related to a medical condition. University President Fr. John Jenkins
Letter to the Editor | Wednesday, November 11, 2015
My wife Sandy and I spent a couple of weeks in Italy earlier this spring. We had a great time, saw a lot of ancient and Middle Ages history, ate a lot of pasta and experienced a very different culture. Top on our list was of more recent history, a place we weren’t even looking
Letter to the Editor | Friday, March 6, 2015
To the Members of the Student Body, On behalf of the Congregation of Holy Cross, I’d like to thank each of you for the ways in which you honored the life of Fr. Theodore Hesburgh, CSC, these past few days. Your late night visits to the Basilica, participation in the wake, funeral Mass, procession to
Ann Marie Jakubowski | Thursday, March 5, 2015
The funeral Mass celebrating the life of University President Emeritus Fr. Theodore Hesburgh on Wednesday afternoon commended him to heaven with the strength of more than 1,000 participants. At the Basilica of the Sacred Heart, where he was first ordained in 1943, more than 100 of his brother priests from the Congregation of Holy Cross
Ann Marie Jakubowski | Wednesday, March 4, 2015
In his years as president, Fr. Theodore Hesburgh always kept his office door open to students who wanted to visit him, even in the middle of the night. And all through Tuesday night into Wednesday morning, students took him up on the offer one last time, visiting the Basilica of the Sacred Heart in a
Letter to the Editor | Sunday, March 1, 2015
I was so fortunate to spend with time with Fr. Hesburgh on a number of occasions. Many of those that stand out for me are when I visited campus for Notre Dame football games and hung out with him for a bit while we watched football from his perch above the Stadium. When I left
Letter to the Editor | Sunday, March 1, 2015
In the few short days since Father Hesburgh’s passing, I’ve been struck by the overwhelming stories. Not the stories of his work on civil rights or immigration. Not the stories of his meetings with world leaders. And not the stories of the brilliance and foresight that made him a transformative figure in Catholic education. Those
Letter to the Editor | Sunday, March 1, 2015
At the Friday editorial meeting for “NBC Nightly News,” I was trying to explain Fr. Ted’s impact to a room of people who had never met him. And it hit me. I told them Fr. Ted had impacted the lives of everyone in that room, even though they probably didn’t know it. It didn’t matter if you
Letter to the Editor | Sunday, March 1, 2015
The three hours I spent with Fr. Ted were easily the most worthwhile three hours of my Notre Dame career. It was August before my junior year had begun. I was back on campus early and looking for something to do before my classes began. On several occasions the previous year I had tried and