Sports, Character and Culture
Next summer, Notre Dame's Mendelson Center for Sport,
Character, and Culture will offer a symposium on coaching through
its newly established Institute for Coaching Education (ICE).
The symposium will address such topics as building leadership,
cultivating community and promoting positive motivation. Participants
will have the opportunity to discuss some of the most challenging
issues for coaches and to learn research-based practical strategies
for more effective coaching. The Mendelson Center welcomes contact
from alumni and friends of Notre Dame. For more information about
the center and the 2003 symposium, contact the director of "Summer
ICE" at cscc@nd.edu or 574-631-4445.
Career Center Services
The Alumni Association, in partnership with The Career
Center, has developed resources for alumni who are in the midst
of a job search or are contemplating a career change. The services
include resume and cover letter reviews, interviewing tips, advice
on networking, job postings and more. Visit the Alumni link on
The Career Center Web site (careercenter.nd.edu) to access the
resources.
Kevin Monahan '94, assistant director of the Career Center,
is assisting alumni and local alumni clubs who are interested
in beginning a job club through which alumni can share ideas,
contacts and leads. Job club members also serve as a support network
during the trying times of a job search. Individuals or alumni
club officers interested in learning more about how to begin a
job club can contact Monahan at Monahan.22@nd.edu.
PLS Summer Symposium
The Program of Liberal Studies' Summer Symposium offers
alumni and friends of Notre Dame a return to intellectual stimulation
on campus through week-long discussions of texts by such authors
as Plato, Cicero, Shakespeare, Dostoevsky, Ralph Waldo Emerson,
Darwin, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf and Martin Luther King Jr.
Led by the program's regular faculty, the classes are built around
discussion rather than lecture. For more information about the
Summer Symposium, e-mail the director at al.pls.1@nd.edu or call
574-631-7172.
Notre Dame Merchandise
Proceeds of several items being offered for sale by The
Alumni Association this fall will benefit alumni continuing education
and community service programs.
The Notre Dame brass table lamp features the University seal
in gold on a black parchment shade, a marble base and centerpiece,
and three candelabra. The lamps can be personalized with name,
graduation year and degree. Orders may be placed at 1-800-341-1835.
"God, Country, Notre Dame" is the theme for the 2002 Notre Dame
Christmas ornament, which features images of the Basilica of the
Sacred Heart and the Golden Dome. The Christmas ornament is available
at the Hammes Notre Dame Bookstore or by calling the bookstore
catalog center at 800-647-4641.
An 11-by-18-inch green "Go Irish" towel, which also supports
SARG (Student-Alumni Relations Group), is sold at several campus
locations on football weekends and can also be purchased through
the Notre Dame Bookstore catalog center at 800-647-4641.
The "Fighting Irish Christmas Express" is a 20-inch-long, hand
painted, porcelain train carrying the leprechaun, Santa and his
team of elves in six festively-decorated cars. ORder through 800-243-4664
or www.danburymintsports.com.
Six posters are available depicting Irish football players in
action. The poster art also illustrates the tickets for this season's
six home football games. To order, call 574-631-9224.
Illustrations of all of the products listed above can be viewed
at alumni.nd.edu.
Florida Fling
Rev. Theodore Hesburgh, CSC, and Rev. Edmund Joyce, CSC,
are scheduled to speak at the next Florida Fling. The 2003 Fling
will take place at the Colony Hotel in Palm Beach, Florida, February
28-March 2. For more information, call Alumni Reunions at 574-631-6199.
On Campus Viewing
Fans without game tickets may view Irish football games
on a large screen at the Eck Visitors Center auditorium this fall.
On home football game Saturdays the Eck Center opens at 8 a.m.
and closes upon finish of the game. Prior to kickoff, a 20-minute
Notre Dame video, "A Deeper Sense of Tradition," will be shown.
Home football games also will continue to be shown in the north
dome of the Joyce Center.
Regular features of the Eck Visitors Center include information
and artifacts, a lighted aerial map of the current campus, six
historic aerial views and interactive kiosks for a virtual tour
of campus. Original art on display includes six works by the late
world-renowned artist and ND professor Ivan Mestrovic, as well
as "The Visitation" and "Brother Andrè" by the late Notre
Dame sculptor Rev. Anthony Lauck, CSC, '42.
Save on Prescriptions
Alumni and friends who do not already have a co-payment
drug program available to them can save an average of 20 to 25
percent on prescription drugs through a national program honored
at some 47,000 locations nationwide, including nearly all the
major retail pharmacies.
Additional information is available at www.findrx2go2.com or
by calling 219-631-6000.
RecSports Alumni
RecSports requests that all former RecSports, interhall
or non-varsity employees send their postal and e-mail addresses
to the department. RecSports wishes to invite former employees to
events held for them during home football games and Reunion. Information
may be sent to Brown.146@nd.edu or RecSports, c/o Dave Brown, 100
Rolfs Sports Recreation Center, Notre Dame IN 46556.
