The University received a $250,000 commitment from two anonymous donors to establish an undergraduate scholarship in honor of the late Father J. Bernard Clark.

"The ministry of Father Bernard Clark and numerous other Holy Cross priests like him is among the distinctive benefits of a Notre Dame education," said University president Father Edward Malloy. "This gift is a heartening tribute to their work and witness."

Clark, a native of Montgomery, Ala., made first vows in the Congregation of Holy Cross in 1951 and graduated from Notre Dame in 1955. Ordained to the priesthood in Le Mans, France, in 1958, he studied medieval history at the University of California, Berkeley, and at Notre Dame. From 1970-73, he was assistant director of Notre Dame's Medieval Institute. He left Notre Dame in 1973 to serve in a variety of ministries, including director of campus ministry at California State University, Hayward; associate pastor at St. Francis Xavier Church in Burbank, Calif., and at St. Elizabeth Parish, Portland, Ore., and director of campus ministry at the University of Portland. He died of a heart attack on July 29, 1989, at the age of 56.

The commitment is a component of the University's $767 million "Generations" campaign. Announced in 1997, "Generations" is the largest fundraising campaign in the history of Catholic higher education

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