A Look Back: the University of Notre Dame, 1957-58

Enthusiasm rears it head again as we've reviewed the 1957-58 Dome, the University of Notre Dame yearbook. We’ve thumbed through the thing and found a few items of interest, which we’ve highlighted below - plus with added commentary.

During the 1957-58 school year, Bellairs lived in Sorin Hall, and was a member of the Bookmen, a University of Notre Dame student literary organization.

Visitors

The following people and groups visited the campus [1].

• Pianists Arthur Ferrante and Louis Teicher (Jan.)
• Folk musician Richard Dyer-Bennet (Feb. 21)
• Bellairs later met Dyer-Bennet and escorted him around one of the campuses where he later taught.  "The Vicar of Bray" was one of Bellairs’s favorite songs, it being about a clergyman who survives the several waves of English religious wars by shifting his allegiances in order to keep his job [2].
• Varel and Bailly with the Chanteurs de Paris, a European vocal group (Mar. 1958)
• Senate Investigator Robert F. Kennedy (Patriot of the Year, 1958) [3]

References

• [1] "The Dome", University of Notre Dame (1958).
• [2] Correspondence with Alfred Myers.
• [3] "Patriot of the Year Recipients", University of Notre Dame.