Address delivered by the Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh, C.S.C., President, University of Notre Dame, at the 70th Annual Conference of the National University Continuing Education Association, Louisville, Kentucky, April 16, 1985 #555, 1985/0416

Item

Identifier: CPHS 142/22.02

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

"If one might judge from the advent of the first millenium in the year of Our Lord 1000, this unusual benchmark of history is by its very nature the occasion of prophecies of gloom and doom."

Summarizes report, published in 1973, "The Purposes and the Performance of Higher Education in the United States: Approaching the Year 2000."

Similar to (CPHS 142/19.04). Father Hesburgh rewrote his earlier speech from 1982: "Preparing for the Millenium" in (CPHS 142/19.04) to deliver this speech. The first part is the same but the second part is different.

Preparing for the Millenium?

Also UDIS Files?

Enclosed with the address a printed program: "Second General Session," 4 pages. Father Hesburgh received the Signature of Excellence Award, after which he delivered his new version of "Preparing for the Millenium" speech.

Dates

Creation: 1985/0416

Language of Materials

English, Spanish, French, Latin, Italian.

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