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...football, it still has its place at Notre Dame, though an increasingly modest one (since 1981 the team has posted a 34-31-1 record). More impressive, however, are the team members' academic statistics. Some 95% of the football players in the past 25 years have graduated, compared with a figure as low as 20% at unrepentant jock factories. Adds Father Edmund Joyce, Hesburgh's longtime executive vice president, who will also retire next week: "We're playing by another set of rules...
Those rules, along with the other elevating standards Hesburgh has pounded into Notre Dame, leave other college presidents somewhat in awe. Says Jesuit Father Timothy Healy, president of Georgetown University: "If you ask American college presidents who is the most successful president they know, they'll say, 'Ted Hesburgh.' " Harvard's reticent Derek Bok will venture from Cambridge, Mass., to South Bend, Ind., this Sunday to deliver a rare extramural commencement speech in tribute to his old friend...
Hesburgh, who attended Notre Dame's Holy Cross seminary and later taught theology at the university, has gone at his prodigious works with unwavering energy and focus -- plus a regal self-assurance. A globe-trotter who covers as many as 150,000 miles a year proselytizing for Notre Dame, he has said Mass at the South Pole and at the Faculty House of the University of Moscow. (The difference between God and Hesburgh, goes an old campus joke, is that God is everywhere and Hesburgh everywhere but Notre Dame.) With this spiritual nourishment fed into a healthy ego, he retains...
...course of this odyssey, Hesburgh has collected a record 112 honorary degrees (runner-up: Herbert Hoover, with 89). These days are being filled with further honors as Father Ted says adieu. Last Saturday he gave a televised address via satellite to some 50,000 Notre Dame alumni around the world. He opened on the jocular note that "these recent weeks and months have been like attending one's own funeral," and he summed up with sentimental elegance, "I leave this university . . . in the hands of Notre Dame, Our Lady...
After commencement, the university's presidency will pass from Father Ted to Father Ed: Edward ("Monk") Malloy, 46, a former Notre Dame basketball player who has been an associate professor of theology and associate provost. At that point, Hesburgh and fellow Retiree Joyce will take off for a vacation tour of the West in a 26-ft. motor home equipped with auxiliary mopeds. The two priests have been warming up for the journey by buzzing around campus on the red bikes, wearing red helmets and black jackets...