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...special privilege to speak at the final commencement of a great leader of American higher education. For over 30 years, Ted Hesburgh has taught us all that it means to be an educator in the fullest sense of the word. At a time when so many of us are little more than energetic administrators, Ted has succeeded not only in strengthening Notre Dame academically but in teaching audiences everywhere about the values that matter in our society...
...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...
Through all the hoopla, as through all the years and honors before, Hesburgh has not wavered from his inner call. "I always wanted to be a priest, ever since I ever wanted to be anything," he says. "Faith keeps him going strong," confirms Georgetown's Healy. "He says Mass like the day he was ordained. That's his real greatness. He's what the Irish call a darlin' man." And, by every appearance, a deeply fulfilled...
Father Ted Hesburgh, a commanding visionary and a "darlin' man," retires after 35 distinguished years as head of Notre Dame...