I (We) hosted a forum in April-2007 to which my fellow librarians from Purdue University and Davenport University in Granger, IN joined us for lunch at Legends @ Notre Dame. I am very appreciative of the fact that my colleagues here at Notre Dame joined us for lunch and a meaningful dicussion about the profession. Here is a photo of the group that joined us for lunch.




The University of Notre Dame~ACE Program Welcomes the First Lady of the United States, Mrs. Laura Bush:



Mrs. Laura Bush will be the principal speaker Saturday (July 14) at the 12th annual graduation ceremony for the University of Notre Dame’s Alliance for Catholic Education (ACE) program.
The ceremony will begin at 3 p.m. in the Leighton Concert Hall of the DeBartolo Center for the Performing Arts and is a ticketed event for the friends and families of the graduates.
The ACE program will confer master of education degrees on 84 graduates who have received instruction on campus the past two summers and served during the 2005-06 and 2006-07 academic years in Catholic schools nationwide. They will join more than 700 ACE alumni, the majority of whom remain in education as either teachers or administrators.
Mrs. Bush is actively involved in issues of national and global concern, with a particular emphasis on education, health care and human rights. Among her initiatives in education was a historic trip to Afghanistan in March 2005 to witness firsthand the work of the Women’s Teacher Training Institute, which is training women to lead classrooms that girls once were forbidden to enter.
A librarian by training, Mrs. Bush is honorary ambassador for the United Nations Literacy Decade, serving as an international spokesperson for efforts to educate people throughout the world, especially women and girls. She hosted the first-ever White House Conference on Global Literacy in 2006 to encourage international cooperation to build free societies through literacy. She also has been involved in teacher recruitment programs such as Teach for America.

Due to the recent death of Presidential First Lady: "Lady Bird Johnson", Fr. Theodore Hesburgh was the keynote address speaker for this event.