EBF 

Notre Dame's first campaign to build an endowment -- variously known as the Endowment Drive, the Greater Notre Dame Movement, the Notre Dame Expansion Campaign, etc -- was initiated in the summer of 1921. These records primarily document the Endowment Office's collection of pledges. The bulk of the records is correspodence (dating 1923-30) regarding the scheduling of pledge payments, while the rest is correspondence, reports, and miscellaneous records (dating 1921-30) concerning collection activities, prospects, financial transactions, and news reporting of activities at Notre Dame Those primarily involved in the Office's work, as revealed by the records, were University Treasurer Rev. Bernard J. Ill, CSC (during 1923-25), President Emeritus Rev. James A. Burns (during 1924-27), and Endowment Secretary Henry Watts Eicher (during 1925-30). Eicher was also Burns' personal secretary until Burns became Provincial in 1927 so a (very) few personal Burns items have found their way into the Office's records. The bulk of the files were originally organized in one alphabetic series, but of these, only files A-De and M-Qui (excluding Mc) are now extant. A few other files (mainly the Miscellaneous Correspondence re Pledges) have been returned to this group after having been separated from it some time after the office was closed. Annotated box/folder inventory available. Processed by Peter J. Lysy, July 1985 and September 1988. Originally these records were organized in one alphabetical series, but during processing non-correspondece folders were separated and filed in their own sub-series. There may remain, however, some non-correspondence folders still filed among the folders of correspondence with persons regarding their pledges. 



Notre Dame Endowment and Building Fund Office ; Notre Dame: Endowment and Building Fund Office: Records ; 1. Correspondence Files ; Burke, Eugene P. CSC [nothing concerning the Campaign] ; Letters from Important Personages Approving the Drive ; Burns, James A. CSC [President Emeritus] ; Carnegie Foundation / Corporation ; [General Education Board Rockefeller Foundation] ; [Oliver Hotel Corporation Weisburg, Andrew C.] ; [University Librarian Foik, Paul J., and Byrne, Paul R.] ; Vice-President P.J. Carroll CSC and M.A. Mulcaire CSC ; Correspondence with Persons concerning their Pledges ; correspondents A - Ca. ; correspondents Ce - De. ; correspondents Ma - Mi [excluding Mc] ; correspondents Mo - Quin. ; Miscellaneous Correspondence re Pledges ; 2. Bank Statements, Receipts, and Checks ; American Trust Bank ; Chapin State Bank ; Citizens National Bank ; Merchant's National Bank ; People's State Bank ; Miscellaneous Banks ; 3. Purchase Orders and Receipts ; Ave Maria ; [Merline, Fred J. Postmaster] ; Notre Dame Bookstore ; Office Engineers ; Postal Telegraph - Cable Company ; 4. Subject Files and Miscellaneous Document Files ; Addresses Unknown ; Board of Lay Trustees Meeting Minutes, Reports, etc. ; Burke, William J., Golf Course Donation ; Chicago Mailing List circa 1923-30? ; Journals of Student Sales for Studebaker Car Raffle ; Journals listing Hall, officers, student name, tickets given to each student, and tickets and/or dollar amount turned in by that student. ; Notre Dame Club of Lowell Members Pledges ; Prospects ; Old Students Hall Fund ; Advertisements and Articles in Newspapers ; Advertisements and Articles in Newspapers ; Notre Dame: Endowment and Building Fund Office: Microfilm ; Advertisements in Newspapers