St. Edward's Hall (University of Notre Dame)

Infobox_University
name = St. Edward's Hall
type = Residence Hall
established = 1882
gender = Male
rector = Rev. Ralph Haag, CSC
free_label = Undergraduate residents
free = 177
colors = Green/Gold
mascot = none
rivals = Zahm Hall and Duncan Hall
campus = (not located on a quad, but is between the Main Building and Zahm)
website = [http://www.nd.edu/~steds/]
city = Notre Dame
state = Indiana
country = USA

St. Edward's Hall is one of the 28 Residence Halls on the campus of the University of Notre Dame and one of 15 male dorms. St. Ed's is located directly east of Main Building and is directly adjacent to Zahm Hall on the west. St. Ed's houses 177 undergraduate students. St. Ed's main dorm rivalries are with Zahm Hall and the newly opened Duncan Hall.

History

St. Ed's was originally built in 1882 as a boarding school. In 1925 Knute Rockne received his First Holy Communion in the chapel which is dedicated in the name after St. Edward the Confessor. Because of this, St. Ed's is the only dorm on campus that is listed in the National Register of Historic Places. In 1929 it was converted into a residence hall and has since housed undergraduate males making it the oldest building used as a residence hall. In 1981, the third and fourth floors of the building caught fire, but have since been rebuilt.

St. Ed's signature event each year is Founder's Day and Founder's Week (open only to St. Ed's residents). It is celebrated on the week of October 13 and it includes a 2-on-2 basketball tournament, historical lectures, talent show, and a dorm mass. There is also an annual Spring excursion to Chicago, the Yacht Dance, in which the Gentlemen take part in a dance aboard a chartered yacht.

Distinguishing Features

The Chapel of St. Edward the Confessor contains eight stained glass windows depicting various saints, Saint Edward among them, which date to the early 1900s. The same French company also completed a large stained glass portrait of the University's founder Father Edward Sorin, which is found in the central stairwell. In addition, St. Edward's second floor also boasts a mural by the famous Vatican muralist Luigi Gregori, whose work also adorns the Main Building, and the Basilica of the Sacred Heart (and whose paintings were large for no reason other than that he possessed only large paint brushes, having left the smaller ones in Rome). The mural depicts a meeting between Father Sorin and the local Native Americans at the founding of the University in 1842. The residence hall is the oldest building on campus currently in use as an undergraduate dormitory, and its original wing is constructed of the signature yellow bricks dredged by Holy Cross religious from the marl found in the University's two lakes.

Current Rector

Fr. Ralph Haag was the associate pastor of St. Gregory the Great Parish in Phoenix, Arizona. Fr. Ralph graduated from Creighton University in 1998 and earned a masters of divinity from the University of Notre Dame in 2003.

Notable Residents

* Paul Hornung - Heisman Trophy winner
* Phil Donahue - Talk show host
* Sadoluwa "Dolu" Lanlehin - Nigerian prince
* Jimmy Clausen - Notre Dame Football Quarterback
* Chris "C-Wilz" Wilson - Former Assistant Rector

External links

* [http://www.nd.edu/~steds St. Edward's Hall Website]
* [http://orlh.nd.edu/halls/stedwards/index.htm St. Edward's Hall Profile at the Office of Residence Life and Housing]
* [http://www.nd.edu University of Notre Dame Website]