When fellow Domers meet for the first time, they usually ask the same two questions: “What year did you graduate?” and “Where did you live?” Dorm life is elemental to the Notre Dame undergraduate experience. It always has been, ever since Holy Cross priests and faculty began residing alongside the University’s first students.
The Spirit of Notre Dame campaign will ensure that our residential traditions flourish for generations yet to come, first, by seeking benefactor support for four new residence halls.
The construction of new dorms will allow for the first comprehensive dorm renovation project in University history — uncrowding and refurbishing existing halls to create more common space and more desirable rooms for upperclassmen, as well as to update essential features such as bathrooms and windows.
The first of the new dorms, Duncan Hall, is quickly rising from the University’s West Quad. A campaign gift of Sally and Ray Duncan ’52, the hall will be home to 232 undergraduate males when it opens for the 2008-09 academic year.
To view a complete listing of campaign priorities, click here.
