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Armando Hinojosa

Other HInojosa sculptures are the Juan Seguin monument at Seguin Central Park in Seguin, Texas, the Knute Rockne and Ara Parseghian statues at Notre Dame University in South Bend, Indiana, and the life-size "Among Friends There Are No Borders" statue at Laredo International Airport, which depicts a South Texas vaquero and a Mexican charro sharing a campfire.

Ben Habern

Habern was heavily recruited starting early in his junior year across the country receiving scholarships from Oklahoma, Arizona, Florida State, Miami (FL), Nebraska, Notre Dame, Oklahoma State, Texas A&M, and Texas Tech).

Cornell Club of New York

Membership in the Cornell Club is restricted to alumni, faculty, and students of the Ivy League institution Cornell University, as well as alumni of a short list of affiliated schools, such as Brown, Colgate, Duke, Georgetown, Notre Dame, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Stanford, Tulane, and Wake Forest.

John P. Kirk

His only son, Bernard Kirk, was an All-American football player who played for both Notre Dame University and the University of Michigan.

Keystone National High School

Keystone graduates have been accepted at many major universities and colleges, including Calvin College, Dartmouth, New York University, Duke, Notre Dame, Rice, Stanford, Yale, and West Point Academy.

Mahendra P. Lama

Prof. Lama had been Chairman, Centre for South, Central, Southeast Asia and South West Pacific Studies at the School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, a Ford Foundation Fellow at Notre Dame University, USA, and a Visiting Professor in Hitotsubashi University, Japan.

Mikhail Turovsky

Mikhail Turovsky's work is represented in permanent collections of the National Art Museum of Ukraine in Kiev, the State Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow, the Yad Vashem Memorial Art Museum in Jerusalem, the Herbert Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University in New York, and the Notre Dame University Art Museum in Indiana, as well as many public and private collections.

Pinchas Hacohen Peli

He was Professor of Jewish Thought and Literature at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and a visiting professor at Yeshiva University, Cornell University, Notre Dame University, the Seminario Rabbinico in Argentina and the Makuya Bible Seminary in Japan.

Soo K. Chan

He has taught in several international architectural schools including National University of Singapore, Syracuse University and has also lectured at Tamsui University, Taipei, University of Paris and Notre Dame University.


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