Vice President Mike Pence will receive an honorary degree and serve as principal speaker at the University of Notre Dame’s 172nd commencement ceremony May 21 (Sunday).
Helen Condon Jenkins, mother of University of Notre Dame President Rev. John I. Jenkins, C.S.C., died early Monday morning in her hometown of Omaha, Nebraska, after sustaining severe head injuries in an accident Friday. She was 88.
A memorial Mass will take place at 9 p.m. Thursday (Nov. 12) in the Basilica of the Sacred Heart. Father Jenkins will preside.
UPDATE: William Meckling, a 21-year-old senior due to graduate Sunday from the University of Notre Dame, died early Saturday morning (May 16) after a fall from the roof of the Joyce Center.
“Our thoughts and prayers are with Billy’s family and friends after this terrible tragedy,” Rev. John I. Jenkins, C.S.C., the University president, said. “It is a profound sadness for all of us, on this graduation weekend, to lose someone so young and brimming with promise.”