By Sam Royer ’15, Patrick Millican ’15, Matt Koehler ’15
Updated December 14, 2012 at 1:00 PM
On Wednesday, December 5, Notre Dame fans rushed to LH 223 in anticipation of an appearance from Notre Dame linebacker and Heisman nominee Manti Te’o. Despite the club’s somewhat misleading announcement, Te’o, of course, didn’t show, but thirty-something diehards stuck around anyway and enjoyed a video featuring Te’o and fellow Notre Dame athlete Skylar Diggins. Once the video ended, Mr. Healey, the club’s moderator, explained that the Notre Dame club is more than football talk and film-watching: It also organizes charitable events such as Kick It For Cancer and the Rudy Bowl. They were the designers and vendors of the iShirts, raising $2500 for pediatric cancer research. The Notre Dame Club, reportedly the only club of its kind in the country, has been putting on events like these for the past ten years.
The club’s most famous former member, Danny Fox ’08, currently attends Notre Dame and still checks in with the club. Fox recently sent a picture of himself wearing the iShirt. This year, as a result of the university’s success in football, the club features an impressive turnout of over sixty five students, a substantial increase from last year.
Mr. Healey, a graduate of Notre Dame, says, \”The best thing about the Notre Dame club is that we can do good here at Saint Ignatius while having fun and watching Notre Dame games.”
