Saturday
June 1, 2024
William and Mary Ann Smith Ballroom (at Morris Inn)
University of Notre Dame
Notre Dame, IN 46556
Complimentary breakfast opens at 7:15 a.m.
Program 8:00 am – 9:30 a.m.
Livestream @ sycamoretrust.org/breakfast/live
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Our Speakers
Bill Miscamble
Award-winning historian, stalwart promoter of Catholic identity at Notre Dame, and author of “For Notre Dame” and “American Priest.”
Bill Dempsey
Current chairman and founding president of Sycamore Trust and member of the class of 1952.
Friends of
Bill Dempsey
Bill Dempsey has played an indispensable role in service of Notre Dame’s Catholic identity through Sycamore Trust. In fact, rarely does a day go by that he isn’t occupied in some way with Sycamore business – frequently filling up a regular work schedule with projects related to our mission. It’s not the sort of thing that many people aspire to in their retirement nor the sort of thing that many could manage into their 90s. But he did. And he has! And that has meant more to many than they can adequately express.
Patrick Deneen
Patrick Deneen holds a B.A. in English literature and a Ph.D. in Political Science from Rutgers University. Before joining the faculty of Notre Dame in Fall 2012, he was Assistant Professor of Government at Princeton University Associate Professor of Government at Georgetown University. He is the author and editor of several books and numerous articles and reviews and has delivered invited lectures around the world.
Professor Deneen was awarded the A.P.S.A.’s Leo Strauss Award for Best Dissertation in Political Theory in 1995, and an honorable mention for the A.P.S.A.’s Best First Book Award in 2000. He has been awarded research fellowships from Princeton University, Earhart Foundation, and the Institute for Advanced Study at the University of Virginia.
His teaching and writing interests focus on the history of political thought, American political thought, liberalism, conservatism, and constitutionalism.
His widely-discussed 2018 book, Why Liberalism Failed, has been translated into over twenty languages and was praised by The Wallstreet Journal, The New York Times, former President Barack Obama, and Rod Dreher. His most recent book, Regime Change: Toward a Postliberal Future, calls for “replacing the tyranny of the self-serving liberal elite with conservative leaders aligned with the interests of the working class.”
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Father Bill Miscamble has been a member of Notre Dame‘s faculty since 1988, and has served as the Chair of the History Department and Rector and Superior of Moreau Seminary. Father Miscamble received his BA and MA from the University of Queensland and a second MA and his Ph.D. from Notre Dame. He was ordained as a Catholic priest with the Congregation of Holy Cross in 1988. An award-winning historian, his primary research interests are American foreign policy since World War II and the role of Catholics in 20th century U.S. foreign relations. His most recent book, “American Priest,” gives us a clear-eyed and capacious portrait of Father Ted Hesburgh.
Bill Dempsey
Bill Dempsey is the chairman and founding president of Sycamore Trust. He graduated from Notre Dame as class valedictorian, received his law degree from Yale University, served as chief law clerk to Chief Justice Earl Warren, and practiced law in Washington when not serving as President of the Association of American Railroads and Chairman of the National Railway Labor Conference. Following Father Jenkins’s reversal of his tentative decision to bar the student on-campus performance of The Vagina Monologues, he established Sycamore Trust as a self-perpetuating charitable organization with a mission to protect Notre Dame’s Catholic identity.
