sides, from Catholics who believed it
inappropriate for a priest to be tied
to business interests, to a stockholder
who didn't want a man vowed to pov-
erty on the board.
There were two profound changes
under his watch that particularly
made him proud. The first was shift-
ing control in 1967 from the Congre-
gation of the Holy Cross priests who
founded the school to a lay board.
"The time had come for the priests
of the Holy Cross to relinquish owner-
ship and control of the university to
a lay board of trustees who would be
better equipped to oversee its future
well-being," Hesburgh wrote. "Vati-
can II had said that laypeople should
Hesburgh stood alongside Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. — literally and figuratively — in the battle for Civil
Rights.
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