Submitted by: Dan Rich

Brother Dominic Elder CSC

Mar. 22, 1905 – Apr. 3, 1976

South Bend Tribune 4/5/1976

Services for Brother Dominic Elder CSC, 71, of Columba Hall, Notre Dame, who was found dead in his room about 6:30 p.m. Saturday of an apparent heart attack, will be at 3:30 p.m. Tuesday in the Chapel of St. Joseph at the Holy Cross Brothers Center, on the campus of Holy Cross Junior College. Burial will be in St. Joseph Cemetery, also on the campus. Friends may call in the Chapel, where a wake will be at 7:30 p.m. today.

He was born March 22, 1905 in Paducah, Ky. and entered the Congregation of Brothers of Holy Cross Oct. 18, 1929. He received his habit July 1, 1931; made his first vows July 2, 1932 and his final vows Aug. 16, 1935. He held degrees of BA, 1936, MA, 1942 and Ph.D, 1951, all from the University of Notre Dame. His teaching career began in 1936 in Coyle High School in Taunton, Mass. and included assignments at Sacred Heart Military Academy in Watertown, Wis.; Gilmore Academy in Gates Mills, Ohio; Archbishop Hoban High School, Akron, Ohio; Notre Dame High School in Sherman Oaks, Calif.; and Moreau High School in Hayward, Calif. He also served as director of Bishop David High School in Louisville; superior of Dujarie Hall at Notre Dame, and assistant and master of novices in Rolling Prairie, Ind. He returned to Notre Dame in 1975 to become assistant archivist for the Holy Cross Brothers.