Submitted by Dan Rich

Herbert T. Juliano

Dec. 14, 1922 - Feb. 24, 1998

South Bend Tribune 2/27/1998

SOUTH BEND - Herbert T. Juliano, 75, of 3602 S. Ironwood Drive, South Bend, Ind., residing at St. Paul's Retirement Community, passed away in his sleep on Tuesday, Feb. 24. He had never married and had no children. Herb was born on Dec. 14, 1922, in Philadelphia, Pa., the fourth of seven children born to Ralph and Margaret Juliano. Later his family moved to Hammonton, N.J. Herb was a pioneer developer of the Little League baseball program and led his hometown Little League team to a World Series Championship in 1949. He had a brief fling with the Philadelphia A's.

An Army veteran of World War II, Herb came to Notre Dame in 1950. He was curator of Notre Dame's International Sports and Games Research Collection. He was a regular on the popular ''Hoosier Favorite'' TV program locally. A sportscaster on WNDU TV-16, he also assisted the late Joe Boland on the Irish football network at WSBT TV-22. Beginning in 1977 he served on the United States Olympic Committee for eight years, the last four as vice-chairman of its educational council.

In 1983 he was sent to Greece to represent the U.S. in a lecture on ''violence in sports'' to representatives of 75 nations.

He retired in 1987 from the Notre Dame University, working in the sports information department but was far from retiring. He sought out ways to do the Lord's work and to continue his life's habit of helping everyone he came in contact with and, using his limited resources generously until, as he often put it, ''to give, is to give until it hurts.'' Herb founded four national religious organizations; S.E.R.V. - Students Encouraging Religious Vocations; The National Legion of S.E.R.V.; the St. Peregrine Prayer Society (for cancer patients), and People of the Pope. He authored two books, in 1974, ''A Whole New Ballgame.'' In 1993, ''Notre Dame Odyssey, a Journey Through Sports and Spirituality on the Notre Dame Campus.''

Herb was a member of the Sacred Heart parish on the Notre Dame campus where he loved to read Scripture for the Masses, and was known for years to be found every evening at 6:45 reciting the Rosary at the Grotto on the campus. Moving to St. Paul's Retirement Community in mid-1997, he read daily for the Mass, and played the organ and loved to entertain the elderly. He is survived by three sisters, Virginia Miehl from Hammonton, N.J., Bertha Siscone, also of Hammonton, and Marie Curriden of Westmont, N.J.; and by two brothers, Richard Juliano of Florida and Alfred Juliano of Egg Harbor Twp., N.J.

Friends may call from 3 to 5 and 7 to 9 p.m. on Sunday at the McGann Funeral Home, 2313 E. Edison Road, South Bend. Funeral services will be held at 9:30 a.m. on Monday, March 2, in the Notre Dame Sacred Heart Basilica. He will be laid to rest in Notre Dame's Cedar Grove Cemetery.

Memorial contributions may be made to the Saint Lawrence Seminary (the poor boys' seminary), Atten: Fr. Kenan/Memorial-Herb Juliano, 301 Church Street, Mt. Calvary, WI 53057. In a life of go-getters, Herb was a Go-Giver - God's Go-Giver.