Submitted by: Dan Rich

Rev. James H. McDonald CSC

May 12, 1896 – Oct. 22, 1959

South Bend Tribune 10/23/1959

Rev. James H. McDonald CSC, 63, chaplain at Notre Dame High School, Sherman Oaks, Calif. and former University of Notre Dame professor, died Thursday evening in Sherman Oaks. He was born May 12, 1896 in Mendota, Ill., and entered the novitiate of the Holy Cross Fathers on July 7, 1919, made his final profession July 8, 1923, and was ordained to the priesthood on July 17, 1924. He graduated from Notre Dame in 1919, received a master’s degree from Catholic University, Washington, DC in 1924, and from 1924 to 1928 he studied at Oxford University, England, receiving a bachelor of letters degree in 1930.

Father McDonald taught at the University of Notre Dame from 1925 to 1928, from 1930 to 1946 and from 1947 to 1954, when he assumed the position as chaplain at Sherman Oaks. He taught English courses at the university specializing in Aesthetics. His most recent research is a bibliography on Robert Southwell SJ, a celebrated writer and poet. Funeral arrangements are incomplete.

South Bend Tribune 10/24/1959

Friends of Rev. James H. McDonald CSC, 63, chaplain at Notre Dame High School, Sherman Oaks, Calif. who died Thursday, may call after 5 p.m. Sunday in Corby Hall on the University of Notre Dame campus. The office of the dead will be recited in Sacred Heart Church at 5 p.m. Monday. The funeral mass will be chanted in the church at 8:30 a.m. Tuesday, followed by burial in the Community Cemetery.