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Doug King

Grandpa's best friend there, or one of his great friends be Father Athol Murray at the Notre Dame College.

Campbell King

Grandpa was there when Father Murray opened the college and grandpa always chided him a bit because he always siad he had a college there and grandpa said well you're not going tohave a college until the streets are lined with trees and then you can call it a college.

Many many years later when grandfather was in Texas, San Pedro, he got a call from Father Murray.

Father Murray said, 'We're finally a college. We got our trees all the way down there.'

But grandpa and Father Murray were very great friends and very very different people - Father Murray with his unique language and the way he dealt with people and grandpa was very much the opposite, but they got along very very well.

Grandpa was asked to do a book about Father Murray and he did that what happened. He came from Nebraska and spend three or four days with Father Murray just talking about his life and his work and everything else and then he'd go back to Nebraska where he was living at the time and write up the history or the conversations they had.
Eventually he had a manuscript for what became the Hounds of Notre Dame. As mentioned, grandpa was not one to use bad language or colorful language so they didn't quite feel that his version was really reflecting Father Murray so one of his students, Father Murrays students from Calgary did the color commentary and that book was put out and the movie was made the Hounds of Notre Dame and that is valuable now.

Doug and Campbell King