The Ted Weber Jr. Family Collection Advancing the Catholic Intellectual Heritage was established in 2003. Ted (’45) worked at McGraw-Hill Inc., beginning in 1949 and retired in 1985 as the executive vice president of administration and staff services. He was also on the board of directors. At Notre Dame, he is a member of the Edward Frederick Society. He and his late wife, Dorothy, have four sons, one of whom is a Notre Dame graduate:  Theodore S. (’74). 

 

The Weber Collection will advance the Catholic intellectual tradition by allowing the Libraries to become a humanistic laboratory filled with collections reflective of the past and influential of the future of the Church. The Endowment has helped to expand the Libraries’ 3.3-million-volume paper collection, which is still dwarfed by other research institutions. Through this Endowment’s funds, the University will be better able to build primary source materials that encompass past centuries through the written word, including novels, memoirs, travel narratives, newspapers, and popular periodicals.

 

Ted attributes his love of the written word to his parents, who filled their home with books. Because of this, he has established collections for each generation of the Weber family. The two others are the Laura K. and Theodore S. Weber Sr. Family Endowed Collection for Penguin Books and the Dorothy and Ted Weber Jr. Family Collection: The Retrospective Fund for the College of Arts and Letters.