The book of portraits
Rock Back Home Under Golden Dome
This striking resemblance of the late Knute K. Rockne , who made Notre Dame famous in football, is the work of Gene Montgomery, A Chicago artist, pictured applying the finishing touches to the masterpiece. The oil painting will hang in the Rockne Memorial Field House at Notre Dame. It was on display last night for the 1,000 guests who attended the annual banquet for the 1938 Notre Dame football team sponsored by the St. Joe Valley Club at South Bend, Ind. [1938 newspaper publication - unknown publisher, taken from a Montgomery family scrapbook]
This striking resemblance of the late Knute K. Rockne , who made Notre Dame famous in football, is the work of Gene Montgomery, A Chicago artist, pictured applying the finishing touches to the masterpiece. The oil painting will hang in the Rockne Memorial Field House at Notre Dame. It was on display last night for the 1,000 guests who attended the annual banquet for the 1938 Notre Dame football team sponsored by the St. Joe Valley Club at South Bend, Ind. [1938 newspaper publication - unknown publisher, taken from a Montgomery family scrapbook]
Portraits of prominent corporate leaders of American institutions.
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Calvin Fentress - Allstate Chairman of the Board, 1957-1966
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Judson Branch Allstate Chairman of the Board, 1966
Ellsworth Augustus - tenth National president of the Boy Scouts of America 1959 - 1964
Diane Ward Winner Evanston Womans Club
Dr. Richard E. Hamlin President George William College
Paul Vincent Galvin co-founder of Motorola. Painting is in the Paul V. Galvin Library Illinois Institute of Technology
Lessing J. Rosenwald president of Sears, Roebuck and Company from 1908–1923, and chairman from 1923–1932
Gordon E. Metcalf chairman and chief executive of Sears, Roebuck and Company from 1967 until his retirement in 1973
Dr. Eugene Skinner NWU Dentistry School
Prof. Philip Farkas Chicago Symphony Orchestra & joined the music faculty at Indiana University Bloomington. 1960
Richard Orr president of the Chicago Press Club and the Newspaper Farm Editors of America - Saddle Sirloin Club 1972
Dr. Francis J. Gerty head of the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Illinois College of Medicine
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James Barker - Allstate Chairman of the Board, 1943. chairman at Allstate for 14 years
Mr. Alden Barber - fifth Chief Scout Executive of the Boy Scouts of America from 1967 to 1976
Irving Feist National president of the Boy Scouts of America 1971 - 1973
Dr. Robert Jennings Pathology Northwestern University
Medical school 
Harold MacDonald President Household Finance 1948
Motorola Robert Galvin - Motorola circa 1960
Austin Cushman chairman and chief executive officer of Sears, Roebuck & Company 1950 - 1972
Dr. J. Roscoe Miller Chancellor twelfth president of Northwestern University, serving between 1949 and 1970
Leon A. Green dean of Northwestern University School of Law (1929–1947)
Dr. Harry F. Dowling chair of the Department of Preventive Medicine at the University of Illinois School of Medicine 1950
J.C. Holbert President of the American Angus Association Saddle & Sirloin Club 1973
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