Department of Film, Television, and Theatre

A series of three documentary films, directed by award-winning film directors who are also University of Notre Dame alumni, will be released on the WatchND app and the UND.com website during the last three weeks of this year. The series, “First Time Fans,” presents the excitement and wonder of some very different people as they experience a Notre Dame football game for the first time.

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Frederic Winkler Syburg, professor emeritus of film, television, and theatre at the University of Notre Dame, died Friday (Feb. 15) at Zilber Hospice in Wauwatosa, Wis. He was 88 years old.

A Milwaukee native, Syburg grew up there and graduated from Milwaukee University School before going to Brown University, where he studied for a year before enlisting in the Army Medical Corps at the outbreak of World War II.

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