University of Notre Dame President , extended his deepest condolences to the families of Stephen Grady and James J. Durkin, officers in the Notre Dame Club of Harrisburg (Pennsylvania) who died Thursday (April 19) in a plane crash while traveling to the University.
鈥淎ll of us in the Notre Dame family are shocked and saddened by this tragic news,鈥� Father Jenkins said. 鈥淢y prayers are with Steve and Jim鈥檚 families. We grieve with them and ask for God鈥檚 blessings during this time of sorrow.鈥�
Grady and Durkin, the president and treasurer, respectively, of the Notre Dame Club of Harrisburg, were flying from Lancaster, Pennsylvania, to South Bend for a Notre Dame Alumni Association Leadership Conference this weekend. The crash occurred east of Altoona, Pennsylvania, according to media reports.
Grady graduated from Notre Dame in 1974. Durkin was a member of the club but not an alumnus.