The second verse, which is in the public domain, previously read: In commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the enrollment of women undergraduates, Notre Dame on Thursday June 2 announced a slight - but significant - change to the famous fight song in order to honor both the “sons and daughters” of the University. Nearly 46 years later, Prezzano’s wish has been realized. “So, can’t you please join with us and help to improve our fight song? Granted, it’s the football players who are ‘marching on to victory’ but shall we make up a different song for women’s varsity and intramural sports? Is it too much to rewrite a simple but very traditional fight song and admit that women are here to stay, or would this be the straw that broke the alumnus’ back?” -Maryann Moorman “Isn’t it about time that they noticed that we’re not all ‘sons,’ and change the words? For two years now, I’ve sung our fight song, at the top of my lungs on many occasions, ending it with as ‘our loyal sons and daughters march on to victory.’ (Hammerstein could have done better!),” she wrote in the letter published September 28, 1976. She penned a letter to the editor of The Observer, the campus newspaper. This was in the early years of Notre Dame coeducation. She appreciated the sentiment, but it got her thinking. Maryann Moorman Prezzano ’78 was a Notre Dame junior living in Breen-Phillips Hall in 1976 when some male undergraduates gathered outside to serenade the B-P women with a vocal rendition of the “Notre Dame Victory March.” ![]() The tune remains the same, but the “Victory March” now recognizes Notre Dame’s sons and daughters.
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