This week, I had a chance to peruse a new book, I Love You, Dad, written by Notre Dame parent Daniel McCain. His family hopes, via the proceeds of this book, to endow a scholarship at Notre Dame in the name of Russell McCain, Daniel’s father and subject of the book. Other proceeds will benefit the American Cancer Society.

Danny Yanez, ’08, president of the Notre Dame Club of Miami, described it well:

I Love You Dad is written with love, emotion, and passion. The early chapters, written by Russell McCain, describe a happy childhood in New England during the 1930s to the early 1950s. Then, the story shifts to 2013 and an emotional tale of an adult David driving Russell, now sadly infirm, home from Florida to Connecticut over a three-day period, a trip that they both silently know to be Russell’s last days. I Love You Dad then eases back into colorful and warm storytelling and warm recollections. In the final chapter, a series of letters from the father to the son are published, each demonstrating an underlying spirit of love and support throughout the son’s various stages of young adulthood.

As the Notre Dame community mourns the loss of perhaps its ultimate father figure, take some time to meet another father in the Notre Dame family and learn about how his life touched multiple generations. The book can be purchased at Amazon.com or via the the I Love You Dad book website.