Frank Reynolds Hometown: Northbrook, Illinois High School: Fenwick (Chicago) Position: Director ('05-'08 term) Monogram Earned: Football

Former Notre Dame football running back Frank Reynolds - a private attorney in Chicago for more than 40 years - has joined the Monogram Club board and will serve his three-year term from 2005-08. Reynolds and his father founded the Chicago-based Law Office of Reynolds and Reynolds Ltd. in 1964. His practice - which also now includes his daughter, Jeanne Reynolds - specializes in business transactions, commercial litigation, corporate, estate planning and real estate work.

After graduating from Notre Dame in 1959 with a liberal arts degree from the General Program (now known as the Program of Liberal Studies), Reynolds went on to earn his law degree from Loyola Chicago ('62) and worked two years at the U.S. Department of Justice as a trial attorney in the Chicago anti-trust division before transitioning into private practice in Chicago.

He served on the board of directors for the Notre Dame Club of Chicago in the late 1960s (when it passed an advisory vote to approve the admission of women at Notre Dame) and was a 12-year board of trustees member for the National Leukemia Society in the 1970s and '80s. Reynolds currently serves on the Loyola University School of Law board of governors and was a director and chairman of the audit committee for a corporation listed on the NASDAQ.

A determined Frank Reynolds walked on to the Notre Dame football team in the mid-1950s and went on to be a key member of the Irish backfield.

Despite not being recruited by Notre Dame but having scholarship offers from Michigan and Stanford, Reynolds walked on to the Irish team and went on to earn three monograms as a regular contributor at left halfback. He was the starter in a 1957 backfield that also included right halfback Dick Lynch, quarterback Bob Williams and fullback Nick Pietrosante - with Lynch scoring the historic touchdown that beat Oklahoma that season (7-0) to end what remains the longest winning streak (47 games) in college football history.

Reynolds scored a pair of touchdowns and totaled 26 tackles as a sophomore in 1956 - helping him earn scholarship status for the rest of his career - before gaining 191 rushing yards and 68 receiving yards in '57 (his final season, in '58, was slowed by injury). He also served as president of the on-campus branch of the Notre Dame Monogram Club.

Frank Reynolds and his Notre Dame teammates halted what remains the longest winning streak in NCAA football history, winning 7-0 at Oklahoma in 1957 to snap the Sooners' 47-game win streak.

In addition to those players listed above, Reynolds also played alongside the likes of Heisman Trophy quarterback Paul Hornung and All-America linemen Al Ecuyer, Monty Stickles and Myron Pottios.

The Chicago native and Fenwick High School product currently resides in Northbrook, Ill., with his wife Peggy. Their five children include 1983 Saint Mary's graduate Jeanne (whose husband Tom Fallon is an '83 ND grad.), Kevin, Margaret, Carolyn (whose husband Bob Armour is an '87 ND grad.) and John.