George Nauman Shuster was an American journalist, author, and educator who was born in Lancaster, Wisconsin in 1894 and died in South Bend, Indiana, on January 25, 1977.
He was the editor of Commonweal , a Catholic magazine of news and commentary from 1928 to 1940; president of Hunter College in New York City, a school for women; assistant to President Theodore Hesburgh of the University of Notre Dame; and director of the Center for the Study of Man in Contemporary Society at Notre Dame.
The center's major project was a three-year, nationwide study of Catholic elementary and secondary schools.
[2] As an academic Shuster explored the influence of Catholicism in English literature in several scholarly monographs.
In 1960 he was honored with Laetare Medal by of Notre Dame, awarded to those, "whose genius has ennobled the arts and sciences, illustrated the ideals of the church and enriched the heritage of humanity.".