Marquette University - Hilltop Yearbook (Milwaukee, WI)

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 ■ Edward A. Fitzpatrick, 8.S., Ph D., LL.D., Professor and Head of the Department of Education of the College of Liberal Arts and Dean of the Graduate School of Marquette University a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, member of the American Economics and Political Science Associations Major in the United States Army in charge of administration of the selective service in Wisconsin during the world war. Administrator, author, teacher, scholar, edu cator, economist, sociologist, and a Catholic leader in the civic and the academic world Winner of the Modern Hospital and the Sachs Prizes Dr. Edward A. Fitzpatrick

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This is volume nineteen, the HILLTOP of 1933, conceived and issued at MARQUETTE UNIVERSITY and presented to the students as a record of a years activities and achievements in the various schools and colleges of the University. » » » THE HILLTOP OF THE YEAR NINETEEN HUNDRED AND THIRTY THREE is directed, edited and published by the all-university junior class.

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ITH appreciation for years of effort in the improvement of modern education by which Marquette University, as well as the entire educational world, has benefited, this, Volume XIX, the Hilltop of 1933, is respectfully and gratefully dedicated to Edward A. Fitzpatrick. » » » Although Dr. Fitzpatrick's eminence in the teaching held warrants the exclusion of other undertakings, his accomplishments in many activities have won national recognition. He was secretary ol the Wisconsin State Board of Education during 1919-23 and directed a survey of Wisconsin continuation schools in 1920-1921. From 1913 to 1917 he was executive secretary of the Committee on Practical Training for Public Service and was director of the Society for Promotion of Training for Public Service. During the World War he was a Maior in the Infantry of the United States Army and administered the selective service act in Wisconsin in such a manner as to win highest approval from national officials, and General Crowder in charge of the draft administration in Washington, in commenting on Dr. Fitzpatrick's work, said: We have come to expect the impossible of Wisconsin . » » Dr. Fitzpatrick's sincere interest in educational improvement is evidenced by the fact that he drafted and sponsored the first minimum wage law for teachers, the Wisconsin Educational Bonus law, the half-time school law for children in industry, and the law calling for the establishment ol a training school for public service at the University of Wisconsin. • • » • Dr. Fitzpatrick has written The Educational Views and Influence of DeWitt Ointon, 1911; Budgetmaking in a Democracy, 1918,- Public Administration and Public Welfare in Freedman's America and the New Era, 1920; Industrial Citizenship, 1927, Wisconsin, 1927; Foundation ol Christian Education, 1929; A Curriculum of Religion, 1931; and Life of the Soul, 1931. The Modern Hospital Essay Contest in 1925 was won by him and the Sachs Prize of Columbia university of 1927 was awarded to him for his essay, The Scholarship ol Teachers in Secondary Schools. » • At present he is dean of the graduate school of Marquette University, editor of the Catholic School Journal and of the Marquette Monographs on Education, having in the past edited Hospital Progress; the Wisconsin Educational Horizon, official bulletin of the State Board of Education,- and the Public Servant. He has been president of Mount Mary College for Women since 1928 » • »