Marquette University - Hilltop Yearbook (Milwaukee, WI)

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 CENTER OF THE UNIVERSITY Reconversion at Marquette is becoming an accomplished fact under the skillful guidance of its president, Father Peter A. Brooks, S.J., and the Board of Governors. Marquette administrators foresaw the terrific demand for postwar education that caused registration to reach a new high of over 5300 students and quietly took the necessary steps to make the university's facilities available to knowledge-hungry veterans. July will mark the formal end of the campus military era that saw hundreds of soldiers and sailors enrolled at Marquette obtaining an education that would speed victory. Now the University's efforts arc being directed toward helping the students understand and maintain the peace. Most of its units will mark this return to normalcy by returning to the two semester a year routine. The navy will revert to its peacetime ROTC status.

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ADMINISTRATION

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Rev. Pt(cr A. Brooks. S.J. and his secretary, James J. Dalton Marquette officials arc cognizant of their obligations, as defined by distributive justice, to guide and care for the intellectual, spiritual and physical welfare of the student body. They recognize the right of the individual to complete or initiate a course of higher study and have given much thought and time to caring for the returned serviceman, as well as the non-veteran student. Additional dormitory facilities will be placed at their disposal in September and the recent addition of the classroom annex increased the school's registration capacity. Special courses designed to aid veterans have been instituted in addition to a comprehensive on the campus veteran’s aid center. But there remains a predominant reconversion problem of providing adequate facilities for the crowded schools and colleges and for the many still seeking admission to them. Father Brooks has seen the solution in the Marquette Fund Drive which lie initiated this year to raise three million dollars. These funds will be used to erect a library, classroom building and additional dormitory facilities as well as a revolving loan and student aid fund. As a Marquette graduate, Father Brooks has kept an unusual and personal contact with the students in addition to his keen interest in University activities and in the community welfare. He has kept Marquette among the nation's leading educational institutions. Under the capable leadership of Father Brooks, the staff and faculty are discharging their obligations to Marquette students in keeping with the traditions of their predecessors. Wartime Marquette is successfully reconverting. Marquette has met the challenge. Pagf 11