Marquette University - Hilltop Yearbook (Milwaukee, WI)

Page 10 text:

. Dedicated to . . . Fr. William McEvoy, SJ., Father William H. McEvoy is an all-Uni- versity institution. He is a disciplinary board, a counseling service, a misdemeanor court and a kind of portable Catholic Church. He has both the gentle manner and the stern approach of TV's Ben Casey and is a walking illustration of what the late President Iohn F. Kennedy termed avigahf' Father Mac, as the campus crowd knows him, can often be found in his strategically-lo- cated oltice in the dental school basement. Wheel- . . . Students' Priest ing around his office in an old, brown Wooden chair, Father Mac carries on a continuous dia- logue with the corridor clientele. When his office door is closed, chances are that problems are being discussed or sins con- fessed by an occupant of his green leather hot seat. His days are iilled with Eve-minute sessions with innumerable friends-iive minutes for casual conversation, confession or Communion. The pat- tern is typical, but never tedious, for Father Mac.

Page 9 text:

Fiftieth Annual w - A r if W 525. , . ,X , X I? , S Vg ,sk .. AQQQQQZZ 1 ::y,, AWA M Q W3 M' V W ,-gf 4' an Iudith A. Finlayson Mia R. McTamney C0-Editors 1964 Hilltop Photography: Iack Hamilton

Page 11 text:

An assistant professor of ethics in the School of Dentistry and of theology in the College of Liberal Arts, Father's classroom manner is informal. Pacing back and forth in a sort of lost rhythm and out-of- bounds march, he packs his lectures with anecdotes that usually produce epidemic laughter. My favorite role is strictly spiritual, said Father Mac, but I love teaching, especially English. When I lirst came here in 1947, I taught English. I used to make the students bring their themes right to the office so I could scream and yell about them. An English major himself, Father Mac received his master of arts degree in English from St. Louis Uni- versity in 1940, one year after being ordained in the Jesuit order. My first love was grade schoolf' recalled Father Mac, referring to the period between 1920 and 1926 When he taught music and dancing in a Kansas grade school. During those years he was working toward his bachelor of arts degree in summer school at St. Louis University while a scholastic in the order. He became assistant principal of the Williamsburg, Kansas, grade school and later joined the Campion High School fac- ulty in Prairie du Chien, Where he was assistant princi- pal from 1941 to 1943. rs 'sa ,W wg, V I .xi if 3 ' ' 'Vi I l Yi by .5 , -Y , , X