Marquette University - Hilltop Yearbook (Milwaukee, WI)

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Archbishop William E. Cousins

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and you will he fold what you must do As history testifies, it is through ideas that the world is fashioned and changed. When St. Paul accepted Christ's idea of heroic sanctity, he used it to transform the Gentile world and to become a great leader of men. Newton's theories of physics recast international scientific thought. Marx's economic and social ideas have disfigured the face of the earth and have placed millions in bondage. As the world of the past was molded by ideas, so also will our own world be fashioned. We Marquette students cannot deny, in view of this, that we will have a share in shaping the world through the ideas we now have the opportunity to grasp. It is not the acquisition of ideas alone, how- ever, which marks for us a definite part in re- fashioning the world. Nor is it simply the oppor- tunity to study and grasp those revealed ideas. The revealed truths of Jesus Christ can be studied by students anywhere, but in a Catholic uni- versity, they are not confined to a certain number of credit hours. Rather, they are correctly re- garded as the light in which all other knowledge is understood. Thus, our distinguishing oppor- tunity here at Marquette is that of acquiring ideas illuminated by the truths centering around our creation, redemption and eternal destiny. In addition to this most important academic opportunity, the many facets of the vibrant world of Marquette offer us the chance to develop our individual abilities and interests. There is the social wealth of activities and organizations, the pleasure and excitement of athletics which. while being enjoyed in themselves, help to mold and train us for that other, larger world of the future. Awaiting each of us who has these opportuni- ties is the definite responsibility of disseminating Christian ideas, of leading others according to rightly ordered principles, and thus transforming our particular surroundings to help make a Chris- tian world. Acts 9:7 These duties do not await our graduation. They began when we chose to study at a Catholic university. By our choice, we committed our- selves to the mission of making a Christian world which can only be realized if we are adequately prepared. Preparation. however, is an individual accomplishment and no amount of opportunities will benefit the student who refuses to seize them. Just as the master in the Gospel parable de- livered a certain number of talents to his servants and called each one to an account of them, so we students with the opportunity of a Catholic edu- cation will be held to an account of the time spent here. lf we take advantage of our oppor- tunities, we will grow with them to become truly Christian thinkers, able to assume our duty to make a Christian world. We will be able to say as did the good servant, Master, thou didst de- liver to me five talentsg behold, I have gained other five over and above. The faults and inequalities of human be- havior. the emptiness of human lives around us. and the loss of moral values in our society stand as warnings to prepare ourselves well. They im- pel us to gather eagerly. with serious and deter- mined purpose, a great store of knowledge and ideas rightly ordered by revealed truths while we may do so. Before we choose to waste the time we spend at Marquette, let us remember how the master punished the servant who spent his talents fool- ishly: As for the unprofitable servant, cast him forth into the darkness outside where there will be the weeping and gnashing of teeth. The task awaiting us is tremendous. The late Archbishop of Paris, Emmanuel Cardinal Suhard. described it in a pastoral letter Growth or Decline. For the problem is to build a new world. to de- fine and prepare the structures which will permit man to be fully man in a city worthy of him. to transfigure all things in order to make of them a Christian worldf'

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DEDICATIGN Upon hearing the news that Pope John XXIII had appointed Bishop William E. Cousins of Peoria, Ill. to be the new Archbishop of Milwaukee, the Very Rev. Edward J. O'Donnell. S.J., speaking for the student body said, Marquette University joins with the Mil- waukee archdiocese at the glad Christmas season in rejoicing over the appointment of his excellency, William Edward Cousins. as our new archbishop, and in offering our sentiments of congratulations and welcomef, Archbishop Cousins was born in Chicago on August 20, 1902. After being graduated from Saint Mary of the Lake Seminary, Mun- delein, Ill., he was ordained by the late George Cardinal Mundelein on April 23, 1927. In 1934 Father Cousins served as Superior of the Chicago Archdiocesan Mission Band and then as pastor of St. Columbanus Church in Chicago until December 17. 1948 when he became Titular Bishop of Forma and Auxiliary Bishop of Chicago. These facts permit only a small insight into the character of the man of whom the people of Peoria said, Thousands of people in the Diocese-perhaps most of the people-feel that they know their Bishop personally. His tireless visits with the parish crowds after each Confirmation and his geniality have made this appointment inevitable. His priests, too, have felt in him a warm and sincere interest in their work and their problems. The man who left Peoria to take the position of Archbishop of Milwaukee is the person whose backing put through a 14 million dollar school bond issue-a proposal that had failed the previous year when he refused to support it because its hnancial planning was insecure. He is the same man under whose direction a two million dollar home for the aged, six new grade schools and eight new churches were built and live new parishes were established. It is zealous Catholic action like this we wish to imitate both now and when the time comes for us to leave the protective shadow of Gesu. We can take as our guiding standard the episcopal motto which stands on the Archbishop's crest, Auxilium Meum a Domino tMy help is from the Lordj. Words of Archbishop Cousins at appointment show how he applies it in his life, I have understandable misgivings as I look at the accomplishments of those who have gone before me. But my modest talents, directed by Gods grace, are at His disposal. Because of his outstanding Catholic leadership, we respectfully dedicate the 1959 Hilltop to Archbishop William E. Cousins in the hope that our own modest talents. so divinely directed, will also be pleasing to God.