Marquette University - Hilltop Yearbook (Milwaukee, WI)

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MARQUETTE UNIVERSITY PRESIDENT To the Graduates of 1960: As you reach the successful climax of your college careers, I extend to each graduate my personal and hearty congratulations. You have completed a strenuous period of study and growth and can be justly proud of your success and achievement. The crisis of our times places a serious obligation upon each of you to continue your growth in truth and virtue beyond your college days through all the years of your life. I hope that you will continue to nourish that thirst for knowledge and goodness which Marquette University sought to instill in you. The coming decades will also be years of opportunity for all of you. There Is great need in our world today for young men and women willing to use their talents and special knowledges for the service of their fellow men, striving to insure peace and justice for all mankind. I am confident that many of you will find your places in the front ranks of those so dedicated— reflecting credit upon the University which has sought to serve you. President

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After 38 years of inspiration and guidance to students of the College of Engineering, Dean William D. Bliss retired from his active position. However, his retirement did not deprive the school of his services entirely, for in 1957 he was honored with the title of Dean Emeritus. Since then he has become the acting director of the Mechanical Engineering department. 0 With an informal manner and a cigar in hand. Dean Bliss made his students comfortable while he urged them to persevere and work, much as he himself has done during his lifetime. His own career illustrates his struggle to achieve an education. As a youth he Wisconsin, graduating as a chemical engineer in 1912. 0 In 1914 Dean Bliss came to Marquette and the Engineering School when school officials were looking for a temporary teacher to fill a gap left by a resignation. Dean Bliss, then working for Allis-Chalmers. volunteered his services. The Dean once reminisced about his early teaching days, saying “I taught thermodynamics, heat engines . . . everything. 0 Dean Bliss extended his temporary job and in 1919 initiated the co-opcrativc training program at Marquette, whereby engineering students were required to alternate two weeks working in local plants with two weeks in school. This plan was later made optional. In 1928. Marquette lost Dean Bliss for two years to Texas A M College. Then he returned as head of the Chemical Engineering department. $ When Dean Franz A. Kartak died in 1943. he was asked to take the dcanship. It seemed to be the best contribution I could make to the war effort, so I agreed to serve throughout the duration. he recalled, adding that when the vets came in. I couldn't have been dragged out of the place. $ The now completely willing Dean headed the Engineering College until his resignation in 1956 and led a steady, deliberate advance in engineering education along the soundest practical lines. He was continually searching for new ways to improve the school, and the students found him an easy man to approach with their problems. He had experienced them himself. 0 Even though the Dean has retired from duties of routine administration, observers remark that he seems to be around even more. And since he has time for closer contact with the students, the Dean himself believes he has “a higher job now. 0 To this symbol of perseverance, counsel and advancement, to a man who has taken upon himself a commitment to moral and intellectual excellence. to Dean Emeritus William D. Bliss of the College of Engineering, we respectfully dedicate the I960 Hilltop. quit high school for financial reasons to work in an oil field and later worked as a journeyman machinist before entering college. Faced with insufficient academic preparation—no high school diploma — and lacking funds, he persevered through Milton College and the University of

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