Marquette University - Hilltop Yearbook (Milwaukee, WI)

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Delbert P. Nachazel 123 “Whenever there is a problem no one else can solve, we go to Dr. Nachazel for the answer.” one Dental School senior said. Dr. Delbert Nachazel. a part-time teacher in the department of periodontics. takes time from his private practice to work with seniors and graduate students at Marquette. Dr. Nachazel once carried the black bag and boiled the water for the country doctor in the town of Muscoda. Wisconsin. Now “all the teachers and students follow him around to learn from him, another Dental School senior said. His students say he is their ideal as a “professional man. They say he is “exact and always “treats students as fellow dentists by giving them the straight facts — all there is to know. He always praises a student for doing a job well, no matter how small it might be. One fellow teacher and former student of Dr. Nachazel said the key to his teaching lies in giving his students credit for what they know. Dr. Nachazel has a tremendous faith in students and works to get good students to come to Marquette. He received his D.D.S. from Marquette in 1928 and returned to teach in 1944. He was acting head of the division of periodontics from !958to 1962. His day is not a leisurely one. He begins taking patients at 8 am., comes to Marquette to teach (usually on Fridays) and attends meetings in the evening. He is a member of ten dental organizations and is past president of the Greater Milwaukee Dental Association. He has been a consultant in periodontics at the Wood Veterans Administration Center since 1956.

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James M. In his address as retiring president of the Marquette University chapter of the Society of Sigma Xi (scientists with a Ph.D.) in May, 1964, I)r. James M. Barrett, assistant professor of zoology, talked of science and human affairs. He identified the scientist as an individual characterized by a “kind of impatience, but with it a toughmindedness, which seems to find its greatest excitement and greatest satisfaction in solving difficult problems that have an immediacy about them.” There is in science, he continued, “an unusual concentration of men of action, who are challenged, not dismayed, by the most formidable of problems, problems they are in the habit of solving, one after the other, after the other. As such an individual. Dr. Barrett is not only vitally interested in the rapid advances in biology but is actively working to solve the problems of minority groups — lack of education, adequate housing and career opportunities. Barrett In keeping with “solving difficult problems.” Dr. Barrett believes that everyone should involve himself in the affairs of his community. He encourages students to investigate and discuss problems outside the academic circle. Dr. Barrett is a member of many organizations, both in biology and in community affairs; he has held top offices in most of them. Some of them are the Marquette Faculty Committee Association for Interracial Justice, the Governor’s Commission of Human Rights and the American Institute of Biological Sciences. He is also moderator of the Marquette Young Democrats. Within the University, Dr. Barrett serves on the Undergraduate Scholarship Selection Committee and the Committee on Advanced Study. The father of five has degrees in zoology from Marquette and the University of Illinois; he taught at Illinois before coming to Marquette in 1951.

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Semrad “Willing to help in any way she can . . . has a lot of confidence in the students . . . interested in our problems” are phrases that often occur when medical technology students talk about Miss Alice Semrad. the curriculum director. “What she docs for us sounds like the trite, old hat stuff. one freshman said. “But do you know how important it is when someone really feels that way? How much difference it makes!” “I'd probably have dropped medical technology had it not been for Miss Semrad, the girl said. “She has so much confidence in a student that the student begins to believe in herself. That’s so important in something as difficult as med tech.” “Miss Semrad is not only helpful, and cooperative but is involved with the students. She’d do anything for them, the mother of a med tech student said. As director of the curriculum. Miss Semrad has the responsibilities of a college dean. She sets up the curriculum, approves programming changes and makes the final decision on all acceptances into the curriculum. She is a counselor for med tech students and is moderator of the student council. She is also on the University scholarship committee. Miss Semrad is from Enid, Oklahoma. After receiving her Master of Science degree from Wayne State University, she came to Marquette in 1958. She is an honorary member of Alpha Delta Theta, the national professional Medical Technology Society; and the Milwaukee. Wisconsin and American societies.