Marquette University - Hilltop Yearbook (Milwaukee, WI)

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 The image of a stuffy professor, befoggled and etherealizing away on some moot and distant theme. Is hopelessly shattered in the classroom of Dr. Kent A. Kirwan. There, as in the classical ideal, learning comes as a process of conversation, of questions and answers that lead to more questions. Finding and living the good life — which Kirwan explains as the essential search of the great political philosophers, is for him in the academic community of Marquette. His down-to-earth discussions are well known for their liveliness and spicy openness; he is disarmingly honest and affectionate on either side of the classroom door. Kirwan believes in the need to constantly evaluate the fundamental questions of political philosophy — because they are unchanging. and because we are in need of new answers for each new age of man. He and Deborah, his wife, invite his students into his home each year to pursue these questions with a good keg of wine, and cheese and crackers. Adam and Daniel, their two sons, are of the age when they can throw a couple of leading questions about Locke and Rousseau at you ... so be careful if you want to drop names. 1 7

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Or. Gloria Brundage advanced upon Marquette's college of Journalism with her wispy platinum curls and flut-tery false-lashed eyes in 1971. Her unabashed approach to life, idiosyncracles of character, and purple laced boots left the J-school family chuckling. Despite impressive credentials, including a Ph D. in mass communications from Columbia University, students quickly dubbed Dr. Brundage the Space Queen. One senior described it as absent-minded brillance.” If she is the creature of another planet, however, it's definitely one of an advanced intellectual and motivational culture. In her own unorthodox way. Dr Brundage is making more than ripples in the J-school waters. We re not training all Pulitzer Prize winning journalists here. she philosophizes. Most of these people are going to be everyday newspapermen in local communities, and darn courageous people at that.” A woman who was at the desk of the Washington Post when the news of D-Day broke might find teaching reporting courses at Marquette rather dull. But Dr. Brundage makes a career of keeping her life challenging. She refers to her life at Marquette as satisfying enough. Satisfying to Dr. Brundage would be considered feverish to many. Beyond her Marquette-related activities. Dr Brundage dabbles in fre-4ance work for a myriad of publications. All in all. the Space Queen” has made her visit to earth noteworthy, a fact the world will have to acknowledge when she's placed in the 1974 edition of Who's Who Among American Women. 1 6

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The world of Liberal Arts at Marquette University is seldom less chaotic than the Milwaukee Zoo at feeding time. With everything from a semester honor roll to the constant transfer of students, office work is paramount to all else at times of the year. But in the office of Father Francis Landwermeyer time can sometimes stand still for a moment before the next inter-office memo flies across the desk. Administrator, counselor and a former yearbook moderator. Landwermeyer is no new player at the university scene. His Jesuit years have sent him from private school to private school under many guises but always with many of the same reasons — education of the person. If Landwermeyer's life is anywhere as jumbled as his office quarters, the University could be in potential danger. Cigarette air and paper piles lend an atmosphere of false ineptness to his work order. But his dormitory jaunts through Marquette's residence halls have created a much more livable image of Landwermeyer than his assistant deanship of Liberal Arts. His candid views on everything from Marquette to the world in general have earned a reputation from floor to floor. On a typical walk down Wisconsin Avenue. Landwermeyer is liable to meet many students who at least recogcze the face if not the name. And during his time at Marquette, he would like to see things remain that open. As most Jesuits, Landwermeyer has spent many years on the road — traveling from university to prep school to college. Former addresses include Texas. Missouri and Massachusetts. He holds his legal address in Boston for many reasons including the fact that Massachusetts was the only state to not vote for Nixon in 1972. But as long as he is at Marquette students are his interest and existence — and of course the paper work in Liberal Arts. 1 8