Marquette University - Hilltop Yearbook (Milwaukee, WI)

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Bellarmine Hall, that small two-story red structure behind the Business Administration building, houses more than just the Marquette Players. The unimposing building also contains Marquette's graduate school offices and dean of the graduate school. Dr. Albert W. Jache. The dean is responsible for the long range policy and day-to-day operation of the school. says Jache. This includes interviewing prospective faculty, working in an advisory capacity on promotion and tenure questions and selecting grad students and teaching assistants. Appointed dean two years ago after serving since 1967 as chemistry department chairman. Jache says that the biggest accomplishment in those two years besides keeping things from completely flying apart was the favorable report from the North Central Review. He credits Quentin Quade. his predecessor. with setting up much of the groundwork before North Central's visit to Marquette. But the graduate school is not the only thing that takes Jache's time. He still spends four hours a week with a chemistry class where his teaching techniques have earned him the reputation as something of a mad scientist according to former students. Says one: He’d be the first to admit that General Chemistry is not that interesting. so he'd try to make people want to come by doing entertaining chemistry demonstrations at the beginning of class — but they never seemed to work. Jache appeared somewhat absent-minded and thus could scare everyone when he'd come to class saying. If I brought the wrong stuff down today, I could blow up the building. One former pupil insisted that this was enough to make him quit taking shortcuts through the chemistry building when he could just as easily walk a-round the outside. But Jache is far from the mad scientist image in which many of his students have portrayed him. Besides still maintaining his own laboratory on the top of the chemistry building. Jache enjoys taking bicycle trips (he owns three bikes), likes Bach and other good classical music and calls himself somewhat of a home handyman who likes working with my hands. 2 9

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It will all be worth it when you hit the big world of business and education research and reality. In the meantime have a cup of coffee, attack that thesis or correct your papers. 2 8

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The events weren't earthshaking, but they were important. A physics building dedicated, a dorm closed to women and reopened to Jesuits, a theater and a recreation building once promised now begun, promised new facilities for the Colleges of Speech and Journalism actually seeming to be a reality. And a controversial landmark monster still standing, but perhaps breathing its last. The past two years of the Marquette building program don’t really stand up to those first seven years after the City of Milwaukee approved an urban renewal area for Marquette in 1965. All of the 80 buildings red-tagged by the city have been demolished. All of the 1,100 people once living in those buildings have found new homes. Acres of green space, once almost an unknown commodity at Marquette. have replaced a motley assortment of rooming houses and decaying university structures. It's a far cry from when the seniors of 1974 had to scramble as freshmen for parking spaces on 14th Street in front of the union. Those asphalt streets with the crumbling stone curbs disappeared in 1971. a year before Jim Chones. and were replaced with Marquette’s award-winning malls — seemingly endless stretches of concrete extending from Wisconsin to Clybourn. 3 0