Marquette University - Hilltop Yearbook (Milwaukee, WI)

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Left: The cluster of buildings in this view was known in the 1930s as the lower campus. Bottom Left: The Dental Clinic. 1932. Below: Marquette's first dorm. Alumnae House. Bottom Right: The Alumnae Association did things right in acquiring Alumnae House. Response to advertising was good, and 83 women lived in the house its first year. Never Cross A Marquette Woman It took the efforts of a group of disgruntled female graduates to open the first dormitory on the Marquette campus. The story begins in 1921, when the Alumni Association, an informal group since the 1890s, was formally incorporated. Women were not allowed into the organization, so the alumnae formed their own association in 1924. The preliminary purpose of this rather informal group was to secure housing for women who came from out of town to attend Marquette. The original Alumnae Association folded in 1931- In 1937, however, the alumnae regrouped, and were formally recognized by the university in January 1938. During the next summer vacation, the Alumnae Association leased a house on the corner of 12th and Kilbourn. It housed 85 female students that year, and it made a profit. By 1948, the Alumnae Association owned the building. Impressed by the efficiency of the Alumnae Association, the men’s organization called for a merger of the two groups, promising that women would have full membership and representation in the Alumni Association. The merger was completed in 1949. The first men's dorm was opened two years after Alumnae House was opened, although efforts to establish one had begun during the 1937 38 school year.

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1934 — The Federal Emergency Relief Association provides money for jobs so that students can continue their education. More than 400 people apply for work, but only 233 jobs are available. Tuition is S20-1 a year. 1936 — The Marquette Medical Review, the first journal of its kind, is first published. — Nursing has been a program in the Medical College since 1907, bur the College of Nursing becomes independent in 1936. 1937 — The football ream is the best ever, bur an upset loss to Duquesne University in the final game of the season costs Marquette a Rose Bowl bid. Marquette’s 7-1 record is good enough to draw an invitation to the 18

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Run That By Us Again, Father . . . Until the mid-1960s, all students were required to attend at least one retreat annually. Alumnus Roland W. Bogenberger, 1942, recalls that at a retreat in 1941, a priest told the young men that women are the root of all evil. The statement drew reactions from many groups and individuals on campus, and it even made the local newspapers. The embarassed priest evaluated what he had said, and admitted that it probably would have been better to have said something like The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world. Somehow, it just didn't come out that way, Bogenberger recalls. Above Right: Grandmora Hall, the Science Building and Gesu weathered many cold Wisconsin winters together, until Grandmora was demolished in 1977. Right; Part of the three-day pageant celebrating the tOOth anniversary of the birth of Pcrc Marquette Opposite Page: The 1937 football team had tough act to follow. The 1936 team had played in the Cotton Bowl. 20