Marquette University - Hilltop Yearbook (Milwaukee, WI)

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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

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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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The only bad things that can be said about holidays during the school year are that there are not enough of them, and that they come too far apart. But in 1939. Marquette students got two Thanksgivings — and they were only a week apart. That year. President Franklin D. Roosevelt declared that Thanksgiving would be held a week earlier than usual, on the second to the last Thursday in November. Wisconsin Gov. Heil, however, declared that Thanksgiving would be observed on the traditional day in Wisconsin. This presented Marquette students with a dilemma. Students whose families lived in other states had to decide whether they would miss spending Thanksgiving with their families, or to miss classes and make the trip home. Fr. McCarthy, Marquette's president, made the decision much easier. He announced that Marquette would observe both holidays, and classes would not be in session on either of the Thanksgivings. first Cotton Bowl ever played. Marquette's opponent in Dallas is Texas Christian University, whose quarterback is Sammy Baugh, one of the game's greatest passers of all time. Marquette loses 16-6. — A new enrollment record is set as 3.634 students sign up for the fall semester. The number of women enrolled approaches its previous record, set in 1930. — Marquette and Milwaukee throw a big three-day party to commemorate the 400th anniversary of the birth ofPere Jacques Marquette. A 20-foot-high candle with a six-f(x t-high flame is erected on Wisconsin Avenue. A cast of 1,000 elementary, high school and college students acts out scenes of Marquette 's life, and 25.000 people attend the celebration. 1938 — Most Marquette students still live with their families within walking distance of school. Bur recognizing a growing need for student housing, the enterprising Alumnae Association leases an apartment building at 12th and Kilbourn to accommodate 85 women. It is aptly named Alumnae House. 1940 — The four-hundredth anniversary of the founding of the Society of Jesus is celebrated with a large Mass in Gesu. 1941 — Brooks Hall, the first men 's dorm on campus, opens. Funds to purchase a bachelors' hotel on 13th Street were obtained from the income of the Student Union. The 21