Marquette University - Hilltop Yearbook (Milwaukee, WI)

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Opposite Page: These murals were painted in the Union Grill in 1956. Above: Looking west down Wisconsin Avenue in 19V) The dark building behind the Biltmore Apartments. Bcllamare Hall, was demolished in order to make room for Brooks Memorial Library, which was completed in 195). Left: The library on the second floor of Johnston Hall. 1949.

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are made. 1948 —Joseph McCarthy, a 1935 graduate of the Marquette Law School, is a member of the U.S. Senate, where he gains infamy. 1950 — The plans of 1947 to ease overcrowding begin to bear fruit as the College of Business Administration building is completed. — The Association of Marquette University Women, an alumnae group, finances a new women's dormitory on 18th Street. It is named after the then current president of the university, Rev. Edward J. O'Donnell. S.J. 1952 — The Program in Physical Therapy is approved. 1953 — A new university library is completed, replacing the old library on the second floor of Johnston Hall. — A new student union is completed. Unlike the old union, which was maintained by income and the sale of shares, the new union is a university project, supported by the alumni. 1954 — The Medical Library is built, and Wasting Time In The Fifties Alumnus Charles Librizzi told the Hilltop he remembers spending too much time playing bridge in the union. Bridge, he said, was the big activity on campus when he was at school in the mid - 1950s. Librizzi said that when he and his friends needed a fourth player, they would ask one of the kids hanging around the jukebox to play. One of the kids who was always hanging around and available to play, Librizzi recalls, was Tom Snyder. Snyder, of course, is currently the distinctive host of NBC's Tomorrow show. Snyder signed Librizzi s yearbook with a suggestion that Librizzi brush up on his bridge game over the summer.

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Right: Construction began on a new library in September 1951. Opposite Page Above: O'Donnell Hall's lounge, early 1950s. Opposite Page Bottom: The women were thrilled with their modern dormitory, O'Donnell Hall, which replaced the aging Alumnae House. . . . But What Were They Saying? Every year famous and important people speak on campus at Marquette. But perhaps no year brought such notorious speakers as 1956. In that year, Adlai Stevenson, who twice ran for president and lost in final elections, spoke. So did Richard Nixon, who twice won presidential elections, and probably wishes he had not. And if those characters were not enough, Sen. Joseph McCarthy, a Marquette Law School graduate, made a campus appearance as well. There was one guest who is worthy of mention because of the positive things he did. Konrad Adenauer, Chancellor of West Germany, received an honorary degree from Marquette in 1956. n