Marquette Flashbacks

Photos, text and video from Marquette University's history.

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Morice Fredrick “Tex” Winter was the youngest head coach in major college basketball when he took the reins at Marquette in 1951. He died last week in Manhattan, Kansas, at age 96.

Winter was the pioneer of the triangle offense, credited as a key to 9 NBA championships by the Bulls and Lakers. A long run at Kansas State included 6 appearances in the Sweet Sixteen, Elite Eight and Final Four. 

The coach was an inductee into the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame and the National College Basketball Hall of Fame. Here he is pictured with the 1951-52 Marquette basketball squad.

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Did someone say #ArchivesDanceParty?  Marquette Special Collections and University Archives is happy to participate!  Though the Spring Thaw (ca. 1988) is nowhere to be found today!  Happy #ArchivesHashtagParty!

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DANCE PARTY

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50 years ago today, a small group of anti-war protesters removed 10,000 draft records from the Selective Service office in the Germania Building and burned them in the small park across Wells Street. Dubbed the Milwaukee 14, the group included five Catholic priests, two Jesuit scholastics who were Marquette graduate students, and Michael Cullen, founder of the Casa Maria Catholic Worker House.

Twelve of the group conducted their own defense against state burglary, theft and arson charges. A jury took 70 minutes to find them guilty; they all served 12-18 months of their two-year sentences. Before his 1970 Federal trial, Michael Cullen spoke on campus (left). After being found guilty and serving his sentence, Cullen was deported to his native Ireland, where he and his wife Nettie founded the Emmanuel House of Peace in Clonfert, County Galway.

The Cullens returned to the U.S. in 1991. Michael was ordained a Deacon for the Diocese of Superior and ministered in northwestern Wisconsin until his recent retirement. Former graduate student Bob Graf continues his Milwaukee vigil for peace, sometimes on campus. 

- Bill O’Brien, Marquette University, Senior Advancement Knowledge Officer

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Throwback Thursday: Admissions billboards from 1986 featured the tag line, “Success. It’s a Matter of Degree. Marquette University.” (See another billboard from the early 1990s.) Are you a Marquette hopeful? Apply by Dec. 1, 2012.

Photo source: Marquette University Instructional Media Center

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June 18, 1948: Columbia Records introduced the vinyl “LP” and changed the record industry.  Though RCA Victor actually offered the FIRST LP in 1931, it was not a physically viable product, nor was it commercially successful.  It wasn’t until 1948 that the LP was re-conceived and re-released, replacing the 78. The first 45 (single) was pressed in 1948 and the first commercially released 45 came in 1949.  By 1958, LPs and 45s accounted for 98% of the records sold, and the last US 78 was produced in 1959.

The Cuje Collection holds LPs, 45s and recordings as well as in multiple other formats.  Releases on CD can be borrowed from the circulating collection.  Releases not available in the circulating collection are available in the Special Collections and University Archives.  Check the online catalog MARQCAT for artists, titles and catalog entries.

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Dorothy “Kammie” Kamenshek, PT ’58, is said to have inspired Geena Davis’ character in A League of Their Own.

Read her story. 

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Throwback Thursday (1966): Priests walk along Wisconsin Avenue at Marquette University. Photo courtesy of University Archives.

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Throwback Thursday: Admissions billboards from 1986 featured the tag line, “Success. It’s a Matter of Degree. Marquette University.” (See another billboard from the early 1990s.) Are you a Marquette hopeful? Apply by Dec. 1, 2012.

Photo source: Marquette University Instructional Media Center

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Outside McCormick Hall, 1975

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this design seemed like a good idea at the time

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Your parents want to hear from you. 

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Did someone say #ArchivesDanceParty?  Marquette Special Collections and University Archives is happy to participate!  Though the Spring Thaw (ca. 1988) is nowhere to be found today!  Happy #ArchivesHashtagParty!

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Flashback

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Throwback Thursday: Reading outside of Marquette University’s St. Joan of Arc Chapel in 1970. Photo courtesy of University Archives.

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Olive Helen Glueckstein (1898-1986) graduated twice from Marquette’s College of Music, earning her diploma in piano in 1927, when she was sophomore class president, and her Bachelor of Music degree in 1929. She taught piano in the Milwaukee Public Schools for 41 years before retiring in 1970. She doubtlessly influenced generations of piano students, but it’s her arrangement of a pep song that had the longest-enduring impact. Ring Out Ahoya!

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Marquette Alumni on Twitter

“President John F. Kennedy sends his best wishes to @MarquetteU on their @MarqUHomecoming in 1960. #PresidentsDay”

Happy Presidents Day! 

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The Marquette basketball team studies the schedule for the Hiawatha Train to Omaha, 1940 

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The 1859 Wisconsin State Fair featured speaker was Abraham Lincoln, who spoke near the corner of 12th and Grand Ave. Today, a plaque commemorating Lincoln’s address can be found at 13th and Wells near Schroeder Hall. 

Lincoln praised agricultural fairs and the promising technology of the steam plow. After his hourlong speech, Lincoln wandered the grounds and watched a plowing contest.

Don Pollack’s painting of Abraham Lincoln (pictured here) hangs in the Aitken Reading Room in Marquette Law School’s Eckstein Hall. It is titled “Laying the Foundation.” 

Happy birthday, President Lincoln.