{"id":11348,"date":"2010-08-27T13:48:37","date_gmt":"2010-08-27T18:48:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/law.marquette.edu\/facultyblog\/?p=11348"},"modified":"2020-02-15T21:39:30","modified_gmt":"2020-02-16T03:39:30","slug":"the-dedication-of-sensenbrenner-hall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/law.marquette.edu\/facultyblog\/2010\/08\/the-dedication-of-sensenbrenner-hall\/","title":{"rendered":"The Dedication of Sensenbrenner Hall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/law.marquette.edu\/facultyblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/LawSchoolExt_sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-11349\" title=\"Sensenbrenner Hall Exterior small\" src=\"http:\/\/law.marquette.edu\/facultyblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/LawSchoolExt_sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"203\" height=\"149\" \/><\/a>Today is the 86<sup>th<\/sup> anniversary of the dedication of the former Marquette law building now known as Sensenbrenner Hall.\u00a0 On Wednesday, August 27, 1924, a formal ceremony was held to mark the completion of the new law school building, known then only as the Law Building, shortly before the start of the 1924-25 academic year.<\/p>\n<p>The new building, constructed just in front of the previous law school building, the Mackie Mansion, had been <a href=\"http:\/\/law.marquette.edu\/facultyblog\/2010\/08\/02\/the-new-law-building-circa-1924\/\">two years in the making<\/a>.\u00a0 Its completion helped symbolize the arrival of Marquette into the first rank of American law schools. \u00a0\u00a0As the university proclaimed, \u201cThe School of Law of Marquette University has entered upon a new era.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to the Associated Press, the event was attended by \u201ca great crowd of former students, current students, lawyers, judges, and state officials.\u201d\u00a0The ceremony began at 10:30 a.m. with an invocation by the Rev. Hugh McMahon, S.J., the regent of the law school.\u00a0 After that, the keys to the law school were ceremonially presented to Dean Max Schoetz by the university\u2019s president, the Rev. Albert C. Fox, S.J.\u00a0 Fox lauded the accomplishments of the law school over the previous 30 years (indicating that he dated the law school\u2019s beginnings to the Milwaukee Law School) and asked Schoetz to teach future students \u201cthat it is the law which has made us free and that there is no freedom deserving the name, save under the law.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After remarks by Schoetz, who chaired the program, the dedicatory address was delivered by Justice Burr W. Jones of the Wisconsin Supreme Court.\u00a0 His address was followed by remarks by William D. Thompson, the president of the Wisconsin Bar Association.\u00a0 Other speakers at the occasion included Milwaukee mayor Cornelius Corcoran, Milwaukee Circuit Judge Edward T. Fairchild (himself later a member of the state supreme court), and former students George Burns L\u201914 and Joseph Witmer L\u201924.\u00a0 Speaking on behalf of the students of the Milwaukee Law Class which had preceded the Milwaukee\/Marquette Law School was Milwaukee lawyer A.K. Stebbins L\u201908 (hon.).<\/p>\n<p>The current law students used the occasion to announce the presentation of a set of Canadian Reports to the school\u2019s library.<\/p>\n<p>Medals containing an image of former Marquette president Joseph Grimmelsman on one side and an engraving of the new law building on the other were distributed to guests and students.\u00a0 Several of these medals are now in the possession of the Marquette University archives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is the 86th anniversary of the dedication of the former Marquette law building now known as Sensenbrenner Hall.\u00a0 On Wednesday, August 27, 1924, a formal ceremony was held to mark the completion of the new law school building, known then only as the Law Building, shortly before the start of the 1924-25 academic year. 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