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William T. Gaus, Arts ’51, Law ’54
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non-profit organizations in southeast Wisconsin have been touched
by William T. Gaus, a retired senior vice president of the Marshall & Ilsley
Trust Company in Milwaukee. Bill, who worked for M&I for
47 years, has devoted his time to directing funds to make peoples’ lives
better.
“I enjoy working with non-profit organizations and assisting
in directing and making grants to worthwhile causes,” says
Bill. “I do it because it gives me the opportunity to meet
with people from every aspect of life and try to meet their needs.”
Since the late 1940s, Marquette University has also benefited
from Bill’s devotion. He has served Marquette as a member
of the Delta Theta Phi Law Fraternity; Crown and Anchor Literary
Society; Law School Reunion Committee; Campaign for Marquette;
President’s Executive Senate; and adviser emeritus of the
Gift and Estate Planning Advisory Committee.
Bill currently serves as president of the Albert J. and Flora
H. Ellinger Foundation; trustee of the Evan and Marion Helfaer
Foundation; director of the Mary Martha and Emmett J. Doerr Charitable
Trust; and a director of the Columbia St. Mary’s Health
System.
He is former vice president of the Walter Schroeder Foundation
and has served on numerous boards and councils of non-profit
organizations, including the Milwaukee Catholic Home, the United
Performing Arts Fund, and the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, to
name just a very few. Neighborhood House, an inner city non-profit
organization, presented Bill with their Man of the Year Award.
Bill, who now spends time between his homes in Mequon, Wis.,
and Florida with his wife, Nancy, says that his personal formula
for success includes “having the good fortune to be born
to a caring mother and father, and marrying a wonderful girl
who is forgiving, a superb entertainer, and who raised our three
children to become good Catholics and good parents.”
Bill also credits Reynold C. Seitz, former dean of the Marquette
Law School, for telling him about an opening in the Marshall & Ilsley
Bank’s trust department in 1954.
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