Marquette NROTC Alumni & Friends Association (A&FA)

Marquette NROTC Alumni & Friends Association (A&FA) is a 501(c)19 Veterans non-profit organization.

Mailing Address:  1532 W Clybourn Street, Milwaukee, WI 53233-2202

Email: munrotcalumni@gmail.com


2025 Marquette NROTC Fall Ball
Celebrate the 250th Birthdays of the Navy and Marine Corps




November 7, 2025 Fall Ball Invitation

Join us in-person at the 2025 Fall Ball for the celebration of the 250th Birthdays's of the Navy & Marine Corps.  Honor our Marquette NROTC Alumni & Friends "Alumnus" and "Young Alumnus" of the Year Awardees.

Web-based RSVP Now Available
Use the web link just below to register your/guest names,
meal choice details and any dietary restrictions

https://marquettenrotcfallball.rsvpify.com

We just learned that some folks thought they RSVP’d online, but it did not "register".

After completing the web-based form via the link, in the last step, you must click “Submit”.

You then should have received a confirmation email from invitations@rsvpify.com with the subject line “Confirmation & Receipt for Marquette NROTC Fall Ball”.  

If you did NOT get this confirmation email, then MU NROTC does not have your reservation. You need to return to the webpage and re-complete the form, click on "Submit" at the end.

Sorry for any inconvenience!

Payment is made separately (see details farther below)
NOTE: Alumni & Friends Ticket Price @ $65/person

Marquette University Naval ROTC Fall Ball
November 7, 2025, 6pm - 11:00pm
Wisconsin Club, 900 W Wisconsin Ave, Milwaukee, WI 53233

Cocktail Reception
- 6:00 PM
Ceremony - 7:00 PM
Dinner - 8:00 PM
Entrée Choices: Chicken Marsala / Pan Seared Salmon / Vegetarian Fantasia
Music & Dancing - 9:30 PM
Evening Concludes - 11:00 PM
 
Evening Ceremonies include
Marquette University NROTC Alumni of the Year Honors to:
CAPT Michael Good, USN (Ret) - Class of 1983
LT Daniel Peters, USN - Class of 2017

 
Tickets: $65/person for Alumni, Friends & Navy League
 
Send your ticket payment by bank funds transfer or check; Either:

(1) Pay using your bank account via Zelle funds transfer, designating
Recipient: isaias.ruiz@marquette.edu with Memo: Fall Ball 2025

or

(2) Send a check by mail

Pay to: “Marquette NROTC BAF” with Memo: Fall Ball 2025
Mailing address:   Marquette University NROTC Unit
Attn: MIDN 2/C Joseph Perry (Fall Ball)
1532 W. Clybourn Street
Milwaukee, WI 53233-2202


Dress Code
Black Tie / Evening Attire (Civilian guests)
Conservative Dresses
Dinner Dress Blues (Navy)
Dress Blue Alpha (USMC)
Service Dress Equivalent (Army & Air Force)

Questions?  Please contact:
Alumni: CDR Alyssa Norris: wilson.alyssa720@gmail.com / (815) 715-5503
Navy League: Mike Good: mgood@navproconsult.com / (414) 617-3115

November 12, 2021 Fall Ball Invitation

Join us in-person at the 2021 Fall Ball for the announcement of the Marquette NROTC Alumni & Friends "Alumnus" and "Young Alumnus" of the Year Awardees.

Click anywhere on the invitation below for a larger, readable invitation with links to RSVP (by October 25th.)

MU Naval ROTC History Preserved 



To join Marquette NROTC Alumni & Friends Association

Click here to complete your online Membership:

Marquette NROTC Alumni & Friends Association - Join

Member Recruiting Reward!

Every Member - Recruit a Member Campaign

Our committed A&FA membership is the "engine" that propels our operations and initiatives. As part of our "Every Member - Recruit a Member" theme for the 2020 Membership Year that begins now, we have established a Membership Recruiting Reward for every current A&FA member who recruits one new member.  We ask your help to "rev up" our membership by recruiting one new alumni to join their association.

What's the reward?  A MU NROTC Challenge Coin like this:


Step up to the challenge!

Here's the "fine print":

  • The recruiter needs to be a current dues paying A&FA member.
  • The new member needs to provide us the recruiter name when they submit their membership details and payment.  We have updated the "Join Us" page format on our website and the hard copy membership form to capture this input.
  • If the new member has been a "free" New Graduate Member for a few years after commissioning, as long as they have not yet made the leap to paid dues status, they "count" as a new dues payer recruit.
  • And…if you bring one of our fellow “lapsed” members back into the fold, we’ll also reward your effort.
  • Questions?  Contact Mike Good at:  mgood3@att.net 

Thank You Alumni & Friends!

Marquette NROTC Alumni \ Seapower Leadership Association donations were put to work in the MU NROTC Weight Room adding new gym equipment including weight and bar racks, core-trainers and a deluxe squat rack, plus a fresh coat of paint.

THANK YOU!  to all who have donated in support of the Midshipmen Battalion of MU \ MSOE \ UWM Naval ROTC!


Over the summer of 2017 after their May commissioning, three of our young Naval Officer alumni worked closely with the MU Special Collections & University Archives staff at the Raynor Memorial Libraries to make a high resolution digital scan of every Porthole yearbook that the NROTC Unit held, 57 in all, dating from the first year of the unit’s forming in 1940.  Depicted above, left to right are: Katie Blank (Electronic Records Manager); ENS Bryan Troup; ENS Brooks Furleigh; ENS Daniel Peters; Amy Cooper Cary (Head, Special Collections & University Archives).  The result of over two years of coordination by your Alumni & Friends Assn (A&FA), this was a superb team effort by these individuals with the support of CAPT Dan Olson, then the CO at MU NROTC.

Due to concerns with loss, the NROTC Unit placed the Portholes into the university archive for retention.  This will ensure that this incomparable record will be maintained for the future. With their digitization, they can be more accessible to our alumni with no risk to the originals.  Your A&FA has had great success in working with the Archives staff to develop a long term plan to have the Porthole yearbooks hosted on the university’s digital collection website. 


Click on this link for direct access to the current collection hosted by the MU Archives:

http://cdm16280.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/landingpage/collection/p16280coll8


So, real progress – but we need your help.  Many Porthole yearbooks are missing from the collection.  Can you alumni donate (or loan?) your Porthole to round out the collection?  We want to ensure the archives has a complete record – and we will work with the unit to scan the additions when we have “stashed” Ensigns available. 

If you can help complete the collection, contact Mike Good at mgood3@att.net


Here are the needed Porthole editions:

     1948, 1949, 1950, 1951, 1975, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2013, 2014


THANK YOU to our fellow Alumni for their generous sharing of one of their Porthole Yearbooks since the scanning effort in 2017 to fill in one of the a gaps in the collection!

  • Jay Burzak, Maj USMC Ret ('73) 
  • Bill Sonntag CDR USN Ret ('75) 
  • Brian Scott CAPT USN Ret ('79) 
  • Tim Wilkie, CAPT USN Ret ('95)
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