Scott Pilarz Obituary: Fire up. Scott Pilarz, who went through two years as Marquette University’s leader, passed on March 10 because of difficulties with amyotrophic parallel sclerosis, normally known as Lou Gehrig’s illness or ALS. He was 61.

In his brief timeframe at Marquette, Pilarz directed the advancement of the college’s essential arrangement, which fills in as the premise of the college’s present arrangement for what’s to come. He likewise guided Marquette into a recently reconfigured Big East gathering.

In a proclamation Thursday, Marquette President Michael Lovell communicated his sympathies to Pilarz’s loved ones.

“Father Pilarz rejuvenated Marquette’s main goal as an enthusiastic teacher, insightful pioneer and gave man of confidence,” Lovell said. “His inheritance reaches out through the numerous lives he contacted and through the important basis he laid to build up our essential arrangement, which will keep on controlling the college into its brilliant future for quite a long time to come. He was a genuine worker pioneer in the Marquette people group.