Indiana University - Arbutus Yearbook (Bloomington, IN)

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Seventy- Five Years Ago Sarah Parke Morrison And so the modern coed flits gaily through her college life, fitting into her day ' s schedule a round of Joeing, classes, study, dates, hikes, and just everything. Contrast her day with that of the first coed on the University campus. Anyone want to trade places with her? In the first place, Sarah Parke Morrison, way back in 1867 (1942 marks the seventy-fifth an- niversary of co-education at Indiana) was ad- mitted by only the narrow margin of one vote when the Board of Trustees reviewed her petition to become a student. Although she had been bold enough to attempt such a drastic step, she was a little fearful of starting out alone because no other woman took advantage of the opportunity, and as she said, I had to go myself, after hoping all summer that some other woman also would go to school that fall. Sarah already had attended Mount Holyoke Seminary and had had some poetry printed in the Indianapolis Sentinel so she wasn ' t too far behind her fellow classmen when it came to previous edu- cation. Fortunately for Sarah, it was the custom to wear large sun hats with a broad ribbon going over the crown and tied under the chin. This sunbonnet really protected her from the violet rays — be- cause by wearing it she avoided the whistles and yells of such klever kids as those who now drape themselves on the steps of Maxwell Hall or in front of the Daily Student office. It ' s certainly too bad that Sarah couldn ' t have come to school in 1942, because j udging from the subjects she took and the things she did, her life must have been pretty dull. She took Greek, Latin and International Law, and was graduated in June, 1869. Three hundred men and a girl may sound fine to some coeds, but Sarah suffered from severe prejudice. The men called her a blue-stocking and refused to accept her as a fellow student, think- ing she couldn ' t possibly have the mental ability to get through college. Like all of the fair sex, however, she showed them what she could do, and to prove her worth, returned to the University to teach some classes and found many women students following in her footsteps, guided by her example. 22

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First Row Second Row FRED CASE DONALD HASTY KEITH WILLIAM COX BILL E. HUBBARD HERB CRAMER DAN JENKINS CHARLES A. FEEGER PATRICK B. LARKIN FREDERICK GORDON ALBERT E. LESSER CHALMERS L. GOYERT TED LEWIS THOMAS C. HASBROOK HARRY B. LITTELL Third Row Fourth Row JOHN LYCAS EUGENE RODENBERGER GEORGE D. Mc DONALD GLEN H. SMITH JOHN PARKER MEISTER WILLIAM TORPHY MICKEY MILLER RICHARD VOLLRATH KENNETH MOELLER CHARLES R. WELLS JOE PINTER ANDREW M. ZIMMER PAUL RILEY mmmm . 24