Bowling Green State University - Key Yearbook (Bowling Green, OH)

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sg- nun T--E mum ef FLORENCE BAIRD Foreign Languages A. B., A. M., Chio State Uni- versity: B. S. Bowling Green State College. MARY EDNA BARNES Critic Teacher, Third Grade Bowling Green State Normal C 0 l l e g e Diploma, Bowling W Green State College. BENTON E. BARRINGER Education 'I B. S., Cornell University: A. M., Ph. D., Columbia Univer- sity. GEORGE W. BEATTIE Agriculture A. B. Ripon College, B. S., A. M., University of Illinois. NINA G. BEATTIE Critic Teacher, Fourth Grade Bowling Green State Normal Collegeg A. B., Ypsilanti, Mich- A igan. CALVIN BIERY Rural Education B. S., M. S., Ohio Northern University. . ETHYL M. BLUM Librarian A. B., University of Michigan: B. L. S., University of Illinois. GERTRUDE BROD Bookkeeper Bowling Green State Normal College. elf' -' UUE b muu -f-,Q .22.

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nun TH E nun a at ea Early History of the Bowling Green State Normal College fExtract from an address delivered by President Wl'lllb0U7S before Town and Gown 1926, THE LOWRY Bill approved May 19, 1910, created a commission to locate two new State Normal Schools, This commission was appointed by Governor Harmon on June 24, 1910. Sixteen different cities and towns put forth bids for the location of the new school for the Northwestern Ohio district. The commission met in Columbus on September 1, 2, and 3 to hear the claims of the various candidates. On September 22Vthe commission visited7Bowling Green and awarded the school to that city when it was ascertained that Bowling Green could meet all requirements. On May 17th the Governor appointed the first Board of Trustees, con- sisting of D. C. Brown, of Napoleon: John Begg, of Columbus Grove: D. T, Davis, of Findlayg J. E. Collins, of Fremont, and J. D. lVlcDonel, of Fostoria. The Hrst business of the Board was to select architects. They chose Howard and Merriam, of Columbus, who made plans for the Administration Building, Williams Hall, Science Hall, and the Training School. Their second duty was to select a President, Some care was necessary in this selection as it is an oflice of trust. They Hnally selected H. B. Williams, Superintendent of San- dusky Schools, who kept the offer under consideration for some months and finally accepted on May 23, 1912. The sixty-seventh General Assembly voted Sl50,000 for the construction of the proposed college. When Governor Cox came into ollice in 1913, he aroused profound interest in public education throughout the state. The result was that the appropriations for the construction of the new College were greatly increased, being approximately a half-million dollars in the biennium 1913-15. Necessary delays in starting construction proved benelicial in the end, for they allowed time for the rearrangement of the building program on a more comprehensive scale, and for larger appropriations. Since there were so few teacher-training institutions in the state at that time, it was necessary for the President and Board of Trustees to embark upon a rather original building program. They visited Teachers' College at Albany, New York, and the State Normal School at Montclair, New Jersey. The President also made a first-hand study of a number of colleges in the mid-west. A survey was then made of the teaching population of northwestern Ohio. The buildings were designed to accommodate a maximum of lifteen hundred students. This would make an institution large enough to have prestige and would at the same time preserve the intimacies of a small institution. The independent teachers' college is a recent development. Most of the established normal schools had no entrance requirements. Those that had four years of work simply added two years to the elementary course, There were no standards of graduation, of library facilities, of laboratory equipment, of faculty eligibility. lt was with this academic and professional hodge-podge as a background that the College entered upon its career. of UUE Y Ullll .21.

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if num TH E nun -H-ge I l JAMES CARMICHAEL English A. B., A. M., University of Michigan. CHARLES F. CHURCH Music A. B., University of Iowa: A. M., University of Iowa. DOROTHY CLEMENT g . Musi'c J B. S., North Carolina College for Women. VIVIAN CRAUN an Critic Teacher, Sixth Grade Bowling Green State Normal , College: Diploma, Bowling Green State College. I-IATTIE J. CRAWLEY Critic Teacher, Third Grade Bowling Green State Normal , College: Diploma, Bowling Green State College. I DANIEL CROWLEY On Leave, l927-28 Industrial Arts s B. S., Columbia University. i MAUDE DOANE Critic Teacher, Fifth Grade' Bowling Green State Normal College: Diploma, Bowling Green State College. GRACE DURRIN English A. B., Hope College: A. M., l University of Michigan. Q num nun----:Qs