Chicago State University - Emblem Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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OLD CAMPUS From a frog pond on a distant prairie ttiat became the site of the finest building west of Philadelphia in 1869, the old Cook County Normal School has gone through six name changes and a hundred years of history to become a modern 140 acre university. Our heritage is a proud one. Many famous educators were among our founders: Daniel Wentworth, who saw the necessity for practice teaching; Co. Francis Parker, who made the school an ex- perimental institution visited by observers from all over the nation: Ella Flagg Young, the only woman to become Superintendent of Chicago Public Schools; Dr. William Bishop Owen, who worked with the public schools and local social agencies. Of course, no school has become great without the work and cooperation of the hundreds of anonymous people who filled its halls, the students who helped it grow and shared its ' change. -!5 f hi 9 mm BLe 1 ■i Ei .■is»»..-»»