Cleveland College - Square Collegian Yearbook (Cleveland, OH)

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No It Stal-te In September, 1946, workmen were hurrying to complete the Cleveland College Annex in time for the fall ses- sion. On East Sixth Street, off St. Clair Avenue, the Annex was formerly the garage space of the Hotel Audi- torium. In September, 1925, another garage was playing its part in the history of the school. Workmen were busy put- ting walls, fixtures, and blackboards in the three-story space above an automo- bile agency and garage on Euclid Ave- nue at Twentieth Street. This was the first home of Cleveland College. It was founded as an independent corpor- ation, in close affiliation with Western Reserve University and Case School of Applied Science. Adult education, with classes held at night, was the aim of the college when it was founded, but it became apparent early that there was a need in Cleveland for a full-time day college for those students who could not enter other local colleges because of their limited enrollment capacity. The college opened with thirty-one part-time instructors, borrowed from Western Reserve and Case, and one full-time faculty member. Only evening classes in the arts and sciences, business administration, and engineering were offered in the first curriculum. It was decided that before the college should open there would have to be at least six hundred students enrolled. In less than a week that number was exceeded. In fact, the college proved to be so popular that, 'by early 1929, the enrollment had been built up to a point surpassed only by the present war boom. Dr. Winfred George Leutner, in 1925 Dean of Administration at Western Reserve University, was made Acting Director of the College for its first semester. Because of illness, he was succeeded during the second semester by Russell Wiseman, of the department of Economics at Adelbert College. In the fall of 1926, A. Caswell Ellis came from the University of Texas to become Director of the College. In the same year, Cleveland College was incorporated into Western Reserve University. Three years later, in the spring of 1929, arrangements were made to transfer

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DEDICATIO As administrative bead of tbe College, Dean Hunsaker bas maintained its traditions and em- bodied progress in its bistory. A cbampiou of wortby endeavors, be bas encouraged student effort and brougbt to realization many boped-for im- provements. In tbe postwar enrollment crisis, bis cornpetent guidance bas won tbe approbatiou of students, faculty, and adininistration. To our leader and friend, Dean Herbert C. Hunsalaer, we dedicate tbis first annual.

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and Q1-ew. . . Cleveland College from its quarters above the automobile agency at Euclid Avenue and Twentieth Street to the Chamber of Commerce Building on the Public Square. A 99-year lease was obtained for the building, and through that summer the new quarters were remodelled to receive students in the fall. The history of Cleveland College would not be complete without recog- nition of the invaluable aid given by Newton D. Baker. As President of the Board of Trustees, he strongly supported President Vinson and Dean Leutner in establishing the college. In the crash of 1929 and the early Thirties, he raised approximately two hundred thousand dollars in a campaign to save the college from closing its doors. In 1936 a co-operative education system was introduced. Under this plan, the co-op students work and study in groups of twos, both holding one position. While one attends classes on a full-time schedule, the other works. At the end of the semester, they exchange programs. In April, 1942, the former Chamber of Commerce Building became the permanent property of Cleveland College. It was purchased for S210,000 and renamed the Newton Diehl Baker Memorial Building, in recognition of Mr. Baker's help and interest in adult education. World War II had been ended scarcely a year when Cleveland College was filled to the rafters, and there was a need for more space. In addition to the Annex and class-room facilities on the Western Reserve University Campus, the college has spread out to include rooms in the Public Square Building, Engi- neeris Building, Public Library, Women's Federal Building, Cleveland Heights High School, Euclid Central High School, Family Health Association, and the Board of Education annex at 2060 Stearns Road. Although this is carrying out the policy of taking any space available, plans for the future call for centraliza- tion. Dean Hunsaker envisions a new structure on the southwest corner of the Mall, extending from Rockwell Avenue to St. Clair Avenue. The plans call for demolishing the present college auditorium and constructing an eight-story building in its place. Two stories will be added to the present building to match with the new structure, and a new east facade across the two buildings ,would blend architecturally with the Board of Education Building across the Mall. Eventually the Card Building will be acquired, and the college property will then extend in an unbroken line from Rockwell Avenue to St. Clair Avenue. Thus Cleveland College will establish itself permanently in a suitable struc- ture in the heart of Cleveland, as it has so firmly implanted itself within the hearts of the thousands of Clevelanders who have benefited from its unique services and its important function of preparing the individual for both life in the world of business and the world of culture and intellectual progress.