DePauw University - Mirage Yearbook (Greencastle, IN)

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THE GRO UND BREAKING rested the responsibility of seeing the thing through, and to one man should go a great deal of the honor of giving DePauw the building which was most needed to make her a college among colleges. That man, tall and slender, with ready smile and lengthy stride, is Dr. George Richmond Grose, our president. ,1 From the moment of Dr. Grose,s first visit to the campus he had in mind this building. His dreams of a gLgreater DePauw,, have all centered around this new building which is about to be dedicated, and his efforts have all pointed toward the accomplishment of this one great good for our Alma Mater. Back in 1912, when Dr. Grose was only a youngster in DePauw traditions, he began to plan, and to plan systematically toward a new gymnasium Which would not only afford a place for freshmen to get their necessary llTwo hoursl Credit in Gymnasium and Physical Cultural as prescribed by the Manual for Students, but a place that would do credit to an institution whose alumni in turn are proud of her. So it was that in 1913 Dr. Grose made his initial trip in the in- terests of the new gymnasium. It wasn,t very fruitful, that first tripeat least if you consider it in the way of dollars and cents. But it did do one thing. It aroused the alumni to a full realization of the fact that we have a live president - a man who would be lead- ing them in their efforts to help'the school; it aroused the Trustees to a realization of the fact that DePauw really needed a new gym- nasium, and it awakened the friends of the institution; leaving them all sitting up with a how-long-have-I-been-asleep air, and a full sense of approaching duty.

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.0313 De Pauw's New Gymnasium tBY FORD C. FRICKl AY back there in 1885, long before Dr. Grose even thought of DePauw; long before ttNiclf and Barnes and the rest of b; the youngsters were even out of short trousers, and long ago when our fathers and our fathersl sweethearts attended Old Asbury, DePauw made her bow to the athletic world. It was about this time also, that the student body, and the alumni and the alumniis friends, and the alumnil's friendsi friends began to realize just how much athletics meant to a college; just how much spirit was cultivated and good fellowship fostered; just how much honest loyalty and real ttpepll athletics developed for Alma Mater.. And then came the demand for a new gymnasium; a building where this spirit could be fostered and where DePauw could train her men and women, not only mentally, but physically as well. Years passed. There were agitations and agitations; meetings and more meetings; spirit and more spirit; and iinally, now, even as this book goes to press, the workmen are busy, and DePauW Will have a new gymnasium. What is more, it is a real gymnasium; a gym- nasium won FOR students BY students; a gymnasium that not only represents the growing strength and power of a live institution, but a material semblance of the tie that binds all the sons and daughters Who have known DePauw spirit. It embodies our traditions; it he- speaks 0111' enthusiasm; it typifies our loyalty. Yet, in all the work, in all the labor, and in all the troubles that have accompanied the gymnasium campaign, one man stands out pre- eminently as the leader. To one man has fallen the burden of con- ducting the campaign for endowment; on one man,s shoulders has 1 gm: WAYS ' L OCKER ROW L... VISITINC u TEAM h. GIRLS u E wr syowm E N a ROOM Q$ VJ k a a E W r W S E t- E A7515 .7- f C : a -a a - g FIELD a pmozm q i Roan! T; $ 132F551 Jr 114 r557 wraiwaw- E l$ Q: I 50190051 I E E HOME w TEAM Pr! 1 5075 L.- 70:16,! Lml? ROOM 1! mmmaw- Is YHMf I V BASEME NT OF GYM 6

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A litte later Dr. Wade, Who had disported himself so gayly in the endowment campaign, girded up his loins and jumped into the gymnasium campaign. Result-betting odds went up and divi- dends were declared on all stock, with a surplus to cover bond issues. And then when the Athletic Board came on. Say, you should have seen those old alumni and friends jump then. When nine men full of fighting ginger and red pepper, with a full determination to see the thing through if it was the last thing they did - when a crew like that becomes interested its time for dirt to fly. Incidentally it flew, and believe us, it was real flying. i- To those nine men goes SOME credit, and they went after it as if they wanted it. No half way stuff went. J ewett prepared a special line of superlatives and descriptive nouns. uVarf got out a double-lincd blue pencil and made marks that counted, and the other seven, well-ethey pushed, and incidentally reached a long hand into the farther-most pocket of their jeans and produced a note for the last five thousand. Consequently here We are with a brand new gymnasium on hand; an Alumni Board that is llfightenerj, than a lVIexican rebel, and an administration thatls for us all the way. Of course there Were others. First of all comes llhs. Caldwell, who gave Dr. 1rrose the first $10,000 toward the new building. And then thereis Charley Barnaby, and Eckhart and all those men and women who have stood by us from time immemorial, and who will be with us to the last ditch e and above all, there,s the men and Women who, altho not able to give in great sums, gave what they could and gave gladly. And perhaps a word about the building itself wouldn,t he amiss. On March the eighteenth we broke ground, and it was SOBIE break- ing. Prexy and Dr. Gobin handled the plow, and Barnett and some of the other illustrious ones pulled. It wasnlt a very good looking furrow, and once or twice Dr. Gobin rode the plow, but anyhow it all. a Minn y a MZDOQ? 1477725776 FIELD IJz flfr m 114 rfzr E MAXN GHIWIM JWJA 16W FI'Y'I'IIV' 801 717-7 FIRST FLOOR OF VGYM 8