Illinois State Normal University - Index Yearbook (Normal, IL)

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The Faculty I5 knows his work and is not lost without an outline book before him. In Mr. Ridgley, as head of the department of geography, the faculty has one of its strongest members. JOHN P. STEWART. Mr. Stewart is assistant in biology and physics and succeeds Charles Whitten. He graduated from the I. S. N. U. in 1899. During the next two years he taught latin, biology and physics in the Biggsville Township High School. The following year he received the degree of A. B. from the University of Illinois. In September, 1902, he en- tered Cornell University and did special work in biology and horticulture under Professors Bailey, Atkinson and Comstock. In june, 1903, he received the degree of A. M. from Cornell. Mr. Stewart is pleasant, aifable, second best singer on the faculty and a first-class man in the athletics of the school. WILLIAM T. BAWDEN. Professor Bawden is at the head of the manual training depart- ment. He and his work are very popular among both students and faculty. Mr. Bawden has been graduated from more schools than any other member of the faculty. The list is as follows: Mechanics' Institute, Rochester, N. Y., 1898, Doane Academy 1892, Denison Uni- versity 1896, Teachers' College, Columbia University 1903. He is eminently qualified for his work and is making the new department so strong that new quarters must be provided for manual training in the near future. Mr. Bawden is a good athlete. Mr. Stewart and he are good as coaches and trainers in all of the athletic work done by the boys. BIABEL LoU1sE CUMMINGS. Miss Cummings is a native of Massachusetts. She is a graduate of the Boston Normal School of Physical Education. Miss Cummings is an ardent advocate of the Swedish system of gymnastics. She is an excellent instructor and it is needless to say that the girls have had the best of training. ISAAC N. VVARNER. Mr. Warner has been succeeding well as principal of the training School. He is a native of Illinois and was graduated from the I. S. N. U. in 1900. He has had several years of experience in public school work and is a strong man for the position. FLORENCE GRACE STEVENS. Miss Stevens is a graduate of the Oswego Normal School, having taken the special course for critic teachers. She has had charge of the first primary and is an excellent teacher.

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I5 Index Historical Sketch I Illinois was admitted to the Union in 1818 the federal government provided endowments for higher education known as the college and seminary funds. For nearly forty years no permanent disposition of these funds was agreed upon. Some wished to found a 4 US state university such as Virginia had established at 5322, -Ei H , . 1 .3.o hi' 1 - 'C :'Q.'!9:5i'eb.z'v'- A QQ Monticello, the friends of the various denominational 'ii' 'lf ,: . colleges urged a division of the funds among them, ef: in the backward condition of elementary education led ,gl 5 'S others to advocate an institution for the training 5353? 'l of teachers. With the powerful backing of the f , I Prairie Farmer and the State Teachers' Association the last idea prevailed. On February 18, 1857, Governor Bissell signed the act creating the Illinois State Normal University. Among the various competing cities Bloomington secured the in- stitution by offering SI4I,OOO. A noble building was planned, con- tracts were letg the foundation was built, then the financial crash of 1857 brought building operations to a standstill. In two years, work was resumed, the building completed and dedicated in January 1861. Meanwhile the school had opened. On October 5, 1857, nineteen students had gathered in Major's Hall in Bloomington to greet the principal, Charles E. Hovey, and his assistant, Ira Moore. Both were men of rare ability, but the outbreak of the Civil War summoned both to the Union army. President Hovey led a regiment and became a brigadier general. After the war Mr. Moore became president of the St. Cloud, Minnesota, Normal School and later accepted a similar position at Los Angeles. ' In the fall of 1860 school was opened in the incomplete new build- ing. The faculty had increased to ten, the student body averaged about 175. In 1857 Mary Brooks, an accomplished primary teacher, was brought from Peoria, to open an experimental school as a supplementary feature of the Normal University. This became very popular. Pro- vision was made in the new building for a model school of all grades. All the children from Normal and many from Bloomington were en- rolled in the model school. Its high school department soon won a high reputation. Such men as W. L. Pillsbury and H. J. Barton of the University of Illinois, Edmund J. james of the Northwestern Uni- versity, Charles F. Childs, Lester L. Burrington, and O. L. Manchester have been its principals. The model school in the early days was mainly a school for obser- vation. Not much teaching was required of the normal students, and that was not carefully supervised. In 1867 the school had grown so large as to demand an additional building, which was erected by the school board of the village. In 1868 the Normal University dis- continued the supervision and instruction of the pupils in the new building. Not until 187 3 was the value of practice teaching adequately recognized. In that year the Training Department was organized with Thomas Metcalf as its first principal. The war made serious inroads upon the Normal University, six of