Indiana State University - Sycamore Yearbook (Terre Haute, IN)

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Enmtimml Emartmmt The Manual Training department was organized in 1905 in one room of the Training School basement. The Vocational building was completed in 1914 and work was begun there in it the same year. This department now occupied the main part of two floors, with well equipped rooms for forging, foundry practice, sheet metal work, and a machine shop. Arthur H. Luehring, who came to Indiana State Normal in 1915, has charge of this work, Merit L. Laubach has been the head of the department since its organization. Assisting Mr. Laubach in the courses of Wood Turning, Wood Working, and Mechanical Drawing, is Reuben H. Snitz, who is in charge of the Manual Training department of the Training School. Prof. C. E. Sink was with the department until 1918 when he assumed the head 01' the department of Manual Training at the Muncie division. In the Spring of 1908 a single course of sewing was offered to twentyeone girls in the basement of the Training School. Work in sewing and cooking was carried on here, and in two old houses on the present sites of the Science Hall and the Vocational building un- der the leadership of Miss Ivah Rhyan, the present head of the department of Home Ecot- nomics. In 1916 the Vocational building was ready for use and since that time the- work has progressed fairly rapidly, courses in Sewing, Cooking, Miliinery, Textiles, Dietetics, Home Management, Home Care of the Sick, Costume Designing, House Planning and Deco- ration, and Practice Teaching being offered. Miss Minnie Irons came in 1915 and Miss Fern Parker, in 1918. During the Spring of 1918, a Cafeteria. was instituted at the recommendation of the department. Miss Grace Willetts came to take charge of it and to offer a course in In- stitutional Cookery. The department is operating under the provisions of the Federal Vocational Act, nine- ty-one students enrolling under it this year. Four graduated receiving the B. S. degree go forth this year as the pioneers of this work in Indiana State Normal. The aim of the department is the endeavor to solve the problem of successful home making and to pass that on to students in the public schools of Indiana. Olnmmerrial Eppartmvnt The Commercial department was es- tablished at Normal in the fall of 1917. Shepherd Young, formerly of Evans- ville, has charge of the department. The courses are so organized that the whole curriculum of the course can he completed in one year. Courses in ad- vanced bookkeeping, advanced and be ginning shorthand, and advanced type- writing are offered, the Gregg system of shorthand being used. The department occupies the entire fourth floor of the building and is equipped in the most modern way. The aim of the course is to produce efficient teachers of the commercial department in the high schools of the State. Incidentally, the department furnishes the students with a very SHEPHERD YOUNG, A. B. practical ceurse which will assist them towards well advanced business posi Professor of Commercial Subjects tions. The department is gaining so rapidly in popularity that another expansion of the quarters will soon be necessary. Kentucky State Normal. Southern Busi- ness University. West Kentucky, A. B., 1899. Indiana State Normal School since 1918.

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IVAH RHYAX. Ph. B. Professor of Domestic Economy Indiana. State Normal School, 1907. Brad- ley Polytechnic, 1910. Hunt Trade School, 1914. Teachers College, Columbia Univer- sity. Ph. B. Chicago University, 1919. Thir- teen years, experience in the grades as pri7 mary teacher and principal. Indiana State Normal School since 1911. GRACE L. WILLITs, B. S. Assistant Professor of Domestic Economy Topeka, Kansas High School, 1912. Kan- sas State Agricultural College, Department of Home Economics, B. S. Indiana State Normal School since 1918. MINNIE L. IRONS Assistant Professor of Domestic Economy Special work at Rockford College. De- partmental course, Teachefs College, Colum- bia, University, 1915. Twelve years! experir ence in the city schools of Rockford, Illinois. Indiana State Normal School since 1915. ETHEL LEE PARKER, A. B. Assistant Professor of Domestic Economy Indiana State Normal School, 1913. Uni- versity of Wisconsin. Chicago University. Indiana State Normal School, A. B., 1917. Experience in Home Economics in Moores- ville, Clinton and Brazil. Indiana State Normal School since 1918.

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CHARLOTTE BERTHA SCHWEITZER, PH, B. ELIZABETH A. ROSE Dean of Women Assistant to Dean of Women Indiana State Normal School, Depauw A. B. and A. M. Four years Chicago University, Ph. B., 1919. of European travel and study in var- Experience in the grades and high ious European schools. Assistant in school of Waveland, Indiana, and in Latin. Indiana State Normal. Assist- the English department of Normal. ant to Principal, Monticello Seminary, Appointed Dean of Women, 1910. Godfrey, 111. Elm $mhpnt Euilhing The need of a Student Building for the Indiana State Normal School was realized as early as 1907, when the class of that year contributed an amount over three hundred dol- lars toward a building fund. In 1917, a campaign was launched for the further raising of funds, With a committee composed of representative trustees, faculty, alumni, and stu- dents, of which Prof. F. S. Bogardus was chairman. The funds raised in that year ap- proximated $7,500 and prosepects appeared Very hopeful. ' War developments stopped all prospects of building, but on September 20, 1917, the: residence of the late Colonel Martin, for a number of years Secretary of the Normal Board of Trustees, was purchased to supply the need of such a building, temporarily. The pur- pose of the Student Building was, and still is, to furnish a social center for school organi- zations, and to direct and develop social life among all students. This building was fur- nished under the capable direction of Dean Schweitzer and was opened to the students April 26, 1918. For a time the building was used as a tiFluii Hospital during the S. A. T. C. In the fall of 1918 Miss Fannie White was the matron in charge. In the fall of 1919 Miss Elizabeth Rose took up her residence there as Assistant Dean. Under her direction the building has become a Vital center of student life. The following organ- izations hold regular meetings in the Student Building: On Monday. Philomothean, Tro- jan, and Daedalian; on Tuesday, Y. W. C. A. and Ciceronians; on Wednesday, Psychology Club, Science Club, Electric, and Press Club; on Thursday, Alethenai, Y. M. C. A. and Stu- dent Volunteer Band; on Sunday, the Dinner Club and Bible Class. Friday and Saturday are reserved for parties by the various sections of the Womenis League and other student groups of Normal proper and 0f the Training school. This building so amply fulfills all social needs of the student body at present, that the prospect of building in the near future has been abandoned. However the nucleus of the old Student Building fund still remains intact and will undoubtedly meet some future need.