Iowa State University - Bomb Yearbook (Ames, IA)

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NDUSTRIAL SCIENCE I C. E. Friley Driiii of IiiihixliidJ Science A DEDICATE these halls t(i the ] ni n-ess of industrial seieiu-e. said President A. S. Welch in his iiiauj;iiral address on Mareli 17, 1869. He went on to suggest that the name Industrial Colleoe might well be applied to the fledgling insti- tution. Fn)ni that tinu to this the In- dustrial Seienee Division has been the jiareut trunk from which have emerged tlie other branches of the College. The fundamental major sci- ences of the Division — bacteriology and hygiene, botany, chemistry, eco- nomics, geology, mathematics, military science and tactics, physics and zoology — have appeared in every catalog and biennial report from the beginning of tlie College. Strangely enough, the course in bacteriology, first taught at Iowa State Col- lege in 1888, was the first regular course of its kind given in any institution in tlie United States, including medical schools! The Botanj ' Department, too, did its bit of pioneering. It was the fir.st in the country to use the compound microscope in the study of plants and the first to conduct regular laboratory instruction. Athletics today receive much consideration from the entire College, but not ,so always. For 20 years organized athletics received no financial assistance and very little encouragement from the College. The department moved from the basement of iloi-iill Hall to a temporary training shed near the water tower, later to the third fioor of the Engineering Annex and finally to the new gym- nasium. ♦ Th( liiojilc tcacli i}iilii! trial sciciiti.its — anil others as well ♦ I ?♦

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HOME ECONOMICS Ge.nevikve Fisher Dean of Home Economics ♦ u 4 4 jTiTTiNtiLY. ;Mrs. ]Mary i;. V(li-li. wilV of Iowa A{, ' riuultural ( ' (illciic ' s lirst president, was the iiiotlicr of lioinc economics instruc- tion on the campus. When tlic coUefre opened in 18ti8 she offered to women students :} hours if work a week in ])ractical honieniakin i. and so tlie col- Icii-e became tlie first institution of its rank in the country to give instruc- tion in home economics. A kitelien in tlie basement of Old JIain — said to be tlie first of its kind in any eollejre — was Jlrs. Welch ' s first laboratory. The weekly work of a home economics student (and in 1868 that meant all women students) was divided into three sections — practice in the kitchen, the dining: room and the laundry. From this homely beginning has developed Iowa State ' s highly modern Home Economics Division, with its laboratories, classrooms and facilities that Mi-s. Welch can hardly have imagined. Gradually it has been built up. The eourse in institution cookery, for instance, may be traced back to 1877, when cooking classes prepared and served meals for one table in the main college din- ing room. A home manaji-ement house (now there are four, and don ' t call them practice cottages!), added in 1916. was one of the first of its kintl in the United States. And the Division has awarded 2, SOS bachelor ' s degrees, 266 master ' s, and three doctor ' s. Early in 19.33 hundreds of holders of these degrees were called upon by Dean (ienevieve Fisher to aid in the important emergency relief work of planning dietaries for families receiving relief. AutlimitiCK ill llii firhl iif Immi cniiiiiinifx ' } ♦ I 6

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VETERINARY MEDICINE ♦ C. H. Stance Vcaii of Veterinary Medicine ♦ ♦I T TdiiK (inly ' J. years t(i niakt ' a veterinary snrj;eon wlien, ill 1879. the School of Veterinary Seieiiee was establislied as a pai ' t of li) va Agrienltural Colleji-e, Ei ' lit years later tlie eourse fj-rew to ' ■] years; ill lfH):{ it took rank with other jjhases iif follefie work by demandinfr 4 years. And in 1931 it p;rew another step. One year of pre-veterinary work of eollei;iate rank was required at that time, so that now a would-be veterin- ai-ian must , ' o to eollejie for 5 years. The fii ' st veterinary hospital — where students as well as horses souf :ht pills — was an old frame build- ing on the site where Memorial TTnion now stands. Siiieo tliat time the Division has changed homes five times. The first was the original home of President Welch (South Hall) ; the sec- ond was North Hall ; the third later became the student hospital and finally Music Hall ; the fourth was Old Agricultural Hall ; and tiftli, the present Vet- erinaiy Quadrangle. During its history, there have been but three veterinary deans at Iowa State. Dr. Millikan Stalker was the first dean, serving from 1880 to 1890. In 1909 the present dean — C. H. Stange — came. It was during his deanship that the highest ] oint in enrollment was reached. In 1930-31, 23-1 students set the high mark. Althougli Iowa State ' s Veterinary Division has attained world-wide fame, it is interesting to note that of the (i!l7 veterinary alumni, 331 of these are lo- cated in Iowa. S v V ■ ' iimiliiir fares over in llii ' I QiKiilriuu Ie classrooms