University of Wisconsin Whitewater - Minneiska Yearbook (Whitewater, WI)

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955 THE 1910 MINNEISKA My -71.-XV RESIDENT Salisbury was born on a Wisconsin farm, near l..ima in G J5 Rock County, January 24, IS43. He was the oldest child in a 55 'Egfr family of six. His parents were of sturdy New England stock. His H I x,,,J boyhood was mostly spent. in the hard work of a pioneer home. He Qs he early became imbued with the desire for knowledge. In 1861, Mr. Salisbury entered Milton Academy, which he alt- tended only duri-ng the winter months, being forced to work during the summer. His college courseiwas interrupted by his country's call, and in December of IS63, he entered the army as a private in the Thirteenth Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, and served until December of IS65. After being mustered out of service, he returned to Lima where, for a short time, he was engaged in the nursery business. He soon dis- continued this line of work and entered Milton College where he graduated with the first g .4:mXf 'Ki-, 5 Q + f If ' if LY kg attended a rural school almost in sight of our Normal School, where class, in l870. F or the n-exft -three years, he was Principal of the Briodhead Hig'h class, in l870. For the next three years, he was Principal of the Bro-adhead High School. Then, in recognition of the excellent work done, he was appointed to a position on the Whitewater Normal Faculty. Mr. Salisbury came to the school as its first In- stitute Conductor in March, IS73, and served in that capacity until June, ISSZ. During these years of service, h-e won an enviable record throughout the state and did much towards organizing our Teachers' Institute System. He resigned this position to become Superintendent of Schools for the American Missionary Association among the Freed- men and -Indians. After three years of this responsible service, he was called back to Whitewater as President, in ISS5. V With th-e close of this year, President Salisbury completes a quarter of a century as head -of the Whitewater Normal. But this is not the whole of his connection with the schoolg that extends 'over more -than a third of a c-ontury. A study of the .schofol's history during these twenty-five years is a study of the last quarter-century of President Salis- bury's life. For her growth and struggles and aspirations were the growth, the aspira- tions, and achievements -of him who has so long and so successfully directed her course. President Salisbury made no radical changes in the administration of the school when he became its President, but he has constantly and effectively stamped his strong and inspir- ing personality upon the school until we may well say that the growth and ideals of the school are what he made them. With this thought before us, as well as the belief that it may be of interest, we wish now to recall some of the changes which have taken place in connection with the school during these twenty-five years. It would be interesting as well as instructive, if space permitted, to make a com- parison between the work done in the various departments of then and now. During this period, th-e course of study has been so changed that there is scarcely a basis of comparison. There was praotically no instruction in Drawin-gg there was only one fsmall l-ablorato-ry, the chemical, and almost no laboratory equipment. The English work, then done primarily by one teacher, is now carried by four. One person did all the w-ork in supervi-sion of Practice Teaching, and also all the -teaching of Methods. ln fact, a class in Methods had been organized, but a little more than a year, and Practice Teaching had scarcely become a required part -of the work previous to ISS5. Flor we read in the school archives of that date: lf a student happened to have some time, he was given a Prac- tice Classf' The Kindergarten has been addedg Manual Training and Construction in the grades has been inaugurated, and the Athletic Field and School Garden have been annexed. The museum and arboretum idea falls within this period, also all participation in oratory and athletics. Again, during this twenty-live years, the Faculty has increased from fifteen to twenty-Hve, and the anrn-ual play-roll fro-m il5l6,600.00 to 535,400.00 or more than double. In l885, th-ere was no Gymnasium and no Director of Physical Training. How- I5

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I, .N .4 My THE 1910 IVIINNEISKA 5 ever, Gymn-astics was then, as now, a part of the required work. The classes met'be- fore, after school, and in the evenings. At one time, ln the 80 s, a fifteen minute period, 2:45 uto 3:00, was assigned to Hcalisthenics and rest. The exercises were often given in the Assembly Room, th-e students marching up and down and around in the aisles. leader was appointed to the head of each column, who executed whatever movement his fancy for lack of fancy, dictated. Another contrast between the systems of then and now, after regular classes had been organized, is striki.ngly'1llustrated in the dress worn by the ladies. This dress consisted of a short full skirt trimmed with red braldug waislt made with a yoke trimmed with the same materialg loose sleeves banded at the wrist wllth more braidg black trousers gathered at the knee and trimmed with three rows of red braid on the ruffle. Our present Gymnasium was built and a Director of Physical Training employed as a result of the untiring efforts of President Salisbury. l-le secured, almost single- handed, an appropriation of 520,000.00 from the State Legislature in l89l. This money was used in building the Gymnasium and the Wvest Wing, and was the first ap- proprialtion made by our State Legislature to a Normal School. This appropriation made by the last Legislature was S340,000.00 besides 5220000.00 for building purposes. Thus, all of the Normal Sch-ools of the state have been aided in a trangible manner as a result of President Salisbury's single-handed fight to secure our Gymnasium. Again, the present Library and Libr-ary manageme-nt is a revelation in contrast to that of twenty-five years ago. Then the Library-a small room about twenty by thirty- opened into the Assembly Room through an archway. There were no reading tables n-or card catalogues. Th-e books, which were mainly for reference, were arranged -on sh-elves around the room. The student, when in need of on-e of them, went to the sh-elves, helped himself, wrote his name with tha.t of the title of he book on a slip of paper, and dropped it into a tin box through a narrow slit in the cover. At the close of school, these slips were taken up by the President and recorded in a book kept in the President's office. When the student was through with the book, he took it back to th-e President, received his slip, had his name checked off in the record book, and proceeded to the Library with his book. A student of tho-se good old daysn in the course of narrating this system to the writer remarked, There were no more b-ooks, if as many, lost then than nowf' Quiet was supposed to reign throughout this particular hall of knowledge, but it would noit compare favorably with the conditions of the well ordered Library of the present time. The needs of the school have outgrown the capacity of the present Library- once considered so spacious. A fine new Annex is now in process of construction, one Hoor of which will be occupied exclusively by Library III. s The new library will con- tain four rooms an-d have a Hoor space of 68 by 76 feet. We may recount the growth in another wayg i. e., in l885, the number of volumes in the Library was l,586g the present number of volumes is l0,046, with about 3,000 pamphlets and over 5,000 clas- sified pictures. It was not until l899 that the school had a trained librarian, when Miss Lizzie P. Swan was appointed librarian and assistant in English. ' The growth of the school along these lines was of necessity followed by a growth in the building. When Mr. Salisbury came to .lthe presidency, the original main building had received H8761 -one addition, the North Wing. In l89l, the Gymnasium Wing was added. The new rooms added were the drawing room, gymnasiu-m, and three recita- tion rooms. In l897, the main front, which had stood for over thirty years, was torn down and greatly enlarged. The new rooms were the music room, library, the primary rooms, the museum, workshop, physical and biological, laboratories, and ladies' and gentlemens cloak rooms. Aside from an increased Hoor space, many and varied im- PFOVCIIICIIES wlgerli made. .Among oth-er parts of the transformation may be mentioned the Ergfilspaglij she Eirisrijlfeg infftlgs fgontifif the Aslsembly Room, the many pictures .on the decogations. Th tl te e o cel mg, toget er with the color scheme pervading all ese ar 1s1c arrangements have been enjoyed by all who have entered the I6 9 wif, ,aw 'Tw ' .f!.. WV: H. I Wi' f 'W 'T W 5 :'n!l4Wl .i'T m 3,1 ii' iatffulil 'mi Ural. :Nw pmmf, t0'4 4' :egg 33' :tr we ' VW 'H' lm. t-his W Q11 iiilll vi ttfitftfft 1K5 time muff v 4 tad 'itat 3'1 lim' V71 ciiizgmf. n tv tin human Wifi if ing: iltlifitr firing tm: mxuzrn mmgsimr: -4 4 , WY fur ,+R .ui 25 'llffltir g' me :shag .- X . 1352!-I x3