University of Wisconsin Stout - Tower Yearbook (Menomonie, WI)

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Dedication LORENZO DOW HARVEY Fifty-four years before the beginning of Stout Institute, was born Lorenzo Dow Harvey, destined by the keenness of his mentality, the force of his char- acter, the charm of his personality, to become one of the great educational leaders of the United States. Into every task, he put his best effort, whole-heartedly, enthusiastically, and success followed. From rural school to city school teacher, then city super- intendent, normal school instructor, normal school president. CO state superin- tendent of public instruction, his path led in less than thirty years. Following this, in 1903. Senator J. H. Stout of Menomonie. Wisconsin, looking about for the man best qualified to develop an experiment in the train- ing of teachers of domestic economy and manual training, secured the services of Dr. Harvey, as superintendent of the Menomonie public schools and the Stout Manual Training School. To this new field of work. Dr. Harvey brought this background of successful school experience, and the exceptional power of organization, broad vision, practical judgment which marked all his work. From the beginning, the school won for itself and its leader a nation- wide reputation, for it was based on sound educational theory and practice. In 1908. the Stout Training School separated from the city schools, and was incorporated as Stout Institute, with Dr . Harvey as the president. After Mr. Stouts death, in 1911. the school became a state institution, governed by the state board of vocational education. In 1913. President Harvey s efforts were rewarded by the legislative appro- priation of $265,000. which was used for the erection and equipment of the trades and household arts buildings. Five years later. Dr. Harvey, always ambitious for the school, directed his energies to furthering the passage of a legislative bill which granted the right to offer four year courses in industrial and household arts, and to confer the B. S. degree. President Harvey, for four years thereafter, saw the school continue its growth and maintain its accepted place in the American Association of Teachers Colleges, and then, working to the last, the year ' s work completed, he died rune 1. 1922. By those who know Stout Institute, it will always be thought of as Dr. Harvev ' s school, for it is. indeed, his. in the sense that it represents his educa- tional ideas and ideals: that it is the embodiment of his dominating personality. It is his masterpiece. Hundreds of men and women, former students of Dr. Harvey ' s, think with appreciative gratitude of his influence in their lives. For them all he had a kindly interest and affectionate regard. Associates of Dr. Harvey gained immeasurably from his sympathetic under- standing of their problems and difficulties, his generous encouragement, his genial, but stimulating friendship, his insight into and keen analysis of all situa- tions, his profound knowledge, his broad culture. To have known him. is to be the richer for the experience: to have had the privilege of close association with him. means a broader outlook upon life and a permanent inspiration. Daisy Alio- Kugel.

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