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

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Sutton £. A ellon President 4 d miniltlation One of the great contributing factors to the growth of The Stout Institute was the appointment, in 1903, of Lorenzo Dow Harvey as superintendent of the Menomonie schools. A few years later Dr. Harvey relinquished his work as superintendent of the city schools to devote his time to the demands of the Stout Training Schools, later to be The Stout Institute. Following the death of President Harvey in June, 1922, Burton E. Nelson, Superintend- ent of Schools of Racine, Wisconsin, was appointed to the presidency of Stout. Mr. Nelson took active charge in April, 1923. During his administration, the two and three year courses have given way to the four year course; graduate work is offered in the summer sessions; two dormitories, an athletic field, a site for a field house, a new home management house have been added to the property of the college. The little school of 1891, the gift of James H. Stout to Menomonie, is a college which serves the nation. A generous, farseeing man and an efficient administrator began the work; it is being carried on by a kindly, great educator, Burton E. Nelson.

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Undu5ttial Education Building Tragi 1 jgR

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Dean of Industrial Education In 1919, Clyde A. Bowman was made the first Dean of Industrial Education of our college. Dean Bowman also served as acting president of Stout in the interim be- tween the death of Dr. Harvey and the appointment of Mr. Nelson to the presidency. Mr. Bowman has had thirty-two years of teaching experience, all but ten of which have been spent as head of the Division of Industrial Education at Stout. During the first World War, he was granted leave from his position at Columbia University to serve in the Engineering Corps. Executive and writer, he is a recognized leader among teachers of industrial education. KutA £. Mlchadi Dean of Home Economics Daisy Kugel, the first director of the House- hold Arts Department— as home economics was known then— of The Stout Institute, served in this capacity from 1912 until her retirement early in 1927. Miss Ruth E. Michaels was chosen to succeed Miss Kugel. She had studied at Stout, at the University of Chicago, and at Columbia University; she had taught in colleges in Iowa, Texas, and Pennsylvania. Her wide and varied experience in the field of home economics education gave promise of the valuable con- tributions which Miss Michaels has made to the Division of Home Economics of the college.