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

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Clyde c4. (Bowman Di ' .-m ol I ii (hi si i- hi I IiIim-.i I inn I !»!!»- 1953 1953 1919 A generation of students has come and gone since Clyde A. Bowman first came to our campus as Dean of Industrial Educa- tion. Thousands have come to know and love him; they have known his warm heart and revered his deep wisdom. His sons are scattered throughout the land. As the latest of them, we dedicate the 1953 Tower to Dean Bowman.

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THROl ' GH the vears. the Stout Institute has grown from a normal school, offer- ing onl) two years of education, to a full fledged college which offers four years plus a full year of graduate studv. Founded as The StOUl Manual Training School In Senator James H. Stout of Mcnomonic in ' . the school was financed hv him until his death in L910. At this time Hie Stout Institute was presented to the state, accepted and placed under the direction of a Board of Trustees. On his retirement from the position of State Superintendent of Public Instruction in Wiscon sin. Lorenzo D. Harvej became President of Stout Manual Training School and later of The StOUl Institute, fter his death in 1922. Burton I . Nelson became President, continuing until his retirement in 194.5. He was succeeded bv Verne C. Frvklund. who assumed the executive duties as the third President of the institution in October. 1945. From time to time, new improvements have been made at Stout: remodeling class rooms. shops, and laboratories: enlarging the campus: and now. building the new library. This new building, planned to bouse some 80,000 volumes, is taking the spotlight this years. Students and facult) alike are superintending it- construction from the sidewalks. Hut the new librarj is not the last of the improvements planned for Stout: plans are more or less completed for a new women ' s dormitory: redecoration of the Harvev Memorial, teachers ' lounges, and the third-floor • lining room: and remodeling of industrial arts shops. Many other plans are little more than li I es and dreams, but these same dreams lead to the realities of tomorrow. The Stout Institute is -till growing, and with this growth will come even better equipment to make good teachers and. above all. good citizens of the democratic: world in which we live. Construction of Harvey Hall L916.

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Projessor Hon man anil I he ir.r-.irru Churl. l ' Jll . . . Receiving the Skip Citation, Minneapolis. L951 . . . Home from convention with the loot. 1951 . . . Ih-an Emeritus, President Fryklund, Dean Jam ' s. January, 1953.