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Cover Photo: "Old Main" building on Eastern
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CONTENTS

Governor Jim Edgar's Letter .............................. 3
Introduction by David L. J orns ........................... 4
A Century of Excellence in Education ................ 6

Livingston Chester Lord (1899-1933) .......... 10
Robert Guy Buzzard (1933-1956) ................ 30
Quincy Van Ogden Doudna (1956-1971) .... 41
Gilbert Courtland Fite (1971-1977) ............. 50
Daniel Marvin, Jr. (1977-1983) ................... 55
Stanley G. Rives (1984-1992) ....................... 5
David L. Jorns (1992-Present) ..................... 59
Special Remembrances ............................... 61
Roster .........--:.................................................. 90
Index ........................................................: ......... 111

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STATE OF ILLINOIS

OFFICE OF THE GOV ER N O R

SPRINGFIELD 62706

GOVERNOR September 1, 1995

Greetings:

As Governor of the State of Illinois, it is my pleasure t o
congratulate Eastern Illinois University on its 100th
anniversary.

Since its founding in 1895 as a state normal school,
Eastern has established itself as an educational leader. For
100 years, Eastern's talented faculty have greatly enriched the
lives of generations of students. The University's reputati on
for providing graduates with quality, affordable educati on has
set a standard few institutions can match.

As an alumnus, I am proud to commend my alma mater f o r its
long tradition, rich heritage, and commitment to excellence.

On behalf of the citizens of Illinois, "Happy Birthday''
Eastern, and may the second century be as prosperous as the
first.

Best regards,

. f&5Jim Edgar ~

GOVERNOR

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ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY Office of Planni ng and Public Affairs
Charleston, IL 61920-3099
(217) 581-5983
(217) 581-5023

I extend a most sincere "Happy Birthday" to Eastern Illinois
University, which celebrated its 100th anniversary in 1994-95.

It was a momentous year for Eastern, with many activities
held to commemorate the University's Centennial. It has been an
honor to be a part of these historic events, which have brought
back fond memories of an institution that has been a vital part
of the lives of the people of Illinois for many decades.

Eastern, since its founding in 1895, has experienced many
changes. The campus has expanded, the student body has increased,
and the curriculum has broadened. Many fine individuals have made
this University what it is today -- a dynamic, comprehensive
institution of higher education responsive to change, dedicated
to excellence, and committed to a global educational perspective.

We look forward to the next century of achievement from this
exemplary institution. The Centennial theme could not have been
more appropriate -- for "Excellence at Eastern truly is repre-
sented by a proud history and a promising future."

Dr. David L. Jorns
President,
Eastern Illinois University

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A CENTURY OF
EXCELLENCE IN EDUCATION

f rom 126 enrolled students to more than 10,000, from 44 acres to J ... b I! ~1'.. ,.L~..1!!!..:-.,~.,.( ~¥!:.•.l~!! - ~., ~

320, from one major building to 70, from four graduates to more than :~ _fuw..J:11~ .'\Ju:. . -:.~ - !'"'t~ r" .It.~··-~~ ,--;,l......,t
60,000, its been an exciting century of excellence in education at East-
ern Illinois University. Eastern, which begins its 100th year in 1995, 4'i-,1 ,t..,, ... ~-- ,/J4 .r , .••• ,.,., ~ '"' .-,.,.,,.
was founded to provide more teacher-training for the state of Illinois. f'-' .-.,(_,.J{...:,
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In 1887, a committee report to the State buildings from fire originating in any of ~ 1. ..-;(.,.'j <\ ~ .., , ✓- -"l~ IJ:.,..,y.H...
Senate had concluded that Illinois should pro- them. " ,t 4AU <..~
vide additional normal (teacher-training) f' .,,,..__l ".G..,,h.t. /<,-~.... , .,;,:••, ,
schools. With only two training schools, at Following passage of the act, a fierce bid-
Carbondale and Normal, Illinois was being ding competition for the School began among j l,,,;""--r~~-e ..,~•~-.:, .. ~_,_-,.~,, -•-<,t, I'-- •..,~
left behind Missouri, (which had three nor- twelve eastern Illinois cities: Charleston,
mal schools), Minnesota (four), and Wiscon- Danville, Effingham, Kansas, Lawrenceville, '\ ... , ......1'\ ... .,( ,...,. .....✓ -/.,., ,:,,.~~t.,.,..,_, ««' ,_..,e,z:,(. ,,
sin (five) . Mattoon, Oakland, Olney, Palestine, Paris,
Shelbyville and Tuscola. i _;(., "._.., /-4-.J_._.._,,1• h ~c,.,,,,i,..V, L ,,..,.,J
Then, in 1893, a committee of the Illinois l h ....;.,....,, ✓ ✓, ,._, ...= :-iA♦,
Teachers Association was created to work for The committee which Charleston resi-
more normal schools. The association and oth- dents chose to spearhead the effort soon raised '1/·" ... _.,_. ~ .,,.'"/~· - ,.....7···•
ers spearheaded efforts to have at least two $75,000. The Charleston proposal (which was l--/=7 :i' " ... .u•«•/' ,.... ..,,;: r,
new state normal schools, one in the north- eventually chosen over the others) said that f1u,•< '9.u..d .,(_£ ,.,_ ..,_ff b17 r~ .,...,_...,,1
ern part of the state and the other in the west- if the School was located within two miles of
ern part. This action stimulated interest in also the Courthouse in Charleston, its citizens a 4 .. ,., ......-ta '" .~ri' ~---"'- " ,.. 4,,..>,l'..-1:..
having a normal school in eastern Illinois. would:
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The year 1895 was a good one for the First: Donate forty acres of land to be se- 7"-r/#- .,;1,,. •• ,,, , t>•- c .:t ,,,_4.,./"'lf
world: Oscar Hammerstein and Babe Ruth lected by the Trustees from any of the sites e:..-_, _,, ,._'4..,
were born; Wilhelm Rontgen discovered x- shown to them. Second: Donate from $35,000
rays; Marconi invented radio telegraphy, the to $40,000, depending on which site was se- <..1/ ..:-, .. ,,1' .,_~_,.-r, ...,,,~ .,;.,.. r-,C,,_ ;-~.,...,.... ,._...._-,,
first complete performance of Tschaikowsky's lected. Third: Take water to the grounds se-
Swan Lake ballet was performed in St. Peters- lected in four inch pipes and furnish as many 7 /. . , . :. .,~ ..,,_,:,, .. 4,, •••. .t....,.,.,,, ~ '°i'"'•<f--.:-.. --«
burg; and the first professional football game hydrants (not exceeding four) at such points
was played at Latrobe, Pennsylvania. It also as directed, and furnish water to the School ~-·1-'7"' ✓,,_·,,,~. ✓• .., 17 ···-·
turned out to be a historic year for Charles- for fifty years at five dollars per year.
ton, Illinois. On February 7, Senator Isaac ,Ji,.. <'< 1,~t "••'/-~•• ' _;;, ...>T i! r.,(,,, 4,,,..,...,~•.r.-¥..-
Craig of Mattoon and Representative W.H. Fourth: Pave or gravel a street from the 1 7r~ /~ .:.Z<d t:f'l:..-e"' ,-,,..
Wallace of Humboldt introduced bills for an Courthouse to the School and sufficient side- -r.l_. J7.-~., •
Eastern Illinois State Normal School. walk to the site. Fifth: Furnish incandescent
electric lights for the School for 25 years at ~..,, ....;,~---- •...., •"-
On May 22, 1895, the Eastern Illinois State the price of ten cents per thousand watts and
Normal School was created by an act of the at half regular rates for arc lights. Sixth: Fur- ..... .. ...,. ,.,..-- '-, • • ,, .~• ..-.;:,,"'/'" -z,
Illinois General Assembly, with an appropria- nish $5,000 of freight on any of the lines of .
tion of $50,000. The object of the Eastern Illi- the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago, or St.
nois State Normal School, as stated in the act Louis Railway Companies, when requested .. --~___. ;,
was "To quality teachers for the common by the Board. Seventh: Furnish free freight for ~-;'"-7"'
schools of this State by imparting instruction any materials used in the construction of the
in the art of teaching in all branches of study School which are shipped from any point on ,, ~-·"' .,._ '··;;
which pertain to a common school education, the lines of the Toledo, St. Louis, and Kansas
in the elements of the natural and the physi- City Railway Companies, and deliver the ;1,L fi,, ~
cal sciences, in the fundamental laws of the same in Charleston. Eighth: Furnish coal for
United States and of the State of Illinois, in the School until July 1, 1901, as follows: $.75 /;;; ..... 1 •.e -"'--~
regard to the rights and duties of citizens. " per ton for lump, $.70 for Steam Lump, $.65
for Mine Run, $.45 for Nut Coal, and $.35 for 11:::·~ . :. ~~~ ...-,.
Although the act authorized a State Nor- Pea Slack. Ninth: Furnish all gravel needed
mal School for eastern Illinois, it did not in the construction of walks, roofs and drives µ r tCC;l/. <t .,.,. ,,( ~~(2<,'~. - t1s;r,
specify a location. This task was left to a five- within the grounds of the School, free on cars 4-'"'(
member Board of Trustees, also created by the at Charleston. According to the May 28, 1896, _.,_
act. Although a location was not specified, the Charleston Courier, the competition for the
act did state that the buildings "shall not be School "was the hardest ever fought in the his- First and last pages from the orig inal
more than two stories in height" and that the tory of eastern Illinois, if not in the whole state, leg islation establishing a normal
campus would include "the outhouses re- and probably the most hotly contested (of its school for the training of teachers in
quired for use." However, it further directed, kind) on record anywhere. " East-Central Illinois, approved M ay
"the outhouses shall be so placed and con- 22, 7895.
structed as to avoid all danger to the main One of the prime considerations in the
selection was the availability of an abundant

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September 7, 1895 telegram dispatched from supply of good water. A member of the Board, an indirect economic impact of some $240 mil-
Springfield announcing that Charleston had Trustee M.J. Walsh, was charged with the duty lion.) It will increase our population, and in
been chosen as the site of the new normal of going from town to town to secure samples many ways give us standing and prestige..."
school. (Co urtesy Sara Johnston Gray) of water to be used for testing by the Board.
One night when the summer's heat and The new school was expected to bring
, .,,_ ..-• ~.:h .,,,.~~-.:r•~ ¥:,C', t --~;;',1·:t.. .1e, drought were at their worst and no one sus- from 300 to 600 students and hundreds of visi-
pected that he was within a hundred miles of tors to the city each year. (In fact, total on and
I Charleston, Walsh "rolled in" on the midnight off-campus enrollment for spring semester
Big Four train from the west. Fortunately, the 1994 was more than 11,000, and more than
~.. ,•,.,, \:-- '...1' , , ,., ~1r>1'. 0 -~, 1.., .•_,., , •..: :o •. r bus driver (the bus from the train station to 17,300 visitors attended summer camps and
the hotel) recognized Walsh as he was trans- conferences at Eastern that year. Today, the
.• ~: .,_.,'; S~ l,' ·c porting him to his hotel and began passing University serves as a major cultural center for
the word. lectures, music, drama, and dance.)
(u..,;;.,;,_;; . -D) ::011.,n,'n· •
When Walsh rose to take the early east- On Sept. 9, 1895, the trustees chose
~ ".t.!e,•~ ',e--:.., ':)hi..; v bound train, he was greeted everywhere along Bishop's Woods, about a mile south of the
the way to the depot with people sprinkling. Courthouse, as the location for the School. Al-
~, .;-,r ., .,, rl,'"Ul'lt.to?",. vhl•.ls'."•"<'-<"r Water flowed on every hand as though the though outside the city limits, the tract was
supply was inexhaustible. Walsh, needless to within the two-mile restriction specified in the
~ J> 11 ,,;,_ '>~r icall av ~,•...c: ~'-:., !J*.~ '.~1 o~ s~r•.i-::· .... say, left the village with a very profound re- citizen committee's agreement. The forty acres
gard for Charleston's water supply. were purchased from Virginia M. and Charles
.. ".'.i::.!i'.l,Hl of tu, .:aoU,"!'...i,r, L, ,-,;:,• . ... -'-"~"-l • F. Bishop on September 24, at a total cost of
Some claim that the residents of Charles- $3,000.
.d •1.,_' -~.,.,1--.,lto::.,Rob~:-t. S,&::l;er. ;:. -~':'~r •P . C--::., ' '':'l -e,,- ton also played another little trick on poor
Walsh. In the middle of the night, the story After the purchase, the site was expertly
' • t',e ";i'\~-~,, oft.',• oi~r <lf C..lin.tlet~:;. ,,. ~, :e ~o • ~ says, the hotel clerk sneaked into his room and planned by the noted landscape architect
switched the vial containing the water sample Walter Burley Griffin, who later won a $40,000
lo:.r,t ~:'..,.!"'.;! ~• ~•or t..'1e s'1a. J.3tu:n Il!iooh Sh~· X◊':'~l from Charleston for one filled with treated tap prize for planning the Australian capitol at
water. Not surprisingly, on the very day the Canberra. Griffin made full use of the many
Eie.',oot,~e-'.1d!I ;,rojloM!s f1r Ut e e:-!!'!t!cr. ct :1t.i -~L:,::1 t:-. site of the School was selected, the Board was handsome oak, walnut, elm and sycamore trees
informed by the St. Louis chemical firm con- standing on the site. As a result, throughout
eit/.1f"1a:-l°'1tor.. ducting the tests that Charleston's water was its history something of the spirit of the School
:;.-. hi 1 ;irl)ptnls lO r;n<1e '.:-:t t.~'° !~!J l•ir,l Jo/;::ctcn the finest and purest of all. has been reflected by the beautiful campus.

Po' "'rt. ~ .·:01.;-:eu '1.1"\·1 Ge>:>:-:;e R,Ch4.,.-i,e:-s, •~.a•' :n .,l' ':''\3f'•-,..~ te The competition officially ended Sept. 7, In years past, the old road from Charles-
1895, when Charleston was selected by the ton to Farmington in Pleasant Grove Township
(\,,J !"!, ed iL"\~ ;:t1!':'orQ&d,!!1~:i l'\l, oMi~_,t.:(!r. .;. ~- • t "\ ""'' ~e · ,.-_ Board of Trustees. "To the People of Charles- (near where Abraham Lincoln's parents had
ton: Charleston wins on the twelfth ballot. lived after 1837) had run across the northwest
wiu1 ',<, ~~;;.,:,.h b. full fo?"c -, . d ~:''. •ot- Hard fought battle. Be home tonight. George corner of what would become the campus. Tra-
H. Jeffries." These twenty short words in a dition pictures Lincoln in the 1840s making the
/,t'.j.ri,:,,,.-t, ... (,l.. :._c, r ; = J ~ 4',;, Sept. 7, 1895 telegram from Jeffries, a key mem- trip to Goosenest Prairie to see the old folks,
ber of Charleston's Normal School Commit- riding a horse loaned by a friend from Charles-
.'.. / .'..,. . .,, '---- ..:l.i.r.. ~,l · v',d, tee, marked the end of the short (four-month) ton, and holding a sack of groceries on the
but intense battle among the Eastern Illinois pommel.
9«4·~7f'~-&.... 6--t... r•~ ..L communities for the new normal school.
Charleston residents had staged a no-holds- On Oct., 5, 1895, the Board of Trustees ac-
i1,,/ /{((.M.-< ..... -,u,~ ;J!:.r.c-£~' -·;,,.,,, (,~-:;: bd barred aggressive campaign to win the prize. cepted the plans of an Indianapolis architect
to construct the original building on Eastern's
,1/ ,( ( '-1'1·-:c'! .,/J, . .1,.i According to the Courier, when the tele- campus. Governor Altgeld disliked the plans
' gram arrived, people flocked to the square by and had the Board cancel the acceptance. The
.t,~b the thousands, yelling like wild men, throw- firm of McPherson and Bowman redid their
ing hats in the air. In five minutes every bell plans, which were again tentatively accepted,
(i/.7<, / ,,,~· ,j. and whistle in town was going. It had been a only to be finally rejected in favor of those of
long, hard battle, nobly fought and won. C.H. Miller of Bloomington who used the origi-
, ', ;(f'., ·' ,; .,;,, ;/,.,( There was no organized celebration. It was nal plans with modifications. The changes re-
"one continuous and prolonged yell" from sulted from the decision to use Indiana Bedford
,.';'/fiC{ ,~.r',;,r ,."".-"~ Jf,_,f )f(o(/,Zr ,J receipt of the news until after midnight. limestone instead of the "Ambraw" stone
called for in the original plane.
.,,,..1 Until the last minute, Mattoon had ex-
pected to win. After all, it was larger than On Dec. 12, 1895, an $86,000 contract to
First page from a September 9, 1895 bond sup- Charleston (its population in 1900 was 9,622 erect and enclose the Normal School Building
porting the placement ofthe new normal school compared to Charleston's 5,488), and it had (today known as Old Main) by Aug. 1, 1896,
in Charleston. The document was signed by the advantage of its railroads which ran both was issued to the Chicago firm of Angus and
200 Cha rleston citizens. north and south and east and west (Charles- Gindele. Construction on the three-s tory,
ton had only an east-west line). In addition, Norman-style building of brick and Indiana
arleston••The Normal School <eity. Mattoon had a state senator in Governor John limestone began on March 25, 1896. Plans for
P. Altgeld's party. After the selection of the building clearly reflected the influence of
THE CHARLESTON COURIER. Charleston was announced, Mattoon citizens German-bornAltgeld. He flaunted his heritage
remained stunned and angry. The weekly by insisting on the "Castle on the Rhine," or
September 12, 1895 Charleston Courier news- Mattoon Gazette carried the headline, German Gothic style, for public buildings de-
paper article proclaiming Charleston's victory "Charleston Gets It. The New Reform School signed while he was Governor (1893-1897).
in the battle over the location of the new nor- Located at Catfishville." Other state school, including those at DeKalb
mal school. and Normal, as well as state hospitals and pe-
In 1896, The Charleston Daily Plaindealer nal institutions, have buildings in the
8 reporting on the selection said: "...It will make "Altgeldian" mold. Southern Illinois Univer-
our society better. It will add to our wealth. sity and the University of Illinois were among
(A recent study showed a direct economic those who had "German Castles" built on their
impact on the local area of $120 million and campuses.

Altgeld gave a poetic rationale for his Part of "Bishop's Woods, " ca. 1895, where the school was situated.
choice of style: " ...In the centuries which are
to come, as the intelligent traveler shall see Original plan for Old Main, as depicted on the 1896 connerstone ceremony
this magnificent structure commanding a program.
view of the surrounding country, he will ex-
claim: "There stands a monument to the in-
telligence, the civilization and the humanity
of the people...of Illinois! "

At exactly 4:28 p.m. on May 27, 1896, be-
fore what was described as "probably the larg-
est crowd that ever gathered in Charleston for
any occasion," the cornerstone for the first
building was laid by Altgeld. A parade, in-
cluding seven bands and 40 carriages, pre-
ceded the formal exercises in the afternoon. It
took 25 minutes for the procession to pass a
given point. Located on the northeast front of
the building, the stone is a 1,000 pound piece
of Michigan granite. Among the items placed
in it were a set of coins, including a Roman
coin 2,000 years old; autographs of the Board
of Trustees; and a copy of the act establishing
the School.

(After receiving an invitation to the cer-
emony, and recalling Effingham's hard fight
to have the School located there, its newspa-
per, the Effingham Republican reported: "...This
is a good deal like an invitation to a wedding
of an old sweetheart to some red-headed,
freckle-faced old bachelor with more money
or persuasive powers than we were able to
master; but we sincerely hope to be there to
partake of the cake and wish the lucky groom
all the happiness we once anticipated though
realized or not, but we'll be blowed if we kiss
the bride.")

By the fall of the year the roof was ready
to go on the structure. However, because of
financial problems following the failure of the
Illinois National Bank of Chicago, the origi-
nal contractor, Angus and Gindele, was un-
able to complete the work. Construction was

halted. In May 1897, construction began again
under the supervision of Alexander Briggs, a
Charleston stonework dealer and contractor.
While construction was in the early stages, the
city of Charleston provided for the paving of
a street from the railroad tracks to Lincoln
Street. Sixth Street, ending directly in front of
Old Main, became the only paved road in
town. By the close of 1898, the building was
nearly completed.

In the spring of 1899, even before it was
opened, the Normal School benefited the com-
munity. After the local high school building
was destroyed by fire, its classes were held in
the new Normal School building to complete
the School year.

Now it was time to select a president for
the new school. In a meeting in Springfield
on April 12, 1898, the Board of Trustees passed
over several out-of-state candidates and
unanimously chose Illinois Superintendent of
Schools Samuel M. Inglis, 57, as the first presi-
dent of Eastern. However, on June 1, while at
Kenosha, WI, Inglis died. At least one faculty
member was chosen prior to Inglis' death. He
was William M. Evans, an English literature

teacher for five years. He started classes in
1899 and taught until his death in 1904.

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THE STORY & CLARK PIANO USED ON THIS OCCASION IS FURNISHED B Y
J W . SHOEMAKER. AGENT

Top, "Old Main" under construction, ca. 7898, LIVINGSTON CHESTER LORD Schoolmaster" became the object of an undy-
the original school building now officially ing love, embellished with loyalty and respect
known as the Livingston C. Lord Administra- (1899-1933) that none of his successors had been able to
tion Building. Above left, Superintendent of command.
Public Instruction Samuel M. Inglis, of On December 8, the Trustees selected
Greenville, Illinois, was chosen to become The Eastern campus found truth in a rec-
Eastern 's first president, but he died suddenly Livingston Chester Lord, (1851-1933) of the ommendation from the former president of
in F i ne 7898 before taking office. (Courtesy Il- Moorehead Normal School in Minnesota, to the Winona (Minnesota) State Normal school
linois State Historical Society) Above right, Cor- that had preceded Lord's arrival: "...There is
nerstone ceremony program, May 21, 7896. be president. His salary was $3,500 a year , no man within my professional acquaintance
The ceremon y drew a crowd of some 75, 000 which increased by degrees, until years later whom I esteem more highly for sturdy integ-
for a large parade in the afternoon, followed he was making $7,500. rity, for remarkable executive capacity, and for
by speeches and an evening concert. a charm of manner in dealing with students
With two years at the New Britain Nor- and people that wins the respect and confi-
10 mal School in Connecticut the extent of his dence of everyone. While a very positive man,
formal education, the 47-year-old Lord was he is so open, frank, and true that I do not
virtually self-educated. A native of Connecti- know that he ever had an enemy..."
cut, he never attended college or "earned" any
degrees. However, he was an avid reader who Lord was the first one at the School in
read everything so that he became a well-edu-
cated man. To those students and faculty who
were successful with Lord, the "Connecticut

the morning and often the last one to leave at President Livingston C.
night. He and his wife, Mary E. Cook Lord, Lord, seated at his desk
lived modestly in their home at 838 7th St. He in the new normal
bought the house shortly after he began his school, ca. 1899. He
term as president in 1899. It was the first house served from 1899 until
the family had ever owned. (The house still his death in 1933 .
stands.)
Governor John R. Tan-
Receptions for the graduating classes ner, on horseback dur-
were held on the lawn of the Lord house. ing the Dedication Day
There were lanterns and rented chairs, with Parade, August 29,
punch and ice cream being served to the stu- 1899. He is preceded
dents. Mrs. Lord also entertained faculty, lec- by four-year-old In a
turers, educators and homecoming celebrities. Martin, who later pre-
Lord advocated promptness: when guests did sented him with the
not arrive on time, meals began without them. keys to the new normal
If dinner was at seven, you could dress infor- school building.
mally; if it was at eight, you wore a tux or
gown. Eastern Illin ois State
Normal School, ca.
Following the completion of the build- 1900.
ing, known today as Old Main, Eastern Illi-
nois State Normal School was formally dedi- Bottom, Eastern 's fac-
cated on Aug. 29, 1899. Old Main sat behind ulty, 1902-1903. Top,
a lawn of wild oats, since the dedication exer- Pres. Livingston C. Lord,
cises were held in the assembly room. Some Alice L. Pratt, Francis G.
1,500 persons crowded in, while approxi- Blair, Caroline A.
mately twice that many were turned away at Forbes , Thomas H.
the door. Lord outlined the ideals of the Briggs, Charlotte Kluge.
School, stressing thought, organization, hard Second row, Thomas L.
work and truthfulness. "The school must al- Hankinson , Elmer I.
ways have and instill the spirit of patriotism," Shepard, Anna Piper,
he said. Clara M. Snell
Katharine Gill, Otis W
Then came the parade from the square, Ca ldwe ll, William M.
followed by public exercises at the School in Evans. Third row, Ellen
the afternoon. The parade included four A. Ford, Frances E.
bands, 900 school children, delegations of Wetmore, George 0.
Civil War and Spanish American War veter- Hubbard, Charlotte
ans, fraternal orders, labor unions, the Paris May Slocum, Edna T.
High School Cadets, the Trustees and their Cook. Fourth ro ~ Eva
wives and Governor and Mrs. Tanner with M . Russell, Thornton
their official party. Smallwood, Henry
Johnson, Elizabeth
When the Eastern Illinois State Normal Branch, Friederich
School opened on Sept. 12, 1899, it had a two- Koch , Florence M.
year program with 126 students in the Nor- Beck. On leave, Edson
mal School, 159 students in the Model School, H. Taylor
and 18 teachers, whose average age was 34
and who came from Illinois, Minnesota and 11
Indiana; two were European natives. Eleven
of the 18 were Normal School teachers, four
Model School critic teachers, a librarian, a reg-
istrar, and a president who also taught psy-
chology and school management. Faculty
salaries ranged from $600 (librarian) to $2,000
(English).

The number of students increased from
126 to 240 for the entire year. They came from
23 Illinois counties, with 141 from Coles. One
was an out-of-state student from Vigo County,
Indiana. Tuition was $7 per term.

Although the School had a janitor, it did
not have a business manager. Those duties
were performed primarily by the President
and the registrar, whose duties in addition to
those of a registrar included collector of fees,
textbook librarian and secretary to the Presi-
dent. The first registrar was Frances E.
Wetmore, who served until her tragic death
on Dec. 20, 1903, in the Iroquois Theater di-
saster in Chicago.

The elementary school occupied rooms
on the north side of the first floor, and the labo-
ratory sciences were in the west end of the
second and third floors, there was room to

Henry Johnson, sociol- spare. The library, opened and supervised by
ogy and "politica l Ella F. Corwin, was in three rooms on the
economy" instructor, south side and consisted of 2,474 books, 415
7899- 7906, in a typical magazines and 150 seats. The first engineer
Eastern classroom, ca. of the Normal School was a native of Penn-
7900. Johnson later sylvania, James Frue DeVault, who planted
went on to a distin- the ivy still growing on Old Main.
guished career at Co-
lumbia University. Although Lord had wanted to bring three
of his best teachers from Moorehead to East-
Chapel service in the ern, Governor Tanner wanted "Illinois teach-
school auditorium, ca. ers for Illinois Schools." After Lord brought
7900. Throughout two of the three to the School, he received a
Lord's adm inistration telegram that stated, "The Governor demands
the entire school- in- the resignation of one of your Minnesota
cluding facu lty mem- men." Lord immediately wired back: "He can
bers and pupils from have them both and mine, too."
the "model school"-
met daily for words of The Board supposedly told Lord, "You
wisdom and inspira- must recognize the fact that members of the
tion. legislature have friends they want to appoint
to positions in the School." Lord replied, "That
Lily pond, south of the shouldn't be thought of." A Board member
east wing of O ld Main, pointed out, "We have friends we want to put
ca. 79 70. In the late into this school and we want to give you a
7920s it was displaced chance to put in your friends ." Lord's answer
by the east wing of the was, "That isn' t the idea. I am recommend-
Practical Arts Building ing only first rate teachers..."
(now called the Student
Services Building.) Following several exchanges on these
and other differences of opinion as to who
Above, Friederich Koch, ca. 7905, Eastern 's first music instructor, 7899- would control faculty matters, Tanner called
7938. He frequently played the piano or zither during morning chapel Lord to Springfield. There, Lord convinced the
services and on other occasions. Governor that he should not use the power
Above right, Edson H. Taylor, the school's first m athematics instructor, of his office to keep inferior teachers on the
7899- 7944. He later served as acting president following Lord's death faculty. The Governor said, "Lord, you have
in 7933. Taylor Hall is named in his honor. Photo ca. early 7900s. made your case. Go back and run the School
and you will have my support."
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Thus Lord, with Governor Tanner's sup-
port, gave substance to Governor Altgeld's
injunction at the laying of the cornerstone in
1896, that "This institution will never become
an asylum, a bread and butter stand for the
dependent cousins, aunts and uncles of
prominent citizens, and shall never be made
a convenience with which to reward political
favorites or their followers."

Eastern started with the three-term year,
which had been introduced to the Mid-west
by the University of Chicago in 1892. To give
teachers who had no work on Saturday an op-
portunity to pursue regular work in the Nor-
mal School and promote closer relationships
between the School and the teachers of the
district, the decision was made to hold Satur-
day classes with no classes on Monday. This
regimen was followed until the fall of 1934,
when it was abandoned for the plan more
generally followed of classes from Monday
through Friday.

The courses of study at the new school
were quite similar to those at the Illinois State
Normal School at Normal, which also divided
the School year into three terms. Students did
not choose "majors" after the college fashion.
It was not until the introduction in 1920 of the
four-year course leading to a degree that the
choice of majors was required.

From the beginning, a Practice School (or
"Model School" as it soon came to be known)
was part of Eastern's organiza tion. (Until
1934, the training school program was con-
ducted exclusively on the Eastern campus.
Lord preferred to have all practice teaching
on the campus.)

Throughout Lord's tenure the School's became a twice-a-week college assembly, tage, for it brought a succession of drafts upon
original auditorium, known later as "Old which disappeared entirely in the 1950s. his faculty for positions as superintendents
Aud," was used for daily chapel for all stu- of large school systems, presidents of normal
dents. (Today, the stage has been removed and Acoustics were always a problem in Old schools, and for other jobs with higher sala-
the ceiling lowered to accommodate admin- Aud. The original walls consisted of plaster ries and wider fields that Charleston could
istrative offices.) Daily chapel was a practice laid on tile, and below this was a high oak offer. Lord uncomplainingly surrendered his
Lord began while at the Moorehead School. wainscoting, both perfect reflectors of sound. claims, gave his full support to the promo-
Many students who attended Eastern during The numerous and large windows added to tions, and patiently went to work to find new
Lord's tenure have their most vivid recollec- the seriousness of the problem. Tests showed talent for each vacated position. However,
tions centered around this daily gathering. that sharp noises would bounce around the most teachers preferred to stay at the School
The 9 a.m. class for all Eastern students would walls for eight seconds, in which time a for a decade or more, and two teachers, Edson
be chapel. Any student who did not attend speaker would utter from ten to twenty words H . Taylor (1899-1945) aud Charles P. Lantz
chapel or any other class without a legitimate or syllables. Each word would echo from wall (1922-1952), had contributed 86 years of ser-
excuse received a scolding from President to wall, with acoustical confusion increasing vice between them when they retired.
Lord. (For many of the students, getting to as the speaker continued; the clamor becom-
school was no easy task. It involved "coming ing even worse if his or her voice were raised. Within ten years, Lord had made the new
in from the farm, putting the horse in the liv- School, conducted within the gray stone
ery barn at Fifth and Madison, walking down In 1903, Albert B. Crowe, teacher of the castle, one of the country's top ten normal
Sixth Street and getting to the third floor by physical sciences, came to the rescue. After schools. As Lord became a national figure in
7:30 in the morning, and then not being able trying various methods, he followed an ex- education, he was offered the presidency of
to go home until 5 in the evening, if the stu- periment that had been used at Harvard. Bor- numerous schools, including the Los Ange-
dent had late classes.") rowing 250 pairs of blankets and 100 thick les State Normal School, the Winona (Minne-
"comforts" from the local department store, sota) Normal School and the Milwaukee
The children would march into the as- he stretched wires around the room, one Teachers College. He graciously declined
sembly hall to the accompaniment of martial above the window casements, the other half- each, preferring to stay at his beloved East-
music (often a selection from Wagner) played way down to the floor. During the day on ern.
on the piano by Friederick Koch, the music which a concert and play were to be given in
teacher. Koch, a native of Kassel, Germany the evening, the blankets were hung, opened He received three honorary degrees
joined the Eastern staff in 1899. At age 31 then, full-length, on the wires. Blankets completely while at Eastern, evidence not only of his own
he had already spent five years as a vocalist covered the walls, including the windows. standing as an educator, but also of the repu-
with the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra and The comforts were spread out on desks in the tation of the School he had created. Appro-
another four years touring with the St. Louis back of the room. The audience, as they came priately, the University of Illinois first recog-
Opera Company. Smoking was taboo on cam- in, were asked to carry their wraps into the nized his distinction. In 1904, he received its
pus, so after chapel each day Koch would step room and spread them out as much as they highest degree - Doctor of Laws. Probably of
off the campus to enjoy his cigar. Lord could. Tests showed that the room's rever- greater personal satisfaction to the New En-
frowned on teachers smoking in public. He beration had been reduced from eight to 2 1/ gland-born Lord was the Master of Arts con-
took the position that walking along the street 2 seconds, the amount ideal for music at its ferred upon him in June 1912 by Harvard
smoking was just as uncouth as walking along best. The walls were later covered with more University "for his service to education in the
the street eating a piece of pie. permanent absorbents. Middle West." A third degree and a second
doctorate came in 1927, when Miami Univer-
Lord and the faculty were seated in stiff The administrative organization of the sity, Oxford, Ohio, awarded the degree of
formal rows on the platform. Children of the Normal School was very informal. In response Doctor of Education. Although twice an Hon-
Training School were seated in little red chairs to a Board requirement that rank be awarded, orary Doctor, Lord never used the title him-
packed between the desks and the platform rather than administrative titles, there were self and discouraged others from so address-
with the college students in desks behind the no deans, and department heads had no spe- ing him. This reluctance to use academic titles
children. Chapel was Lord's classroom where cial administrative status. Lord believed that was one of his most pronounced idiosyncra-
he instructed the faculty and students about the most important degree ever conferred on sies.
teaching and about living. For those who lis- a young man and the only title he should
tened humbly and attentively, chapel was a wear, is "Mister." He was fond of saying, The early campus contained two bodies
transforming experience from which no one "There are but two institutions in the United of water, a lily pond (located near the east end
emerged quite the same creature as when he States where a man is called Mister. One is of the present Student Services Building) and
or she entered. Under Lord's leadership, East- Harvard University and the other is Eastern Lake Ahmoweenah, a favorite site for tugs-
ern soon became the intellectual and social Illinois State Normal School." The only other of-war (located on the present site of McAfee
center of Charleston. Many visitors came to personal designation he approved of was Gymnasium). The lake was originally a clay
the morning chapel exercises to hear Lord " teacher." (Speaking in 1917, he said, "We use pit for the city brickyard which was located
read or speak. no such terms here as professor, assistant pro- where the Physical Science Building now
fessor, associate professor, instructor or assis- stands. According to tradition, the lake was
There was talk about the subjective and tant. The only term used is teacher.") Lord, named in 1899 by a Normal School Board
objective, about sacrifice and the damnation himself, taught several classes. He felt teach- member for a queen of one of the Philippine
or salvation that came from its rejection or ing was an adventure, a joy, a fountain of Islands. It flourished as a beauty spot of the
acceptance, about telling the truth and not be- youth. The Vermont marble that marks his campus until 1913.
ing afraid. Sometimes there was a story: "How grave in Charleston's Roselawn Cemetery is
The Elephant Got His Trunk," "The Roman inscribed simply "Livingston Chester Lord, The lush beauty of the lake and sur-
Road," or "The New Little Boy's Thanksgiv- 1851-1933. He was a teacher." rounding thicket of woods, combined with the
ing." Chapel was the lengthened shadow of a startling effect of the four-story castle fronting
great man. When that man died, the shadow His skill in selecting teachers had been the town, led state officials to deem the
retreated into the hearts and minds of all it apparent in Minnesota. In Illinois he acquired Charleston campus as the most beautiful in
had touched. a national reputation, based on the quality of the state. Today, only a few of the original trees
his faculty. He maintained this reputation as still stand. A bur oak, located east of Old Main,
Following the hymns and the prayer, much by his policy of dismissing those teach- is the oldest tree on campus, probably ap-
Lord would address the group for twelve or ers who did not measure up to his standards proaching 230 years. The 175-year-old giant
fifteen minutes, working from notes scribbled as by his skill in selecting them. Teachers of oak, which once stood between Old Main and
on little sheets of yellow paper. During the the Normal School did not enjoy "tenure," nor Pemberton Hall and the big American elm
Christmas and Thanksgiving season, Lord did they have written contracts. that stood just east of the old "crackerbox"
was certain to read "The Gift of The Magi." gym (now the Textbook Library) are gone.
Later, under President Buzzard, the chapel However, the high quality of Lord's When the four-lane highway was constructed
teaching staff might have been a disadvan-
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Lake Ahmoweenah in 1959, several of the premier trees were cut
from the southwest, down. One hickory tree cut then was also
7907. (McAfee Gym- more than 100 years old, as were a couple of
nasium now occupies shingle oaks.
the site of the former
lake .) The relations of the School with the
Charleston community were mostly cordial
Eastern's first football during the first year. However, in October
team, 7899, Francis G. 1899, when the new lawn around Old Main
Blair, coach (a t rear.) was being endangered by the neighbors'
chickens, Lord wrote each of the seven neigh-
Eastern 's first known bors a letter urging them to restrain their
basketball team, orga- flocks.
nized before there was
a permanent gymna- Athletics at Eastern got off to an early and
sium space on campus, enthusiastic start. Three weeks after the
7902 . School opened its doors in 1899, the students
organized an Athletic Association to "act in
Women's intramural connection with the management of the
basketball team, ca. School in directing the various forms of ath-
7970 letics which shall be indulged in by the stu-
dents of the School."
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The first sport was football. The team
used a field located where the Student Ser-
vices Building now stands. A team was
quickly organized the first year and two
games were played and lost. The first foot-
ball game played in Charleston was against a
town team from Oakland, and the second was
at Effingham against Austin College. This
game was played on a field laid out on city
lots. The area was too small for a football field,
so to reach the south goal the players had to
cross a street with ditches on each side.

Normal schools in those days were kind
of glorified high schools. Most of the students
entering the normal schools had gone no fur-
ther than the eighth grade. Two courses were
offered: a two-year course for high school
graduates and a four-year course for gradu-
ates of the eighth grade. Eastern offered both
the first year. (After a few years, the four-year
course for eighth grade graduates was length-
ened to five years, then to six, and finally to
eight years. Eastern began giving a high
school diploma about 1919, but later discon-
tinued the course for non-high school gradu-
ates).

In 1900, the first graduating class con-
sisted of three men and one woman. Eastern
now awards more than 2,500 degrees each
year. In the beginning, commencement cer-
emonies were similar to high school gradua-
tions, with baccalaureate addresses being de-
livered the Sunday before graduation day.

Of the first graduates, Marion Nelson
Beeman had the shortest career. Following his
graduation from Eastern, he served as super-
intendent of schools at Robinson, high school
principal at Marshall, superintendent at
Lewiston, and then superintendent at Dallas
City, where he died in 1913.

A second graduate, Guy Jink Koons, also
made his career in school administration.
Koons went on to receive his BA and MA de-
grees from the lJniversity of Illinois. He
served as principal at New Holland, superin-
tendent at Oakland and Mason City, princi-
pal at Murphysboro and Pontiac, and city su-
perintendent at Pontiac. He later entered the
publishing business.

Bertha Volentine (Mrs. Fred Ehlers)
taught until 1907, when she became a student
deaconess in St. Louis. She served as a dea-

coness in Garrett, Indiana; Milwaukee, Wiscon- Class of 1900, the
sin; and in Tulsa, Oklahoma. In Tulsa she was school's first graduating
also employed as the police department secre- class. From left, Marion
tary and was associated with Travelers' Aid. N. Beeman , Guy }.
Following her marriage, she and her husband Koons, Bertha Volentine
moved to Arizona, where he later became state and Lloyd Goble.
superintendent of public instruction.
First power plant, built
The fourth graduate of 1900, Lloyd Goble, 1899, and origina l
continued his training at Harvard and the Uni- greenhouse, built 1902.
versity of Illinois, where he received his MA The two structures stood
degree. He taught at Westfield College, Illinois, in line directly south of
the Paris, Illinois High School; the State Nor- the auditorium wing.
mal School at River Falls, Wisconsin; and in the Photo ca. 1902.
Philippines. The careers of the first graduates
show that they took seriously Lord's injunction Pemberton Hall from
that "a place where teachers are taught should the northeast, shortly
be a seat of learning." after its completion in
1909. "Pem" Hall was
In 1901, the football team went undefeated, the first dormitory at a
and the first summer school (with 172 students) state-supported educa-
was held. In 1902, construction began on the tion institution in Illinois
second building on campus, the original green- to be built with appro-
house. The four-room glass structure was lo- priated funds .
cated immediately to the north of the current
Student Services Building. It was designed for In terior of "Crackerbox"
botany and zoology classes and for propagat- gymnasium, ca. 1930,
ing plants for use on the campus and for deco- attached to the south
rating Old Main. That year, Walter Nehrling wing of Pemberton
came to the School as gardener from the Mis- Hall.
souri Botanical Gardens (Shaw's Gardens) of
St. Louis. He stocked the greenhouse with its 15
first banana tree. Instruction on the use of li-
brary became a required class for graduation
in 1902.

It all began in the mind of Livingston Lord,
but in 1900 the concept of a women's dormi-
tory was not exactly as popular as a cool phos-
phate. That was the year Lord first decided to
take steps toward bringing the dormitory to re-
ality. It was a controversial issue, because none
of the other state colleges or universities had
one. Of his first contact with the legislators,
Lord reported, "In the winter of 1901, I went
before the Appropriations Committee of the
legislature, asking for money for a women's
building. The House Committee took the re-
quest partly as a joke and partly as an affront,
one asking if I wanted to go into the lunch
counter business, another if I wanted the state
to build a boarding house. There wasn' t a bit
of sympathy with the request, that I could find. "

Funds were not secured until 1907 when
$100,000 was appropriated for a dormitory and
gymnasium. Because of Lord's belief that with-
out a gymnasium, it was not possible "for a
normal school to attract so large a number of
young men as it otherwise would," the origi-
nal specifications had been changed to include
a small gymnasium. What soon became known
as the "crackerbox" gym, Eastern's first athletic
structure, now houses the Textbook Library.
The gym had a running track at the balcony
level and was smaller than the regulation size
for some nearby high schools.

Pemberton Hall was completed in 1909. It
housed 201 students and was named for State
Senator Stanton C. Pemberton, who was influ-
ential in getting the appropriation approved.
"Pem" Hall was the first dormitory at a state-
supported school in Illinois built with appro-
priated funds.

Lord thought Eastern should provide liv-
ing quarters for women that offered a unique

-~-I -' educational experience beyond the classroom
................~ ~ with emphasis on the acquisition of the "so-
cial graces." Early rules for Pemberton Hall
Mil residents were quite stringent by today's re-
laxed standards. The girls were not allowed
Above, Mary E. out of the dormitory after 7:30 p.m., at which
Hawkins, ca. 191 3, di- time they were obligated to be in their room
rector of Pemberton to study until 10 p.m. From 10 to 10:30 p.m.
Hall, 1910-1917. the girls were allowed participate in "riot"
Above right, Pemberton hours, and at 10:30 lights were out and all was
Hall parlor, ca. 1909. quiet.
Right, Halloween party
in Pemberton Hall din- There were no self-disciplining councils
ing room, 1911. during the first years. Any misbehaving coed
was dealt with personally by the hall direc-
Albert 8. Crowe, back tor, Mary Hawkins, or Lord himself. Stories
row right, coach and are told that on several occasions coeds
teacher of physical sci- slipped down sheet ropes to go for coffee or
ence, 1903-1939, with to serenade off-campus men. During the same
early baseball team, ca . period Lord was also dealing with male prob-
1907. lems. He had to call in some of the boys quite
often for soaping the street car tracks on Sixth
Below, Evangelist Billy Street, which prevented the car from coming
Sunday refereed a base- up the hill until the tracks were sanded.
ball game at Eastern in
1908. Below right, gift The girls could go to church on Sunday
from the class of evening without a chaperon, but a chaperon
1909-the first in a se- was required when going to a dance, the the-
ries of such gifts to the ater, or to school picnics. Today, the hall has a
school. 24-hour visitation policy on Fridays and Sat-
urdays, and co-ed residence halls are now part
of the Eastern scene.

An interesting anecdote of "Pem" living
at that time came from a former resident who
wrote, "We enjoyed the delightful English
accent of Mary E. Hawkins (head of the hall),
who used to frighten us by telling how awful
it would be if we should die in the night and
be found in an untidy room."

Another story tells how entertainer Burl
Ives, who attended Eastern during the late
1920s and 1930s as a 250-pound lineman of
the Panther football team, was visiting a lady-
friend in Pemberton when visitation was not
in effect. According to the story, he was forced
to sneak his large frame out of the building.
However, he did not quite make a clean es-
cape and was severely reprimanded for his
actions. During a visit to the campus in 1985,
Ives denied the story. He said the ivy would
not have held him, and "if I had tried it, I
would have been drawn, quartered, and
h a n g e d ."

The Pemberton Hall Dining Room (at
that time, the only on-campus eating spot)
soon became the site of one faculty outing that
was a "must" -the annual Christmas banquet.
It was a candlelight occasion of great and dig-
nified ceremony. After the feast the faculty
moved into the parlor for singing, and each
teacher hung his or her stocking on the fire-
place for Santa. The singing of the School song
"For Us Arose Thy Walls and Towers," end-
ing the evening's program evoked heartfelt
tears.

After the gathering, many faculty spent
their holiday attending professional meetings
and conventions. They traveled by the most
economical means of transportation, at their
own expense, and stayed at the least expen-
sive hotels.

Although some refer to Pemberton Hall
as "The House That Lord Built," others say it
is "The Place That Has The Ghosts." This lat-

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ter reference involves Mary Hawkins, who how the Tarble brothers, who as students in The first hint of a four-year college came
served as Pemberton Hall director from 1910 the Model School, talked baseball and worked in 1907, when a number of the legislature no-
to her death in 1917. Hawkins still lives in the for it until their fondest hopes materialized tified Lord that at least one Illinois normal
legend of the Pem Hall ghost. They say that for a first class winning ball team to repre- school wanted power to grant degrees. Did
the rustling of her long dress mingles with her sent the School. Eastern's first baseball coach, Lord want it? "No," said Lord, "but if the oth-
whispers as she roams the halls of Pemberton Albert Blythe Crowe, called 1905 and the three ers get that power we must have it." In May
checking to make sure that "her girls" are safe following years "the Golden Age of Baseball 1907, the General Assembly gave all normal
in their rooms. And sometimes, they say, you in our school." He said the words "baseball" schools the power to confer degrees. (How-
can hear fingernails scratching on the doors and "Tarble" were synonymous and the ques- ever, Eastern did not use that authority until
late at night - the ghost of a dead coed. tion of great local interest was "How's Newt's 1922.)
arm?"
Although the story line varies, a general In 1908, Reverend William A. (Billy) Sun-
plot does emerge: one of the few girls staying However, before Newt, his three broth- day conducted a revival meeting in Charles-
in Pem over Christmas break is axed to death ers and his sister could leave their hometown ton. He also took time to umpire a baseball
by a sex-crazed janitor, while playing the pi- of Cleone (north of Martinsville) to attend game between Eastern and Westfield College.
ano in the fourth floor music room. Accord- school in Charleston, their father bought lum- The impact of his visit still Jingered in Febru-
ing to the story, the girl manages to drag her- ber and told them they had to build them- ary 1909, when a second visiting evangelist
self to her room, where, unable to speak, she selves a house in which to live, because he learned of Eastern's first dance on February
scratches at the door. Her roommate, who is did not want them "running home" and wast- 22nd and condemned the School, in general,
too frightened to answer the door, discovers ing time. The Tarble brothers built their house and Lord, in particular, for encouraging such
her dead roommate in the morning, lying in on the northeast corner of Third and scandalous conduct. Lord, who had been
a pool of blood in the hallway. To this very Buchanan Streets. Their sister, Alice, did the brought up to consider dancing a sin, had
day, so the story goes, the murdered girl still cooking. As evidence of their quality work- come to recognize that under proper condi-
crawls the halls at night scratching on doors manship, the house still stands today. tions social dancing was an innocent diver-
with her fingernails . The fact that Hawkins sion, possessing some social values.
did not die in the dorm, but of natural causes From 1904 to 1911 the history of the
in the Charleston Hospital, and that there are School year was recorded in what was called The situation worsened when a student
no records of any murder has failed to dim the Senior Yearbook. In 1912, a new record book known by the pseudonym "Gus Marsh"
the legend through the years. After all, you was made. It was called the Senior Book. Up phoned a Mattoon paper and reported a list
just can't tell a ghost that it doesn't exist. to that point, all these had been printed or of charges made by the revivalist. The account
written by hand and the pictures had been of the charges in the Mattoon paper was de-
The ghost stories are perpetuated by a pasted into place. In 1913 the first commer- nied by the Charleston Courier, which severely
plaque in the dorm lobby dedicated to cially printed and bound book was edited. It reproached the other paper. For his crime, Gus
Hawkins, and a fourth floor that is locked and was called the W'apper. The origin of the name Marsh was marched unceremoniously to the
off-limits to students. The floor is locked be- may be explained by quoting the explanation campus lake by fellow students.
cause it is unfinished in several areas and be- found in the book. "The term W'apper used
cause the rest of the rooms are used solely for as the title of this year book is taken from an Rather uncertainly, the St. Louis Democrat
storage. old English word, whopan, meaning to mixed its information and reported that "Mr.
threaten. School masters in England during Lord had been thrown into the Normal School
Three other ghosts are also said to haunt the 15th and 16th centuries were commonly pond by a mob of indignant citizens." Gus'
Pem hall. One walks down corridors late at referred to by their scholars as W'appers. father retaliated by having the students re-
night tapping on doors and asking for pins. sponsible for his son's dunking arrested and
Another checks doors to see if they are locked. In 1905, blue and gray were adopted as held on a charge of riot, a felony. Bond was
If not, she locks them. And finally, there is the Eastern's official colors. Garnet and white had set at $500 for the seven students arrested. The
infrequently active lounge ghost, who turns often appeared unofficially prior to that and case was tossed out of the circuit court. Gus
lounge furniture upside down in the night the first Eastern Alumni Association was Marsh was later dismissed from school by
every few years. All "live" on the fourth floor. started with a meeting Lord's office. The As- Lord and refused re-admittance.
sociation held its first annual meeting during
Brothers Newton ("Newt") and George Commencement Week in 1906. (Today there Although Lord's correspondence on the
Tarble were the famed pitcher-catcher battery are more than 60,000 Eastern alumni carry- dancing controversy included some letters of
when Eastern's baseball team was formed in ing on the "Tradition of Excellence," which criticism, there were more letters of sympa-
1904. In fact, the story of the organization of began with the original four graduates.) thy and support. However, the Board of Trust-
baseball at Eastern is largely an account of ees was disturbed by the uproar, and gave

Charles P. Lantz, Eastern 's first athletic director, 79 77- 7952, with his first basketball team, 79 77. A l ice M. Christiansen, ca. 7910, teacher of
"physical culture" for women, 7909- 79 72.

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"Girl's" gymnastics instructions that dancing by discontinued
class in Crackerbox until a committee of the Board could inquire
gym, 1918. into the situation. Lord had had previous dis-
agreements with the Board. He blatantly ob-
President Lord riding jected to political back-patting, and earlier
his horse, King, with refused to appoint friends of Board members
daughter, Inez, ca. to the faculty. His individualist strain caused
1912. considerable friction with the Board.

Training School Build- The Class of 1909, which included about
ing in 1919, comp leted 40 students, was the first class to leave some-
1913. In 1958 it was thing to the campus. They struggled very hard
named in ho nor of to load on a wagon a huge boulder which they
Francis G. Blair, first then hauled to Charleston. After having the
Training Department date "09" chiseled on it, they placed it in front
supervisor, 1899-1906, of Old Main, where it stood for many years.
who later served as Illi- When Route 16 was constructed, the rock was
nois' superintendent of moved to its present location between Old
public instruction. Main and Pemberton Hall. A typhoid scare
in the spring of that year resulted in a reduced
Charleston Opera summer school enrollment.
House, ca. 1910, often
used by Eastern for the- Known as the "Sugar Bowl" because of
atrical events. Located its shape, a round concrete bench stood north
on Sixth Street south of of Pem Hall for many years. Given to Eastern
the town branch, it was by the Class of 1910, it was referred to by stu-
destroyed by fire in dents as the "passion pit" because of its night-
1914. time use by collegiate smoochers. (It was re-
moved when the north addition to Pem Hall
18 was completed in 1962. Its construction made
it impossible to move and so it was de-
stroyed.)

A sun dial, placed in the School garden
south of Blair Hall by the Class of 1911, is no
longer to be found. No records exist as to its
disposition, but it likely was removed when
the current power plant was constructed in
1924.

In 1911, it was the good fortune of East-
ern and the State of Illinois that Lord per-
suaded Charles P. Lantz (all 140 pounds of
him) to come from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania,
to Charleston as a math instructor and
Eastern's first full-time, year-round athletic
director. During the early years Eastern teams
had been coached by a succession of faculty
members with little or no coaching experi-
ence.

The problem of getting a team ready for
competition was great indeed in the early
1900s. Unlike today, high school boys were
not solicited to come to college. Very few
freshmen had ever seen or read about athletic
contests. Many of the youngsters in the Nor-
mal School were eighth grade graduates, age
14 to 16. However, these problems could not
deter the man who now confronted them.

From the first, Lantz set an example of
fairness and honesty in the field of sports,
which became his lasting legacy. During the
next 42 years he would coach 170 football
games, 373 basketball games, and 358 base-
ball games.

During his first year, Lantz introduced
basketball to Eastern as a full intercollegiate
sport, after being an intramural activity for
12 years. He liked to tell stories of some of
his teams' adventures. "There was the time
we headed cross country for Westfield Col-
lege in our freshly polished buggies, drawn
by well-curried horses. After we finally found
the place, we were defeated 29-26, but there
was something unusual about the game.
Twenty seven of Westfield's 29 points were

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Scene from 1912 class play, "The Climbers," which was staged at the Normal School News, first issue, November 51 1915.
Charleston Opera House.

free throws." Westfield visited Eastern later drinking fountain which stood near the ten- as some class memorials have. They are now
and returned home with the small end of an nis courts southwest of Old Main. It was located on Seventh Street at the end of the
81 to 20 score. moved when the courts were relocated to the sidewalk from the east entrance to Old Main.
northeast corner of Fourth and Garfield. To- They were moved after one of them was
The next year, Eastern was admitted to day, there is a stone basin with the inscrip- struck by an automobile, which skidded on
the Illinois Intercollegiate Athletic Association tion "1913" located next to the south wall of icy pavement. However, the pillar was pains-
as the 13th member. The Class of 1912 gave Old Main. takingly reconstructed to its original state.
the School the columns which once stood at There was no Eastern football team that year
the entrance to the athletic field area. Their The year 1913 marked the end of the due to the draft for World War I and the in-
disposition is unknown. "nearly free" water that had been promised fluenza epidemic.
by Charlseton in 1895. Only 14 of the prom-
After he raised his three children, Lord ised 50 years had run out when the city re- Eastern held its first homecoming in 1915.
bought himself a red sorrel horse named King. scinded its action, installed two water meters, Using the University of Illinois' first home-
He got the horse at Brocton, preceding an and began to bill the School. If the $4,000 wa- coming as a model, students, faculty and
auction sale of 100 mules and two saddle ter bill was not paid, the city warned that it Charleston businessmen worked together to
horses. He kept the horse behind his house in would cut off the water without notice. East- make the first homecoming "the biggest and
an old stone stable, which later was remod- ern was not prepared to accept this abroga- most memorable event ever pulled off."
eled into a kitchen, a sewing room, and a stor- tion of the 1895 agreement, so several years
age room on the basement level of the house. of litigation followed . In 1914 the circuit court By that time, nearly 500 students had
After Lord's death, his daughter Ethel lived ruled in the city's favor, alleging that there was graduated from the Normal School, and al-
in the house for a year or two and then sold no cause for action, since the city had the right most half returned for homecoming. Special
it. At the age of 60, Lord was at the height of to change its water rates. The court also exercises at the usual Saturday morning
his vigor, though graying, drooping his left pointed out that if the grant of 1895 had been chapel opened the homecoming festivities.
shoulder a little, and stepping a little more made as an inducement to locate the School Classes were still conducted on Saturday at
heavily on his left foot. However, he retained in the city, the agreement should not be valid the time. Then, school went on as usual, with
his New England love for riding, often don- because actually the School was located out- each class meeting at its regular time, but with
ning a scarlet riding habit and guiding his big side the city limits. The case was appealed to alumni dropping in to visit their former teach-
sorrel down Sixth Street. He also walked miles the appellate court and later (in 1916) to the ers. A welcoming song for the visiting alumni
every day, but never learned to play golf or Illinois Supreme Court, which ruled in favor along with zither solos marked the highlight
to drive-or even wish to own-a car. Teaching of the city. This left the School with a water of the morning exercises. The homecoming
was his chief, but not his only, joy and art. bill of $4,000 to pay. parade around the Charleston square featured
two decorated cars filled with clown and but-
The two-year semester plan was adopted The decision also signaled the doom of terfly girls and, of course, the Normal School
for the 1912-1913 academic year. Lord gave Lake Ahmoweenah. Built on a hill, the lake Band.
as the reason, "....that it makes but two be- had little natural drainage into it and was kept
ginnings and two endings in the year's full only by using water from the city. When Eastern won its first homecoming foot-
work. ..A student spends a half-year where the "free" water ended, Lake Ahmoweenah ball game, 52-6, against Shurtleff College, lo-
sometimes he would spend only a third of a gradually dried up, becoming a campus eye- cated near Alton, Illinois, as the fans shouted,
year." sore and a haven for collectors of algae. It was "Ozzie, fozzle, ozzle fozzle, Ozzie fozzle barn.
estimated that it would have taken 1,500,000 Bit his adams apple off, Huckleberry jam!"
With the political push provided by Sena- gallons of water to raise the level of the lake The butterfly girls provided half-time enter-
tor Pemberton, funding was approved for a two feet. The city water system would have tainment by performing aesthetic dances. (As
three-story wood and limestone Training been unable to provide this amount of water, of 1994, Eastern's Homecoming record stood
School Building which would stand directly even if the School had been willing to pay for at 35-35-8.)
south of the east entrance of Old Main. It was it. (The large cottonwood near the southeast
completed in 1913. From the beginning, corner of McAfee Gymnasium once stood on The first school paper, the Normal School
Eastern's Practice School (later called the the banks of the lake.) News, was published in 1915. The first News
Model School and then the Laboratory "Lab" was a four column, privately-financed tabloid
School) had been located in Old Main. The In 1914 the Charleston Opera House, with a subscription rate of $1 per year. Sto-
Model School building was later renamed scene of many Eastern theatrical events, was ries recorded in the early issues of the News
Blair Hall to honor Francis G. Blair, the first destroyed by fire . That year, the class memo- were chiefly sports, social items, and humor-
supervisor of Eastern's Training Department rial consisted of some stone pillars which once ous columns.
(1899-1906), and who later became the first stood at the Sixth Street entrance to the cam-
elected state superintendent of public instruc- pus. Today, the pillars ar~ not where they used Due primarily to careful coaching and the
tion. to be-but at least they have not disappeared insistence that the interests of the students
should take precedence over a scoring record,
The Class of 1913 left, as their gift, a Eastern had had relatively few sports injuries.

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In a century athletics, Eastern has had one manual arts classes. (After completion of the probably the most popular player in Eastern's
fatality which occurred in 1915, when Paul Practical Arts Building in 1929, the Manual football history. A member of Co. I, 6th Inf.
Vernon Root, a senior, was killed during a Arts Building was used by the college band; Div., he died in the St. Mihiel offensive.
game with Normal. Root made a hard tackle, it became known as the "Band Building" and
resumed his place in the line and collapsed the "Music Building." In 1945, it was sold and Schahrer had served as end, guard, and
unconscious before the next play started. He removed from the campus.) captain of the 1916 Eastern football team and
was taken to the Charleston Hospital, where as president of the Class of 1917. Following
he died without regaining consciousness. His The Class of 1916's gift was an iron gate his death on Sept. 15, 1918, the football field
neck had been broken. and fence. Originally located at the entrance and track, (which were located at Fourth and
to Schahrer Field, the gate now stands on Garfield Streets, in the area now occupied by
The Class of 1915 gave the School two Fourth Street near Lincoln Hall. It was moved Ford, Weller, and McKinney residence halls,
stone entrance columns which stand along when the School's present football field was the tennis courts, and Booth Library), was
Fourth Street behind the Physical Science moved from the Booth Library area to its named Schahrer Field in his honor. Much of
Building. They framed the entrance for a road- present location. The original idea was that the land between Old Main and Schahrer
way entering the campus from the west. the "Schahrer Gate" (as it was known) was Field remained wooded until as late as the
opened only one day each year...Commence- 1950s when a series of expansions forced the
By 1916, many students were coming to ment Day. On that day, only the seniors were woods to be cleared away. Today, the original
school in automobiles. The interurban and permitted to walk through it in the academic Schahrer memorial plaque, which marked the
railroad trains were not carrying as many as procession. The gate was to be "barred for- field, hangs in the Schahrer Room of the Uni-
in former years. In February, high water in the ever to underclassmen." versity Union.
Ambraw River flooded the Charleston water
plant, shutting off the water supply for three Lord visited Pemberton Hall in January During the war years, Lord was spared
days. "The public schools of Charleston were 1917, and told the residents that the hall was the supreme sacrifice: his son was too old to
necessarily shut down for three days, but the facing a financial crisis due to a great increase go, his grandsons too young. But he mourned
students of Eastern did not have the same in the price of foodstuffs. He said one of three the soldiers from the School who died, and
misfortune(?)." When it was learned that the things must be done: the quality of the food suffered with his friends. Always, it was at
water would be shut off, the plumbers put in must be lowered; the amount of food con- home for whom he felt, remembering the Civil
a pipeline to Lake Charleston, thus provid- sumed must be lessened; or the price of board War days and his own great sorrow when his
ing the water necessary for heating the School. must be raised. As the only viable solution, father died while serving with the Union
the $3.50 per week board became a thing of Army. He knew how the home folks felt when
Also in 1916, Danville, Paris, and the past. the dreaded message came. Lord did his best
Effingham hosted the first extension classes to hold the School steady against the tidal
from Eastern. However, Lord did not think Although smallpox was not the dreaded wave of prejudice, hate, distorted values, and
well of extension teaching, "Extension work disease it had been, due to vaccination, it was disordered morals which war always heaves
cannot be of as good a quality as work done still present on the campus and the School over the land.
at the institution." As a result Eastern did building was fumigated that year because of
nothing further in the extension field until the "unknown source." During the World War, anti-German sen-
twenty years later. The Manual Arts Building timent resulted in a change in the School song,
was also erected that year south of the present On April 18, 1917, the first of Eastern's which had been written by Isabel McKinney
power plant. Prior to its completion, the volunteers for the U.S. Army enlisted. Before and sung to the tune of the German anthem,
Model School Building had also been used for long, 11 of the 17 boys in the Class of 1917 "The Watch on The Rhine." This was felt to
entered military service, and Eastern's librar- be inappropriate, with the United States at
TO PAU L VERNON ROOT IC OA ian, Mary Josephine Booth, took a leave of war with Germany, so a new melody was
absence to work for the Red Cross in France written by Friederick Koch. The result is the
Paul Vernon Root, to whom this and Germany. As a volunteer, she paid all of beautiful music to which "For Us Arose Thy
her expenses, including travel, board, and Walls and Towers" has been sung since then.
poe m is dedicated, sustained injur- lodging. She was the only faculty member to
E. I.,in ies during the game between serve overseas during World War I. However, A native of Germany, Koch had many
R. more than 200 former students of the Model relatives in the German Army. He was a citi-
1:>el, and Normal in November, 1915, R. School and Normal School and four former zen of the Unites States by choice and thor-
ied which resulted in his death. faculty members served in the armed forces oughly loyal, but nevertheless suffered vari-
R. during the war. Nine of these were killed, in- ous indignities during the war at the hands
cluding Martin "Otto" Schahrer, who was of irresponsible "patriots," who insisted that
Into tho lines he plunged
al Carrying the ball,
L.
ige, This way and thai way he lunged L.
as Only to fall. L.
nd Then with the strength of him,
or Baek to his place again Q.

he Ready to go with vim, R.

ell Should he be called. L.

F.

Where could more courage he R.
n- Under the sky! R.
ro- Who show more bravery R.
~ds With never a cry!

What could more honor bring C

What higher praises ring L.

eld Where, Death, could be thy sting! L.

rt If fighting we die. L.

b- Students who knew him well, Q.

~eda His praises sing R.
Alumni, to him who fell, L.

His tribute bring F.

To whom, could we honor pay Ti

~ {'- More, than to him who gave

rty Life for om· "Blue and Gray" St

ec- Honor and fame. senic

Anon, i:- no

Poem addressed to Paul Vernon Root, a mem- Model School "manual training" class, 3rd floor of school building, (Old Main,) ca. 1905.
ber of the 1915 football team, and the only
Eastern athletic fatality. (Teachers College
News, Nov. 5, 1928, p. 5)

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Manual Arts Building, interior view, 1918, with Lawrence F. Ashley (at Library rooms, located on the first floor, southwest corner, of school

rear,) industrial arts instructor, 1918- 1938 building (Old Main .) photo ca . 1905.

he was a "pro-German' and even a spy. On though there were no faculty homes in the by the elementary school staff. This was the
one occasion a brick was thrown through a path of the tornado and no faculty or student pattern when the College was organized in
window of his home. injuries, both groups worked long hours with 1921. However, the high school curriculum
other rescue workers: In July, Eastern's sepa- covered grades nine through twelve. There
Koch, himself, told of the day Lord called rate governing board was replaced by the was no separate junior high school curricu-
him into his office and asked him if he had Normal School Board which governed all of lum. This was continued until 1936 when the
bought any Liberty Bonds. When he said no, the state-supported normal school in Illinois. junior high school organization was abolished
Lord opened his purse and gave Koch $50 for and the high school became a four-year school
his first bond. Only a few days later he was The women of Pemberton Hall were al- for all purposes.
visited by a Secret Service man, whose first lowed self-government in 1917. But in 1919
question was, "Have you bought any Liberty self-government was abandoned; the girls In 1921, the senior high school was not
Bonds?" Koch said he never forgot how Lord, were again required to be in bed by 10:30.The yet organized for student teaching, but in 1923
as a true friend, had stood by him. Class of 1917's memorial was a "pergola" lo- the high school became a full-time part of the
cated on Seventh Street, directly to the east of practice teaching organization of the College.
One evening, an "unsavory" group of the main entrance to Blair Hall. A vine-cov- The Teachers College High School was rec-
fellows made their way to the Koch home. ered brick arbor, it was at one time used for ognized by the North Central Association as
One man carried an American flag that the outdoor plays and ceremonies. It was likely an accredited four-year school in 1920.
"rabble" intended for Koch to kiss to prove removed when the Blair Hall parking lot was
his patriotism. Without knocking, the miscre- constructed. At first, all high school classes were
ants burst into his living room. Standing be- taught by Normal School and College teach-
fore them were a uniformed American Army Throughout the college period, Eastern's ers. Gradually a separate high school staff was
officer and Koch. "The abashed culprits slunk training school consisted of twelve grades. built up, and in 1933, the annual catalogue
away to abodes more fitting to their charac- Prior to 1917, the eight elementary grades first listed them separately. College teachers
ters ." To the clamor for dropping German formed the entire training school. In that year, continued to teach high school classes, al-
from the curriculum, Lord said, "Not from grade nine was added, and with grades seven though in decreasing numbers. In 1934, Dr.
knowledge of German, but from ignorance of and eight, formed a junior high school, how- Donald A. Rothschild became principal. It was
it, do we get into trouble." German was kept ever, not with a separate training staff. In 1918 under him that the high school emerged as a
in the curriculum all during the war. grades ten through twelve were added and a separate instructional unit, with its own teach-
senior high school was formed with classes ers for the most part, its own assembly and
In 1917, a powerful tornado swept taught by Normal School teachers. The jun- faculty meetings, and its own year book.
through Charleston north of the square ior high school grades continued to be taught
roughly following the railroad tracks. Al- In 1918, Eastern was closed for two weeks

Mary}. Booth, library director, 1904-1945, in Martin "Otto" Schahrer, ca. 1917, Eastern foot- Isabel McKinney, English teacher, 1904- 7945,
her WWI outfit, ca. 1917. ball star killed during WWI. who later had a residence hall named in her
honor. Photo ca. 7905

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1·' t· I

Donald A. Rothschild, ca. 1947, principal of Third grade classroom in the Model School, 1902. At left is Clara Snell, critic teacher, 1901-
the high school, 1934-1967. 1909, with a student, Andrew Dunn, reading to class . Shown to the rear are practice teachers
observing the class.

in October due to an influenza epidemic. The Martin "Otto" Schahrer, who had been killed would invariably precede the football game,
flu and the war resulted in the cancellation of in France the previous year. which was followed by a banquet, entertain-
homecoming that year. Eastern converted ment, and a dance. Even during WWII a pa-
back to the quarter system in 1919. It seems When Booth Library was built, a stone rade was held. No floats were built, but East-
that the semester system at that time con- marker for the field was located in the Iris ern students accompanied by bands, marched
flicted greatly with the schedules of rural Gardens to the south. It was later moved to down Charleston streets to display their
teachers who wanted to acquire additional the west side of the original Booth Library school loyalty.
credit hours. structure across from Gregg Triad. The plaque
on the Schahrer Field memorial disappeared The year 1919, when Eastern reverted to
For their gift to the School, the Classes of in 1990. The first football field, just south of the quarter plan (which lasted until 1972) also
1918,1919 and 1920 left money for construc- Old Main, was moved to the south as the main saw production of the first Warbler yearbook.
tion of an outdoor theater. However, the campus area was developed. When the ath- The name, selected by area poet Stella Craft
amount needed was too large to be raised in letic fields were relocated west of Fourth Tremble, is a reference to the many birds seen
that fashion and other sources were used. A Street, the entire area was known as Lincoln on campus. The Warbler staff of 1919 came
stone structure dug into the ground in the Field, but that name was later attached solely close to canonizing Lord when they gave him
Grecian style was used for summer theater to the football field at O'Brian Stadium. angel wings in a drawing opening the faculty
and musical productions. It was destroyed section. Another section featured a four-page
shortly before the Life Science Building was The faculty, alumni, and students also "In Memoria" tribute to nine former Eastern
built on the site in 1963. placed a memorial plaque at the base of the students who died in the military during
Old Main flag pole to honor the 200 former World War I.
The 1919 homecoming was dedicated to students who served their country in the war.
the men of the School who had died in the The patterns established in those first few The yearbook's advisors seldom cen-
armed forces during the World War. At the homecomings continued until the late 1920s sored material going into "The Bird," slapstick
opening ceremony of the football game spe- and early 1930s. Lord always spoke at chapel, jibes at both students and faculty scooted into
cial services dedicated the athletic field to with music provided by Koch. The parade the humor section. One issue reported that the

Cover art on the first Warbler yearbook, 1919. Howard 0. Widger, ca. 1925, professor of En- Ora L. Railsback, in 1926, physics professor
This annual publication was preceded by scrap- glish, 7972-7953. and organizer of the college band, 1925-1950.
books going back to 1904 and by the printed
1913 W'apper.

24

Teachers College News' first female Editor-in-chief, Elsie Sloan, shown with her colleagues and the College orchestra was formed. The gifts
advisor, Lawrence F. Ashley, 1924. Since then, there have been more than 20 women editors of of the Class of 1924 were a desk, chairs, and
the paper. typewriter for the Warbler and the newspa-
per staffs.
faculty members had been polled privately by gymnasium by building, without cost to the
the yearbook staff, and among other things state, a balcony to seat an additional 300 spec- The most elaborate chapel to date was
they were pegged as "five Democrats, seven tators. Undertaken by the Student Council, held on June 6, 1924, Alumni Day. In addition
Ford owners, six bridge experts, 12 radio spe- the total cost of the project was $633.93. The to Lord's talk, it included a zither solo by Koch
cialists, six poker experts, and eight actresses." work, which was started during the Christ- (which called for an encore) and a talk by a
mas recess and completed by January 18, was Board member. June commencement exer-
Eastern announced in 1920 a four-year done by the boys of the college. In 1922, East- cises saw Lord wearing for the first time a new
course leading to a Bachelors in Education. ern also had its first three Bachelor of Educa- cap and gown-a gift from the faculty. Its
For three reasons, Lord had been reluctant to tion degree graduates. On Labor day two fac- doctor 's hood was lined with the University
see Eastern shift from a diploma school to a ulty members, Howard DeForest Widger of Illinois colors.
degree-granting college. First, the legislature (professor of English) and Donald M. Marvin
had not made any additional funds available (professor of psychology) celebrated the holi- Graduation exercises were dramatically
for such an expansion. Second, students en- day by riding their bicycles to Chicago. They changed in 1925. Until that time, graduation
rolling in a four-year course beyond high pedaled to Paris, where they switched to the activities had followed a definite pattern. In-
school in most cases would be preparing to pavement leading directly to Chicago. They cluded were musical entertainment, usually
teach in high schools instead of elementary spent three days enroute, roughing it all the by the Model School children, a party given
schools and Lord's heart was "with the chil- way and sleeping out in the open. After a brief by the juniors for the seniors, a reception by
dren." Third, Lord felt that it was better for stay, Widger returned to Charleston by train, the President, the senior class play, the Bacca-
normal school students wishing to continue while Marvin went on to Rockford. laureate sermon, a reception for alumni, and
their work to go elsewhere for the last two finally the graduation exercises. However,
years, because of the broadening effect of a Although it has long since disappeared until 1925 there was neither a formal proces-
wider educational experience. from its place in Pemberton Hall, the gift of sion nor academic costume. Caps and gowns
the Class of 1922 was a bronze statuette of were worn for the first time in 1925. Seniors
In 1920, Eastern also saw the creation of Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots. In 1923, these- work black, diploma graduates wore blue,
a Student Council to help finance and over- niors gave Eastern the oil painting by R.M. and high school graduates wore gray. Proces-
see student activities. Also, the first music fes- Root of Livingston C. Lord, which hangs in sional and recessional marches were intro-
tival was held. The following year saw a mo- the main corridor of Old Main. (Root also duced into the ceremonies with music fur-
tion picture projector installed in the audito- painted the well-known scene of the debate nished by the College orchestra.
rium and Eastern's name was changed to between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A.
"Eastern Illinois State Teachers College at Douglas in Charleston.) Due to the burning of the Charleston
Charleston" to better reflect its new status as waterworks in April of 1925, school was dis-
a college. A concrete seat at the front entrance On "class day " during the 1920s, the missed one day early. TheTeachers College News
of Pemberton Hall was the gift of the Class of freshmen and sophomores engaged in their reported that the students were, of course,
1921. Also that year, the bankruptcy of the annual tug of war near Lake Ahmoweenah. very sorry that anything like that should hap-
privately-financed Eastern News brought the The tug of war changed to homecoming in pen.
paper under the control of the college, which the fall of 1930, and then shifted to the new
resulted in a reorganization and a change in artificial lake when it was built in 1935. A concrete tennis court was the Class of
name to The Teachers College News. The paper 1925's "permanent gift." It vanished when
was published on Fridays until Oct. 23, 1922, Eastern celebrated its Silver Anniversary construction began on the University Union
when it moved to Mondays. A switch to Tues- in 1924. The planning committee, which in- in 1957. A new power plant of brick and con-
days was made in March 1930, to Wednesdays cluded a representative of every class since crete, approximately 30-feet high to accom-
in 1938 and to Mondays, Wednesdays and 1900, scheduled such activities as a zither solo modate the steam boilers, was also built in
Fridays in 1971. The paper became a daily in and th e singing of "On The Road to 1925. The original power plant had been a
1973. Mandalay" by Koch, a historical pageant, a structure north of the greenhouse behind Old
luncheon, and the annual banquet. That was Main. It provided Old Main with heat, but
In January 1922, the Charleston City also the year the College copyrighted the was removed when this new building was
Council decided to petition the state legisla- school's song by Isabel McKinney, with mu- completed.
ture to appropriate money for pavements sic by Friederich Koch. McKinney and Koch
around the College...on Lincoln, Fourth, and were then in the English and Music Depart- More commencement changes occurred
Seventh Streets to" .. .make the place look like ments, respectively. Their combined work was in 1926 when the faculty first wore caps and
it was located in a city instead of a horse pas- the memorable "For Us Arose Thy Walls And gowns and became part of the ceremony. It
ture." Late in the previous year, the students Towers." The year 1924 was also when the became customary at that time to seat the
had decided to make the most of the existing girls established an athletic association, and heads of the departments on the platform with
the president, dean, and commencement
speaker.

The site of the commencement ceremony
has a history all its own. Through the years it
has been held in various sites including Old
Aud, Pemberton Hall's crackerbox gym (not
the Textbook Library), in the outdoor amphi-
theater (where the Life Sciences Building now
stands), McAfee Gym and the Quad between
the Union and the Library. During inclement
weather, exercises were moved to McAfee
Gym, or the current Lantz Gym after it was
built. They were also held in the stadium dur-
ing one period.

In February 1926, the "Charleston" dance
menace was stalking American colleges. At
the University of Indiana, the board of trust-
ees prohibited the dance in the Student Build-
ing to forestall its collapse. Concern was that
by allowing the dance it would leave in its

25

path " ...a swath of ruined buildings un- Eastern's Illinois Intercollegiate Athletic As- football field was moved to its present loca-
equaled in extent in this country since sociation championship football team (7-0-1). tion. Also lost during the move was the
Sherman's memorable march." The 1926 year- It was the best record ever for an Eastern grid Schahrer Field score board, a gift from the
book carried an article titled "The Harms of team and the team was Eastern's last to go Class of 1929. That year, the sophomore class
Athletics," which warned of such hazards as undefeated. Eastern's largest score in football also presented a replica of "The Appeal of the
perspiration, baldness, mothers losing their was a 104-0 victory against Pana High School Great Spirit," which once hung in the Office
ability to bake mince pies while their sons in 1911. The century mark was reached a sec- of Information.
were in training, and boys preferring a dirty ond time, when Newman High School was
football to a girl's hand. The Class of 1926's defeated 100 to Oin 1916. Eastern's worst de- The year 1929 also witnessed the comple-
gift was the chains along the walk in front of feat was in 1909, when Rose Polytechnic In- tion of the three-story wood and brick Practi-
Pemberton Hall. stitute won 75-0. cal Arts Building. Erecting this structure
meant draining the lily pond which stood near
The year 1926 also saw Eastern change During 1928, Eastern's first social frater- the east end of the current building. The lily
to a letter grading system, a plan used in al- nity was established-Delta Lambda Sigma pond had been the site of many plays and pag-
most all other colleges, which was considered which later became Phi Sigma Epsilon. East- eants presented by graduating classes and the
a better policy than the existing numerical ern was accredited as a college that year by children of the Model School.
system. In October, Eastern's College Band the North Central Association, and the Ameri-
(organized by Ora L. Railsback, later head of can Association of Teachers Colleges gave the During the construction, there was a new
the physics department) made its first public school its Class A recognition. That year also state supervising architect who knew noth-
appearance. The Class of 1927 left a metal- saw the first tenure granted by the Normal ing about architecture and who had to be
frame bulletin board in the front corridor of School Board to faculty following a two-year coached by his employees for six months be-
Old Main as its memorial. probation. The class memorial that year was fore he could pass a written examination. Yet,
a ticket booth which was destroyed when the he had ideas of his own about a building. One
In 1928, Burl Ives was a team leader on was that no teacher should have an office.

Central Illinois' own Burl Ives (middle row, third from left) and the 7928 Illinois Intercollegiate Burl Ives' publicity photo, while a student at

Athletic Conference championship football team . Eastern, ca 7927- 7930.

Practical Arts Building, completed in 7929. Now known as the Student Services Building, it Ernestine Taylor, top center, the first home-
originally provided much needed space for the industrial and home economics programs. Photo coming queen, and her court, 7930. Middle
ca. 7932.
row, Catherine Shaffer and Betty Shaffer.
26 Bottom row, Helen Weber, Mary Abraham,
and Betty Hamer. (793 7 Warbler, p. 723.)

However, Lawrence F. Ashley, who was ac- Walter H . Nehrling, (in
tively concerned in the planning and erection tie,) first superintendent
of the building, saw how he could circumvent

him. Because the architect had agreed to a lot of grounds, 7904-7 932,

of storage space, wherever Ashley, a teacher and his crew, ca 7920.

and head of Industrial Arts at Eastern (from

1918 to 1938) wanted a teacher 's office, he sim-

ply called it a closet. Then, when the building

was complete, Ashley labeled them offices.

Facing north, the building gives clear in-

dication that Lord envisioned the end of cam-

pus growth to the south. It was the last major

building added to the campus during the 34

years of Lord's presidency. The Practical Arts

Building housed the Manual Arts and Home

Economics Departments. The building later

became the Student Services Building.

Eastern has never been a school for the

children of wealthy parents. With nearly free 'tteacbere <tollege ., :::.~-t♦\ewe Banner headline in the
tuition and low school fees in its early days, Ma y 76, 7933 edition of

the school attracted a considerable number of ....,.... ... ~Ott:!l., . . ~ the Teachers College

students who otherwise would not have been ~ ~ fl!ao,\Y MU' 1'tl ta News announcing the

able to obtain an education beyond the elemen- death of President Lord,
the day before.
LL SCHOOL MOURNS DEATH OF BELOVED PRESIDENtary grades or high school. One interesting re-

sult was that Eastern's enrollment often in- ie Phiope Selected to Head New Pr~dent_ LivingatonC.LordDiesMonda
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stated the campus newspaper, which con-
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ducted the contest.

That year also the underclassmen com- "Panther Lair," ca . 7933,
bined their resources to publish Eastern's first men's cooperative resi-
homecoming book. The year 1930 was also the dence and forerunn er of
first year that class reunions were held. The th e student union, lo -
Alumni Association decided that classes should cated near the southwest
hold reunions every five years, beginning with

the fifth anniversary of their graduation. The corner of Fourth and

following were the classes selected to partici- Grant Streets. The upper

pate in the first reunions: 1901, 1906, 1911, 1916, story of the house was

1921 and 1926. The meetings of the class mem- d es troyed b y fire in

bers were held on alumni day during gradua- 1942.

tion week.

Also in 1930, The Teacher 's College News and

Charleston's Fox Lincoln Theater sponsored a

contest to choose a nickname for the school. The

winner would receive $5 in theater tickets. They

considered several Indian names such as

Kickapoos, The Indians and Ellini. Their crite-

ria were that the name had to be appropriate, First known aerial view
catchy and useable. Coach Charles Lantz, team

captain Eugene Kintz, and sportswriter Irvin of campus, 7935.

"Smick" Sangler finally chose "The Panthers,"

since they felt it was most appropriate for the

School and was not used much. In fact, at that

time the only other "Panthers" were the Pitt

Panthers of Pittsburgh. October of 1930 saw

completion of the installation of the flood lights

at the football field, making night football a

reality for the campus. That was also the year

that Little Campus, a popular student hangout,

was built by Ivan Birch on Lincoln Street, across

from Old Main . (It is now known as "Ike's,"

for its long-time former proprietor , Ike

Kennard.)

27

PANTHERS

Through the years

1940s. 1950s-1960s.

1970s. 1970s.

28 /

Blue and Gray Became the Panthers in 1930

Eastern athletic teams were known as the "Blue and Gray" from 1899 to 1930. No record has been found as,
to how and when the decision was made to use the nickname except that it symbolized the school colors.
Charleston's divided loyalties during the Civil War may well have led to using "The Blue and Gray."

In 1930 the Teachers College News and the Fox Lincoln Theatre of Charleston conducted a contest to select
a new name for the athletic teams. Numerous entries were received. An Indian theme dominated the en-
tries. Among such names were Kickapoos, Indians and Ellini. Other suggestions included Blue Boys, Grey-
hounds and Blue Races.

The panel of judges, consisting of Coach Charles Lantz, ex-football captain Gene Klintz and Irvin (Smick)
Singler, manager, selected the name "Panthers." Three students entered the winning name. They were
Thelma Brooks James, Harland Baird and Paul Birthisel.

Since then, the Panther as a logo has varied. In the 1950s, Eastern used by permission the 11Marathon11
panther. Other depictions are also shown.

last•• 11 llllaols University

INTH1fcJ

1990s.

1980s. 1990s.

29

A bas-relief of "Sacajawea Leading Lewis elty about while a curious audience looked school during his 34 years at "EI." When
and Clark to the Pacific Ocean," which hangs on. The little machine did competent work; asked what he would change if he had his life
on the east wall inside the front entrance to but Sorrel triumphantly finished the evening's to live over again, Lord replied, "I would be
Old Main, was the gift of the Class of 1930. work, probably because the horse-drawn more kind." (He probably realized that his
Eastern's tradition of excellence was again mower has a seat for the driver. " Budget prob- blunt criticisms had made some people fear
evident in 1931. In March, the minutes of the lems that year resulted in a ten percent fac- h i m .)
North Central Association listed all five of Il- ulty salary cut in April and cancellation of the
linois' teachers colleges on the College hon- second half of the summer term. "I have studied in five universities and
ors list for the first time. Eastern had been the taught in three without meeting anywhere
first to be admitted to the list in 1928. It was On May 15, 1933, after 34 years as anything that I now value so much as the
also in 1931 that a homecoming parade was Eastern's president, Livingston C. Lord died. guidance and inspiration that came from di-
held in Mattoon for the first time. Designed He had suffered a cruel blow in the death of rect personal association with him for 11
to advertise homecoming, the parade con- Mrs. Lord in 1924, after a four-month illness, happy years, and after that, from letters down
sisted of students in procession and decorated due to heart problems. She is buried next to to the last," remembered Henry Johnson, Co-
cars. him in Charleston's Roselawn Cemetery. The lumbia University History Department head,
inscription on her tombstone reads, "She of the educator he taught under.
Also in 1931, an additional 72 acres, lo- Lived Beloved and Died Beloved." The loss
cated west of Fourth Street and south of of his savings in the Depression of the early Lord's influence on students was illus-
Garfield, to be used for athletics and physical 1930s had caused him much concern because trated by a student named Newton Tarble.
education, were added to the original 40 acre no definite provision for retirement pay in the Tarble attended Eastern from 1905 to 1909 and
site. A nine-hole, sand greens golf course, state teachers colleges had been made in Illi- received the equivalent of a high school edu-
designed by Camille Monier, superintendent nois. But, until his final week, when he was cation. After Tarble left Charleston in 1909,
of grounds, was constructed in this tract. ill with bronchitis, he had shown unusual Lord helped set him up at Swarthmore Col-
Originally, the first tee was located on the vigor, both physical and mental, for a man of lege in Pennsylvania with a baseball scholar-
Fourth Street side of the north portion of the 82. Ironically, he had planned to retire in July. ship, and proved to be a major influence in
campus pond which was constructed at the Tarble's life. In a later letter to Lord, Tarble
same time. This entire new tract of land was Despite his age, his death shocked the (then a successful industrialist and business-
given the name Lincoln Field in 1934, by town. Coeds spoke in frightened whispers man) recalled his days at Eastern. Among
Elbert Field through a contest sponsored by and faculty members stared unbelieving at his other things, Tarble wrote, "You taught me to
the school paper. By 1935, the tract contained office door. "President Lord died today," one hate sham and hypocrisy, loud and pompous
a baseball diamond, several football practice faculty member paused to note in his daily people, bluffers...! seek the companionship
fields and a nine-hole golf course. In 1924 The diary. and company of interesting people. I like good
Teachers College News chose its first woman books, biographies being my favorite."
editor, Elsie Sloan. (Since that time there have His services to the state had been well
been more than 20 women editors on the pa- summarized by State Superintendent of Pub- Lord left Eastern a heritage of scholarly
per.) lic Instruction, Francis G. Blair during the cel- ideals, the memory of an inspired personal
ebration of the school's 25th anniversary: leadership, and a tradition of honesty and
In 1934, Coach Lantz handed over the "Has anyone in any position in this state dur- fearlessness in meeting the problems of the
reins of the football and basketball teams to ing these 25 years done so much to enrich and institution as well as those in a person's life.
younger men, although he remained baseball elevate the life of this commonwealth than he He left a strong foundation for today's Uni-
coach until his retirement in 1952. For 38 years who has poured the total of his energies and versity.
the baseball team had no other coach. Until abilities into the training of its teachers?"
1932, he had directed sports and physical edu- Following Lord's death, Edson Taylor, a
cation for men without assistance. Through The school was closed on Thursday, May member of the original staff of Eastern Illi-
1934, he posted records of 94-63-13 in foot- 18th, until after the 2 p.m. funeral, which was nois Normal School (who was the head of the
ball, 185-188 in basketball, and 77-110-2 in attended by nearly 2,000 persons. The service Mathematics Department and held a PhD
baseball. was held in the College assembly room. from Harvard,) was named Acting President.
Among those present were the presidents of Although he had been "groomed" to succeed
Walter Nehrling, who had been Eastern's the other four Illinois teachers colleges, State Lord, had served as administrative head in
superintendent of grounds for 30 years, died Superintendent Blair, and three other mem- Lord's absence, and had made decisions in a
in 1932. His obituary read in part, "The beau- bers of the Normal School Board. Lord-like manner, he was denied permanent
tiful grounds and the landscaping of the Col- appointment by the Normal School Board.
lege campus will remain a lasting monument The casket was carried beneath the three
to his skill and interest." Nehrling's death also arches of Old Main by six young faculty mem- ROBERT GUY BUZZARD
meant an end to the school garden project bers. Reverend William Blair of the Charles-
which he had supervised. During the early ton Presbyterian Church concluded his eulogy (1933-1956)
years, Training School students each had a with these words: "As we come to the end of . Robert Guy Buzzard, 43, born on a farm
small plot for growing vegetables and flow- the day, words fail us. A hero has fallen and near Sumner, IL, and head of the Department
ers in a garden located south of Blair Hall; we ... we are not heroes and we need him." of Geography at the State Normal University
prizes were awarded annually for the best Lord was buried in a plot beside that of his at Normal, became Eastern's second president
results. Following Nehrling's death the gar- wife. on Oct. 1, 1933. His ascension to the presi-
den location was used for an ornamental dency was observed with "some slight trepi-
flower garden. In a chapel talk a few weeks before his dation" by the faculty because it had just
death, Lord had told the school when expect- voted unanimously to make Edson H. Taylor
A football first occurred in 1932, with the ing to be absent for a few days, "If I had only acting head of the school upon Lord's death.
radio broadcast of a football game (Eastern eight words to leave with you they would be Buzzard later revealed that the Normal School
vs. Millikin) from the campus. Evening hours these: 'Tell the truth and don' t be afraid.' If I Board tried to talk him into taking Lord's
were also implemented at the library because could have eight more I would say: 'Not who place twice, but he turned them down. "I told
of an increase in the use of the facility. In 1933 is right, but what is true."' Today the latter them it was too hard of a job." However, on
a motor-driven lawn mower made its first words are inscribed on a plaque outside the the third try the board was successful. It was
appearance on the campus. According to the front entrance to Old Main. his first experience as a top-level university
report in the school paper: "Old Sorrel stood administrator. "I said,'Alright, I'll do it, if you
dejectedly by while progressive agents dem- Lord had held those who knew him stand behind me for five years."' Buzzard also
onstrated a new motor-driven lawn mower speechless. He awed them by his presence. told the Board that if after five years it ap-
on the south campus.... The grounds manag- Those meeting him once never forgot him, peared he was not the man for the job, he
ers and janitors took turns guiding the nov- and those knowing him 30 years could not would leave. He did not leave for 23 years.
describe him. But, that he made a lasting im- By that time he had taken a faculty, 15 per-
30 pression was evident in every faculty mem-
ber and every alumnus graduated from the

cent of which did not even have bachelor's de- Hea lth Education Build-
grees, and turned it into one of the best in the ing, dedicated 1938.
country with most of the faculty having doc- Later known as Lantz
torate degrees. Gymnasium, it was re-
named in honor of Flo-
Buzzard had more formal education than rence C . McAfee in
Lord. He held bachelor 's and master 's degrees 1965.
from the University of Chicago and a doctor-
ate from Clark University, Worchester, Mas- Far left, Decorative de-
sachusetts. Perhaps the new president's great- tail, H ealth Education
est aid to understanding the school he headed Building, 1938.
was his wife, Irene Couchman Buzzard, a Left, Florence C.
member of the Class of 1916 at Eastern Nor- McAfee, ca. 1955,
mal School. Buzzard admitted later that he and women's physical edu-
his wife often discussed the great qualities of cation director, 1924-
Eastem's first president. Buzzard first lived at 1962.
907 Seventh Street, but later designed and built
his home across from the University Union at Science Building, dedi-
1711 Seventh Street. Today Buzzard's house cated 1940. Originally
is the home of Eastem's Counseling Center. housing both the physi-
ca l and the life sciences,
In 1933, it was the middle of the Great it now houses only the
Depression; student enrollment was 1,995 and physical sciences.
there were 85 faculty members. The following
year, Tuesday through Saturday classes (which Botany laboratory in the
had long before outgrown their purpose of al- new Science Building,
lowing teachers to observe public school ca. 1940.
classes on Mondays) were altered to a Mon-
day through Friday schedule. The "Panther 31
Lair," a former farm residence located at the
southwest comer of Fourth and Grant Streets
(where Lincoln Hall now stands), opened that
year as a men's cooperative dormitory.

After Buzzard determined that a new
gymnasium, a science building and a library
building were absolutely necessary if Eastern
was to meet the challenge of the future, Illi-
nois Governor Henry Homer visited the cam-
pus.

At that time the library and the science
instructional facilities competed with other
academic units for space in Old Main. Chem-
istry had one small laboratory in the north-
west comer of Old Main's second floor, and
the physics classes had a similar setup in the
southwest comer, while botany and zoology
shared space in the west end of the third floor.
Music and art, both service departments at the
time, each had small teaching areas on the
third floor.

Inside Old Main the portly governor
found it difficult to maneuver in the science
labs and the library stacks and pledged his
support for the College's effort to acquire more
space. The chance soon came when the Fed-
eral Public Works Administration indicated an
interest in building a gymnasium and science
building at Eastern. Although Illinois, like
most other states during the 1930s, had few
funds for capital improvements, Governor
Horner kept his pledge and authorized state
funding to ensure the federal support.

Chapel, a touching daily service under
Lord, was held bi-weekly under Buzzard un-
til 1935, when it became a weekly assembly.
That same year, an artificial lake was built on
the campus. Students did not have a lot of
money to spend in those days. Expenses for
dates were often 10 cents or 20 cents and stu-
dents walked because they did not have cars.
They put everything they could earn or
"scratch" together toward paying fees and
other bills.

Aerial view of cam- It was said that only at Eastern Illinois was
pus, 1942. it possible to bring a cow to school, milk it daily,
sell the milk, and earn enough money from the
Right, Rudolph D . sale to pay tuition and expenses-and then
Anfinson, director of graduate with high honors. Pemberton Hall's
the college band, ca. theme song was popular in 1936. Its words
1943 . In his 36 years were: "We gladly now all raise our voices/In
at Eastern, 1940- praise of old Pem Hall;/Each loyal heart re-
1976, he held vari- joices/To swell the joyous call./To Pemberton
ous teaching and ad- we will be faithful/In all years to come-/Our
ministrati ve posi- hearts you've won,/Dear Pemberton of
tions, including dean E.I.S.N.S."
of men
Far right, Edson H. The cornerstone for the three-story concrete
Taylor, Friederich and brick Health Education Building (built on
Koch and Henry the site of the former Lake Ahmoweenah, south
Johnson reunited of the Physical Science Building), was laid May
during homecoming, 8, 1937, on Alumni Day. The building was dedi-
1941 . (Co urtesy cated one year later on May 14, 1938, before an
Koch family) elated Coach Lantz. It gave Eastern the large
gymnasium that President Lord had sought
Kevin Guinagh, co- since 1928. -(In a letter to Gov. Small in June
ordinator of war 1928, Lord had written, "Our gymnasium floor,
training services and referring to the Pem Hall crackerbox gym, is so
foreign language pro- small that many schools refuse to play here. The
fessor, 1931-1964, gymnasium of the high school at Casey, IL, seats
handing out pay- 4,000, more than double the number that can
checks to group of be seated in our gymnasium.")
Navy "boys" enrolled
in preflight training, The main gymnasium of the new building
1943. had a balcony seating of 2,200 and a large stage,
with a seating capacity of 1,000 on the playing
Navy "boys" in floor. The building also had a smaller women's
Eastern 's war training gymnasium with a kitchen at one end, a men's
service receiving corrective gymnasium, a dance studio, health
ground and flight in- service offices, faculty offices, and classrooms.
struction, ca. 1943.
Gracing the tower of the new building was
32 a clock, so the correct time could be seen from
"anywhere on campus." Eastern's "Big Ben"
can no longer be seen from anywhere on cam-
pus, but the 56-year-old clock still keeps accu-
rate time. Build by the David Architectural Iron
Works of Chicago, it has a 12-foot, 6-inch diam-
eter aluminum face. Outlining the circumfer-
ence of the dial, instead of numbers, are
hashmarks a foot and a half long. The 8-foot, 5-
inch minute hand is designed with a crescent
shape at the end of it, while the hour hand has
a star. They are simply for artistic purposes and
have no symbolism.

The building was renamed Lantz Gymna-
sium in October 1953, in honor of Coach Lantz.
Then, in 1965, following the naming of the new
Lantz Gymnasium, this original building was
renamed the Florence McAfee Women's Gym-
nasium, in honor of McAfee, who served as
head of Eastern's women's physical education
program from 1935-1962.

Ground was broken for the Physical Sci-
ence Building on May 31, 1937 and was dedi-
cated on May 25, 1940. The four-story concrete
and brick building was the first on campus to
have an elevator. This building ended Eastern's
pre-World War II building program, and no ad-
ditional buildings went up until after the war.
It was also in 1937 that Friederick Koch retired
after four decades as Eastern's music director.
In 1939, the school paper changed its name to
Eastern Teachers News.

Pemberton Hall girls were seeing things in
a new light in December 1940. The original two-
bulb overhead lights were replaced with round
yellow ones. "By merely turning a small but-
ton and pushing the switch, every room in Pem

Hall can be delightfully illuminated. For the duty. That call came on April 3, 1943. Because eight were killed. Among those who served
girls who are inclined to stay awake late at about twenty of the enlistees left by train at 3 was Major Carlos C. Ogden (Class of'41). He
night and who come home after dark, there a.m., Eastern's curfew was relaxed to allow received the Congressional Medal of Honor,
are white and gold lamps at the ceiling and female students to form a farewell group at America's highest military award, for his
hallways." The next year brought more light- the Charleston depot for those called to ac- "conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the
ing changes to the campus with the installa- tive duty. The college band, led by Rudolph risk of life above and beyond the call of duty"
tion of outside lights. According to one me- Anfinson, crowded into the station and for his actions on the morning ofJune 25, 1944,
dia report, "Something entirely new in the 42- "raised the roof." (Perhaps the three most crip- near Fort De Roule, France. Although
year history of Eastern occurred on Tuesday pling blows to the Axis cause during the next wounded himself, he advanced under fire to
evening, April 22nd. Virtually the entire cam- critical months were the invasion of Attu, the silence two German machine guns which had
pus was lighted as brightly as one of the capitulation of Italy, and the induction of the pinned down his men.
streets around the Public Square in Charles- Eastern group.) A dash of human drama was
ton. At twilight, the new campus system of injected by a tremendously poignant scene Eastern was not at all prepared for the
35 lights was turned on for the first time. Each involving a local citizen of questionable equi- rush of veterans who came to the little cam-
light is approximately 14 feet in height, with librium and his spouse. ''I'll be back, I'll be pus in 1946. They were older, had won a world
a green metal base surmounted by a frosted back, he sobbed reassuringly. "Yes, you'll be war, had little orientation to higher education,
glass globe." back," she bravely concurred. Their mutual and were ambitious! They were determined
state of inebriation detracted not a whit from to get their piece of the American Dream-
In February 1941, Pemberton Hall was this powerful manifestation of unselfish faith and Eastern was the institution that was to
placed under a temporary quarantine when and devotion. According to an eye-witness, help them in their quest.
a student was diagnosed with scarlet fever. "It was absolutely a thing of beauty. Why stop
That year Eastern began full-scale field study there? It was a thing of pristine beauty." University housing accommodations in
courses, with a 7-week bus trip covering the the immediate post-war period started with
eastern United States and Canada. But one History professor Charles Coleman de- the donation of 15 surplus trailers from the
thing remained the same: freshmen were still serves a special commendation for serving for Federal Housing Administration. In 1946, 33
required to wear green caps at all times out- serving as chairman of the local draft board surplus army barracks (also donated by the
side the building. In 1941, the flagpole in front and of the College defense committee. Dur- government) were acquired to help meet the
of Old Main was erected, and the water tower ing his four years of service with the local housing needs caused by the influx of veter-
was completed. In April, the Panther Lair was board he was "floored" only once by an irate ans and their families. Thus, "Campus City"
destroyed by a fire apparently caused by de- draftee. During the years of World War II, men was established. Twenty-four units were lo-
fective wiring; it was never to be rebuilt, with were scarce on campus. In 1943, there were cated west of Fourth Street, with another nine
its space helping to make room for a growing 281 students enrolled, but only 44 were men. on what is now the site of Coleman Hall. The
campus. In July, the Normal School Board The lack of men on campus that forced can- buildings were 100'x20' structures. Six build-
became the Teachers College Board. Eastern's cellation of the football schedule. Also that ings, allocated to single veterans, housed 16
oldest sorority, Sigma Sigma Sigma, was char- year Eastern's degree changed from a Bach- persons each in two four-room units sepa-
tered. elor of Education to a Bachelor of Science in rated by lavatory facilities . Rent was $10 per
Education, the same degree offered by the month. Another 24 units were divided into
Male members of the freshman class University of Illinois. The following year, two-bedroom apartments for married veter-
maintained an all-night vigil by pounding on Edson Taylor, who had been acting president ans, including faculty. Rent ranged from $22
a bass drum on top of the tower on Old Main following Lord's death and who had served to $28 per month. Three units were used as
to open homecoming activities that year. The with the Eastern faculty longer than any other service buildings. The buildings were heated
theme was "A Salute to Eastern Men in Ser- teacher, retired at the age of 70. He was a mem- by kerosene stoves.
vice," recalling the fact that for the second ber of the original faculty assembled for the
time the College has had cause to commemo- 1899-1900 school year. Also approximately 60 war surplus trail-
rate the contribution of her sons to the coun- ers, occupied by married couples were located
try, 23 years after the first time. From 1941 to 1945, more than 1,400 East- in the area named "Trailerville" on the north
ern students, faculty, and staff (including 33 edge of the west 72 acres, site of today's Lin-
In the fall of 1941, several 18- and 19-year- women who were nurses, "WAC'S" and coln-Douglas Halls. These trailers, which
olds at Eastern joined the Enlisted Reserve "WAVES") served in the military; and forty- were also heated by kerosene, were rented to
Corps of the Army, subject to a call to active married veterans for $10 per month.

Charles B. Hall, football and track star at East- Carlos C. Ogden, a student at Eastern in the mid- 7930s, received the Congressional Medal of
ern, who became an ace fighter pilot during Honor in 7945.
WWII with the famous "all-Negro" 99th Fighter
squadron, 1944. 33

Artist Paul T. Sargent, a loca l resident who Trailerville had its own governing council and
achieved fame as a painter. Photo ca. 1930 "mayor."

Aerial view of On Feb. 7, 1946, in a little house eight
veteran's housing, ca. miles south of the Eastern campus, Paul
1946. At the center is Sargent, 66, stopped painting, laid down his
"Trailerville, 11 where brush, walked up to his bedroom, and
married veterans and dropped dead of heart failure. His death
those with children ended an era that began with his graduation
were housed. The rows from Eastern in 1906, followed by six years of
of barracks further studies at the Art Institute of Chicago, teach-
south were part of the ing at Eastern during the summer sessions of
still unfinished "Cam- 1938 through 1941, an extension course in
pus City, 11 designed for 1942, and some 10,950 visual statements (7,000
single veterans. completed canvases). He was one of the
founders of the Brown County (Indiana) Art
Radio station located Association. The original Sargent homestead
in the tower of Old is now located at the Lincoln Log Cabin State
Main, bega n opera- Historical Site southwest of Charleston. Per-
tions in 1946. manent collections which house Sargent's
painting include the Chicago Art Institute, the
Saluting the flag at Henry Ford Museum in Detroit, and the Uni-
Schahrer Field for versity of Indiana.
homecoming, ca. mid-
1940s. It was also in 1946 that the faculty,
alumni, and student placed a second plaque
34 at the base of the Old Main flag pole to honor
the 1,500 former student who served in the
armed forces during WWII . Also in 1946,
Maynard "Pat" O'Brien joined Eastern's fac-
ulty as football coach. To many he was the
living embodiment of a "Gipper" era Irish
coach. During the next 28 years, he would
become a legend at the school as a coach for
football, track and field, wrestling, and cross
country. In 1948, he guided Eastern's football
team to its first and only bowl game-the now
defunct Corn Bowl, held in Bloomington on
Thanksgiving Day.

The College radio station began opera-
tion on Oct. 2, 1946, on the fourth floor of Old
Main. From there, it broadcast over the tele-
phone wires-first to radio station WDZ and
later to station WLBH in Mattoon, and from
there out to radios in a 60-mile radius of the
250-watt transmitter. Such programs as
"Teachers College of the Air," "Let's go to
College," and "Stump Your Professor,"
(where students asked the questions and pro-
fessors tried to answer) were broadcast regu-
larly from the tower. The studio and programs
were later moved to Booth Library, and then
to the Buzzard Building. Today the sound-
proof broadcasting booth and acoustical tile
remaining on the walls and ceiling provide
ample evidence of the tower 's previous use.
For many years, the tower also housed two
wooden frames with light bulbs attached.
One, in the shape of a star, was hung on the
front of the tower at Christmas time. The
other, a super-imposed EI, hung over the edge
of the tower during the rest of the year. Both
were discontinued as part of Eastern's energy
conservation program.

All through homecoming month in 1946
a record player on the porch of the little Phi
Sigma Epsilon house blared the music and
lyrics of "Jimmy Cracked Corn and I Don't
Care" to celebrate the return of a former Phi
Sig, the now-famous poor boy from Jasper
County, Burl Ives. The homecoming tug of
war that year resulted in the freshman team
being pulled through the campus lake (up-
per class men used automobile power to win).

By late 1946, Eastern had contracted with the campus u~til the University Union was of the walks and new parking areas was fully
the Federal Public Housing Authority for the completed in 1958. underway during the 1948 homecoming; re-
gift of ten metal buildings (10'x54'6") to be turning former students were bewildered by
used for recreational, office, food supply, laun- Also in 1947, a large war surplus quonset the torn-up campus. The traditional home-
dry, or other uses involving war veterans. hut was erected that year on an east-west axis, coming tug-of-war disappeared because the
They were shipped by rail from Baton Rouge, directly south of the Practical Arts Building. campus lake was being drained and graded.
LA. It served as a mechanical equipment and ser-
vice building, with a portion reserved for the Among the graduates receiving their
There was another name change in 1947; band and the storage of band instruments. An Bachelor of Science degrees in 1948 was
the school became "Eastern Illinois State Col- addition to the Practical Arts Building was Argola Ives Walk, sister of the famous Burl
lege." This change did not alter the primary also completed during this period. Ives. She had studied at Eastern "off and on"
purpose of the school, which remained, as it for some 20 years. Brother Burl said, "I envy
had been since 1895, " to qualify teachers for It was in 1948 that the campus drives you."
the common schools of the state by impart- were eliminated and a new system of walks
ing instruction in the art of teaching in all substituted. Eastern's campus had been laid The 1948-1949 academic year must go
branches of study which pertain to a common out, literally, in the "house and buggy" days. down as the greatest ever in Eastern sports
school educations..." Most classes were still The parking lot in front of Old Main was an history. That year the College celebrated its
being held in Old Main, and Coach O'Brien's east-west oval fronting on Lincoln Avenue 50th anniversary with conference champion-
squad won the first homecoming game in and circling past the entrance to Old Main. A ships in football, basketball, and baseball.
seven years, beating Normal. This win was road branched off south from either end of Homecoming was one of the most outstand-
the prologue to the era of Eastern's becoming the oval. One road ran past the west entrance ing, with more than 1,000 former students at-
a football power with a national reputation. to Old Main, down to the old athletic area, tending. After sororities had held the home-
(known from 1919 to 1947 as "Schahrer Field") coming queen crown for nearly a decade,
Also in 1947, the school paper became the near the present library, where it turned west, Ruth St. John, a senior independent from To-
Eastern State News; the first issue of the East- entering Fourth Street just south of the cur- ledo, broke the monopoly and reigned dur-
ern Alumnus was published, and the power rent McAfee Gym. The road from the east end ing the "Golden Jubilee Anniversary." The
plant was enlarged. In Pemberton Hall one of the oval ran past the east entrance of Old homecoming parade included 29 Illinois high
meal a week was still "elegant," with formal Main, south past Blair Hall until it intersected school bands and 35 floats representing stu-
dress. the existing roadway from Seventh Street at dent organizations and Charleston business
the north end of the power plant. That road firms, making it the largest parade in Eastern's
Postwar students cheered the efforts of ran on west between Old Main and the Prac- history.
their "alert, active, and alive" President to tical Arts Building, now called the Student
bring a cafeteria to campus in 1947. Three sur- Services Building, eventually exiting on With the celebration of the Golden Jubi-
plus military buildings were assembled as a Fourth Street through the entrance columns lee Anniversary, a history of Eastern became
single unit in the area just east of McAfee Gym west of the Physical Sciences Building. The a necessity; Charles H . Coleman, professor of
(now occupied by the University Union). first students wore paths, later replaced by history since 1926, wrote it with an objectiv-
They served as a food service and social cen- sidewalks, all around the 40-acre campus. ity and freedom from bias that is commend-
ter, with a student lounge in the south end. With the increased use of automobiles, begin- able. Eastern Illinois State College, Fifty Years of
Surplus materials were used for furnishings. ning about the time of the first World War, Public Service presented the College, "warts
Mrs. Raymond Gregg, wife of Eastern's busi- the campus drives increasingly became park- and all," as Cromwell once said.
ness manager, recalled Buzzard phoning as ing lots for the cars of teachers, students, and
11:30 one night to exclaim, "I've found a po- visitors. Students were dismissed from classes on
tato masher in Indiana!" He and Gregg rolled March 16, 1948, to 67,000 books from the li-
out of bed at 5 a.m. the next day to claim the The noises and smells of the automotive brary located on the first floor of the west end
machine. Attached to the cafeteria was an old age had invaded the tranquil campus. The of Old Main, to the temporary library build-
ammunition storage building (from the backfiring of car engines, the penetrating ing, which had been constructed in 1947 on
Sangamon Ordnance Plant), which became a rhythm of moving cars and, too frequently, the west side of Seventh Street opposite Grant
private dining hall for faculty and students. the angry staccato of motorcycles penetrated Street. Five hundred students and faculty car-
Buzzard call it "The Woodshed," and the to the classrooms and competed with the ried the books, with President Buzzard car-
name stuck until the facility was wall-papered voices of teachers and students. rying his share and Glenn Seymour, a social
and re-christened the "Ivy Room." It served science professor, setting the unofficial record
Removal of the drives and construction with a total of 16 trips. No other plan would

Cover of the first issue, June 7947, of the East- Oldtimers gathered in celebration of Eastern 's golden anniversary held in conjunction with the
ern Alumnus, a magazine targeted to the sev- 7948 homecoming. Edith E. Ragan, Simeon E. Thomas, Annie L. Weller, Edson H. Taylor, and
eral thousand alumni of the institution. Mary}. Booth, with President Robert G. Buzzard.

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Colden anniversary have worked. Had trucks been used, the job
would have taken days and the volumes
homecom ing queen would have been so jumbled that librarians
would have spent weeks sorting and shelv-
and her court, 1948. ing. As it was, the library was in operation
the next day. The 51'x218' structure served as
From left, Marguerite the library facility until the completion in 1950
of the original part of what is now Booth Li-
Rhodes, Patricia brary. Before being demolished the temporary
building served as the Laboratory School
Brotherton, Deva while the Buzzard Building was under con-
struction in the late 1950s.
Kibl er, Esther
During the move, a Spanish teacher be-
Whitchurch and Ruth came suspicious when one of his not-too-
bright students asked for an armful of Span-
St. John, the queen. ish books. The instructor followed the student
and foiled his attempts to deposit them in the
Historian Charles H. sewer; consequently, the books arrived safely
Coleman, 1926-1961, at their destination.
autographing copies of
his new book, Eastern Charleston's reputation as a "Friendly
Illinois State College: City" had a negative effect in 1949, when a
Fifty Years of Public bus company official explained why the
Service. Photo ca. Friendly City was to be without bus service.
1950. He complained that, instead of riding the
buses between the downtown section and the
President Buzzard College campus, students accepted rides from
(fourth from left) help- friendly private citizens. As a result, the bus
ing students and staff company asked the Illinois Commerce Com-
transfer books from the mission for permission to discontinue the
library in Old Main to non-profitable local service. Also in 1949 East-
the temporary library ern enrolled 507 new freshmen, the largest
building, March 16, freshman class in the school's history. That
1948. Classes were year, "The Annex," a remodeled U.S. Army
cancelled that day to surplus mess hall containing classrooms and
facilitate the move. offices for foreign languages, psychology,
journalism and Audio-Visual education was
Aerial view of campus, also erected on the site now occupied by the
ca. 1950. University Union Addition.

The completion of the Library Building
in 1950 marked the end of a long struggle of
twenty-two years to give Eastern an actual
library with a building all its own. (Eastern's
library had originally been housed in Old
Main.) Lord had begun the fight in June 1928;
when Buzzard became president in 1933, the
fight was still going strong. In the Spring of
1941 a bill was introduced in the Illinois Gen-
eral Assembly which would have given East-
ern and Southern Illinois University libraries
and Western Illinois University a Science
building. However, with the outbreak of
World War II, the construction of the library
building was postponed.

Designed by a state architect, the build-
ing is similar to one constructed at Northern
Illinois University. It is a three-story, modified
Gothic architectural style of buff tapestry
brick, with Joliet limestone trim. The original
building included an auditorium, a memorial
window for the forty-eight former students
who had lost their lives in WWII, an Archives,
the Paul Sargent Art Gallery and the Franklyn
L. Andrews Recorded Music Room.

The library was originally planned to be
built where the present Physical Science
Building is. However, funding of the Science
Building and the McAfee Gymnasium were
approved first. When the new (and present)
location was announced, some students and
faculty protested, saying it would be "too far
from campus" and would never be used.
Some called it "Buzzard's Folly."

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Aerial view of Mary Josephine Booth Library, 7952. Also show n are the Gra nd opening of the new library, 7950. From left, Pres. Buzzard, Phineas
formal ga rdens and amphitheater. Windsor, retired head ofthe University ofIllinois library, Roscoe Schaupp,
Eastern's library director, and Mary}. Booth, retired library director.

Franklyn L. Andrews, English and journalism Robert G. Buzzard, Eastern's second president, Charles P. Lantz near the time of his retire-
professor, 7929- 7944, for whom the recorded
music room in Booth Library was named, and 7933- 7956, at his desk, ca. 7950. ment, ca. 7952.
for whom a res idence hall was later named.
Photo ca. 7940

Eastern's new library was named for the machine and inserted his key. This proce- degrees and doctor's degrees, but it is the
Mary Josephine Booth, the College's head li- dure dated the card and marked it with the hardest work in the world to fill the positions
brarian from 1904 to 1945. It was the first student's assigned number. with people with personality, scholarship and
building the Board ever named for a woman teaching skill. "
and the first named for a person who was still During her time at Eastern ,Booth had
living. Booth herself had laid the cornerstone seen the College's collection of books grow On the other hand Lord came to recog-
and was present to cut the blue and gray rib- from fewer than 8,000 volumes in 1904 to nize that college degrees were increasingly
bons at the grand opening. She was also the 67,000 in 1948. (Today, Booth Library has necessary for those who expected to teach. He
first to officially enter the building named in nearly 900,000 books and documents, 1.5 mil- advised students: "You must get degrees if
her honor. At the time it was one of the most lion microtexts and some 3,000 journal sub- you 're going to teach, bachelor 's, master 's,
complete and best-equipped libraries in the scriptions.) After the Library was completed, doctor's. Remember, the degree only shows
state. It was described as an electrician's doc- a track and field was built behind it south of the opportunity you've had. Native intelli-
toral thesis. For example, using mostly neon Garfield Street. The year 1950 also saw the gence is another thing...But never mind that-
and cathode tube lighting, many forms of largest graduating class (300) in the history you ought to get the degrees."
complicated indirect and in-set lighting had of the school. (Buzzard was very proud of the
gone into the construction. Only an occasional library. In fact, after his portrait [w hich now When Buzzard moved to Eastern in 1933
closet revealed a naked light bulb. hangs in the main corridor of Old Main) was the Normal School Board informed him that
completed he had the painter add the library he would have to improve the caliber of the
Books were checked out by use of a ma- in the backgro und.) faculty, as only a few possessed doctorate or
chine. A call slip, made from an index file card, master's degrees. (There were 14 who did not
was given to the attendant at the main desk. Lord's position (as late as 1930) on the have d egrees and 23 who had only bachelor 's
She placed it in a pneumatic tube for transfer subject of degrees is shown by a letter he degrees.)
to the appropriate stack level on which the wrote to the U.S. Commissioner of Education:
book was stored. An attendant on that stack "Of course, we all know that the doctor 's de- Although Buzzard believed that the aca-
level found the requested book and sent it to gree does not lessen the thickness of a man's demic department should be responsible for
the desk by means of a book lift. The student skull one millionth part of a millimeter. There selecting the best qualified applicants when
then took the card from the book, placed it in is no trouble, whatever, in filling vacancies in vacancies occurred, he often involved himself
teachers colleges with people with master's in the assessment of a candidate's personal
background. If several candidates seemed to

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Coach Bill Healey with possess equal professional qualifications and
unbeaten 1952 basket- scholarly promise, then an interest in contract
ba /1 team. From left, bridge, good food or flowers played a role in
Bob Lee, Jim Johnson, the selection.
Tom Katsimpalis, Norm
Patberg and Roger His success in meeting the board charge
Dettra. was documented in 1950, when Eastern was
commended by the North Central Association
Veterans being housed for creating an academic staff that was exceed-
in the "corrective gym- ingly well trained. The report stated: "East-
nasium, " part of the ern Illinois State College has the best quali-
Health Education fied faculty (both from the viewpoint of ad-
Building, prior to the vanced degrees and of experience) that the ex-
opening of the Lincoln- aminers have evaluated in a North Central
Douglas facility, 1952. Association Institute of higher education." Ac-
In suit and tie, Rudolph cording to the Association, in every respect
0. Anfinson, veterans Eastern ranked among the top colleges and
director and new dean universities of the 19 states included in the
of men. Association.

Aerial view of newly One of Buzzard's first challenges had
completed Lincoln (left) been that the Association had moved to place
and Douglas Halls, the school on probation because, despite tra-
1952. ditionally high standards of scholarship, the
faculty did not rank high in academic prepa-
Cafeteria in the Lin- ration. In response, Buzzard built up the fac-
coln-Douglas complex, ulty so that by 1950 he had more persons with
ca. 1952. advanced degrees on his faculty, percentage-
wise, than any other normal school president
38 in the state. In fact, Eastern's faculty had more
earned doctorates than many institutions with
greater national renown.

A familiar structure in the 1950s was the
"Chatterbox," a student hangout for food and
soft drinks, which stood on the corner of Lin-
coln and Sixth. Another familiar site was Con-
crete Block Building, which was completed
in 1950. A temporary structure, it stood on the
corner of Seventh Street at the south entrance
to the current University Union. It served as
the Textbook Library, and provided space for
journalism classrooms and student publica-
tions. (It was removed when the 1974 addi-
tion to the University Union was built on the
site.)

Completed in 1951 were the two Home
Management Houses (North and South). For
ten years the College had used seven differ-
ent rented houses, often poorly adapted to the
purpose, for home management teaching. The
two one-story, Bedford-stone homes were
model homes in every respect. Special fea-
tures included radiant floor heat, carpeted
floors in all rooms except kitchens, utility
rooms and baths, and roll-away beds. The
houses were located just east of Booth Library
and across Seventh Street from the future site
of the Buzzard Education Building.

(However, by 1964 the Home Manage-
ment program had been discontinued. Origi-
nally, an addition to the Life Science Building
was to occupy the area where the houses were
and they were to be razed. When budgetary
restrictions prevented the planned expansion,
the North house was sold in 1969, disas-
sembled and reconstructed elsewhere. The
South building remained, however, and was
used as a child development laboratory until
1974. Because changes in both society and in
the field of Home Economics made the use of
the house outdated, it was closed. The house
soon became the life science department's vi-
varium. Its new residents were snakes, mice,
turtles, and other small animal exotica.)

President Buzzard had resisted the call it began, the Foundation [which receives gifts, been violated. Eastern continued to have ba-
by some of the faculty for graduate degrees recognizes donors and encourages philan- bies in the home management houses until
in education until better facilities were avail- thropy to the Eastern community] had less Schmalhausen, because of the demands from
able or promised. However, early in 1951 de- than $10,000. It now has assets of more that other teaching and administrative duties, dis-
gree requirements for the M.S. in Education $14 million.) Also in 1953 Eastern used its out- continued the program.
were outlined and the first master's degree door theater for the first time at the first full-
was granted in 1952. Also in 1952 a social stud- scale August commencement. (The Outdoor David's successor, Margaret Anne
ies staff member became the first Charleston Theater was located on the site of the current "North" was a living testimonial to the suc-
polio fatality in an epidemic that claimed Life Sciences Building.) cess of Eastern's experiment in "borrowed"
more that 65 Charleston and 50 Mattoon vic- babies for the home management houses.
tims that year. For more than half a century the name of Margaret Anne was the first baby to spend
Eastern Illinois State College had been scat- most of the first year of its life on the campus.
It was also in 1952 that Charles Lantz, tered across the nation and around the world In 1953 Margaret Anne, then three years old,
described as "the seamy old baseball genius," by the thousands who crossed its campus and walked off with two first prizes and a sweep-
retired as Athletic Director, having served by others who had labored endlessly to en- stakes award in a baby contest at a district fair
Eastern for 41 years. Under Lantz's leadership hance its name; but it took a six-month old in a Southern state. She was judged the best
Eastern's teams became known as good los- baby boy to skyrocket the College into the baby in her group; then she won the blue rib-
ers as well as good winners, emphasizing national spotlight. It was Baby David "North" bon as the best baby girl, and finally was
team spirit and fair play. who brought Eastern national media attention judged the best baby in the contest. Her
(including Life, Look, Time and Newsweek mother sent Schmalhausen the news and a
He had coached 387 baseball games, 170 magazines in 1953.) He also appeared by current photo. During Margaret Anne's stay
football games, and 373 basketball games. proxy on the TV show "Strike It Rich," and at Eastern her mother, who gave her up when
(The highlight of his football coaching career received a $500 check. she was two weeks old, would get off work
had come in 1930, when not a single oppo- and make the 300 mile trip to Eastern to see
nent crossed the Eastern goal line. But despite During the 1950s, one of the features of her. She always said she was enormously
this accomplishment, Eastern did not have an the home management experience for girls pleased at the way her baby was taken care
undefeated season, suffering a 2-0 defeat by was the continuos care of an infant. All jun- of.
Southern. "We were kicking from our own iors who were home economics majors had
end zone," said Lantz, "and the punter to occupy a room in the new ranch-style home The drive for a general education pro-
stepped back over the end line for an auto- management houses for a three-month quar- gram at Eastern began in the late 1940s. It was
matic safety.'; Percy the Panther was also ter. Ruth Schmalhausen, a professor in the given strong support by President Buzzard
"born" in 1951 (his name later changed to Department of Home Economics since 1937, and the new post war faculty, who were de-
Billy). requested help from the Superintendent of Il- scribed as "ambitious and adventuresome."
linois State Child Care, Welfare Division, Ro- Because of his proposal that Eastern offer a
Lincoln-Douglas Halls, named in honor man Haremski, in locating an infant whose general college education, as well as teacher
of Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas, parents were unable to care for it. education, Buzzard gained a reputation for
were completed in 1952. (The trailers in being a maverick.
"Trailerville" were moved a few hundred Haremski disapproved of the project and
yards west to make room for the halls. Dou- refused to help . Schmalhausen persisted, Buzzard had a dream, unknown to the
glas Hall was the first university dormitory however, and located two infants. The St. board when he was appointed, that the south-
for male students and Lincoln Hall became Louis Post-Dispatch ran a story about the pro- eastern section of Illinois needed an institu-
Eastern's second women's dormitory. Located gram, and Haremski was upset. He informed tion of higher education that prepared its stu-
at Fourth and Grant Streets, the two three- private agencies in the state that their licenses dents for business and other professions as
story buildings (of wood and concrete with would be revoked by his office if they fur- well as teaching. He had to convince a reluc-
brick facings and tile roofs), house more than nished infants to Eastern. Schmalhausen then tant state Teachers College Board that East-
400 students served by a common cafeteria. received a call from an unwed mother, ask- ern could better serve the state by becoming
ing if Eastern would take her baby for nine a regional institution with broader general
The Eastern Illinois University Founda- months. and pre-professional programs to supplement
tion was established in 1953, under the lead- the traditional teacher training programs.
ership of H. Ogden Brainard, a 1925 Eastern Because the baby lived in the "North"
graduate and a Charleston lawyer for more home management house, he was called In fact, it was not until 1954 that the Board
than 50 years. (The Foundation House, at 1548 David "North." Haremski then ordered an authorized Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of
Fourth Street, is named in his memory. When investigation and the wire services picked up Science degrees not designed for teacher
the story. President Buzzard, faculty, alumni preparation. Eastern, the only degree-grant-
and friends of the College rallied behind ing institution in the southeast quarter of the
Schmalhausen's program. Stories in various state, became the first of the four colleges un-
media kept the issue alive. Finally, the Illinois der the Teachers College Board to offer a cur-
Attorney-General ruled that no statute had riculum leading to these degrees. Previously,

H Ogden Brainard, ca. 1990, class of 1925, Home Management Program houses, located on Seventh Street east of Booth library, 1951.
first director of Eastern 's Foundation. 39

Stanley M. Elam, pub- - only teacher-preparatory degrees, the B.S. in
I ic re lation s officer, education and M.S. in Ed. were granted. (As
7946- 7956, indu cting t;~p~t, ' :~i ' late as spring commencement 1973, sixty-five
David "North," one of •. percent of the degrees conferred at Eastern
th e Hom e Manage- \ J-~.·;".. •,.,d• . ' - ., - )., were "teaching" degrees, despite the fact that
ment babies, into -~~I" . ~. .! .. as early as 1954, 25-30 percent of the gradu-
Eastern's Alumni Asso- ,, ates of teacher training were not going into
ciation, 7954. teaching but other vocations.)

President Buzzard's Although the school's name had been
beloved Iris ga rden, ca. changed in 1947 to "Eastern Illinois State Col-
7940s, located south- lege," it was not until the fall of 1955 that the
southwest of the power name "Eastern State Normal School" was re-
plant. moved from the tower of Old Main. Phi Sigma
Epsilon, Eastern's oldest social fraternity also
Ruth A. Gaertner, ca. moved into its new $40,000 house on Second
7950, director of food Street, just south of Lincoln, in 1955. It was
se rvice, 7947- 7972, the first house ever built by a fraternity or so-
pouring coffee for a stu- rority at Eastern.
dent.
With new programs and a growing num-
Turkeys being brought ber of students, Buzzard found governance
to table during one of of the school increasingly difficult. The days
th e faculty Christmas when the entire college community could
parties, ca. ea rly 7950s. gather for convocations in Old Main were
numbered. At the urging of the faculty, Buz-
.,' I• zard established the Committee of Fifteen
(which evolved into today's Faculty Senate).
..1...
Although difficulties with board mem-
. ·,-.~ bers had occurred from time to time in the
past, Buzzard's zest for the increasingly com-
··"+•'r .··f plex maneuvering necessary to achieve what
• he felt was in the College's best interests be-
gan to wane as he approached his sixty-fifth
~ birthday. On March 26, 1956, after continuing
friction with the Teachers College Board, Buz-
40 zard announced his retirement.

The twenty-three years of Buzzard's ad-
ministration represented an unprecedented
era of growth, both in the College's physical
plant and in its faculty. Six major buildings
were completed and several temporary war
surplus buildings were moved to campus for
use in a variety of activities, including faculty
housing. A major impetus for the success of
his building effort came from the federal
government's Public Works Administration.

Buzzard will be remembered for his in-
sistence on faculty quality and campus devel-
opment. His reign is known as the "Years of
the Iris." He saw to it that abundances of flow-
ers (including many iris) and shrubs encircled
the campus, creating a magnificent landscape.
He was also loved for daring to doze off dur-
ing dull speakers at campus events.

He was also appreciated for champion-
ing special events on campus, such as parties,
dinners and the Faculty Christmas Party. On
one such evening, a luckless waiter did the
unthinkable; he dropped his turkey. It was
hustled back to the kitchen, dusted off, and
brought back in on a new bed of parsley,
hardly the worse for wear. Buzzard remarked
graciously, if inaccurately: "My, wasn't it
lucky you had a spare." Mrs. Ruth Gaertner,
the extraordinary Director of Food Services,
said: "You know darn well that wasn't an ex-
tra one." To which Buzzard replied, "That's
my story and I'm sticking with it."

Another anecdote recalls Buzzard 's fac-
ulty meetings, when he would speak of the
faculty and its relationship to the College. In-
variably in this situation, Earnest Stover of the
Botany Department would rise and remind

Hobart F. Heller, ca. 1967, professor of math- Quincy Van Ogden Doudna, third president, Ernest L. Stover, in 1959, botany professor,
ematics, dean of the college and vice pres i- 1956-1971. Photo ca. 1960. 1923-1960.
dent, 1931-1968. He served as acting pres i-
dent when President Buzzard retired.

the president: "The Faculty, sir, is the Univer- pleted his undergraduate work at Carroll pressed the problem this way: "In the absence
sity." College in Wisconsin, and held a Master of of such natural assets as rivers, gorges, hills
Arts degree and a Ph.D from the University and valleys on the land selected for Eastern,
When Buzzard came to Eastern in the of Wisconsin. Prior to being chosen as we had to obtain beauty through architecture,
midst of the depression, he came without Eastern's President, he was the dean of ad- landscaping and arrangement of buildings.
friends. But, when he retired from the posi- ministration at Wisconsin State College at This we have tried to achieve."
tion, he left in Charleston many friends who Stephens Point.
mourned his resignation as others had When the school became "Eastern Illinois
mourned Lord's death. It was said that "if he When they moved to Charleston in 1956, University" in 1957, it was still largely a re-
was introduced to you one day and met you Doudna and his wife, Winifred, lived at 800 gional school, with almost 20 percent of its
on the street the next day, he never passed you First Str~et. (They later moved to 933 Elev- enrollment coming from Coles County and
without stopping to talk. " He knew all the enth Street, to a home which they had built.) with fully half of its student body coming
employees in the growing institution by Student enrollment at that time was 2,179, and from homes no further away than 50 miles.
name. He built up the quality of the faculty there were 214 faculty members. Tuition was
and when he retired the faculty had more $90 for three quarters, plus $15 per year for The University Union (a three-story brick
people with advanced degrees percentage book rental. At that time the campus extended building), the Laboratory School (a two-story
wise than any other normal school in the state. only from Old Main to Booth Library and concrete and brick building at the corner of
Eastern was still basically a "teachers college." Seventh and Hays Streets), Ford, McKinney
(After he resigned from Eastern, he Two out of every three graduates still began and Weller residence halls were completed in
taught at Southern Illinois University from their careers in teaching. The school was pri- 1958. (With additions built in 1967 and 1974,
1958 to 1959, retiring on August 15, 1959, at marily a local institution. More people from the Union contains meeting and banquet
which time he was granted the title of Presi- the area attended the school than from any rooms, two ballrooms, a bowling alley, sev-
dent Emeritus by the Board. He then moved other part of the state. (Today Eastern has stu- eral snack bars, craft shops, a bookstore and
to Tempe, Arizona, where he taught two years dents from nearly all Illinois counties, most offices.)
at an Arizona university before retiring. He other states in the nation, and about 25 for-
died in 1979, and was buried in Charleston's eign countries.) The Buzzard Building was the first new
Roselawn Cemetery not far from President academic building to be constructed after
Lord. In his will he left a sum of money for At his formal inauguration, held during Booth Library was completed in 1951. It in-
one more faculty party. It was held in the homecoming, he startled his audience by SU)?:- cluded a 75' X 32' swimming pool (3 to 9 feet
University Union's "1895 Room" after his gesting that the College might consider a tri- deep.) (The Buzzard Building would serve
funeral. mester system in place of the three traditional kindergarten through ninth grade students
quarters and an eight-week summer session. until 1974.) The three residence halls, (which
Buzzard and Lord were honored by the He set up a joint committee to study the mat- stand near Fourth and Garfield,) where
Teachers College Board in July 1956, when it ter, but quickly concluded that the addition Schahrer Field was once located, were each
gave their names to two major buildings on of a fourth quarter during the summer would named after women who had given a com-
Eastern's campus. The new laboratory school, be the most practical alternative. bined total of 105 years service to Eastern:
then under construction at Seventh and Hayes Ellen Ford, Latin teacher and dean, 1900-1934;
Streets was named the "Robert G. Buzzard Although this had been the arrangement Isabel McKinney, head of the English depart-
Laboratory School." Scheduled to be com- twenty-five years earlier at the end of Lord's ment and member of faculty, 1904-1945; and
pleted in January 1958, it would care for some administration, the re-introduction of a full Annie Weller, head of the Geography depart-
640 kindergarten, elementary and junior high summer term would be one of the chief inno- ment, 1903-1940.
school students. Eastern's administration vations of the Doudna years. In 1958 Eastern
building, known to thousands as "Old Main," became one of the first colleges in the nation Each of the two-story buildings, of frame
was named the "Livingston C. Lord Admin- to go on a year-round basis. The 1956 home- and concrete construction, houses 150 stu-
istration Building." coming also saw change in the coronation of dents. (They were originally to house only
the queen. For the first time she was crowned women, but are now coeducational by floor.
QUINCY VAN OGDEN DOUDNA by the queen from the previous year instead In September 1994, McKinney Hall was des-
(1956-1971) of by the editor of the Eastern News. ignated as an honors hall for students partici-
pating in the University honors programs).
Quincy Van Ogden Doudna, 49, born in Doudna felt that the sheer beauty of a
Poynette, Wisconsin, became Eastern's third campus is perhaps more difficult to achieve It was in 1958 that the Eastern Founda-
president on Sept. 18, 1956. Doudna com- than is functional efficiency. He once ex- tion accepted a $30,000 memorial, honoring
the late Mrs . Clara Burnside and W.T.

41

First phase of Student _ Burnside of Kansas, Illinois. The money was
Union completed, ~_ to be used to air-condition the snack bar and
7958 . The building - --• •• 1- 1- 11111111 cafeteria of the Student Union (then under
was later named in --~~ construction).
honor of the Reverend -
The 1958 homecoming was the "grand
Martin Luther King, Jr. finale" to the Lincoln-Douglas debate centen-
nial. During the year Eastern and Charleston
Robert G. Buzzard had joined together to celebrate the one-hun-
Training School Build- dredth anniversary of the historical debates
ing, completed 7958. between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A.
Douglas. The celebration was held at the
Right, Ellen A. Ford, Charleston fairgrounds. Later at the home-
ca . 79 70, Latin profes- coming parade, a life-sized model of a cam-
sor and dean, 7900- paign train (with passengers and a replica of
7934, namesake of Lincoln on the rear platform) was one of the
Ford Hall. highlights. The homecoming play was on
Abraham Lincoln and was written by Mrs.
Far right, Annie L. Charles (Dorothy) Coleman.
Weller, ca. 7905, ge-
ography professor, Doudna's first public controversy came
7903- 7940, for whom during the 1958-59 school year, when he be-
Weller Hall was came involved in the request by the Student
named. Publications Board for the resignation of East-
ern News editor Bruce Schaeffer. The episode
Scene from the play, arose during a hot debate between students
"Our Brothers, 11 by and the administration over the general news
Dorothy M. (Mrs . coverage and editorial approach being used
Charles) Coleman, by the student newspaper. The Board charged
written for the centen- the staff with inaccuracy, slanting of news sto-
nial of the Charleston ries and the use of editorial columns to carry
Lincoln-Douglas de- on personal arguments with certain members
bate. of the university administration.

42 Student publications Adviser Francis
Palmer, who supported his editor, was even-
tually reassigned to teaching duties in the
English department. Publication of the News
was suspended by the Publications Board fol-
lowing the January 28th issue; publication
was resumed Qune 24th) with the Publication
Board's choice as new editor Rex Walker, a
sophomore physics major and an Air Force
veteran. The period of nearly five months
between issues marked the longest span of in-
activity in the paper's history.

Also in 1959, theFineArtsCenterand the
University Apartments were opened. (In 1970
the Center, a three-story building of concrete,
brick and precast stone, was renamed the
Quincy V. Doudna Fine Arts Center in honor
of Eastern's third president. It included a 357-
seat theater, 35 practice rooms, teaching and
listening studios and classrooms. Today it
houses the departments of art, music, and
theater. The University Apartments, two one-
story brick buildings containing 60 apart-
ments, represented the first permanent plan
designed to alleviate married housing prob-
lems since 1946, when the influx of World War
II veterans and their families prompted the
temporary development of "Campus City."

In 1960 prominent Charleston Business-
man Lewis S. Linder made possible the com-
plete air-conditioning of the University Union
with his gift of $30,000. Linder was the first
person to attend Eastern Illinois Normal
School from first grade through college gradu-
ation, enrolling as a first grader in 1899 and
graduating with a two-year degree in 1911 .
He then attended the University of Illinois,
graduating with a bachelor's degree and Phi
Beta Kappa honors in 1914. He had a long as-
sociation with activities of the Eastern Illinois
Alumni Association, and served as vice-presi-

dent of the Eastern Illinois University Foun- On hand for the Lincoln-
dation. In 1989 the Alumni Association pur- Douglas debate re-en-
chased Eastern's first Alumni House, at 1544 actment, from left, Sen.
Fourth St. During the 1990 homecoming Paul H . Douglas, Sen.
weekend it was dedicated and named "Linder Everett M. Dirksen, Rep.
House" in honor of Lewis Linder and his fam- John W. Lewis, Jr. and
ily. Governor William G.
Stratton, 1958.
It was also in 1960 that Eastern's football
team could boast of having one of the largest First phase of Fine Arts
gridders in the country: six foot, six inch Tony Center nearing comple-
Sokol weighed in at 406 pounds. A major part tion, 1959.
of this likable guy's ambition came true when
his newly ordered gear arrived. The 52-inch Completion of the first
football pants were a perfect fit, and the jer- phase of University
sey stretched comfortably around his 54-inch Apartments, 1959, pro-
chest and 20-inch neck. His size 14EE shoes viding much needed
were a perfect fit. Despite his size, in uniform housing for married stu-
Tony could run 50 yards in 9.6 seconds. dents.

An era of sorts ended in 1960 with the Anton "Tony" Sokol (far
death of Eastern's mascot "Napoleon," a right) standing head and
brown mixed breed dog with shaggy ears, shoudlers above his
who had wandered onto Eastern's campus in teammates on Eastern's
1945 looking for a home. Everyone soon fell 1960 football team.
in love with him, and Napoleon was made
the official campus mascot two years later. 43

"Nap" led a fascinating and honored life
at Eastern. He once had a fan club at Western
Illinois University. (In April 1957 a letter was
received in Presidents Doudna's office ad-
dressed to Napoleon. The letter was written
by (or for) a dog under the unassuming name
of Fido from Western Illinois University. Nap,
with the help of an Eastern News writer, sent
one of his picture postcards and a reply to
Fido, thanking him for starting a fan club in
Macomb .)

The saga of Napoleon grew with each
passing year. He attended classes, not want-
ing to grow into doghood an uneducated mutt
in the midst of scholars (in fact, several fac-
ulty members reported Nap had a better class
attendance record than some students); he
slept on the stage while Count Basie rocked
Lantz Gym; he wore a cap and gown while
riding in a convertible during the 1953 home-
coming parade and he even narrated a senior
assembly in 1955. Along with the scenic post-
cards of campus buildings which were sold
in those days, there was also a color card of
Napoleon perched on a bench, with Old Main
in the background.

According to campus folklore, he once
received a honorary Doctor of Pet-a-Doggy
at commencement, but a check of the records
office proved inconclusive. (However, the
cover of the September 1953 Eastern Alum-
nus magazine shows "Nap" at commence-
ment in front of a row of faculty in academic
regalia .)

Following his death the student newspa-
per reported: "It was said that God above had
called upon Nap to patrol a bigger campus in
Heaven. Army can replace its mule, Navy its
goat and Southern Illinois its Saluki, but East-
ern will never be able to replace the one and
only Napoleon."

His grave is located by the stone bench
between Old Main and the Student Services
Building.The "tombstone" reads: "Napoleon
1945-1960. A stray dog who wandered on
Eastern's Campus and captured the hearts of
all who knew him. A regular at football

Napoleon, campus games, an attendee at graduation exercises.
mascot from 1945- Beloved mascot and sentry of Eastern Illinois
1960, getting his shots, University. Truest of friends. He leaves us one
administered by Henry distinct and special quality to remember-
}. Hofracker, veterinar- Loyalty. This dog loved Eastern. He was loyal
ian . to this University and in that light Napoleon
serves as an example for all alumni, students
"Sugar Bowl," in 1962, and friends of the Great University." (Ironi-
cally, a year before his death, the Warbler year-
gift of the Class of book had been dedicated to Napoleon, and
his image appeared on its cover.)
1910, removed during
In 1961 President Doudna announced a
construction of major administrative reorganization, which
resulted in a nearly 44 % increase in adminis-
Pemberton Hall addi- trative personnel over a four year period. The
next year Eastern held its first annual parent's
tion in 1962. Also weekend in September, with a wide variety
of parent-oriented activities scheduled. The
shown, the popular stu- addition to Pemberton Hall was completed
in 1962, replacing the "Sugar Bowl," a round
dent hangout known as concrete seat, which had been donated by the
Class of 1910. The new wing increased the
"Little Campus, " lo- capacity of the vine covered, elegant residence
hall from 92 to 215 students.
cated directly across
In 1963, after President Doudna ap-
Lincoln Avenue. proved a request by several students and fac-
ulty members to authorize a campus radio
Right, President station to be funded by student activity fees,
station WELH began its operation in Booth
Doudna, left, explain- Library's lecture room. (The call letters, which
stood for "Eastern Lincoln Hall," were con-
ing his ambitious cam- ceived in the Fall of 1962, when the station
provided entertainment for Lincoln Hall resi-
pus building plan to dents. The National Council for Accreditation
of Teacher Education visited Eastern in 1963
Governor Otto Kerner, and recommended revisions in the academic

ca . 1962. program.
Also in 1963, Thomas Hall, a four-story
Far right, Simeon E.
Thomas, ca. 1910, so- masonry residence hall housing male students
cial science professor, was completed. Located on Seventh Street
1906-1942, namesake (south of Klehm Hall), it honors Simeon E.
of Thomas Hall. Thomas, who was employed by Lord in 1906
as head and sole member of the Department
Clinical Services Build- I,-f 11 - of Social Sciences. Also finished that year was
ing, the student health the Life Sciences Building. This three-story
service, completed building of concrete and precast stone con-
1964. struction is located at the corner of Garfield
and Seventh Streets.

With the approval that year of the Teach-
ers College Board, Eastern began its affilia-
tion with the newly opened Olney Commu-
nity College. OCC thus became the first pub-
lic junior college in the nation to affiliate with
a state university.

In 1964 the "Easternaires" represented
the University in a USO tour of the Caribbean
area. Also that year the two-story concrete and
pre-cast Clinical Service Building (built to
house Health Services and the Department of
Speech Correction) was completed at the cor-
ner of Seventh and Hayes Streets. Prior to that
the Health Center was a three-room clinic in
the basement of what is now McAfee Gym.
Also finished that year were the Life Science
Building Addition and Andrews Hall, a nine-
story residence hall (housing 480 female stu-
dents) named for Franklyn L. Andrews, stu-
dent publications advisor and associate pro-
fessor of English from 1929-1944.

Eastern's current greenhouse complex,
consisting of one-story, brick and steel, glass-
paned buildings, was also constructed in 1964.

44

It replaced an earlier greenhouse, built in 1902, bill of health, stating in part, "In general, the Schools also visited Eastern, deciding to con-
(the second building on the campus) which committee is of the opinion that the Univer- tinue the accreditation of all the programs
was familiar to almost everyone on campus sity is being well served and is developing through master's degree.
before 1964. economically a handsome and functional
campus." Although some "false economies" In 1965 Luther became the first student
The year 1964 was probably the most were discovered, no illegal practices were body president elected to a second term. Con-
controversial in Eastern's history.Campus po- found.) struction projects completed that year in-
lice still recall the famous water fight, involv- cluded the one-story concrete block and brick
ing some 300 students, that began on May 18 On June 17, 1964 Leo Dvorak, a faculty Physical Plant Services Building; the Charles
and lasted through the week. The disturbance member since 1940 and head of Eastern's H. Coleman Classroom Building, a three-story
splashed over the campus and into the streets Music School, died of a heart attack in his structure of concrete, precast stone and brick
of Charleston. Fire hydrants were opened in home. History was made that same month, at the corner of Fourth and Garfield (Coleman
downtown Charleston; dorm rooms were when Doudna sought and received the Teach- was a Lincoln historian and professor of his-
doused; and a university administrator was ers College Board's permission to cut off fall tory from 1926-1961); The Charles P. Lantz
allegedly hit in the head with an empty wa- quarter admissions in certain subject areas Health, Physical Education and Recreation
ter bucket. Campus and city police were due to a shortage of staff. The actual cutoff Building, a two-story building on the south
needed to quell the crowds of students roam- came at 5 p .m. on Friday, June 26th. side of Grant Street (Lantz was director of ath-
ing the campus. letics for 42 years, including 24 years of coach-
The year 1964 also saw another change ing); and the Gregg Triad.
On the second night State Police and oth- in the name of the school paper; it was now
ers set up a roadblock to prevent University the Eastern News. Eastern also added the Named for Raymond R. Gregg, Eastern's
of Illinois Greek organizations from answer- large blue and silver sign in front of Old Main business manager from 1934-1963, the Triad
ing an alleged challenge from Eastern's Greek that year. It proudly proclaims: "Eastern Illi- is a one-story food service facility for the 450
Houses, which had been broadcast over a nois University, Founded in 1895." Contro- residents of Ford, McKinney and Weller Halls.
Chicago radio station, to join in a water fight. versy over judging of the homecoming float (As "business manager," Gregg's duties in-
Doudna filed a complaint with the Federal was also a problem. The Delta Sigma Phi float, cluded administering the civil service pro-
Communications Commission and con- "Wing to Victory," received a third place rat- gram, and the scholarships, accounting for all
demned the "mob action" of the local stu- ing after holding up the parade for approxi- money spent and providing for the mainte-
dents. By Friday, county and city law enforce- mately 45 minutes because it was wide for the nance of the campus.) It was also in 1965 that
ment authorities had had enough; they prom- streets. According to Eastern's Student Sen- the faculty Committee of Fifteen voted to
ised arrests under mob action statutes if the ate rules, the float should have been disquali- change its name to the more prestigious "Fac-
disturbances continued. fied and taken from the parade. ulty Senate." Finally, a one-story brick build-
ing, with 30 more units, was added to the
Also that year, Doudna fired Jon Woods, Mary Josephine Booth, who had given 41 University Apartment Complex.
the Eastern News editor, after the Student of her 88 years to Eastern, died on January 2,
Publications Board voted not to act because 1965. She continued her service to Eastern The Student Senate's attempt in early
Kenneth Hesler, the adviser, refused to show even after her death. Her two-story, wood- 1966 to revive the tradition of "Napoleon" had
them an alleged libelous article that Woods frame duplex at 1536-1538 Fourth Street a tragic ending. On January 11th, during the
had written. The story, which charged irregu- (across from Pemberton Hall) was given to the Napoleon Dance, the senate presented Napo-
larities in Eastern's building program, was University. Eastern originally used it to house leon II, an eight-month-old golden retriever,
withheld by Hesler after an attorney told him the Non-Academic Personnel Office and oth- to the student body as Eastern's new mascot.
it was libelous. In the controversy that fol- ers. Today it houses the University's Honors On March 3rd a hit-and-run driver struck and
lowed, Hesler temporarily resigned because Programs. killed him. He was buried in the backyard of
of board inaction, Woods was fired, and pub- Rudolph Anfinson, then dean of student per-
lication of the News was suspended for a Continuing student-administration de- sonnel services, who had been caring for
week. (Following further charges in anony- bate reached a high point during the 1965- "Nap" during the quarter break. The Delta
mous letters, Governor Otto Kerner ap- 1966 school year, when Student Senate Presi- Sigma Phi fraternity did have a mascot,
pointed a blue-ribbon committee in 1966 to dent Robert Luther and Doudna exchanged "Tyler," a 185 pound St. Bernard "puppy" that
answer the allegations. In its report, issued in voluminous reports charging and refuting year. But, despite the fact that he took an ac-
early 1967, the committee gave Eastern a clean alleged student grievances. The North Cen- tive part in Greek Week, chased squirrels near
tral Association of Colleges and Secondary

Coleman Half, first phase completed 7965, named for Charles H. Coleman. Photo ca. 7986. Robert Luther, ca. 7965, student body presi-
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Pem Hall and visited classes, Tyler was no Mattoon, also became a reality in 1966, and of Abraham Lincoln. (Which is now in a
Napoleon! began its long affiliation with Eastern. campground east of the city.) The following
(Doudna supported creation of the commu- year Jim Edgar (who would later serve as a
In March Tom Jennings, former defensive nity college because he believed the new col- state legislator, Secretary of State and Gover-
starter on the 1964 football team and a mem- lege probably would be better equipped to nor of Illinois) was elected student body presi-
ber of Sigma Tau Gamma fraternity, became provide a comprehensive curriculum in oc- d ent.
Eastern's first known casualty of the Viet Nam cupational and technical training than would
War. Eastern awarded its first specialist in Eastern.) An Eastern alumnus, Virgil Judge Construction completed in 1967 included
education degree later that year. (Class of '40) became the new school's first an addition to the University Union; Lawson
president. (Today the president is another Hall, named for Elizabeth K. Lawson, dean
Also that year, Taylor Hall, a residence Eastern graduate, Robert Luther (Class of '66). of women and professor of education from
hall of concrete and precast panel construc- 1939-1966; and the Applied Arts Building.
tion, was completed. Built to house 592 stu- "Every bicycle shall have an adequate Located on the corner of Fourth and Roosevelt
dents (co-educationally by floor), it is located brake," read part of the new regulations gov- Streets, Lawson is a nine-story residence hall,
on Fourth Street, south of Coleman Hall. It erning the registration and operation of bi- of concrete and precast facing construction,
was named for Edson H. Taylor, professor of cycles, approved by the Council of Adminis- housing 480 female students. (The Applied
mathematics, from 1899-1944, who served as trative Officers in 1966. The rules also prohib- Arts Building, a three-story, concrete and brick
acting president following Lord's death. The ited speeding on a bike, and levied a "cash building, was renamed Klehm Hall 1987, in
Telephone and Security Building, a one-story penalty of $1" for any violation. It was also honor of Walter A. Klehm, professor and head
building of concrete and brick located at Sev- in 1966 that Wayne Fancher became the first of the Department of Industrial Arts from
enth and Grant, was also opened that year. It male student enrolled as a Home Economics 1935-1970.)
cpntains the campus security office and the (Dietetics) major. Finally that year, Charles-
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p. 7)

tling of the quonset hut (which had been erected The Library addition contained stacks, and would go ask Camille Monier, the
grounds superintendent, where it should go.
in 1947 to serve as a mechanical equipment and offices, the reference and circulation depart- He would tell me to see Mr. Gregg in the busi-
ness office. Mr. Gregg would send me to Dr.
service building, with a portion reserved for the ments, and the periodicals room. (Completion Buzzard. I had to see the president every time
I wanted to plant a tree."
band and the storage of band instruments) left of the library additions also meant the end of
Faced with new city zoning restrictions,
the block structure housing the University the University's formal gardens. The peren- Greek organizations at Eastern were turning
more and more to the University to solve fu-
bookstore as the only "temporary" building on nial gardens were originally located along ture housing needs. In 1969 they called for a
section of University property to be set aside
campus. Plans were being made to move the Seventh Street, where the University Union for what is popularly called a "Greek Row."
The proposed houses would be large enough
bookstore to the "crackerbox" gym in is now located. They became the "Iris Gar- for 25-30 members. (Such a concept did not
become a reality until the first units of the
Pemberton Hall. Also completed in 1967 was a dens" during major renovations in 1948, re- Greek Court were completed in 1989. Each
unit holds 36 students.)
three-story addition to the Lantz building, in- located to an area south of Booth Library near
Among the many new students on
cluding a field-house with an indoor track made the outdoor amphitheater.) The University Eastern's campus in the late sixties were more
than 200 blacks. Their presence tested the at-
of rubberized asphalt. Apartments complex was now complete, with titudes of the University and the town of
Charleston. (In 1949-50 there had been six
Shortly before the end of the fall quarter 100 one-bedroom and 54 efficiency apart- black students on campus, in 1994 there were
748.) While that test was passed, it was not
that year the transition was made from"closed" ments. Also in 1968 the campus radio station, passed with distinction; given the "regional"
character of the school, there is little reason
to "open" stacks in Booth Library. Reasons WELH, moved to Coleman Hall, and the to wonder why it was not.

given for the change included allowing students women's dress code was relaxed. Eastern also By the close of the sixties, more than forty
percent of Eastern's students came from eigh-
to examine more source material in a given pe- elected its first coed student body president, teen neighboring counties and most had never
had any encounter with blacks. Aggravating
riod of time; the fact that most students did not Jackie Bratcher. this problem of racial inexperience was the
generally militant attitude of many urban
know how to use the card catalogs, and because Singing "America" and "When Johnny black students, who, in tune with national
attitudes, preferred to remain among them-
there were not enough trained librarians to help Comes Marching Home Again", 300 Eastern selves much of the time. In spite of a general
defensiveness among many blacks and
them, they could now look through the stacks students marched through the campus on whites, however, race relations proceeded tol-
erably enough, except for occasional inci-
for what they needed; and the fact that the pre- October 15th, a candlelight parade marking dents. Eastern was the first university in Illi-
nois to offer a baccalaureate major and minor
vious system was discriminatory (i.e. students the first nation-wide Vietnam War protest. in Afro-American studies.

with the highest grade point averages were al- Construction in 1969 included a new Longtime Charleston resident, Ona
Norton, was a pioneer in providing support
lowed in the stacks, but the poorer students water tower (which replaced the tower built and housing for black student-athletes. Dur-
ing the 1950s, Eastern's former football coach,
were not). in 1942) and the conversion of the Crackerbox Ralph Kohl, asked Ona and her husband, Ken-

In 1968 the 10-story Stevenson Tower, a gym in Pem Hall into the textbook library.

residence hall for 360 students, of concrete with "Panty Raids" were the rage across the cam-

brick facing, was built. Named in honor of Adlai pus, but Eastern saw only 15-20 male students

E. Stevenson, governor of Illinois and U.S. am- participating. According to a female student,

bassador to the United Nations, it stands near "You can't really blame the guys. There is just

the corner of Fourth and Grant Streets. (Adlai too much red-tape involved to make a panty

Stevenson III was present at the dedication cer- raid worthwhile." Another reported, "It re-

emony Feb. 8, 1969. Today each floor contains a ally wouldn't matter if there weren't rules. I

series of two and three-bedroom suites with can't afford to throw them my underwear."

private living rooms and baths.Upperclassmen Also in 1969, the campus greenhouse was

and women live on the same floor. Stevenson named the H.F. Thut Greenhouse. (Thut, who

shares common lounge facilities with Lincoln retired from the Botany Department that year

and Douglas Halls.) after 37 years of teaching, had been brought

Sixty-four additional units, were added to to the campus by Lord in 1932.) Although the

the University Apartments Complex that year, salary Lord offered him was quite low, Tout

two brick buildings of two stories each. Also said that attending Lord's chapel was worth

completed were additions to Coleman Hall (a $1,000 a year. Persons concerned with mod-

three-story structure that duplicated and ern bureaucracy might recall Thut's problems

doubled the size of the original building) and when he tried to plant a tree on campus."

additions to the Applied Arts Building and Sometimes it was a bit frustrating," he re-

Booth Library. called, "I would have a tree ready to plant

Applied Arts Education Center, completed 1967, renamed Kiehm Hall in 1987. Photo ca. 1985, Walter A. Kiehm, ca. 1965, industrial arts pro-
when it was known as the Applied Sciences Building. fessor and dean, 1935-1970.

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