- Good afternoon. Welcome to the Bloomington Rotary Club's weekly celebration of service. I'm Steve Wicks
- and I'm honored to serve as your president this year. We have a full agenda highlighted by an induction,
- a Paul Harris ceremony, and an interesting talk from one of our club members. So last Tuesday we experienced
- our first bad parking day of the semester.
- found out after the fact that the IU admissions office was hosting senior week, so the campus was full
- of high school seniors and their parents, all of whom seemed to want to park at the Union. So remember
- that club members during our meetings can park for free at both the Henderson and the Atwater garages.
- Last week I parked at the Atwater garage. I had a good experience.
- Instead of creeping along 7th Street dodging students, I had a nice walk from the Atwater Garage to
- here. So if you'd like to learn more about either option, please see me. Please silence your electronic
- devices. Okay, on this day in history, two years ago, September 30th, 2023,
- A bipartisan deal to avoid a US government shutdown was signed just hours before the midnight deadline.
- The agreement provided federal funding for 45 days. And now Lauren Snyder will provide today's reflection.
- It seems like you're blaming me for the government shutdown that's pending here with that transition.
- fever. Third time's the charm. Is it the speed? It does sound bad, doesn't it? Oh, here. Okay,
- we'll try. So hold it, Steve, hold it away from your face. All right. My name is Lauren Snyder. I was
- the president
- of this club in 2018, 2019. But I joined Rotary in 2009 in Franklin, Indiana, where I served as two
- time president in the Franklin club. And then I transitioned my business down here in 2015 and I served
- as the club president. I was preceded by Mr. Mike Baker. I took lashings for weeks and months from that
- guy. I still wear fun socks for the record.
- But just a quick rundown, I actually had my PowerPoint presentation from our transition to Aaron and
- his presidency. So I'll just go through this quick rundown. One of the first things we did
- was we transitioned the name to Celebration of Service.
- It wasn't just another luncheon. It was we're going to celebrate and have a good time with our friends
- and do some cool work in the community as well, and maybe be educated on a community service type project
- or an event going on. So some things we accomplished. We added membership photos to our DACDB to 90%.
- We added and created the Lunch Buddy program. We had weekly happy dollars, normal and hyper happy dollars.
- We had the speaker recognition, which we referred to as the
- instead of the trinket that we gave away, something that most people probably didn't do much with, we
- made that financial contribution to a charitable cause within the community. Then we collaborated with
- the Sunrise and Thursday Club for our economic outlook and toast. We grew our young professional members
- by a net positive of six. We led with service, 12 months of service, 16 projects, 149 volunteers, 391 hours.
- probably more than that. But then we complemented all of that service with fun and relationships. We
- had six socials, and we had that Lunch Buddy program. We added value through informative programs, IU
- Baseball, nonprofits, classical music, violin and piano, Switchyard Park, photojournalism, and Rotary
- Scholars. Other highlights from 18 and 19, new club administrative assistant, Natalie Blaze, sad face.
- Record RYLA attendance, Rotary Toast record year, Centennial Wrap Up, Mike Baker led the charge in benefiting
- the Boys and Girls Club. Myanmar Water Project, Jim Bright was honored with the Orphe Bridges Award.
- Inaugural, It Takes a Village for Children and Maternal Health. Website Update, Archives and Restoration
- Project, new hard copy club directory. Total membership was only plus two, so Tracy's kicked us into
- gear on that one.
- At that time, I was inducted in June. I had a newborn in September. I don't know what the hell I was
- thinking, but I just did it. You just figure it out, right? And one of my last photos to my transition
- conversation was a picture of me reflecting in the CN Tower for the International Convention in Toronto.
- Looking down, I did the skywalk. And next to it is a picture of my son, only a few months old, playing
- in a water table with a rotary sticker
- on his back. And yeah, we laugh, it was cute, but the things we take for granted in our lives that our
- children can play in water. That they can turn on the faucet, not think too much about it. That really
- hit home with me and resonates with me today as our society is heavy right now. In a group I was with
- recently, there was people just sharing openly and I said, guys, let's take a pause.
- Let's focus on what we can control. Let's focus on the positivity and that picture of Coleman at that
- water table. What can I influence every day as a father, as a husband, as I interact with each of you?
- I can treat you with kindness and compassion and understanding and forgiveness and love. We need more
- of that. And I think we did a hell of a job during my presidency and you guys have done a better job.
- I'm sorry I've been so absent lately, but life comes at us.
- I love you all, appreciate Rotary and what it's done for me in my life as I am the third generation
- Rotarian. My dad has been a Rotarian for 50 plus years in Franklin. It's a pleasure and an honor for
- me to be here today and to have served this club. Thank you. Lauren, thank you. I was feeling pretty
- good about my presidency this morning. Now I feel like a slacker.
- But it's time to draw the charity of the quarter for the next quarter. And I think it's appropriate
- that Lauren be the one to do it since he started this program. Unfortunately, I forgot my hat. Ziploc
- bag's good too. All right. The Lake Monroe Water Fund, so. That seems appropriate. Thank you.
- Okay, Andrea and Marie, we'll introduce our guests today. We have a nice list of guests today. Sheila
- Reed is the guest of James Capshaw. And you can stay seated or stand up as you wish. We'll give you
- a round of applause at the end. Fred Alpert is the guest of Kyla Cox Deckard.
- Debbie Albert is the, is that Albert? Sorry. Guest of Trent Deckard. Srikar Vasan is the guest of Mr.
- Jim Bright. He brings us wonderful guests. And Jess Smith is also the guest of Jim Bright. Aubrey Cedar
- is the guest of Dawn and Melinda Cedar. Do we have any guests online?
- Not to my knowledge. All right. Well, if there are any out there and not saying anything. Nope,
- we're good. All Rotarians. And I have one last announcement on the guest sheet, though it's not really
- a guest. It is Elijah Ramos, who is a transfer member from Los Angeles. Elijah, give us a wave back there.
- Thanks, Andrea. We have a couple of birthdays to observe this week. On the 4th, Eric Spoonmore.
- On the 5th, Colleen Curry. Anniversaries. On the 1st, one year, both Tom Gallagher and Leslie Kucinko.
- Also on the 1st, Art Omick, 11 years. And on the 4th, Rex Hillary, 14 years. Announcements. Refugee
- Assistance. Club is sponsoring an Iraqi refugee family.
- They need help in two areas, conversation practice in English with the parents to improve their spoken
- English skills, and job hunting and job preparation assistance for their daughter. Daughter has intermediate
- English skills. She's 20 years old. Please reach out to Dave Meyer if you'd like more information or
- you think you can help. Hoosiers Out Run Cancer Event is Saturday. It's the oldest and largest 5K event
- in Indiana.
- Some club members are participating. Some are volunteering. I'll be running the 5K as a member of the
- Handlebars, which is a tribute to the recently deceased oncologist and Bloomington North Rotarian, Dr.
- Mark Dayton. Also this weekend, the Bloomington North Rotary Club is helping to sponsor the Down Syndrome
- Buddy Walk. That is on Sunday. Registration sign up starts at one. The event is at three.
- Annual Rotary Toast is the event that funds our club and Foundation's local charitable giving. Don't
- forget to buy your tickets for the event, scheduled Friday, November 7th at Ivy Tech. See me or go to
- RotaryToast.com for your tickets. RYLA, Rotary Youth Leadership Academy at Bradford Woods is just a
- month away. So far our club has two high school students lined up with two other strong possibilities.
- Youth Services Chairs, Joy Harder, Leanne Bradford can help you if you know of a high school student
- who might want to attend RYLA. Finally, WonderLab is partnering with Duke Energy and SCCAP, and they
- invite families to come to WonderLab on October 12th from 1 to 4 p.m. Admission is free. There
- are opportunities to sign up for energy assistance from Duke SCCAP services, and you can get WonderLab
- access passes.
- Chocolate mousse will be there, big giveaways, activities, more. Last year, they had hundreds of families
- attend. They hope for more this year. And now it's time for the mystery rotarian. Remember, if you know
- the answer, put up your hand. Don't shout it out. If you're online, put up your hand electronically.
- First clue.
- This Rotarian worked two years in Mexico and one year in London as a US Department Foreign Service Officer
- with the State Department. Later, this Rotarian worked as an IU International Services employee assisting
- inbound international faculty staff. Put up your hands if you know the answer. Okay. Second clue.
- This Rotarian ran competitively at multiple distances for 35 years, winning every single age
- group competition, with the exception of a second place finish in the Chicago half marathon. Put up
- your hand if you know the answer. Final clue. A club member for over 10 years and a Paul Harris plus
- two fellow, if you receive a card from the club,
- This rotarian most likely Senate. Okay. Quite a few. And the answer is Martha Wells. Martha, if you
- could just raise your hand so people. Oh, that hurt.
- There's a picture of Martha volunteering at Teacher's Warehouse a few years ago. She was a member of
- one of the first foreign service classes to include women. Martha worked for IU for 35 years, mostly
- as a half-time employee. And she ran her first competitive race, a local YMCA 5K, shortly after turning
- 40. She ran until her mid-70s. She still misses it.
- In one race, five of nine women in her age group were named Martha. So Martha, congratulations. There
- are so many people who make this club go. Martha is one of them. For the newer members of the club,
- I encourage you to meet Martha and the other older members, the longtime members of the club. They have
- fascinating stories, and they've done so many interesting things.
- Martha, thank you. I think Sarah Laughlin had her hand up halfway through the first clue, and Judy and
- Sally. Okay, I will say that Judy sponsored Martha as a club member, and then also Martha sponsored
- the late Mary Getze as a club member. Leslie, did anyone get it online?
- Okay, doesn't sound like it. Okay, and now we have a new member induction ceremony. All right, I'd like
- to invite Randy to come up front. There you are, over there. As you're coming up, I'll read your bio.
- Randy Sanders is currently serving as a scout executive and CEO of the Hoosier Trails Council Scouting
- America, formerly known as the Boy Scouts of America. Randy arrived in Bloomington
- coming from Bakersfield, California in June.
- That's a good time to leave Bakersfield. He and his wife, Nicole, have one son, Isaiah, who's 26. He
- received his bachelor's degree in Parks, Recreation, and Tourism Management from North Carolina State
- University. He enjoys hiking, camping, backpacking, visiting national parks, and going to baseball games.
- No wonder you and Jim get along so well. Randy has been a member of Rotary previously in Winter Haven,
- Florida, and Bakersfield. Randy is also a past president for the Kiwanis Club of Cimarron, New Mexico.
- He has served his community
- in a number of ways over the past 30 years. He served on the boards of a local housing authority, the
- Chamber of Commerce, a community planning group, and has spent time as a Sunday school teacher and marching
- band booster. Randy is also an Eagle Scout. And with that, I'd like Sally to come up and read the induction
- language. Randy Saunders, on behalf of the board and membership of Bloomington Rotary Club, it's a great
- pleasure to welcome you as the newest member of our club.
- We look forward to the fellowship that we will share, as well as your participation in the club projects
- that make our club, community, country, and world a better place. Though Rotary is not a political
- organization, Rotarians are vitally concerned with good citizenship and the election of effective leaders
- to public office. While Rotary is not a religious organization, it's built on those highest principles
- that have served as a moral compass for people throughout the ages.
- While Rotary is an organization of business, professional, and community leaders pledged to uphold the
- highest ethical and moral standards, Rotarians believe that worldwide fellowship and peace can be achieved
- when people work together and uphold the Rotary motto of service above self.
- Rotary activities exemplify the partnership, respect, and generosity that one would expect from people
- who believe they have a responsibility to help others. Randy, you have been chosen for membership in
- the Bloomington Club because your fellow members believe you to be a leader in our community and because
- you possess the qualities to champion the message and principles of Rotary.
- You are a representative of your vocation and talent within our club and community. You've now become
- an ambassador of Bloomington Rotary, carrying the ideals of service to all within your sphere of influence.
- Our community will know and judge Rotary by your character and service. We will also look to you for
- inspiration as we strive to become better Rotarians. We will now pin you with the distinguishing badge
- of a Rotarian
- your rotary pin. We ask that you wear your rotary pin with pride in your many endeavors, including every
- Tuesday, and as a symbol of our recognition of your contribution towards a better world through your
- rotary membership. Fellow Rotarians, please rise if you are able and welcome our newest member, Randy Saunders.
- And now we'll take some pictures. Mike, you ready? And now we'll transition into a Paul Harris ceremony.
- afternoon Rotarians and guests. Glad you're all here today and you found a place to park. I'm not going
- to do my normal routine because I practiced all week trying to say a cinnamon-o-fin. So I decided that
- joke wouldn't work so we're going to move on. Hey Jim, Jim, this is going to be great too.
- Did you know the title of his book? I think this is what he's going to talk about today. What happened
- at the Wells house when president Wells was out of town? That's going to be great. So Kyla,
- where's Kyla? You really invited your mom and Fred for this. Okay. And by the way, Fred and Debbie,
- they're an item. So, okay. So today, before I get started, uh, several members have asked me, you know,
- you're up here always asking us to support Rory international. And we understand that.
- But where does the money really go? So I looked at the Rotary International website, and for 2024, these
- were the top things that Rotary spent our money on. Disease prevention and treatment, over $26 million
- spread across the world. Water sanitation, community economic development, basic education and literacy,
- maternal child and healthcare, environment, peace building,
- and the legacy program preventing and eliminating polio in our world. So you can see all good causes.
- So now, will Bill Perkins, Winston Schindel, and Dave Meyer please come forward? President Tracy, will
- you join me up here to help and Len? You know how it goes, so you can get up here. So all three,
- of you are long-term Rotarians in our club. You've supported both Rotary International and our club
- locally, and you're still giving, which is important. Dave, this is your Paul Harris plus one. Bill,
- this is your Paul Harris fellow plus three and Winston. Well, did you know that Winston never really
- was invited to join our club? When he was, when he was president of the IU union, he just started come
- to our meetings to get a free lunch.
- And then after about five or six years, we just figured he was a member. Anyway, this will be his Paul
- Harris plus seven. After that, bronze statute. Bill, you've been in our club since 2013. Dave, 2018.
- And Winston, since 1989, the year I was born. So if we could pin these three gentlemen.
- Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay.
- Brown will introduce our speaker. It is my honor to introduce today's speaker. He brought his own fan
- club with him today. James Capshaw has deep roots in Bloomington after graduating from Bloomington High
- School in its 99th class, the final year before it was renamed Bloomington House, Bloomington High School
- South. He attended Indiana University.
- majoring in psychology, working as a residential houseman for Chancellor Herman B. Wells, his interest
- expanded to the history of psychology as well as the history of higher education. Pursuing graduate
- work at the University of Pennsylvania, he earned his PhD in the history of science and got his first
- job at the University of Maryland while living in Washington, D.C.
- In 1990, Kapshu became a faculty member at IU's Department of History and Philosophy of Science and
- Medicine and had a 34-year career at Indiana University, retiring as professor emeritus and former university
- historian. Author of books and articles in history and psychology and the history of higher education,
- including Herman B. Wells, The Promise of the American University in 2012. Today's talk will give a
- preview of his latest book,
- Making Indiana University History, Landscape, and a Sense of Place, James Capshaw. Turn this off or
- what? Can you help me?
- Sorry, guys. Okay. So this is basically a preview of my book. There's a lot of material here. It's been
- published. It's actually available for free. It's digitally published by the IU Libraries.
- And I'll send you the I'll put the URL at the end at the at the thing. There will be some print on demand
- copies available. So probably for twenty dollars or something like that at some point. But right now
- you can just read it for free and look around. So I want to start with
- I've got to get all my stuff done here. Okay. Okay. There we go. I'm doing two different screens and
- things like that, so I'm sorry about that. A scrawny boy, aged nine years old, peddled his 20-inch
- Red Swin bicycle up Woodlawn Avenue from Bryant Park to the Indian University campus looking for adventure.
- The warm spring air was full of mysterious promise. Accompanied by a friend who lived across the street
- on Mackerel Lane and one of his brothers, the boys knew that the winding paths through the woods, immense
- grave buildings and running water would await them.
- Once on campus grounds, anticipation gave way to delight in the present moment, riding endlessly on
- interconnected walkways, casting goldfish in the creek left discarded from fraternity parties, searching
- for a drinking fountain in the Cavernous Union building. The waking reverie lasted until the lengthening
- shadows brought them back to the hunger in their bellies
- and to the release of their homes. In the spring and summer of 1964, that boy was introduced to the
- wonders of university life by the physical environment of the campus, where he was able to engage all
- of his senses six blocks away from his home. Still innocent of the ways of placemaking, the names Maxwell
- and Brian held no connotations.
- That boy was Jimmy Capshaw, and he's lived in the university shadow since that time. So this is a story
- about my first encounters with Indiana University. As a fifth grader, I knew that the university had
- students and teachers and sports teams, but I had no clue about its
- administration, its curriculum, and even its size. I knew it was large enough to get dislocically lost
- in the endless pleasure of his campus. Fast forward to 1990s. Sorry. Sorry.
- Fast forward to 1977 when I was an undergraduate at IU, majoring in psychology. I was working my way
- through school and it obtained a unique job, residential houseman for Chancellor Herman B. Wells, who
- was then 75 years old. In exchange for about 10 hours of work a week, I had a Spartan room with an en
- suite bathroom and all the food I cared to eat. My responsibilities were straightforward.
- serve dinner to the chancellor and eat with them, drive the cook home, lay a fire on the fireplace in
- the wintertime, and assist with food and drink at frequent dinner parties, as well as the occasional
- cocktail buffet for a hundred people. I was treated as a member of his elected family, along with the
- cook, cowsheeper, and chauffeur who worked during the week.
- I left Bloomington in 1980, bound for graduate school in the history of science at the University of
- Pennsylvania, never expecting that I would find my way back to IU in 1990. My 10 academic fields were
- history of psychology and the history of higher education, enough of my biography. Turning to my latest
- title, Making Any University History, Landscape, and a Sense of Place,
- provides clues to my themes. OK. So the book examines the written history of Indiana University, including
- the history of campus design. It explores how IU developed an institution identity through historical
- narratives of its people and their activities over its 200
- plus years of existence. So basically, I'm a historian trying to understand the institution. Among the
- questions I pursued were the following. One, when did the University first take up its history in the
- 19th century? Why did they do that?
- Two, how did the campus design evolve as a collaboration between the university community and the non-human
- environment? Three, how did institutional history grow over the course of the 20th century? So these
- are kind of the basic questions that I was pursuing. And to give you some more background, during the
- bicentennial, which was
- 2020, there was a lot of research involved in the history of IU. And so we found that there have been
- about two million people who have taken at least one course at Indiana University, and about a million
- have completed a course of study and graduated. So we have a million graduates in that 200-plus years.
- There have been about
- sorry, 50,000 faculty members during that time who was taught at the university. And about 650 individuals
- have served as members of the Board of Trustees or administrative officers of the university. So that's
- sort of the historical demography of that. And so that's a way to sort of start thinking about that
- big thing called the
- institution of Indiana University. So the book is divided in three different parts that pursue these
- questions. One is the first part is about the beginnings of IU and how it became involved in institutional
- history. The second part is about the history of the campus design from 1885 to 2020.
- And the third is about how historical work has been done in historic preservation and other areas of
- the university. So in some ways, this whole talk is going to be illustrated by Joe Lee's drawings that
- I commissioned him to do that. And so this is the first building
- at IU was the seminary building. The university was started in 1820. It took five years to actually
- organize it so the students could come in 1825. We don't have good information about how many people
- were there, at least 10 or 12 boys, basically. And this was located on the corner of Second and College Avenues.
- And the campus was about 10 acres. You could see the trees that were torn down. Bloomington was just
- a tiny village with trees everywhere.
- anything except for a historical marker of the original campus. So if you go down to the downtown Kroger's,
- that's sort of what the campus used to be. And so 10 acres there, but it's all been sold and not part
- of the university. So I'm just going to go through some of these. These are the chapter illustrations. So then,
- The first professor was Baynard Resch Hall, who was a Presbyterian minister. He taught Greek and Latin,
- and he was from Philadelphia and the East. And he got a job on the Indiana frontier.
- A couple of years later, another faculty member came along who was teaching mathematics. And then President
- Wiley came in 1829, 1828 when IU became a college, Indiana College. Both Hall and
- Harney had differences with President Wiley, and he forced them out in 1832. So he was the only faculty
- member, at least for the summer, until they hired new people. And it's a very interesting story, and
- I don't know, I'm not sure why I need to get into that right now, but you asked me during the question
- and answer period.
- What happens is that Hall went out back out east and he wrote a book about the fight between President
- Wiley and himself. And he had to fictionalize the book because he didn't want to be sued for libel.
- And so it's an interesting book. It's called The New Purchase or Seven and a Half Years in the Far West.
- So, this was the frontier, okay? I mean, it's hard to think about that, but it was 1842 when the book
- was published. And it was pretty well, it sold pretty well and things like that. And so, that became
- sort of, I call him the first historian of the university because that was the first eyewitness account
- of what the university was about.
- But then he's not well known now. There is one house in the right quad that is named after him, but
- that's about it. So we don't celebrate him because he was the loser in terms of the fight between
- the administration and faculty. So we have a very long history of faculty and administrative conflict.
- Okay. So then I get into this idea about how the field of
- the genre of IU history was created. It didn't happen at the beginning because they were just working
- away. They had like 40 students and a handful of faculty. They didn't have time to do that. There's
- no big deal about having students and exercise and stuff like that. But then in 1858, there was a fire
- that almost destroyed the university on the old campus.
- And then what happened is that the townspeople and the alumni, that's when the Alumni Association started
- to actually give money back to the university to rebuild the university. There was one big hall there.
- And so that happened. And then in 1883, the house had another fire. There were two big buildings on
- campus, not big buildings, but, you know,
- reasonable size buildings. And that was the newest building called Science Hall. It was done maybe 10
- years before, burned it down to the ground and it destroyed a bunch of faculty papers and museum things
- and things like that. And so they were thinking about, the trustees were thinking, well, we need to
- move the campus because it's right close to the
- the railroad, right? And the railroad is pretty loud and always going on and stuff like that. And so
- they basically found a place way east of downtown Dunn's Woods, owned by the Dunn family.
- and they bought 20 acres to move the university in 1885. So these three people, the office Wiley, James
- Woodburn and David Banta, were part of the first
- group that was interested in sort of, we have a history now. We have a before and after the move. And
- there's things that would happen during the fires. And after that, people were thinking, well, we need
- to remember this. And also, we also had a new president, David Sir Jordan, who had been a faculty member.
- He became president in 1885.
- And he was very, before that, every president had a, they were all clergymen, and he was a scientist.
- And so the idea of having research as part of the point of the university was getting started. And so
- that was, so there was a lot of things going on. And so then what happened is that the idea that
- that we are on the move. It's like using history that, yes, we are moving, and we've had more faculty
- and more students and stuff like that. And so this is the time when, in the 1880s, about 120, 30, 40
- people were IU students. So this is still early on.
- And then the next part is basically called the campus at Duns Woods. And so that's when you start getting
- into the campus history and how that shaped the culture of the university. And so this is a
- jodly illustration of the first new buildings.
- Owen Hall and White Hall on the left and right. And these were brick. They were brick buildings because
- they needed to actually get some buildings on the ground because they lost half of the campus,
- the old campus. And so they used the bricks from the fire and stuff like that
- And so they moved there in 1885, as I mentioned. And so those two buildings are in the corner of the
- campus. And so they started building more buildings. And this is a 1892 image of the campus.
- half of those buildings are gone now, but you can see that... So this is Owen and Wiley, right? They're
- still here. That's Maxwell Hall, and that is Kirkwood Hall. So they started building from this corner,
- basically a frame around the woods, okay? And so
- back in the day, the medieval times, they would have four buildings around a central green. So a building
- at every corner and then a central green. And so IU has a giant medieval quadrangle with buildings,
- a bunch of buildings on each side of the campus. So that's the campus
- I wouldn't even call it like a plan, but that became sort of what they did. They didn't have any money,
- right? This is way back where they're lucky to get the buildings done. And so that's the beginning of
- sort of the campus design and using that, just using trees and
- local limestone, everything is limestone after that, and then the running water in the woods. And so
- that's part of the basic campus design that started and continues. Okay, so then we go into the Union
- Building. This is a really wonderful illustration that
- These were buildings, it's called the Memorial Unit because it was part of the Memorial Fund after World
- War I, where they raised money to build the buildings, Memorial Hall, Memorial Stadium, the first stadium,
- which is gone, now it's an arboretum on campus. And so those were done in the
- 20s and 30s. And so, the university then moved beyond the quadrangle, making more moving out of the
- little beginning of the 20 acres. And so, they kept on buying more land. By 1940 or so, they had about
- 140 acres of land.
- So this is a quote from Sheldon Blatt. A campus contains the indispensable, innumerable symbols
- of structures. Buildings, gardens, bridges, walks, avenues, glades, statues, flozes, fountains, statuaries,
- towers, gateways, and also follies. Quirky list or inheritance in form of inscriptions, lung-like structures, and over
- almost unusual ones. So, I put that in there because there was, in that same period, in 1908, they created
- the Rose Well House, which is basically, it's a folly in the sense that there's no activity other than
- just having a beautiful building and people could just hang out there, right?
- And that was what they did. They used the portals from the surviving building of the old campus and
- moved them over here. They also moved other things like the sundial was from the old campus and they
- moved it there. And so there's a lot of back and forth in terms of the historical
- artifacts that are there that then have meanings from years and years and years of students and stuff.
- So, this is the sunken garden. That doesn't exist anymore. There was a
- a small quarry, the Dun Quarry, that was on East 3rd Street. And that had been played out. And so they
- created a sunken garden. And it was in 1928 until about 1952. And now it's basically the area where
- the greenhouse is.
- And they had to basically tear down this wonderful sunken garden. It's also called the Passion Pit because
- the students would go and hang out and have their... And it's really close to the Memorial Hall, which
- was the female dorm. Okay.
- Then, as we get into more recent things, the main library in 1970, renamed for Herman Wells in 2005.
- During the Wells administration from 1937 to
- 1962, the campus expanded from 140 acres to 1,800 acres. So Wells bought tons of land for a land bank
- because he thought after the war, there are going to be a lot of need for student housing and halls
- and things like that. And so he was the guy who really thought about the future, right? And he was also
- quite interested in the
- the campus itself. Okay. And so this is the current campus, right? All the buildings and even beyond
- the... So you see the... You've got the... The woods are still here, the old crescent, right?
- building around it, but then it's way out there. So, currently, the campus is about 2,000 acres. So,
- Wells was really the guy who made that happen. And in this chapter, I did some work on the old crescent.
- So, it turns out that the old crescent was not called the old crescent until 1980.
- And so, because basically when they nominated for the National Register of Historic Places, they called
- it the Old Crescent the first time. And so that just caught on really quickly and stuff. And then there's
- also, I talk about the law school edition in 1982, where they wanted the approach onto the historic
- part of the campus and they got pushed back. And so the town, the local community and the academic community
- worked on that. And then the golf war, which is 1999 to 2000, where there was an idea for a giant or
- a really big golf course that would be a private club on the campus. So there's all kinds of stuff in
- there and a lot of people will know some of these things. One of the things that
- I can't show, but basically there's a campus map, there's an interactive map. And so online, these are
- layers, 1885, 1915, 1914, 1960, 1980, and 2020. So you can see how the campus grew over time to this
- giant campus. So that's something that's a little cool thing you can do online.
- So then it takes me to part three, which is about 20th century. The centennial was in 1920. And so the
- history as an asset to the university was being known. Then we've got the slide
- You know who this person is? Her name is Ivy Chamness. Everybody heard about that? She was a person
- who was the director of publications, the first woman administrator, big administrator. And she did
- all the publications, all the bulletins, all the registers, all including the alumni magazine and stuff.
- And she really was the person who kept
- the EORC history alive for that period. And so, just finding her, about her, and letting her, seeing
- her as a major person. Then we've got this chapter is called Academic Community and University Necrology.
- There was a necrologist, Harry Day,
- And his secretary, Elizabeth Green, and then Don Gray at the bottom, they were responsible for the faculty
- memorial resolution. So every faculty had a memorial resolution. It was written by their colleagues.
- So this is a huge place for history in the university. And then the last chapter is the resurrection of
- Wiley House. This does not work very well. Okay, this is the Wiley House. And so, this is kind of a
- composite picture. You've got Andrew Wiley and his wife and a bunch of kids. Theostos Wiley and his
- wife also lived in there. That was their African-American servant, lived there for 40, 30, 50 years.
- Herman Wells, this is
- Mrs. Hershey, and then these are Joe's interpretations of some of the kids and stuff like that.
- And so then, I'm almost done here. Okay, so everyone can learn to observe and recognize the past within
- the present. The purpose of this book is to identify how the university
- expresses its enduring values through its history, but also its landscape, easing a lasting sense of
- place. And so, this is the URL for the book. Just do a search on Capshaw and Making IU. And then this
- is my email address, if you want to talk to me. So, I've got five minutes, I guess, for questions.
- Okay, no questions. Okay, good. Let's go. Let's go home. Yeah. Just out of curiosity, did the name Crescent
- Donut Shop get its name from IU? I have no idea. Next question. Oh, yeah. So I'm a little
- I'm a little confused about, it started out as a seminary, then it became a college, and then a university.
- What's the timeline on that? So seminary has a pretty expansive meaning. It's not just religion. It's
- not an ecclesiastical institution. So it can include things that are educational, right, back in that
- time. IU is really kind
- of a junior college maybe the first few years, and it's called the seminary. And that's part of the
- original language, the seminary of learning. Usually people don't say it's a seminary of learning. Because
- IU did have a bunch of presidents who were clergymen. It was not ever a non-secular institution. It
- had always been that.
- And so people do be confused on that, right? There was no religious instruction. They did have to go
- to chapel, though, right? I mean, there were some, I guess there was, but it was like an extra, right?
- But yeah. And so it started as that similar learning and then became a college, a four-year college,
- and then the university in 1838. So what's the one here on the?
- I can read it for you. It says this is from Jim Sims. I recall the old 10th Street Stadium, which is
- now I believe the area of the Arboretum and the Chime Tower. I thought this was significant. What was
- the most significant facility campus change if you can pick one?
- Well, one of my favorite ones is the bell tower of the student building, right? I mean, that was in
- 1906, right? And that was a way to have a sonic landscape too, right? And so we had this bell tower
- and then the bicentennial bell tower.
- was another one there. And so that sort of, you sort of know you're on campus, right? That this is like,
- it's part of like the acoustic environment, right? So that's, but yeah, it's such a complicated campus,
- right? I mean, it's everywhere. It's all kinds of stuff. And so that's about, I guess what I needed
- to say. I guess we want to go home.
- Relative to other major universities in the United States, size-wise, land, where does... IU is pretty
- high, right? And the other thing, too, is that IU has not screwed up the campus. Like the University
- of Virginia,
- Yeah, it's a beautiful campus, the old campus. But then there's like a major thoroughfare, and then
- it's a hodgepodge of stuff, right? And so IU is unified in that way. And in fact, there's a book around
- 1990, I think, The Campus of the Work of Art. And this guy was a landscape architect, and he rated campuses on
- aesthetic beauty and coherence and all this kind of stuff. IU was in the top five. And so it's unusual.
- And then Terry Clayback's book, During the Bicentennial, he wrote a wonderful coffee table book on the
- campus at IU. And he calls it
- what it's the America's legacy campus or something like that. And that's, again, that's sort of the
- general feeling of the campus. And there's a lot of stuff in the book that really talks more about students'
- reactions to the campus and stuff like that. But yeah. Jim, thank you very much. Will you be available
- for questions afterwards? Yes, of course.
- So many things to take away from the talk. First of all, that almost 200 years ago that the faculty
- and the administration not getting along. And then the passion pit, that was kind of an interesting
- one. So Jim, thank you for your presentation and everything you've done for Indiana University. In honor
- of your talk, a donation we made this quarter to off-night productions. I want to thank our volunteers,
- Art, Andrea, Bill,
- Leslie, Lauren, Glenda, Michael, Dave, Cindy, Sally, Judy, Tracy, Mike, Lynn, Tyler. Good job on the
- technology today. We struggled with the speakers, the microphones. Next meeting will be October 7th
- in the Georgian Room. Jordan Davis from the Chocolate Mousse will bring us up to date regarding the
- Bloomington food scene. Tyler, if you could please share the graphic. And please stand if you are able.
- of the things we think, say, or do. First, is it the truth? Second, is it fair to all concerned? Third,
- will it build goodwill and better friendships? Fourth, will it be beneficial to all concerned? And fifth,
- is it fun?