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?