WEBVTT 00:00:00.226 --> 00:00:06.523 - Welcome to another program of the Monroe County History Club and my name is Michael Carter and welcome 00:00:06.523 --> 00:00:12.881 - to my wife Paulette, my brother Steve, my cousins over there and also thanks for the support I get from 00:00:12.881 --> 00:00:19.117 - the old Bloomington High School classmates and I do mean old. Some there and sprinkled out throughout 00:00:19.117 --> 00:00:25.720 - the place. I left some sheets of paper on all the tables you may have seen them. They list all the upcoming 00:00:25.720 --> 00:00:29.694 - programs from the History Club going all the way into next year. 00:00:30.434 --> 00:00:38.761 - First of all, I want to give many thanks to the American Legion for allowing us to have all these programs 00:00:38.761 --> 00:00:46.933 - these years. We've been partners in presenting and preserving local history for 13 years, over 13 years. 00:00:46.933 --> 00:00:55.105 - And thanks so much to their white staff and the kitchen staff who do such a great job every time. Amanda 00:00:55.105 --> 00:00:59.230 - and Misty are working the place today and be sure to 00:00:59.650 --> 00:01:09.000 - Be grateful to them. Oh, I'd also like to thank CATS TV, of course. Justin's back there as the cameraman 00:01:09.000 --> 00:01:17.905 - today. They've been doing these programs for 10 and a half years now, which is fantastic. Yeah, I'd 00:01:17.905 --> 00:01:23.070 - like to represent the guy who's been doing a lot of these 00:01:24.098 --> 00:01:29.371 - It's been a very important service as it allows us to upload each program to YouTube for people who 00:01:29.371 --> 00:01:34.801 - can't make it to the live programs. And people from all over the country watch these because they tell 00:01:34.801 --> 00:01:40.074 - me about it, that they're glad that they could get these living in California or on the East Coast, 00:01:40.074 --> 00:01:45.030 - different places. And also thanks to our loyal history enthusiasts who attend these programs. 00:01:45.030 --> 00:01:47.614 - That's great. We really appreciate your support. 00:01:47.906 --> 00:01:54.383 - And you know, those people who watch the programs on YouTube are much appreciated. It's great that the 00:01:54.383 --> 00:02:01.048 - transplanted blue metonians all over the place can see these. The programs we present here are so diverse 00:02:01.048 --> 00:02:07.462 - with many different subjects covered over the years. And in my opinion, we're all helping promote and 00:02:07.462 --> 00:02:13.750 - preserve our local history. It's fun, but at the same time, very rewarding. How many new attendees? 00:02:13.750 --> 00:02:16.894 - Do we have any new people that will admit it? OK. 00:02:17.794 --> 00:02:23.632 - Leave your email addresses with us so we can get direct communication each month and not see it through 00:02:23.632 --> 00:02:29.245 - Facebook or someplace. You can leave it with me and I'll give it to Mr. Brewer over there and he'll 00:02:29.245 --> 00:02:35.138 - take care of it. Now, first of all, Daniel Slegel, the director of the Nook County History Center, would 00:02:35.138 --> 00:02:36.766 - like to make a few comments. 00:02:43.682 --> 00:02:50.307 - Thank you Michael. I just had a couple quick things for everyone. We have some new exhibits up on display 00:02:50.307 --> 00:02:56.807 - from the 30 Revolutionary War Patriots that were moved all the way west to Bloomington, Indiana at that 00:02:56.807 --> 00:03:03.182 - time and died and were buried here in one of the cemeteries in Monroe County. We have biographies and 00:03:03.182 --> 00:03:07.870 - information about all of them that will be up through the end of this year 00:03:07.970 --> 00:03:14.438 - And Barb Hawkins, that's both our volunteer and she's with the DAR, made a really nice pamphlet about 00:03:14.438 --> 00:03:20.906 - those and we have them at the History Center. If you've seen or heard those or would like one, please 00:03:20.906 --> 00:03:27.500 - come out and visit us. We have an exhibit on First Amendment rights, which is up and on display talking 00:03:27.500 --> 00:03:29.022 - about how Monroe County 00:03:29.154 --> 00:03:35.998 - has exercised those rights over the decades. So please come out and see that. And then we've also introduced 00:03:35.998 --> 00:03:42.529 - a barnyard play area. So it's more of our tactile, being able to touch things at a museum. So that just 00:03:42.529 --> 00:03:48.934 - opened maybe two weeks ago. So very, very new. So definitely feel free to bring some little ones with 00:03:48.934 --> 00:03:55.527 - you if you have any. Or if you need to get out of the house and away from the little ones, you can still 00:03:55.527 --> 00:03:57.662 - come see us. That's good as well. 00:03:57.890 --> 00:04:03.593 - And I realized after I got here, we've been doing a lot of outreach and I gave away all of my garage 00:04:03.593 --> 00:04:09.353 - sale slips. I know there's always people that come by and see me to get those. I didn't realize I ran 00:04:09.353 --> 00:04:15.000 - out talking about that garage sale so much and forgot to replenish those slips. So I will have some 00:04:15.000 --> 00:04:20.873 - or you're more than welcome to come over and talk to me. And we have some new items from the store that 00:04:20.873 --> 00:04:26.520 - I have over there at the table. So feel free to come by or visit us downtown at the corner of 6 and 00:04:26.520 --> 00:04:27.198 - Washington. 00:04:31.362 --> 00:04:38.666 - Thank you. And that is correct. So as we are working on our move for the garage sale site to go into 00:04:38.666 --> 00:04:46.042 - Ellitsville, we are not going to have a November sale this year. So thank you for that reminder, Pam. 00:04:46.042 --> 00:04:53.346 - I do appreciate that. OK. Well, thank you, everyone. Thank you, Michael. Thanks, Daniel. And now one 00:04:53.346 --> 00:04:59.710 - of our former presenters, David Norton, would like to make a couple of comments. David? 00:05:07.106 --> 00:05:15.147 - Good afternoon, everybody. My name's Dave Nord, and I have the most embarrassing title to bring up in 00:05:15.147 --> 00:05:23.109 - a group like this of Monroe County Historian. I'm among all the Monroe County Historians, but that's 00:05:23.109 --> 00:05:31.386 - actually a title. It's a title conferred upon somebody to be a liaison with the State Historical Society 00:05:31.386 --> 00:05:36.510 - and the State Historical Bureau. And that's what I'm here to do. 00:05:36.674 --> 00:05:45.587 - mentioned to you today. One of the things that the Indiana Historical Bureau does is recruits and approves 00:05:45.587 --> 00:05:54.750 - state historical markers. And the latest one in this county is a marker for Gary Kisters, who's Bloomington's 00:05:54.750 --> 00:06:02.497 - most highly decorated World War II serviceman, the first American serviceman to receive both 00:06:02.497 --> 00:06:05.246 - the Congressional Medal of Honor 00:06:05.570 --> 00:06:14.556 - and the Distinguished Service Cross in two separate engagements in 1943. And that marker is done. 00:06:14.556 --> 00:06:23.910 - It's put up. It's at the airport, also known as Kister's Field. And we're having a dedication of that 00:06:23.910 --> 00:06:32.254 - state marker at the end of August, August 28 at 4 o'clock. And you're all invited to that. 00:06:32.610 --> 00:06:41.900 - We'll put more information up, I think, on the History Center website. But I will come back a month 00:06:41.900 --> 00:06:50.353 - from now on Tuesday of that week and remind you that that week, Friday the 28th of August, 00:06:50.353 --> 00:07:00.293 - is this dedication. It'll involve some ceremony. Collar Guard from the American Legion, it'll also involve 00:07:00.293 --> 00:07:02.430 - some historic history. 00:07:02.786 --> 00:07:12.872 - with brief talks about, particularly, about Kistors himself, about his return to Bloomington, about 00:07:12.872 --> 00:07:23.159 - other veterans in Bloomington and Monroe County, and also a little bit of history of these particular 00:07:23.159 --> 00:07:30.622 - campaigns in Sicily and Italy in the early part of the European campaign. 00:07:31.266 --> 00:07:39.017 - of World War II. So I hope you can think about that. Some of you probably knew Kisters. You know the 00:07:39.017 --> 00:07:46.921 - Kisters family. He's buried in Rose Hill Cemetery. But this is a historic, a state historic marker now 00:07:46.921 --> 00:07:54.825 - at the airport. Also, I might mention to you that this will be the 12th state marker in Monroe County. 00:07:54.825 --> 00:08:00.734 - There are 11 others. And if you look at Wikipedia and just ask for a list of 00:08:00.930 --> 00:08:08.838 - of state historic markers in Indiana. You can see where all of these other 11 are. And I encourage you 00:08:08.838 --> 00:08:16.592 - to take a look at these markers. Most are in Bloomington, but some are in the countryside. You won't 00:08:16.592 --> 00:08:24.653 - actually find 11. You'll find 10, because the one at Ferry Bridge on the White River across from Gosport 00:08:24.653 --> 00:08:29.950 - was stolen. So it's missing at the moment. But the others are there. 00:08:30.050 --> 00:08:38.088 - We hope you can come at the end of August. Thanks much. Thanks, David. And it brings us to today's program. 00:08:38.088 --> 00:08:45.530 - Our speaker today will be Dina Kellums. She's director of Indiana University Archives. And the name 00:08:45.530 --> 00:08:53.121 - of her program has become an IU history insider. They have more than 44,000 cubic feet of records and 00:08:53.121 --> 00:08:57.214 - papers at the archives, so she has a lot to draw from. 00:08:57.858 --> 00:09:04.402 - Dina is a native Hoosier, came to Bloomington in the 1990s to attend school, and never left, she says. 00:09:04.402 --> 00:09:10.883 - Following a graduate school internship at the IU Archives in 1999, she joined the staff and has spent 00:09:10.883 --> 00:09:17.363 - more than two decades helping preserve and share the university's history. She became director of the 00:09:17.363 --> 00:09:23.971 - archives in 2015. And she's since given a couple of very successful programs for us. And here's another 00:09:23.971 --> 00:09:24.670 - one. Dina? 00:09:40.002 --> 00:09:41.502 - Okay, we're good, we're good. 00:09:41.730 --> 00:09:46.544 - I just want to make sure I can turn around and talk to you all. Thank you so much, Michael, for that 00:09:46.544 --> 00:09:51.453 - and thank you all for having me back again. I know that I see a lot of familiar faces and I'm familiar 00:09:51.453 --> 00:09:56.363 - to maybe some of you because I've been here before. It did make me actually kind of tidy up and change 00:09:56.363 --> 00:10:01.415 - up my introduction because I start all of my talks with a little bit of an introduction to the university 00:10:01.415 --> 00:10:06.419 - archives and what it is that we do. Just because I assume that every time I get in front of an audience, 00:10:06.419 --> 00:10:11.710 - it's the first time that they've, if they've heard of the university archives, really don't understand what it 00:10:12.258 --> 00:10:19.198 - you know why we exist and so I take every opportunity I can to blah blah blah about the university archives so. 00:10:19.458 --> 00:10:25.139 - You're welcome. So the mission of the University Archives is to collect, preserve, and make available 00:10:25.139 --> 00:10:31.155 - university records of enduring value. What that means is that we work with university offices, departments, 00:10:31.155 --> 00:10:36.725 - institutes, centers, et cetera, to help them identify those records that have long-term historical, 00:10:36.725 --> 00:10:42.517 - legal, evidential, or research value, and get those over to the University Archives so that we can make 00:10:42.517 --> 00:10:48.143 - them available to researchers, students, instructors, to the fullest extent possible. And so working 00:10:48.143 --> 00:10:49.424 - with these departments 00:10:49.424 --> 00:10:56.015 - You know, we bring in a wide array of record types. You know, as Michael said, we have an estimated 00:10:56.015 --> 00:11:02.803 - over 44,000 cubic feet of materials. And of course, we're talking about photographs and correspondence 00:11:02.803 --> 00:11:09.525 - and student publications and audio visual material, architectural drawings. And I put this picture in 00:11:09.525 --> 00:11:16.446 - here. This is an increasing number of born digital records. This is our digital archivist, Dinah, trying 00:11:16.446 --> 00:11:17.566 - to take apart an 00:11:17.794 --> 00:11:28.094 - old Mac PC, or Power Mac, I should say, to try to extract the data off of there. So it's a lot of stuff. 00:11:28.162 --> 00:11:34.307 - But in addition to university records, we are also fortunate in that we are able to collect the personal 00:11:34.307 --> 00:11:40.394 - papers of IU faculty, staff, and alumni, selectively of course. There's too many to collect everything. 00:11:40.394 --> 00:11:46.715 - With faculty, we like to document them as a member of the university community, as a scholar, as a teacher, 00:11:46.715 --> 00:11:52.568 - and I always tell them as a person, you know, they are people too. And so their papers tend to come 00:11:52.568 --> 00:11:58.128 - to us in the form of correspondence with colleagues both within the university and outside IU. 00:11:58.128 --> 00:12:04.296 - committee files, departmental files, teaching files, etc. Oftentimes we have to use faculty papers to 00:12:04.296 --> 00:12:10.585 - kind of fill in the gaps because while there is a records policy for the university, I always joke with 00:12:10.585 --> 00:12:16.632 - our university records manager that she is still not getting out there and breaking kneecaps to get 00:12:16.632 --> 00:12:22.014 - the records into us. So sometimes we have to kind of be creative to try to fill in gaps. 00:12:22.626 --> 00:12:29.007 - And so faculty records, and we have a wide variety. We have really great representation from folklore, 00:12:29.007 --> 00:12:35.265 - music. It's really a little bit of everything. With alumni papers, we like to focus on their time at 00:12:35.265 --> 00:12:41.894 - Indiana University. It's typically undergraduates, because graduate students, they're pretty busy. They're 00:12:41.894 --> 00:12:46.974 - not necessarily getting involved in campus life. The alumni papers really help us 00:12:47.074 --> 00:12:53.579 - provide some color, I always say, to the Indiana University story. Their papers tend to come to us in 00:12:53.579 --> 00:13:00.466 - the form of correspondence sent and received while they were students at IU, diaries, journals, scrapbooks, 00:13:00.466 --> 00:13:07.226 - photographs, oral histories maybe collected years later, and we have some, these are actually my favorite 00:13:07.226 --> 00:13:13.730 - collections in the archives, and we have some amazing collections. One of our earliest student-life-y 00:13:13.730 --> 00:13:14.878 - type materials is 00:13:14.946 --> 00:13:20.848 - a diary from a student from the 1850s, and he writes about traveling from the Kansas territory to come 00:13:20.848 --> 00:13:26.692 - to Bloomington to go to school. And you know, as he writes about his professors, there are names that 00:13:26.692 --> 00:13:32.536 - are now street names, you know, in Bloomington, Amzie Atwater. You know, it's just really amazing and 00:13:32.536 --> 00:13:38.438 - fascinating. And then sometimes our alumni papers really kind of help us fill in gaps. So for example, 00:13:38.438 --> 00:13:44.282 - and I know you folks on the far edges may not be able to see this very well, but it'll be on YouTube, 00:13:44.282 --> 00:13:44.912 - this image 00:13:44.912 --> 00:13:53.361 - in the middle here and says skating on Jordan field from the scrapbook photograph album of Ward Graybiddle 00:13:53.361 --> 00:13:59.678 - circa 1915. We knew from IDS newspaper articles that they would sometimes flood 00:13:59.778 --> 00:14:05.843 - Jordan Field, which was an athletic field located now where the IMU parking lot is, so that students 00:14:05.843 --> 00:14:11.969 - could ice skate on it. But we only had a couple of really tiny images in the yearbook of it. And then 00:14:11.969 --> 00:14:18.094 - within the time that I've been at the University Archives, Biddle's family donated some of his papers 00:14:18.094 --> 00:14:24.159 - that included the scrapbook from when he was a student. And now we have just, this is the only known 00:14:24.159 --> 00:14:27.582 - photograph that we have of them skating on Jordan Field. 00:14:27.714 --> 00:14:34.717 - That's just so fascinating. And then this one over here. And if some of you may have heard me do a talk 00:14:34.717 --> 00:14:38.622 - previously about IU baseball teams trip to Japan in 1922. 00:14:38.722 --> 00:14:44.955 - As alums have sadly passed away, their families have passed things along to us. We have some 00:14:44.955 --> 00:14:51.792 - good administrative documentation about it, but then they've given us diaries, they've given us photo 00:14:51.792 --> 00:14:58.494 - albums, scrapbooks, tickets, all sorts of wonderful things, and included in one of the photo albums 00:14:58.494 --> 00:14:59.902 - was this photograph. 00:15:00.642 --> 00:15:06.480 - The entire baseball team was not able to travel. They were selective about who they were taking along. 00:15:06.480 --> 00:15:12.261 - So there was a handful of them that decided, you know what, I'm going on this trip. And so they ended 00:15:12.261 --> 00:15:17.986 - up getting jobs on the ship so that they could travel with the team. And the fellow who I've circled 00:15:17.986 --> 00:15:22.974 - here at the end, he was not a baseball player. That's Ernie Pyle when he was a student. 00:15:23.298 --> 00:15:29.789 - Ernie also wanted to go along, and he thought that what he would do is he would write stories for the 00:15:29.789 --> 00:15:36.281 - Associated Press and sell those to make some money while he was there. But he was very saddened. When 00:15:36.281 --> 00:15:42.836 - they got to Japan and the fellows tried to get off the ship, the ship captain said, where do you think 00:15:42.836 --> 00:15:49.327 - you're going? He said, you're my employees. Get your butts back on the ship. And so he did not get to 00:15:49.327 --> 00:15:52.382 - write and sell stories about the baseball team. 00:15:52.866 --> 00:15:59.935 - I sometimes get long-winded. This is the only photograph we have of Ernie Pyle on that trip on the ship. 00:15:59.935 --> 00:16:06.668 - So that is because alums thought to donate materials to us. And so we're very appreciative. So that 00:16:06.668 --> 00:16:10.910 - tells you a little bit of the why, why we collect all of this. 00:16:11.010 --> 00:16:17.706 - But there's a lot of different reasons. So of course, we are the institutional memory of Indiana University. 00:16:17.706 --> 00:16:24.279 - But we work with classes and do a lot of instruction to try to allow students to work with primary sources 00:16:24.279 --> 00:16:30.483 - and learn how to ask their own questions, their own research questions. What voices are missing from 00:16:30.483 --> 00:16:35.582 - this? Where would I want to go to if I wanted to find more information about this? 00:16:35.746 --> 00:16:42.910 - Scholars work with us. This is the most recent issue of the Indiana Magazine of History. They have reprinted some of 00:16:43.010 --> 00:16:49.776 - Theophilus Wiley's diary, which we hold in the university archives from the Civil War period. We do 00:16:49.776 --> 00:16:56.745 - a lot of outreach. I was on Fox 59 whenever they were doing all sorts of publicity about the Rose Bowl 00:16:56.745 --> 00:17:03.782 - last year. We do outreach to the campus. This is our university records manager with Eugene the records 00:17:03.782 --> 00:17:10.142 - management squirrel. Don't scroll your records away, call the IU archives today. Trademarked. 00:17:10.306 --> 00:17:16.894 - And then right here of in this upper right hand corner as we did 00:17:16.962 --> 00:17:23.170 - We you never know how the university archives might be utilized right now with them filming little five 00:17:23.170 --> 00:17:29.617 - here in town They have come to us quite a bit to get photographs and materials so that they can do costumes 00:17:29.617 --> 00:17:35.646 - and sets and then they've also Reprinted some auditorium posters and if you go outside the fine arts 00:17:35.646 --> 00:17:41.914 - Plaza You'll see some reprints from the collection because they're going to be doing some filming around 00:17:41.914 --> 00:17:46.928 - the Plaza. So that's a 1991 92 auditorium poster they did a little bit of photoshop 00:17:46.928 --> 00:17:53.041 - shopping to change it. So it says 87, 88. So we do a lot of outreach. You know, we really try to ensure 00:17:53.041 --> 00:17:58.918 - that folks know about the materials and know what we have and know that they can come to us for any 00:17:58.918 --> 00:18:00.094 - sort of assistance. 00:18:01.218 --> 00:18:07.222 - And then the last thing before I actually get to the talk, and some of you, a lot of you have probably 00:18:07.222 --> 00:18:13.051 - already seen me do this, but this is one of my favorites. So sometimes, you know, archives are just 00:18:13.051 --> 00:18:19.230 - fun. We have this stuff because it's fun. Several years ago, I had posted on our Facebook page about this 00:18:19.394 --> 00:18:26.332 - scrapbook we had received from an alum. She was a Delta, Delta, Delta. She graduated in the 1920s and 00:18:26.332 --> 00:18:33.269 - her scrapbook was just chock full of documentation about her time on campus. You know, dates that she 00:18:33.269 --> 00:18:36.126 - went on, shows that she went to, athletic 00:18:36.226 --> 00:18:42.916 - you know, events that she attended. It was just, you know, Dot, her name was Dot, Dot Dorland. She did 00:18:42.916 --> 00:18:49.540 - not miss an opportunity. She was just soaking up that opportunity here at IU. So I shared this on our 00:18:49.540 --> 00:18:51.294 - Facebook page. And for us, 00:18:51.426 --> 00:18:59.539 - Now, to kind of put it in context, at this time, we had about 1,000 followers. And my post right before 00:18:59.539 --> 00:19:07.807 - this and the post right after this got about 300 impressions. 300 people saw it. This one got over 32,000 00:19:07.807 --> 00:19:13.502 - and was reshared numerous times. And the reason is because of this page. 00:19:14.274 --> 00:19:24.364 - So I'm going to describe it. And again, folks on the edges, you can get online later on. But it's three 00:19:24.364 --> 00:19:34.260 - columns, numbers, names, fraternal affiliations. And then up at the top, Dot has written, boys I have 00:19:34.260 --> 00:19:38.238 - dated. There's 117 on this list. Go Dot. 00:19:38.370 --> 00:19:45.186 - I will say that Dot did marry number 63, John Lazarder. She just had to be sure. But what happened with 00:19:45.186 --> 00:19:51.870 - this is folks had the same sort of reaction you did. They started looking at the names of these guys. 00:19:52.002 --> 00:19:58.224 - posting pictures that they could find of them, find out what they did for careers. This one was an insurance 00:19:58.224 --> 00:20:04.104 - agent. This one, blah, blah. I mean, they just kept posting and reposting. It was so much fun to watch 00:20:04.104 --> 00:20:09.927 - them engage with the content. But it was this one where somebody said, who's Dodd? I want to hear the 00:20:09.927 --> 00:20:14.494 - rest of the story. And Taylor Nicole Lewis commented, I love history like this. 00:20:14.626 --> 00:20:21.390 - Often, the only thing future generations get to hear about is tragedy or celebrity. I want more regular 00:20:21.390 --> 00:20:28.090 - people history. And that's what archives and special collections can do. We save and share the stories 00:20:28.090 --> 00:20:34.659 - of regular people because everybody has a story. Dot did, for sure. Okay, so that's my little bit of 00:20:34.659 --> 00:20:40.318 - an introduction about the archives. So let me tell you about today's talk. It's called 00:20:40.482 --> 00:20:46.358 - Become an IU history insider. And I put this together last year. You know, if you've ever spoken for 00:20:46.358 --> 00:20:52.176 - many universities, they ask you like six months in advance what you want to talk about and give you 00:20:52.176 --> 00:20:58.285 - a description, give them a description so they can put it in their catalog. And I thought, I don't know. 00:20:58.285 --> 00:21:04.510 - So I decided on become an IU history insider. And I thought, you know what, I'm going to just put together 00:21:04.834 --> 00:21:10.638 - stuff that I like from the archives, things that I've found interesting and just kind of weave it into 00:21:10.638 --> 00:21:16.499 - the story. And so that's what I've done today. And you probably saw us playing around a little bit with 00:21:16.499 --> 00:21:22.190 - the sound. I've also brought along a couple of clips of videos from the University Archives. You all 00:21:22.190 --> 00:21:27.262 - may have heard about the Media Digitization and Preservation Initiative that was launched 00:21:27.490 --> 00:21:34.420 - 10 plus years ago at Indiana University. And that was a major project to digitize as much audiovisual 00:21:34.420 --> 00:21:41.486 - material as possible because time is not a friend of those materials. It was fantastic. What that means 00:21:41.486 --> 00:21:46.718 - is we have tens of thousands of digitized materials that say side A, side B. 00:21:47.042 --> 00:21:53.581 - outtakes or very, very minimally described. So we're very slowly making our way through, but we're finding 00:21:53.581 --> 00:21:59.875 - some fantastic things. And I thought I would share this first one today. Given everything that's going 00:21:59.875 --> 00:22:05.986 - on right now in the last week, two weeks here in Bloomington, I thought you all might enjoy it. And 00:22:05.986 --> 00:22:12.097 - I'm hoping that the sound is going to work okay. I'm gonna just put the microphone by my laptop and 00:22:12.097 --> 00:22:13.502 - let's see how it goes. 00:22:14.338 --> 00:22:25.278 - If it doesn't go well, I've got another one. We can just try to skip it. Wow, that loads up. 00:22:48.930 --> 00:22:56.065 - Indiana University campus as students returned to Bloomington last fall. 20th Century Fox was in town 00:22:56.065 --> 00:23:03.060 - to shoot a feature-length film entitled Breaking Away. Director Peter Yates used the campus and the 00:23:03.060 --> 00:23:10.196 - famous Little 500 bicycle race as the backdrop for romance and action on the screen. Steve Tesich, an 00:23:10.196 --> 00:23:17.191 - IU graduate and former Little 500 rider, wrote the screenplay and Katie Larson from IU's TV station 00:23:17.191 --> 00:23:18.590 - WTIU asked him why. 00:23:18.882 --> 00:23:27.266 - Actually, the idea evolved out of Peter and I talking. And what I did then is I wrote a two, three-page 00:23:27.266 --> 00:23:35.732 - synopsis that we sent to Fox. From that, I was commissioned to write the first draft, and then countless 00:23:35.732 --> 00:23:43.874 - other drafts followed. I lost track. And so Peter was really very instrumental, certainly not in the 00:23:43.874 --> 00:23:45.406 - writing of things. 00:23:45.570 --> 00:23:53.928 - But he was very instrumental, let's say, after the first draft was done, in the kind of things he felt 00:23:53.928 --> 00:24:02.285 - were either overemphasized or underemphasized. It's been terribly helpful, even in the creation of the 00:24:02.285 --> 00:24:10.724 - script. Director Peter Yates' recent movie hits include Bullet and The Deep. First of all, Steve Tesich 00:24:10.724 --> 00:24:13.726 - was an alumni of Indiana University. 00:24:13.858 --> 00:24:20.316 - and he had written the script entirely about Bloomington. So it was natural that we should 00:24:20.316 --> 00:24:27.909 - come to Bloomington and see whether it was going to work and whether it was going to fit into Bloomington. 00:24:27.909 --> 00:24:35.147 - And we've tried to make this as un-Hollywood a picture as possible and really try and present Indiana 00:24:35.147 --> 00:24:42.314 - University and Bloomington as it is and then set the sort of the bizarre and the unusual against the 00:24:42.314 --> 00:24:43.166 - backgrounds 00:24:43.714 --> 00:24:49.897 - I think the backgrounds are going to surprise a lot of people. I don't know, for so often, films about 00:24:49.897 --> 00:24:55.961 - the Midwest have been made to look as if the Midwest was a sort of down place. You know, I've always 00:24:55.961 --> 00:25:01.964 - seen these films like The Last Picture Show and all this. You will really look and you think, oh, I 00:25:01.964 --> 00:25:08.087 - never want to go there. But really, we've tried to find locations which all exist around Bloomington, 00:25:08.087 --> 00:25:13.310 - which are extremely colorful. I mean, like the quarries and like the little 500 rates. 00:25:13.410 --> 00:25:19.557 - so many of the buildings in the university, which I think are really beautiful. And I'm afraid we may 00:25:19.557 --> 00:25:26.005 - be responsible for bringing an awful lot of tourists to Bloomington, looking for the beautiful surrounding 00:25:26.005 --> 00:25:32.091 - countryside that they'll see in this picture. The biggest event of the shooting was the restaging of 00:25:32.091 --> 00:25:38.118 - the Little 500 bike race in the 10th Street Stadium. The movie, originally titled Bambino and later 00:25:38.118 --> 00:25:41.854 - changed to Breaking Away, reaches its climax during the race. 00:25:42.370 --> 00:25:48.803 - and thousands of students and extras and even some local dignitaries showed up for the event. President 00:25:48.803 --> 00:25:55.297 - Ryan, are you playing the president of the university in this movie? Well, yes. I'm in the movie because 00:25:55.297 --> 00:25:59.998 - they have a scene with the president and they allowed me to play that role. 00:26:00.674 --> 00:26:05.870 - And you said something like 16 lines? Couldn't get Ronald Goldman. 16 lines and two words on the 17th 00:26:05.870 --> 00:26:11.118 - line. Will you be compromising your role as president with these 16 lines, or are they things that you 00:26:11.118 --> 00:26:16.416 - would tend to say? No, they just, they make me look awfully good, I think. Chancellor Wells, I see they 00:26:16.416 --> 00:26:21.613 - recruited some very notable extras in this movie. Do you have a speaking part? No, I have no speaking 00:26:21.613 --> 00:26:26.860 - part. I'm certainly not a principal. Mr. Armstrong, is this your big day for being in the movie? Well, 00:26:26.860 --> 00:26:29.662 - it's my big day for being in the movie. It's my debut. 00:26:29.986 --> 00:26:35.608 - But I've been ready for years. Do you have your lines memorized? My lines are all memorized and I'm 00:26:35.608 --> 00:26:41.568 - just ready for the take. And when they have Daughter of Bambino, you'll be ready for that one too, right? 00:26:41.568 --> 00:26:47.247 - Oh, I'm ready for the second and third one because I'll be just right. It was all great fun and will 00:26:47.247 --> 00:26:52.869 - even be more fun when Breaking Away has its world premiere in Bloomington at the IU Auditorium next 00:26:52.869 --> 00:26:55.006 - spring during the Little 500 weekend. 00:26:59.106 --> 00:27:06.646 - So that was a 1978 basketball halftime show, yeah. I'm so glad that that worked out. I was rewatching 00:27:06.646 --> 00:27:14.334 - this the other day as I was preparing for this and I was like, oh my gosh, Daughter of Bambino and here 00:27:14.334 --> 00:27:21.726 - it's coming, you know. So obviously that's an update from when I did the mini university last year. 00:27:21.858 --> 00:27:27.652 - You know, not only because of everything that's happening right now, but I also wanted to talk about, 00:27:27.652 --> 00:27:33.332 - you know, Steve Tesich, who was the author and the alum, his papers recently came to the university 00:27:33.332 --> 00:27:38.046 - archives. And so we are very, very fortunate that we are able to provide access to 00:27:38.242 --> 00:27:44.146 - He mentioned that it was originally called the Bambino. He mentioned that he went through several drafts. 00:27:44.146 --> 00:27:49.994 - We have those drafts. It was the Eagle of Knapp Town is one of the things that it was originally called. 00:27:49.994 --> 00:27:55.787 - And it's all based on his buddy, David Blaze, who was a writer and was his fraternity brother. And this 00:27:55.787 --> 00:28:01.413 - guy would have been able to ride the entire race himself, all of the laps, except for the little 500 00:28:01.413 --> 00:28:07.094 - rules would not allow for that to happen. And so in the collection, we have, and this is hard to see, 00:28:07.094 --> 00:28:08.208 - but this is, so let 00:28:08.208 --> 00:28:15.672 - tell you how this came to us actually last fall last winter I got a call I picked it up and the woman 00:28:15.672 --> 00:28:17.502 - on the other end said hi 00:28:17.698 --> 00:28:24.514 - I'm Becky Tesich, and my husband was Steve Tesich. Do you know who that is, and do you want his papers? 00:28:24.514 --> 00:28:31.264 - And I knew. I said yes, and yes. Yes, yes, yes, yes. And so when talking with her, she said, well, I'm 00:28:31.264 --> 00:28:38.080 - sorry to tell you that I don't. It's got all of these drafts, and it has some of his plays, and novels, 00:28:38.080 --> 00:28:42.078 - and short stories. It's really a rich, beautiful collection. 00:28:42.274 --> 00:28:47.084 - I don't have the screenplay for breaking away because I loaned it to somebody and they never gave it 00:28:47.084 --> 00:28:48.894 - back. And I was like, well, that's... 00:28:49.122 --> 00:28:55.669 - too bad, but that's fine. We still are very interested in it. Well, when the boxes came to the archives 00:28:55.669 --> 00:29:02.153 - and we started going through it, no, it didn't have Breaking Away, but it had Bambino by Steve Tesich, 00:29:02.153 --> 00:29:08.575 - February 1978. It had The Cutters, which was another one. It had the Eagle of Naphtown. So we had all 00:29:08.575 --> 00:29:14.996 - these different versions of the production, which was just so fascinating. And there's a lot of notes 00:29:14.996 --> 00:29:19.088 - in there about changes that he and the production company wanted 00:29:19.088 --> 00:29:25.466 - make to the screenplay before they shot it or as they were shooting it. It has Bambino cast lists. So 00:29:25.466 --> 00:29:31.782 - this is where Dennis Quaid lived in 1978. It has his address and his telephone number. I checked. He 00:29:31.782 --> 00:29:38.222 - probably doesn't live there anymore. I looked it up. So I'm OK with sharing it. And it has all of this 00:29:38.222 --> 00:29:44.475 - press. And that's the case for all of the materials that we received from him. It has the drafts of 00:29:44.475 --> 00:29:49.040 - the materials. And then oftentimes, it has copies, folders full of press 00:29:49.040 --> 00:29:55.844 - related to it. So it's just this really rich, fantastic collection. I said that a lot of times we like 00:29:55.844 --> 00:30:02.450 - to focus on, you know, alums' times at Indiana University, you know, their undergraduate years. But 00:30:02.450 --> 00:30:09.055 - we will collect from before or after that. You know, this is exactly an example of where there's no 00:30:09.055 --> 00:30:12.094 - way I was going to say no. So fun, fun stuff. 00:30:12.482 --> 00:30:19.883 - And so now I'd like to take us into a little bit of a history of IU's fires, of which there are many, 00:30:19.883 --> 00:30:24.382 - and that is not unusual for institutions of higher education. 00:30:24.450 --> 00:30:31.033 - IU's first major fire occurred on April 9th, 1854, and the wee hours of the morning, the college building, 00:30:31.033 --> 00:30:37.493 - which is depicted here on the right, was destroyed. Once the alarm was raised by a brakeman on a passing 00:30:37.493 --> 00:30:43.830 - freight train, responders found that the fire ran through the stairwell, making it impossible for them 00:30:43.830 --> 00:30:49.982 - to do much to save the building. According to newspapers, all that remained was the exterior walls, 00:30:50.114 --> 00:30:57.018 - an estimated $15,000 worth of damage, which of course in 1854 was extensive. We're still not really 00:30:57.018 --> 00:31:03.921 - certain what caused the fire. IU historian Thomas Clark said that, wrote that a plausible guess was 00:31:03.921 --> 00:31:11.170 - that students had been making and smoking cigars at the base of the stairs and then thrown lighted butts 00:31:11.170 --> 00:31:13.310 - into the janitor's trash pile. 00:31:14.050 --> 00:31:21.286 - So Clark had a guess there, but locals had a different thought. The Bloomington public believed that 00:31:21.286 --> 00:31:28.594 - a man named Alexander H. Buchanan and another unnamed individual were guilty of causing the fire. And 00:31:28.594 --> 00:31:36.260 - in August 1854, they burned these gentlemen in effigy in downtown Bloomington. This Bloomington Newsletter 00:31:36.260 --> 00:31:37.406 - article reports 00:31:37.506 --> 00:31:44.688 - And here, I'm going to get out my drama. I used to be in place. We heard the frequent shouts of, who 00:31:44.688 --> 00:31:52.012 - burnt the college? Answered Alexander H. Buchanan. As the effigy of Buchanan was burned, they shouted, 00:31:52.012 --> 00:31:56.350 - there's the man that burnt the college. Very, very dramatic. 00:31:56.738 --> 00:32:03.787 - I still have not found any records that definitively indicate who Buchanan was. He wasn't a student, 00:32:03.787 --> 00:32:10.836 - he wasn't a member of the faculty or the staff. There's an 1850 census that lists Alex Buchanan as a 00:32:10.836 --> 00:32:17.885 - farmer who lived in Lawrence County. I don't know if that is the person and what it is about Indiana 00:32:17.885 --> 00:32:24.446 - University that had him all, his feathers all ruffled. And I still haven't turned up anything 00:32:24.610 --> 00:32:31.076 - that explains why he and this other unnamed person were thought to be the cause of the fire. Although 00:32:31.076 --> 00:32:37.733 - this article from the New Albany Daily Tribune says that IU President William Daley had, quote, positive 00:32:37.733 --> 00:32:44.073 - evidence as to the culpability of Buchanan. We have very little records from Daley's presidency, so 00:32:44.073 --> 00:32:50.539 - I have not really been able to dig into it and see what we can find. It's just one of those mysteries 00:32:50.539 --> 00:32:51.934 - still to be explored. 00:32:52.514 --> 00:33:00.211 - It wasn't known if IU, still a very young university at this time, was going to be able to survive this 00:33:00.211 --> 00:33:07.834 - tragedy. So it was 1854. First classes began in 1825, so not even 30 years. They had lost the entirety 00:33:07.834 --> 00:33:15.309 - of the library, all of the school's records, all of its equipment. The building was not insured. The 00:33:15.309 --> 00:33:21.822 - building was not insured. But IU rallied. Thinking creatively as to how to raise funds, 00:33:21.986 --> 00:33:27.893 - the university established scholarships that were available for purchase. And I'm going to talk about 00:33:27.893 --> 00:33:33.800 - this today, but I do want to mention that in January, John Summerlot is going to be returning to your 00:33:33.800 --> 00:33:39.186 - group to talk about these scholarships in much more detail, and he has really dug into them. 00:33:39.186 --> 00:33:45.209 - So this is, think of this as a little, hey, so little teaser. So they have these scholarships available 00:33:45.209 --> 00:33:48.510 - for purchase. $25 would give you a two-year scholarship. 00:33:48.610 --> 00:33:55.326 - $50 a four-year scholarship and $100 would get you a perpetual scholarship. 00:33:55.554 --> 00:34:01.762 - perpetual scholarship. There were a number of rules that would along with the scholarship, but it was 00:34:01.762 --> 00:34:07.848 - a really good deal, and IU sold approximately 60 scholarships. Under the established regulations of 00:34:07.848 --> 00:34:14.177 - the perpetual scholarship, one scholar at a time could use the scholarship, and it could only be passed 00:34:14.177 --> 00:34:20.264 - down to the son or grandson of the purchaser, because at that time, 1854, it was all still sons and 00:34:20.264 --> 00:34:23.550 - grandsons. There were no women at Indiana University. 00:34:23.778 --> 00:34:29.967 - the son or grandson of the purchaser after the death of the purchaser. At that time, quote, the right 00:34:29.967 --> 00:34:36.096 - of tuition shall descend by perpetuity to such descendant or other person as may be specified in the 00:34:36.096 --> 00:34:42.649 - will of the purchaser. And the right shall descend from generation to generation by will and not otherwise. 00:34:42.649 --> 00:34:49.021 - The tuition could only cover the academic and literary departments that did not apply to the law school, 00:34:49.021 --> 00:34:53.086 - which was one of the few separate schools that we had at the time. 00:34:53.506 --> 00:34:58.905 - In 1890, the Board of Trustees discussed the scholarships with the Committee on Legal Affairs advising 00:34:58.905 --> 00:35:04.304 - the board. Your committee is informed that a large number of students are now attending the university 00:35:04.304 --> 00:35:09.545 - upon such scholarships who are not entitled. So apparently they weren't really keeping track of the 00:35:09.545 --> 00:35:14.892 - rules of the scholarship. They recommended that after the current term, the university announced they 00:35:14.892 --> 00:35:20.186 - would be tightening the acceptance of the scholarship to ensure they are only accepted following the 00:35:20.186 --> 00:35:21.182 - established rules. 00:35:21.826 --> 00:35:29.170 - The trustees minutes show that the matter has come up periodically and my colleague John Summerlot has 00:35:29.170 --> 00:35:36.513 - been digging into it and says that someone actually came forward with a claim as recent as 2017. Yeah, 00:35:36.513 --> 00:35:44.000 - but the last student I can confirm who used one of the perpetual scholarships was in 1989 when a student 00:35:44.000 --> 00:35:51.486 - brought forth his great, great, great grandfather certificate. At that time, IU determined that legally, 00:35:51.746 --> 00:35:57.776 - They didn't have to accept it, but they chose to do so. They went ahead and they honored it. So we know 00:35:57.776 --> 00:36:03.574 - from John's research that they are still floating around. And since I've been at the archives, I've 00:36:03.574 --> 00:36:09.605 - worked with general counsel, the university's lawyers, to do some research on it. And they came up with 00:36:09.605 --> 00:36:11.518 - some new guidelines in 2007 that 00:36:11.746 --> 00:36:17.031 - wrote up eligibility requirements that says that the holder must document that they received 00:36:17.031 --> 00:36:22.770 - their certificate through a chain of transfers by will, specifically by will, that trace back to the 00:36:22.770 --> 00:36:28.452 - original purchase. They did determine, however, that meeting that requirement, they did not need to 00:36:28.452 --> 00:36:30.782 - be a direct descendant of the purchaser. 00:36:31.746 --> 00:36:38.036 - So this was a bit of creative fundraising that the university was taking up to try to rebuild. So in 00:36:38.036 --> 00:36:44.263 - addition to this, the community donated smaller amounts to raise $10,000 in total. Also out of this 00:36:44.263 --> 00:36:50.615 - tragedy rose the Alumni Association, initiated by IU President William Daley, who recognized that the 00:36:50.615 --> 00:36:57.030 - struggling institution needed friends and advocates. IU was on its way to being back on its feet, from 00:36:57.030 --> 00:36:58.462 - this tragedy at least. 00:36:59.202 --> 00:37:06.207 - By the end of 1855, IU completed a replacement building known by various names throughout its lifetime, 00:37:06.207 --> 00:37:12.942 - but mainly as the first university building. So here's a little bit of good insider information for 00:37:12.942 --> 00:37:19.947 - you that you can wow your friends and family with. So I've circled this little bit of the architectural 00:37:19.947 --> 00:37:24.190 - detail on this building here. Let's zoom in a little bit more. 00:37:24.290 --> 00:37:30.796 - Zoom in a little closer. So there were these two porticoes that were salvaged from the building for 00:37:30.796 --> 00:37:37.823 - IU's use. One proposal was to, later on, one proposal was to use the arches as a campus gateway at Kirkwood 00:37:37.823 --> 00:37:44.394 - Avenue. This predated the sample gates by nearly 100 years. But it was determined that they were too 00:37:44.394 --> 00:37:49.534 - small for this purpose. Trustee and alum Theodore Rose had another suggestion. 00:37:49.666 --> 00:37:56.229 - How about they use the structure over the campus cistern? So if you go to campus and you visit the Well 00:37:56.229 --> 00:38:02.729 - House, you're going to be seeing a piece of the first university building from Seminary Square campus. 00:38:02.729 --> 00:38:09.291 - Yeah. So it went through a couple of design proposals, but we now know the final result as the Theodore 00:38:09.291 --> 00:38:15.602 - F. Rose Well House as Rose paid for construction of the house in honor of the class of 1875. It was 00:38:15.602 --> 00:38:19.262 - completed in time for the 1908 commencement celebrations. 00:38:19.362 --> 00:38:26.163 - So that was all good news until back to fires. I did this photoshopping, I don't know, years ago, and 00:38:26.163 --> 00:38:32.830 - I know it's horrible, but I cannot let it go, because it's so amazing at the same time, am I right? 00:38:33.602 --> 00:38:40.239 - So now 30 years after the 1854 fire, IU faced its next devastating fire, that of Science Hall in 1883, 00:38:40.239 --> 00:38:47.005 - which had just been completed 10 years prior. This fire was a real turning point for Indiana University. 00:38:47.005 --> 00:38:53.513 - Does it remain in Bloomington? Which was a question that came up a lot. I was chatting with somebody 00:38:53.513 --> 00:39:00.021 - right before Bedford came up as a suggestion. Indianapolis came up time and time again as moving the 00:39:00.021 --> 00:39:01.374 - university up there. 00:39:01.826 --> 00:39:08.317 - Does it remain in town? Does it rebuild on site? I even read an editorial that suggested that IU and 00:39:08.317 --> 00:39:15.000 - the quote state normal school, now Indiana State University, consolidate with Purdue. It was determined 00:39:15.000 --> 00:39:21.619 - that the current site, in the end, the current site was just not going to work out because in the time 00:39:21.619 --> 00:39:24.190 - that IU had settled at Seminary Square, 00:39:24.386 --> 00:39:31.220 - the railroad had come in. And so if they wanted to expand to the west, they were going to have railroad 00:39:31.220 --> 00:39:38.186 - tracks running through the campus. And in addition, there was this stream on campus that really prevented 00:39:38.186 --> 00:39:44.823 - some additional construction in the area. So they shopped around to try to see what they could find. 00:39:44.823 --> 00:39:51.394 - The county donated $50,000 to keep IU in Monroe County. And university leaders decided to remain in 00:39:51.394 --> 00:39:53.694 - town, but it was time to relocate. 00:39:53.890 --> 00:40:01.120 - So here's a picture from about 1885 of Indiana University. They purchased 20 acres from the Dunn family 00:40:01.120 --> 00:40:08.350 - northeast of Seminary Square, and construction was underway by spring of 1884. So these are some really 00:40:08.350 --> 00:40:14.398 - early pictures of Wiley Hall and Owen Hall, the first two buildings on the new campus. 00:40:15.234 --> 00:40:21.683 - So here's a little bit of a fun fact, a little insider information. If you've walked around campus, 00:40:21.683 --> 00:40:28.325 - you might have noticed that Owen and Wiley Hall are the only two brick buildings on campus. Everything 00:40:28.325 --> 00:40:35.806 - else is limestone or some other sort of more recently cement for the Eskenazi and whatnot. That's because Owen Hall 00:40:36.002 --> 00:40:42.631 - was at least partially constructed utilizing bricks and stones that were salvaged from the destroyed 00:40:42.631 --> 00:40:49.523 - science hall. They wanted to get started as quickly as they could. And IU has always been green, reduce, 00:40:49.523 --> 00:40:56.414 - reuse, recycle. So they were reusing some of those materials. So let's just take in this little close-up 00:40:56.414 --> 00:41:03.043 - look at Wiley Hall. It's hard to see through the trees, I know. But if you look closely, you can see 00:41:03.043 --> 00:41:05.406 - that there's a tower in Wiley Hall. 00:41:07.970 --> 00:41:11.358 - And I've circled it here so it kind of jumps out a little bit more. 00:41:11.586 --> 00:41:18.003 - Yeah, that burned down. Fires, I'm telling you, fires all the way through. So this is February 7th, 00:41:18.003 --> 00:41:24.484 - 1900. This is the only known photo of the Wiley Hall fire, and this was pulled from the yearbook. We 00:41:24.484 --> 00:41:31.221 - don't actually own a photograph of it. No one was present for what was determined to be a chemical fire, 00:41:31.221 --> 00:41:37.766 - which mostly destroyed the second and third floors. In order to reach the only phone on campus, which 00:41:37.766 --> 00:41:41.552 - was located in nearby Maxwell Hall, then Professor William 00:41:41.552 --> 00:41:49.014 - and later president of the university, hoisted another professor on his shoulder and helped him to the 00:41:49.014 --> 00:41:56.548 - transom at Maxwell Hall so they could get to the only telephone on campus and call the fire department. 00:41:56.548 --> 00:42:04.010 - And so that was memorialized in the student yearbook later in the year. So you can see President Brian 00:42:04.010 --> 00:42:08.574 - here, well, Professor Brian at the time, hoisted him up there. 00:42:09.794 --> 00:42:15.588 - Upon reconstruction, it was decided that instead of rebuilding that tower, enrollment just continued 00:42:15.588 --> 00:42:21.611 - to climb as it always has. It just climbs and climbs and climbs. So they ended up just putting new floor 00:42:21.611 --> 00:42:24.766 - on there so that they would have more classroom space. 00:42:26.498 --> 00:42:33.383 - So staying in the theme of fires, some of you might have been here and might remember that we used to 00:42:33.383 --> 00:42:40.403 - have this East Hall that was located where the Musical Arts Center is located right now. So after World 00:42:40.403 --> 00:42:44.926 - War II, and this is a fascinating history, but after World War II, 00:42:44.994 --> 00:42:52.185 - President Wells really worked with his administration and with the federal government to bring all sorts 00:42:52.185 --> 00:42:59.034 - of military surplus buildings to campus so that they could repurpose them for student housing. They 00:42:59.034 --> 00:43:06.225 - brought for student housing, for offices, for classroom space. And this is actually a repurposed barrack 00:43:06.225 --> 00:43:13.211 - that was on what's now Eagleson Avenue where the musical arts center is located now that was used for 00:43:13.211 --> 00:43:14.718 - music and for operas. 00:43:15.010 --> 00:43:23.424 - It was, you know, any temporary, these were all supposed to be temporary, so this came right after World 00:43:23.424 --> 00:43:31.677 - War II. It was in place until the 1960s. There was a fire, saw its final performance in July 1967 with 00:43:31.677 --> 00:43:40.010 - plans for raising. It was the victim of an electrical fire in January 1968, and we have a photo of that 00:43:40.010 --> 00:43:42.174 - here. So I gave this talk, 00:43:43.010 --> 00:43:50.118 - I talked about this at the University Club earlier this year. And Terry Claypacks, who is Vice President 00:43:50.118 --> 00:43:57.023 - Emeritus of IU, some of you might recognize his name, he told me afterwards, he said, you know, Dina, 00:43:57.023 --> 00:44:03.928 - he said, we were actually in a meeting talking about raising East Hall. And someone at the table made 00:44:03.928 --> 00:44:11.035 - a joke that, boy, it sure would be a shame if lightning struck and took it down. And ta-da, it happened. 00:44:11.035 --> 00:44:12.254 - So things happen. 00:44:12.706 --> 00:44:21.786 - Jumping ahead just a little bit, in 1969, the main library, now known as Franklin Hall, was struck by 00:44:21.786 --> 00:44:24.190 - arson not once, but twice. 00:44:24.482 --> 00:44:30.942 - Yeah, the fires led to over a million dollars in property damage with the same monetary loss in collections. 00:44:30.942 --> 00:44:37.106 - This was a significant fire. These were fires. While damaged, the building was saved. And by this time, 00:44:37.106 --> 00:44:43.151 - the now Wells Library was already well underway of construction. And it was far enough along that the 00:44:43.151 --> 00:44:49.196 - library could take up residence. And so they decided to go ahead and start moving the collection over 00:44:49.196 --> 00:44:50.974 - to the new building, although 00:44:51.106 --> 00:44:57.067 - They did not have the actual dedication until fall of 1970. So it took a little bit of time while they 00:44:57.067 --> 00:45:03.028 - finished it up. So this photo, if you can see it, not real well, but there is some smoke billowing out 00:45:03.028 --> 00:45:08.931 - some of the windows there. And we actually have some records in the archives that have been stored in 00:45:08.931 --> 00:45:14.949 - the basement that are tinged a little bit from smoke. And there's still some materials in the library's 00:45:14.949 --> 00:45:20.158 - collection as well that have some smoke damage from this fire. These fires, I keep fires. 00:45:20.450 --> 00:45:26.595 - And so the last fire that I'd like to talk to you about today is that of the student building which 00:45:26.595 --> 00:45:28.254 - occurred December 17 1990. 00:45:28.546 --> 00:45:34.596 - At the time, the building was under renovation and it was determined that the fire was caused by hot 00:45:34.596 --> 00:45:40.705 - coals not fully distinguished by the welders. I have talked to folks who have said that, you know, if 00:45:40.705 --> 00:45:46.875 - you were standing outside the building here, you could hear the custom-made bells from the Netherlands 00:45:46.875 --> 00:45:51.966 - just crashing down the tower and hitting, you know, the bottom as they were falling. 00:45:52.194 --> 00:45:58.619 - But they did decide to save the damaged bells, and they put them in storage for years and years, for 00:45:58.619 --> 00:46:03.262 - several years. And then just whenever Indiana University was celebrating 00:46:03.906 --> 00:46:10.821 - it's bicentennial, university administration decided to repurpose the bells and they melted them down 00:46:10.821 --> 00:46:17.872 - and they had bicentennial medals created that were given to many of IU's employees, alumni, and friends 00:46:17.872 --> 00:46:24.652 - during the bicentennial celebrations that were leading up to 2020. This is one of them. This is one 00:46:24.652 --> 00:46:31.499 - of my favorite pictures. This is IU alum and late faculty member Ruth Dipple. She graduated with her 00:46:31.499 --> 00:46:33.872 - bachelor's in 1943, got her PhD in 00:46:33.872 --> 00:46:40.875 - sociology in 1950. She was awarded a Bicentennial Medal on her 100th birthday in 2020. While working 00:46:40.875 --> 00:46:47.947 - on her PhD in the 1940s in Tracy Sonneborn's lab, the team racked up tons of awards and recognitions. 00:46:47.947 --> 00:46:55.019 - The same year, in fact, that Dr. Dippel was awarded her PhD, she was elected a fellow of the American 00:46:55.019 --> 00:47:02.021 - Association for the Advancement of Science. So she went on to spend the entirety of her career at IU 00:47:02.021 --> 00:47:03.824 - researching and teaching. 00:47:03.824 --> 00:47:12.281 - But you knew her, Chris, I'm guessing. No? OK. So I do have actually, and sound doesn't matter for this 00:47:12.281 --> 00:47:20.657 - one, Hmong says I was going through some of our digitized media. You just never know what you're going 00:47:20.657 --> 00:47:29.115 - to find. I did actually find some video of the student building fire that was taken by folks on campus. 00:47:29.115 --> 00:47:32.286 - And I'll just play a little bit of it. 00:47:34.146 --> 00:47:42.616 - You can see that it was really... Terry mentioned that it really did just mostly target the tower. You 00:47:42.616 --> 00:47:51.004 - can see the windows glowing, but he said that there wasn't really much damage down in those areas. It 00:47:51.004 --> 00:47:59.720 - really was focused on the tower. Pretty amazing what we're able to find in the archives. Okay, all right, 00:47:59.720 --> 00:48:01.694 - let's move away from... 00:48:01.890 --> 00:48:06.742 - fires now for a little while so one of the other things you know when I said I put this talk together 00:48:06.742 --> 00:48:11.642 - and I decided I was just going to piece together things that I liked and that made that I thought were 00:48:11.642 --> 00:48:16.446 - interesting you know working in the archives I get asked quite a bit like what's your favorite thing 00:48:17.250 --> 00:48:23.324 - It's hard to say, and honestly, I really mean this. It depends on the day, what I've come across that 00:48:23.324 --> 00:48:29.397 - day. But this is the thing that I probably mention most frequently, and it's what we call the pairing 00:48:29.397 --> 00:48:35.590 - letter. This letter was written by Cornelius and Susanna Hine pairing in, oh, I think I said 1835. It's 00:48:35.590 --> 00:48:41.664 - actually 1833. Cousins of the Wyleys, they emigrated from England, settling in Bloomington in 1833 so 00:48:41.664 --> 00:48:45.534 - that Cornelius could teach at the Monroe County Female Seminary. 00:48:45.890 --> 00:48:52.444 - In this letter that the couple wrote back to friends in England, Cornelius and Susanna offer a detailed 00:48:52.444 --> 00:48:58.745 - account of Monroe County, including a description of the, quote, New College or Indiana College, as 00:48:58.745 --> 00:49:05.173 - IU was known at the time. So the information shared in the letter is amazing. And I told Michael that 00:49:05.173 --> 00:49:11.600 - this has all been transcribed. And I can send him a link so that he could share it with the club. But 00:49:11.600 --> 00:49:14.814 - it's also beautiful. So I'll zoom in a little bit. 00:49:15.042 --> 00:49:22.078 - This in the middle here, Peering was also an artist. And so these are very detailed watercolor paintings 00:49:22.078 --> 00:49:28.981 - that he did in the middle of this letter to show his family what it was that he was writing about. And 00:49:28.981 --> 00:49:31.326 - zooming in here, this is, I am so, 00:49:31.426 --> 00:49:36.757 - When I see the letter was transcribed, it was not me, thank goodness. So this was written using 00:49:36.757 --> 00:49:42.311 - cross-hatching or cross-writing. So in order to save money and postage, the paper and postage, what 00:49:42.311 --> 00:49:48.365 - they did is they wrote in one direction and then they turned the paper and they wrote in the other direction 00:49:48.365 --> 00:49:52.030 - as well. So it was almost like a code to be able to sit and read. 00:49:52.098 --> 00:49:59.598 - And so thankfully, the archives over the years have had many, many, many dedicated volunteers, and one 00:49:59.598 --> 00:50:06.953 - of them took on the task of transcribing this, thankfully. So let's see, I think I said all of that. 00:50:06.953 --> 00:50:14.526 - Yep, I sure did. Okay, so zooming in on some of these images, he writes then about what he was drawing, 00:50:14.526 --> 00:50:21.662 - and so I'm gonna read you some little bits and pieces of the letter. So of this, he wrote, quote, 00:50:21.794 --> 00:50:28.303 - a tidy log building and will give you an idea of three fourths of the country farmhouses in this state. 00:50:28.303 --> 00:50:34.562 - Near it ought to be a small barn or stable and smokehouse, which I could not get in. You will see a 00:50:34.562 --> 00:50:40.821 - small specimen of fence most in use at the sides and in front near the road. The chimney is a brick 00:50:40.821 --> 00:50:47.079 - and always put up outside. When the house is built, the logs are cut away the size of the fireplace 00:50:47.079 --> 00:50:50.334 - and the chimney constructed. So you can kind of see 00:50:50.594 --> 00:50:57.403 - the fence in the background here where it's set up, crisscross. This was Cornelius's view of downtown 00:50:57.403 --> 00:51:04.079 - Bloomington. He wrote, quote, the center of this town, the middle building, is the courthouse where 00:51:04.079 --> 00:51:11.088 - all the judicial business is transacted. On the left of it is the jail. On the right, the clerk's office 00:51:11.088 --> 00:51:17.630 - and county library. Yay. The white weather boardhouse on the right forms the angle of the street. 00:51:17.698 --> 00:51:24.189 - A courthouse exists in every county town and all that I have seen have been built in precisely the same 00:51:24.189 --> 00:51:30.555 - manner. A square brick building with three windows above and one on each side below. A cupola inspire 00:51:30.555 --> 00:51:36.734 - as high above the roof as that is from the ground. A parapet brick wall surrounds these buildings. 00:51:36.802 --> 00:51:42.935 - Near the house, which is occupied as a store, is a rack, as it is called, to which persons coming in 00:51:42.935 --> 00:51:49.008 - from the country fasten their horses. You will see a log or two lying about in the street, which is 00:51:49.008 --> 00:51:55.505 - not unusual in a country town. 16 years ago, a gentleman told me he could scarcely ride through Louisville 00:51:55.505 --> 00:52:01.639 - for logs and mud holes, which was then an inconsiderable place. It has now fine, wide paved streets, 00:52:01.639 --> 00:52:03.582 - shops as gay as any in Bristol, 00:52:03.778 --> 00:52:16.151 - blended hotels, public gardens, Hackney coaches, and cabs in abundance. And then this was his view of 00:52:16.151 --> 00:52:18.334 - campus. He wrote, 00:52:18.434 --> 00:52:24.278 - The new college is the center picture, which is not yet finished in the interior. The building on the 00:52:24.278 --> 00:52:30.180 - left is the one at present occupied. It will remind you more of Mr. Rister's factory than the princely 00:52:30.180 --> 00:52:36.081 - halls of Oxford and Cambridge. But I have no doubt as good scholars will be turned out from the humble 00:52:36.081 --> 00:52:41.983 - edifice as from the more celebrated seats of learning in England. The president and professors are men 00:52:41.983 --> 00:52:47.712 - of great talent and would do honor to any university in the world. The president, Dr. Wiley, is one 00:52:47.712 --> 00:52:48.400 - of the most 00:52:48.400 --> 00:52:54.628 - eminent scholars in the United States. He occupies the chair of moral philosophy. There are several 00:52:54.628 --> 00:53:01.478 - young men who will graduate this session. The students are from various states. We have some from Louisville, 00:53:01.478 --> 00:53:07.706 - Tennessee, Virginia, Pennsylvania, Kentucky, and Illinois besides those from this state. They board 00:53:07.706 --> 00:53:09.886 - in town from $1.25 to $2 per week. 00:53:09.986 --> 00:53:18.741 - The admission fees are only $15 a year, which it is expected will be soon altogether dispensed with 00:53:18.741 --> 00:53:27.670 - as the college is richly endowed by the state. The president's salary is $1,000 a year and a third of 00:53:27.670 --> 00:53:33.886 - the tuition fees. Each of the professors $800 and a third of the fees. 00:53:34.466 --> 00:53:40.104 - You will observe that the land has been recently cleared and that the stumps of the trees are not yet 00:53:40.104 --> 00:53:45.798 - entirely rotten. Trees are always cut down with the axe, a foot or two from the ground, and the stumps 00:53:45.798 --> 00:53:51.547 - left to rot, which they do in eight or 10 years. Some persons in clearing merely cut away the low brush 00:53:51.547 --> 00:53:57.295 - wood where it exists and deaden the trees by cutting a circle around them with the axe toe two or three 00:53:57.295 --> 00:53:58.014 - inches deep. 00:53:58.146 --> 00:54:03.851 - In a year or two, the trees are quite dead, and the first high wind blows them down when they are rolled 00:54:03.851 --> 00:54:08.958 - into a pile and burnt. So I would have stopped it a little bit about the school, but I always 00:54:09.154 --> 00:54:14.725 - When I see these drawings, I'm like, why is all that garbage there? And so there was a plan. There was 00:54:14.725 --> 00:54:20.351 - a reason. So I've got another video that I want to finish with here today. But I think that the pairing 00:54:20.351 --> 00:54:25.760 - letter is a really good example, again, of archives and what they can tell us. I mean, this is from 00:54:25.760 --> 00:54:31.223 - 1833. There is not a whole lot of records and materials available from that time period. And here he 00:54:31.223 --> 00:54:36.794 - has told us what the classrooms look like, what the buildings look like on the inside, what the people 00:54:36.794 --> 00:54:39.120 - were like, if you read through the letter, 00:54:39.120 --> 00:54:48.478 - They were having a whole lot of trouble getting domestic help at their house. And so that was very much 00:54:48.478 --> 00:54:57.566 - concerned Mrs. Perry. So I think that if I had to say leave you all with some sort of tie it up in a 00:54:57.566 --> 00:55:06.654 - bow, it's just that archives matter. And archives make your lives richer and bring history home. OK. 00:55:07.394 --> 00:55:13.821 - So I've got one more video, so I'm going to get that playing for you. And I guess I'll go ahead and 00:55:13.821 --> 00:55:20.441 - I'll introduce this one a little bit. So this was a halftime show from the late 1980s, I think it was. 00:55:20.441 --> 00:55:26.868 - And it's going to show a kind of controversial figure, but he did a lot of good for the university. 00:55:26.868 --> 00:55:33.487 - And so I thought I wanted to share this, because it might show you a side that you didn't know. I hear 00:55:33.487 --> 00:55:36.958 - some chuckling. I think some folks know who I'm going 00:55:37.378 --> 00:55:48.920 - I took Bobby Knight's coaching and basketball class because he is one of the best coaches in the country 00:55:48.920 --> 00:56:00.242 - and I thought from taking a class from him that I would get a good sound basic knowledge to go out and 00:56:00.242 --> 00:56:06.398 - be able to start maybe my own program or help assist on 00:56:06.658 --> 00:56:12.501 - a coaching program when I go out to teach. Coach Knight has been an excellent teacher. Everybody knows 00:56:12.501 --> 00:56:18.344 - him as a media figure, but they don't realize that he's a very effective teacher in the classroom. And 00:56:18.344 --> 00:56:24.017 - his assistants have been doing an excellent job. Coach, how is this class organized in the sense of 00:56:24.017 --> 00:56:30.030 - what can students expect to get involved in during the class? Well, first of all, we have two lab periods 00:56:30.030 --> 00:56:35.646 - each week. And the class lasts a total of eight weeks, so we have 16 lab periods for each student. 00:56:35.810 --> 00:56:42.149 - and 16 lecture periods for each student. Now, what we do in the class is we go in two different directions. 00:56:42.149 --> 00:56:48.135 - I try to talk about teaching and coaching, not the teaching and coaching of basketball, but just what 00:56:48.135 --> 00:56:54.239 - I think is important in the teaching profession, what I think the kids are going to encounter once they 00:56:54.239 --> 00:57:00.460 - become teachers and dealing with the parents, communities, administrations, and so forth. Then the second 00:57:00.460 --> 00:57:04.510 - phase of this class involves the game of basketball. We try to teach 00:57:04.706 --> 00:57:11.014 - basketball as we play it not basketball as basketball but simply as we play it we try to go through 00:57:11.014 --> 00:57:17.322 - the drills that we use the development of fundamentals that we use here at the university providing 00:57:17.322 --> 00:57:23.882 - these kids with a background that they can call upon should they go on from graduation here to actually 00:57:23.882 --> 00:57:30.505 - teach or coach basketball at some level. In the typical class what is the mix of students in other words 00:57:30.505 --> 00:57:31.262 - are some in 00:57:31.394 --> 00:57:37.421 - some wanting to be coaches, you have the novice who's just in there to learn something. I think the 00:57:37.421 --> 00:57:43.447 - vast majority of our kids are probably kids who have some aspiration of coaching basketball. Others 00:57:43.447 --> 00:57:49.715 - are just going into coaching period and some just take the class to take the class as an elective. It's 00:57:49.715 --> 00:57:53.150 - part of a comprehensive sports program that's offered by 00:57:53.250 --> 00:57:59.461 - the physical education people and methods of coaching various sports. What is the role that your staff 00:57:59.461 --> 00:58:05.551 - plays in this? Well, the staff handles all the basketball. They teach the lab classes, they show the 00:58:05.551 --> 00:58:12.063 - drills, they go over the things that we try to do offensively and defensively. With the game of basketball, 00:58:12.063 --> 00:58:18.273 - we try to give them some things that they're going to be able to use later on in coaching, things that 00:58:18.273 --> 00:58:22.494 - we've gone through and that we've learned in our coaching experience. 00:58:23.074 --> 00:58:29.418 - Well, what we hope to do is just be in a position where people are learning fundamentals in a way or 00:58:29.418 --> 00:58:35.824 - in a hope that they'll be able to teach those fundamentals. You had your first major college coaching 00:58:35.824 --> 00:58:42.168 - position at the age, I believe, of 24. What advice would you have for a person, a young person today 00:58:42.168 --> 00:58:48.449 - who would like to go into coaching? The student or the person who wants to go into coaching has got 00:58:48.449 --> 00:58:51.966 - to be able to evaluate and examine his own personality. 00:58:52.706 --> 00:58:59.683 - And if he can't make stands, if he can't be decisive, if he can't stand alone, if he can't do some things 00:58:59.683 --> 00:59:06.397 - that are gonna be unpopular, if he worries about whether people like him are not coaching, is not the 00:59:06.397 --> 00:59:13.111 - profession for the guy to go into in the first place. Like Harry Truman wrote a letter to his brother 00:59:13.111 --> 00:59:19.760 - once. And he said, some days I make decisions that are roundly applauded and I receive acclaims from 00:59:19.760 --> 00:59:22.590 - all corners of the country. On other days, 00:59:22.690 --> 00:59:29.759 - I make decisions that are equally good for the country and am thoroughly criticized. So I've simply 00:59:29.759 --> 00:59:36.827 - decided to examine every situation, do what I think is best in the hell with things. I think that's 00:59:36.827 --> 00:59:44.249 - great advice for a guy going into coaching. That's fun. And that's what I've got for you today. So thank 00:59:44.249 --> 00:59:51.742 - you so much. I don't know if there's time. If you have any questions, if I'm able to answer them, I will. 00:59:55.106 --> 01:00:03.761 - Yes, I see a hand back there. Yeah, so the question was about can the public come to the University 01:00:03.761 --> 01:00:12.417 - Archives and how do you make arrangements for that? We do ask that folks schedule appointments just 01:00:12.417 --> 01:00:19.774 - because we are located in the Wells Library. We're in E460 East Tower, fourth floor. 01:00:19.874 --> 01:00:25.595 - And the bulk of our collection is stored off site. So we need to have some time to pull together materials 01:00:25.595 --> 01:00:31.050 - that you might like to see. The reading room is open from 9 to 445, Monday through Friday. Now, we do 01:00:31.050 --> 01:00:36.504 - have some things on site that you're welcome to just pop in and take a look at, such as the yearbooks 01:00:36.504 --> 01:00:42.011 - and those sorts of things. But for most, it's best if you make an appointment and let us know. And the 01:00:42.011 --> 01:00:47.198 - email is really easy, archives at iu.edu. And just send a note, and we'll take care of you. Yes? 01:00:49.602 --> 01:00:58.477 - I'm coming. One of your first slides, you had the woman with Ernie Pyle on the baseball team. In the 01:00:58.477 --> 01:01:07.352 - lower right-hand corner was a picture of Leon Vargen. What is he doing in the archives? He should be 01:01:07.352 --> 01:01:16.315 - in the archives. Yes. So Leon Vargen, he was a graduate student at Indiana University in the 70s. And 01:01:16.315 --> 01:01:19.390 - he was just this campus prankster. 01:01:19.714 --> 01:01:27.386 - And so many folks remember him. But it was all very good natured prankster. And he did a public access 01:01:27.386 --> 01:01:35.356 - television show called Vern and Evelyn. And we have some of those videos, the Eumatics. He had a newspaper 01:01:35.356 --> 01:01:43.550 - called Fun City that he published and put out. And we have a really rich collection of Leon Varjan materials. 01:01:43.550 --> 01:01:47.870 - His family, his sister gave those to us not too long ago. 01:01:48.322 --> 01:01:54.382 - I say not too long ago, it's probably 15 years ago now at this point. And it's fascinating. I mean, 01:01:54.382 --> 01:02:00.441 - it's just a really fascinating look at what was going on on campus at the time. He ran for trustee, 01:02:00.441 --> 01:02:06.622 - he ran for Bloomington mayor, and it was always under this really goofy party. I can't remember what, 01:02:06.622 --> 01:02:09.470 - the birthday party, it was the birthday party. 01:02:09.570 --> 01:02:16.602 - So, and he actually went on to be an award-winning teacher, high school teacher, math teacher. We've 01:02:16.602 --> 01:02:23.634 - had folks who have said that he changed their lives. He unfortunately died too young. I think he was 01:02:23.634 --> 01:02:30.805 - in his 50s. But yeah, so yeah, we have Leon Barjan's papers at the archives. Yes. The Banana Olympics. 01:02:30.805 --> 01:02:35.678 - He hosted the Banana Olympics in Dunmeto. Oh my gosh. Any other? Yes. 01:02:39.426 --> 01:02:46.409 - that burned for the student building. The IU Foundation of course used those in a lot of donor recognition. 01:02:46.409 --> 01:02:52.874 - We always wondered how much there was in there because they were stretched out in terms of uses but 01:02:52.874 --> 01:02:54.814 - they were also used for that. 01:03:00.290 --> 01:03:05.653 - Well, I encourage you, if you're really interested in those perpetual scholarships, John has really 01:03:05.653 --> 01:03:11.070 - dug into those and has some really fun stories to share with you in January. So of course you should 01:03:11.070 --> 01:03:16.755 - come every month, but you can get a little bit more info on that. And I have up at this table my business 01:03:16.755 --> 01:03:22.387 - cards if anybody wants to follow up with anything else. And then let me just say that we are fundraising 01:03:22.387 --> 01:03:28.018 - to digitize the Indiana Daily student. If anybody is interested, there's information about that up there 01:03:28.018 --> 01:03:30.110 - as well. Thank you. Thank you so much.