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 Adams Hall
Charles Kendall Adams
Born at Derby, Vermont, January 24, 1835. His early years were spent upon farms in his native state and Iowa. He had passed his majority before he could afford time to fit himself for college. Matriculating at the University of Michigan in 1857, he supported himself by teaching school and doing other work, and graduated in 1861, obtaining the degree of M.A. from his Alma Mater in the following year.
At first serving in the University as instructor in Latin and History, he was advanced in 1863 to the position of assistant professor. Four years later he was given the full professorship of History, and immediately thereafter spent a year and a half in study at leading universities in Germany, France, and Italy. Soon after returning to his post at Michigan, he established there a seminary in history, upon the German plan, one of the first in this country. In due course, he became Dean of the School of Political Science, and established a wide reputation as a student and teacher of history.
He had for some time been the non-resident lecturer on history at Cornell University, when, in 1885, he was called to the presidency of that institution. Under his administration, the numerical attendance there advanced from 560 to over 1,500, and the University's endowment was increased by nearly two million dollars. In many ways, he broadened and deepened the work at Cornell, but resigned in 1892 with the intention of thereafter devoting himself to historical writing.
He at once, however, received several invitations to resume educational work; and finally, though with much hesitancy, accepted the call to the presidency of the University of Wisconsin, entering upon his duties at the beginning of the academic year of 1892-93, although he was not formally inaugurated until January 1893. He enjoyed the reputation of being one of the leading educators in the United States. He was the author of many articles on history. The degree of LL.D. was conferred upon him by Harvard University in 1886.
An invincible purpose to accomplish whatever he set before him was President Adams' most characteristic trait. He resigned the presidency of the University on January 4, 1902. He died July 26, 1902.
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 Barnard Hall
Henry Barnard
Henry Barnard was the second Chancellor of the University of Wisconsin serving in the position for only two years, 1859-1861. Barnard Hall opened in the fall of 1913 and was the second women's residence hall on campus, after the original Chadbourne Hall. Today it is the University's oldest continuously operating residence hall, and still features the wide hallways, elaborate parlor and cozy buffet room that have always drawn students to live there.
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 Bradley Hall
Harold C. Bradley
Professor Harold Cornelius Bradley was a "champion of the student community", according to UW-Madison's history books, and was a well-respected member of the faculty. He was wealthy of both spirit and finances, contributing actively to the life of undergraduate students and to Medical education. The Bradley Learning Community could not have been named for a better person. Bradley was an early and strong advocate for faculty and student out-of-class interaction, being one of the founders and designers of Hoofers, University Health Services, the Lakeshore Residence Halls, and the Memorial Union's student governance system.
Born in California in 1878, Professor Bradley came to the University of Wisconsin as a junior professor of Biochemistry and Physiology in 1906, having just received his doctorate in Physiological Chemistry from Yale. Then President Charles Van Hise and the founding Dean of the Medical School, Charles R. Bardeen, hired Bradley as one of a team of three faculty to develop a true medical education at the university. In 1907, Professor Bradley initiated instruction in Physiology and Physiological Chemistry. Physiological Chemistry became an independent department in 1921 and was headed by Bradley until 1947. He was extremely outgoing, forthright, and personable, suiting him well to take leadership on campus and in his scientific organizations. (One UW-Madison history book remarked that a testament to his leadership ability was that he garnered local and national recognition for his relatively small department in the shadow of a much stronger and extremely successful Biochemistry department in the College of Agriculture).
Some aspects of Bradley's out-of-class student-faculty interaction could only have occurred when they did: within two years of coming to Madison, Professor Bradley met, fell in love with, and married an undergraduate in her junior year. Mary Josephine Crane became an accomplished organizer and philanthropist in her own right; the fact that she was completely deaf from age two did not appear to slow her down. The bride's father, wealthy Chicago industrialist Charles Crane, was a personal friend of Chicago architect Louis Sullivan, then at the end of his career. Crane hired Sullivan to design and build a house for the newlyweds, to occupy all of block 19 of a fancy new western suburb of Madison. This house is the huge and now famous Bradley house in University Heights (its current address is 106 N. Prospect Ave.) The Bradleys' first child, Mary Cornelius, was born in 1909. Seven other children, all boys, were to follow.
Tragedy struck the Bradley family when 6 1/2 year-old Mary contracted spinal meningitis and pneumonia and died in January 1916. Their house clearly contained too many memories for them. In the following 8 months, the Bradleys began selling off the parts of their land not occupied by their house, and in September 1917, they sold the house and the four lots on which it stood to the Alpha Sigma Phi fraternity (now called the Sigma Phi Society) for $30,000. As another means to cope with Mary's death, the Bradleys donated $50,000 towards the construction of a memorial hospital to research childhood diseases. The Mary Cornelius Bradley Memorial Hospital still stands today, facing Linden Drive.
Because of his outgoing personality, his strong connection and commitment to undergraduates, and his reputation for saying exactly what was on his mind, Professor Bradley was an effective advocate both for students and with administrators. He envisioned faculty-student interactions that were based on healthy and responsible extracurricular student-focused activities. Professor Bradley had a hand in shaping many of the major student life programs on campus that we now take for granted.
After a 1908 outbreak of typhoid on campus that killed several students, Bradley took up the charge to bring a student health service to campus - a health facility that was not only easily accessible to University students, but that would be tailored specifically to their needs. The University Health Services opened in 1910.
Bradley was an avid skier and outdoors enthusiast, and often took students with him to ski in northern Wisconsin. On one such trip that included then President Glen Frank, Bradley convinced Frank that these outdoor activities should be institutionalized by the University - they were exactly what promoted faculty-student relationships based on mutual interests and responsibility. In 1926, the Hoofers Outing Club was formed.
Professor Bradley was appointed to the 1932 Brown Commission, which studied the growing professional and commercial character of intercollegiate sports. What was specifically a problem at the time was "the relation of intercollegiate athletics to the educational activities and policies of the University and the proper balance to be maintained between the same." The Brown Commission report became a blueprint for UW-Madison athletics for the next 20 years.
President Frank and Professor Bradley shared a vision of student life "integrated" into the values of an undergraduate education. He named Bradley chair of a broad-based committee, whose forty members included alumni as well as faculty, students and administrators, to plan for the governance of the Memorial when it was to open in 1928. Two important issues were to be taken up by this committee: the inclusion of women in the Union activities (up to that point, women were excluded from student unions across the country), and the extent to which students should control the Union's programming and management. Including women fully in Union activities and programming proved to be a relatively easy issue compared to the much more contentious one to determine the role of student governance. But, as Chair of the committee, Bradley's vision to develop opportunities for student leadership and responsibility won out. On May 16, 1928, Professor Bradley presided over a ceremony transferring control of Union affairs to a new student-dominated Union Council. As reported by the Daily Cardinal at that time, this was "an unparalleled advance in student self-government at Wisconsin and nationally."
Professor Bradley played a key role in the development of our lakeshore residence hall system, and led the way to create the innovative house fellow system that is now the norm across the country. In 1922, new dormitories were to be constructed on the lakeshore area of campus, the first student residences to be built in almost 40 years. The regents appointed Bradley to a three-member Dormitories Committee to oversee the physical planning as well as the student programming that these structures would contain.
In the words of the Committee, dormitories "should make student living conditions less costly, more comfortable, more thoroughly decent ... lessen social distinctions in student society ... and help to develop a vigorous and healthy morale." The structures themselves should be built to best promote these ideals, and so the Committee recommended "entry-quadrangle type buildings, each containing several separate structures grouped to enclose a central court, with a separate door for each building of a varied and noninstitutional character. The buildings should be divided into houses ... [each with] a common room to help promote the social unity of the house." These open-quadrangle style dormitories opened as Tripp and Adams Halls in 1926. They were meant to provide a "neighborhood feel" to student living.
Bradley championed the idea that older students, house fellows, should live in the undergraduate houses to provide leadership and peer counseling and to serve as role models to foster well-rounded social and intellectual interests. Bradley fought to have house fellow selection and training "professionalized" - it was to be made uniform across campus, the selection and training was to be done by professionals within the housing system, and house fellows were to be paid a wage commensurate with their duties.
Building on his success as a member of the Dormitories Committee, President Frank appointed Bradley to the All University Commission, to study "the problems of the articulation of the University in its several parts;" its charge being an early incarnation of what we now call "integrative learning" - the blurring of the boundaries between in-class and out-of-class learning and experiences. One program that occupied the Commission was the creation and overseeing of Alexander Meiklejohn's Experimental College. The "Ex College" had a storied and contentious life. It lasted only 5 years, from 1927 to 1932, but its legacy spread across the country and to this day in the Bradley Learning Community.
Professor Bradley continued his advocacy on behalf of an integrated student life. He was on the Dormitories Committee when the Kronshage houses were built in the late 1930s, and left this committee only as residence halls began to be built as high rises. The Kronshage buildings expanded the vision of university houses providing a comprehensive and active neighborhood for students. By the early 1940's these buildings contained a barbershop, a nonprofit food co-op, a library, and a music room. Students began a newspaper and a radio station, and the dorms themselves were administered, fashioned after Tripp and Adams, by a student-run government. These buildings, like Tripp and Adams before them, embodied the student-driven, active and vibrant neighborhood that Bradley envisioned.
Harold C. Bradley retired from the University in 1949, and died in 1976. By then his vision of a university providing rich opportunities for student leadership and responsibility was largely realized. The programs that he helped create were so much a part of student life that UW-Madison is unimaginable without them. In 1976, the regents honored Professor Bradley's contributions to the university by giving his name to one of the lakeshore residence halls. That the Bradley Learning Community was founded in his hall twenty years later would have made him very proud.
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 Chadbourne Hall
Paul Ansel Chadbourne
Dr. Paul A. Chadbourne, M.D., D.D., L.L.D., became the third chief administrator of the University of Wisconsin in the year 1867. This was a time for seeking recovery from the blight of the Civil War, a time for reorganization, new growth, and new inspiration. President Chadbourne was hailed as the man of the hour and indeed in his short years of service, 1867-1871, contributed largely to the development of this University.
Among the accomplishments recommending the Maine-born educator to his Wisconsin responsibilities were a professorship of Chemistry and Botany and the chair of Natural History, both served at Williams College, his Alma Mater; concurrent teaching appointments to Bowdoin College, Burkshire Medical Institute, and Mount Holyoke Female Seminary; two terms in the Massachusetts Senate; and scientific expeditions to Florida, Newfoundland, and Greenland. When called to Wisconsin, Dr. Chadbourne was serving the presidency of the state agricultural college at Amherst.
In all matters of educational policy, the President showed himself to be a vigorous, positive leader. A skilled diplomat, he worked harmoniously with the Faculty and the Board of Regents; a skilled orator, he found new friends for this young institution through lectures and speeches presented at normal schools, teachers institutes, and popular assemblages. No less important than his administrative talents were the long effective hours which Dr. Chadbourne devoted to teaching in his fields.
Concerted strengthening of the University Faculty was brought about during the Chadbourne administration. Departments of Law, Agriculture, and Civil Engineering were inaugurated, important additions in a rapid expansion of academic diciplines and courses of study. Instruction in the physical sciences took large steps forward and so did prospects for the University's physical plant when the 1870 Legislature provided $50,000 to construct a fourth major University building. The grant set a happy precedent for State support, but for some observers the hall it made possible symbolized unhappily the limited opportunities for young women then attending Wisconsin. Co-education was incompatible with the highest education of either sex, Dr. Chadbourne believed, and he therefore sought the building of a new, sequestered seat for Wisconsin's Female College.
Thus, in the beginning, Ladies Hall residents lived, studied, and recited in careful separation from their collegiate brothers and were admitted only rarely to mixed class instruction.
As the stones of Ladies Hall rose in 1871, President Chadbourne resigned his Wisconsin office to pursue other interests, and ultimately to serve the presidency of Williams College for nine years. Soon thereafter, Wisconsin women enjoyed greater academic opportunities, and by 1874, the full privileges of co-education were theirs.
Ladies Hall, still housing Wisconsin co-eds, but no longer serving a classroom function became Chadbourne Hall in 1901 by action of the Board of Regents. It is recorded as a delightful humor that Dean Edward A. Birge, later to become University President Birge, urged the new name not only because President Chadbourne had obtained the appropriation for the building, but because "I thought it was only fair that Dr. Chadbourne's contumacy regarding co-education should be punished by attaching his name to a building which turned out [to be] one of the main supports of co-education."
When razing operations were begun in 1957, Chadbourne Hall had echoed the life and laughter of Wisconsin's daughters for more than 80 years and had held the title of the oldest women's dormatory at any educational school in the United States.
The current Chadbourne Hall, erected upon the site of the first, opened its doors to women students in the fall of 1959. It was not for over 35 years, in 1995, when Chadbourne finally welcomed men and became a co-ed residence hall. Today, the modern campus home, under an old familiar name, opens its doors as the Chadbourne Residential College, continuing Wisconsin traditions and honoring the many contributions of an early president.
Stone from the original Chadbourne Hall remains around the first floor entrances to the new hall. Original woodworking was preserved, and has been installed in the current office of Chadbourne Residential College.
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 Cole Hall
Llewellyn Cole
The life of Llewellyn Cole was one continual seeking for the public good. A family physician to all, Dr. Cole sought shining health for University of Wisconsin students and likewise, through education, for every citizen within the State.
In character with this humane purpose is the 1927-28 year, which he spent as House Fellow in Gregory House at Tripp Hall. Here the young medical student - leader, counselor and friend - forwarded the social and intellectual health of Gregory residents.
Wisconsin granted the Clintonville native his B.A. degree in 1926 and his M.D. in 1929. Joined with the University's Student Health Department staff in 1931, he took over direction of that agency five years later.
The gifts which this gifted man spread so widely and so generously - warmth, exceptional attention to his young patients, and expert medical knowledge - very early endeared him to colleagues, students, and their grateful parents. A further wide regard was earned through the March of Medicine, a program of health talks broadcast over the State Radio Network, and through a health column appearing in the Wisconsin Agriculturist and Farmer.
No more lasting contribution was made by the professor of clinical medicine than the energetic program which he began for the Medical School in 1946 under a new title: Coordinator of Graduate Medical Education. This continues today in the many institutes offered by the school. Designed for the State's established practitioners, they bolster medical knowledge with the new and the old.
It was not a long life which Llewellyn Cole found, but therein was rich, selfless variety. Service on the Men's Halls Faculty Committee, given during his faculty years, was but one devotion. Now bearing his name, Cole Hall honors the beloved healer and all noble purposes of his choosing.
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 Elizabeth Waters Hall
Elizabeth Waters
Elizabeth Waters was a native of Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, and graduated from the senior high school there. She attended the University of Wisconsin, living in Chadbourne Hall, and graduated in 1885 with Phi Beta Kappa honors. She attended seven summer sessions in Wisconsin and Chicago. Her higher education also included part-time attendance at the University of Minnesota for one year and attendance at the Milwaukee German Academy. She spent two summers abroad, one in Germany, familiarizing herself with the customs and speech of that country.
In 1892 she began her work as teacher of German at Fond du Lac High School and served in the capacity of instructor, assistant principal, and principal under eight superintendents - a period of forty years.
Public positions held:
- Member of Board of Regents of University of Wisconsin, 1911-1915; 1921-27; 1927-33; in all, sixteen years. During much of this time she was a member of the Athletic Committee and gave much attention and support to women's affairs on the campus. It was her custom, when she attended regents' meetings, to stay at Chadbourne Hall, where she became well known to all the girls and took a keen interest in all their enterprises.
- Member of executive committee of Wisconsin Educational Association. President of Wisconsin Educational Association. President of Wisconsin Modern Language Association. President of Fond du Lac Council of Education.
Quotations from testimonials at the time of her retirement:
- "Those of us who know her on the Board of Regents of the University can quite understand the devotion of Fond du Lac to her wisdom and stimulating character, her clear and dependable mind, and her unerring loyalty to those she serves or serves with."
- "Elizabeth Waters is one of the most generally beloved beings whom I have ever met. I have been associated with her on the board for several years, and I felt for her then and I feel for her now the affection of a friend."
- "The greatest of all influences is that which comes from being oneself nobly. It is this that makes her influence so wide and so fine."
- "Miss Elizabeth Waters' watchword - Education. In her early experience she was impressed with this great truth, that a successful life lies not in doing this or that, or going here or there, or possessing something else; but it lies in the quality of our daily lives."
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 Friedrick Center
Jacob F. Friedrick
Friedrick was born in Hungary on January 31, 1892. His family immigrated to the United States and in 1904 he joined them in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. His interest in economics as a student was bolstered by later friendships with John R. Commons, Selig Perlman, and Edwin E. Witte, professors of economics at the University of Wisconsin.
After completing his machinist's apprenticeship in 1909, Friedrick worked in Omaha, Nebraska, and Indianapolis, Indiana, before returning to Milwaukee where he joined his first labor union, Lodge 66 of the International Association of Machinists (AFL). Almost immediately he became an active unionist. He was elected president of his local in 1917 and 1918 and most sources credit him with bringing about the first reduced work week in the Milwaukee metal trades-from 55 to 44 hours. In 1920, he helped to establish the Milwaukee Labor College, a night school for workers which was the forerunner of the University of Wisconsin School for Workers at Madison, established in 1925.
Having joined the Socialist Party in 1918, Friedrick quit his job with Machinists District Lodge 10 in 1929 and joined the Milwaukee Ledger, the Socialist Party newspaper in Milwaukee. He joined the Farmer-Labor-Progressive Federation, and returned to the labor movement as general organizer for the Milwaukee Federated Trades Council.
In 1960, he took part in Governor Gaylord Nelson's Conference on Resource and Industrial Development. That same year, he was appointed by Nelson to a nine-year term on the University of Wisconsin Board of Regents--the first labor leader so honored; and he served as president of the Board from 1962 to 1964.
In 1961, he became a member of the Wisconsin Coordinating Commission on Higher Education and in 1965, participated in the White House Conference on Education as well as in Governor Warren Knowles' Conference on Economic Development.
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 Kronshage Hall
Theodore Kronshage, Jr.
Kronshage's education includes both a B.A. and an L.L.B from the University of Wisconsin in 1891 and 1892, respectively. He was a senior member of the firm of Kronshage, McGovern and Hannon from 1892-1926 and President of the Milwaukee Free Press from 1901-1918. He served on the Board of Normal School Regents from 1907-1917, the Board of Regents at the University of Wisconsin from 1921-1927, as the President of the Board from 1924-1927 and Chairman of the Public Service Commission of Wisconsin from 1931-1934. In 1925, when drastic cuts in legislature appropriations were threatened, he used his own funds to publish and distribute an analysis of the finances of the University. In addition, he made speeches, wrote newspaper articles, and influenced people in favor of the University. Theodore Kronshage also played a leading part and deserves a large share of the credit for planning the financial structure of Adams and Tripp Hall.
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 Merit House
Merit House is a three-story residence originally designed to provide convenient housing for single graduates and upper-class undergraduates who demonstrated academic merit and financial need.
The Stone family, who donated the building to the the University, intended that it contribute to the education of tomorrow's leaders by providing a collegial environment which facilitates learning from one another.
Merit House was first available to residents in the fall of 1986.
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 Ogg Hall
Frederic A. Ogg
Born in Solsberry, Indiana on February 8, 1878, Frederic Ogg was a member of the University of Wisconsin faculty for 34 years. He was an author, teacher and researcher in political science and served as the Chairman of his department and of the graduate division of social studies for many years. Such a career, considered in itself, commands respect and admiration. It is more remarkable that Frederic Ogg found time to be a rounded, warm-hearted, generous, and out-giving person. He gave, and gave unstintedly, of kindness, affection and love. These gifts of his were conferred on his family, students, friends, colleagues, on children, on anyone who helped him, probably indeed on every human being with whom he came in contact.
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 Sellery Hall
George Clarke Sellery
Born in Kincardine, Ontario, Canada on January 21, 1872, George Sellery received a B.A from the University of Toronto in 1897 and a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1901. He joined the University of Wisconsin in 1901 as an instructor in History. He became a full Professor in 1909. He served as the Director of the summer session from 1906-1911, as the Dean of the College of Letters and Science from 1919 to his retirement in 1942, and was Acting President for a short period in 1937. He received an Honorary L.L.D. from the University of Colorado in 1921 and one from the University of Toronto in 1927.
At Wisconsin his services were marked by scholarship, rigorous but interesting teaching, and administrative activity. His publications bear witness to the first, his grateful students to the second, and the very structure of the University to the third. At no time before retirement did any of these functions cease, and the first continued throughout his life.
On his retirement a colleague wrote: "Dean Sellery has been a pillar of strength in the fight to give students at the University of Wisconsin a broad cultural education. He has been a firm believer in liberal education as a preparation for life. He has supported high standards in teaching and in scholarship. He has given without stint of all there is in him to the University of Wisconsin. Throughout the long period of his service, his first thought has been the welfare of the University, the service which the University could give to the State, the hope that the University of Wisconsin should always be maintained as one of the leading universities of the world."
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 Slichter Hall
Charles S. Slichter
Charles S. Slichter received a B.S. Degree in 1885 and an M.S. degree a year later at Northwestern University. In 1916 he was awarded the honorary degree Sc. D by his Alma Mater.
During his 48 years at the University of Wisconsin he became successively assistant Professor of Mathematics, Professor of Applied Mathematics and finally in 1921, Dean of the Graduate School. He served in this latter capacity until 1934, when he was given an emeritus rank by the Board of Regents. He spent the remaining years of his life on his lovely estate across the lake, near the former Bernard's Park. These latter years were spent reading, studying, writing and reflecting upon the many productive years he spent on the faculty and the splendid contributions he made to his chosen field.
He served the government in a number of capacities. He was a consulting engineer of the United States Geological Survey and engineer in charge of investigating the movement of underground waters for the U.S. Reclamation Service. He was a member of the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters, of which he was president for three years, and also of the American Mathematical Society and the Mathematical Society of America. To the literature of his field he contributed numerous monographs, treatises and textbooks.
During World War I he was appointed chairman of the War Research Committee, to foster at the University such research work as might have direct hearing upon the war. In May and June, 1917 he raised from private sources about $8,000 for this work. Professor Max Mason and a group of Wisconsin workers at once began work upon the submarine problem.
In 1939 there was published by the University of Wisconsin Press "Science in a Tavern," a collection of essays and addresses written by Dean Slichter over a period of 25 years or so. The lead-off essays in the book dealt with the delightful meetings of statesmen and men of science in selected taverns during the 17th and 18th centuries in England. Later chapters in the book went into the discussion of the development of science itself.
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 Smith Hall
Newell J. Smith
In a remarkable career devoted to supporting the residential life of students at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, Newell J. Smith provided decades of dedicated service to the University, its students, their families, and the State of Wisconsin. The lives of thousands of students have been enhanced immeasurably because of Newell Smith’s valuable contributions and leadership.
Born in Galesville, Wisconsin, Smith entered the University as a freshman in 1936. He earned early recognition as a dependable student worker in the University Residence Halls. He joined the University staff in 1941 after earning a bachelor’s degree in economics, and served continuously – with the exception of military service in World War II – until his retirement in 1983.
Smith was Director of University Housing for 28 years (1955–83). During his tenure, the University of Wisconsin experienced dramatic change. Enrollment almost doubled and the number of residents in University Housing almost tripled. This was a remarkably challenging era for Housing staff, who were addressing the complex daily needs of current students as well as managing the construction of new buildings to increase capacity by nearly 5,000 spaces.
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 Sullivan Hall
Richard E. Sullivan
It is an exceptional contribution which can be made and greatly felt in thirty-four years of life. Such a one was made by Richard E. Sullivan, University of Wisconsin Associate Professor of Commerce. Significantly, it grew in the area of human relationships as well as in studies of trade - and if the philosophy which sustains these walls be true, had major roots in residence halls life.
Dick Sullivan knew Wisconsin first in 1941, a student then, living in Showerman House of Kronshage Hall. He knew it again as student House Fellow at Showerman after returning from World War II service. In this role, the veteran was the living symbol - leader, sympathetic counselor, and kindly friend. With his help, hundreds of students came to understand and find the greater goals of community living.
And surely this Fellow traveled to the bright horizons he pointed. Having earned two Wisconsin degrees by 1947, he joined the University's full-time staff. On the faculty of the Industrial Management Institutes, he showed himself to be one of the University's most imaginative and dynamic young teachers. Ability and a nestful personality attracted large numbers of persons to his classes - the resident students and a rising tide of adult learners drawn from industry. Possessed also of executive talent, the teacher was made associate director of the Industrial Management Institute in 1948, director in 1950, and chairman of the Extension Division's Commerce Department in 1954.
In ten swift years and in a difficult field bridging academy and business, Richard Sullivan had found success. A rapid transit, this, but the heart had remained with the Halls. Problems of the dormitories were still his to help solve as Dick Sullivan served on the Man's Residence Halls Faculty Committee. His, too, were the problems of individual students who sought his counsel.
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 Susan B. Davis House
Susan B. Davis
Born in Milton, WI, Davis received a B.A. from Milton College and an M.A. in speech from Northwestern University. She studied further at Harvard and the University of Chicago before coming to UW-Madison to be a lecturer in speech in 1925. Davis was the hostess for Barnard Hall in 1925-1926, and she served as dean of freshmen women from 1927 to 1941.
After a brief retirement, Susan Davis served as an educational adviser at the Truax housing project for returning veterans and their families. In addition to her service to the University, Davis also distinguished herself by writing seven historical sketches and studies of Wisconsin, including Old Forts and Real Folks, Wisconsin Lore for Boys and Girls, and Our Wisconsin, a Pageant.
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Tripp Hall
J. Stephens Tripp
J. Stephens Tripp was born in Duanesburg, Schenectady county, New York, July 5, 1828. He was a grandson of Ezekial Tripp, a noted Quaker speaker during the Revolutionary War. In his early years J. Stephens worked on his father's farm, and attended district school during the winter months. At the age of eighteen he entered the Schoharie Academy, teaching school a part of the time to secure means to pay his expenses. He continued in the Academy, part of the time as tutor, until 1850, when he entered the law office of Judge Charles Goodyear in Schoharie, New York, and read law until June, 1853, when he was admitted to the bar. In November, 1853, he removed to Baraboo, Wisconsin, entering into a partnership with Giles Stevens, afterwards Judge Stevens of Reedsburg. In 1854 he went to Sauk City and formed a partnership with Cyrus Leland which lasted for about two years. Thereafter, excepting for one year, when he was in partnership with S.S. Wilkinson, he practiced alone. In 1868 he commenced doing a banking business in connection with his law practice, but in 1887 he quit the practice of law and confined his attention to banking.
Mr. Tripp was postmaster of Sauk City, Wisconsin from 1854 to 1861, town clerk of Prairie du Sac for twenty years; president of Sauk City village for eight years; president of the village of Prairie du Sac, and member of the Sauk county board of supervisors much of the time for thirty years, and several times its chairman. He was a member of the Wisconsin Assembly in 1862, having been elected as a "War Democrat."
Mr. Tripp was first married in 1857 to Fannie W. Hallit, who died in 1865. In 1874 he married Nellie W. Waterbury of Prairie du Sac, by whom he had one son who died in infancy. His second wife died in 1893. He leaves two sisters and a brother living in New York.
A public spirited citizen, Mr. Tripp gave active aid to many enterprises and rendered many services of a public character to which no allusion has here been made. In the quiet and judicious giving of money and services for the relief of those in real need, for the good of his county and state, he was liberal.
He was the first citizen of his home city. Loved and respected by friends and neighbors, a man of the highest honesty and intelligently performing his many private and public duties with scrupulous care, he will be missed by all who know him. To his inheritance of thrift and frugality Mr. Tripp added a correct business judgment and a large capacity for business through which he was able to accumulate a fortune of over a half million dollars. For years he had decided generally on some plan of beneficence to his fellowmen, finally devising the grand scheme embodied in his will that practically his entire fortune should be devoted to the upbuilding and usefulness of the University of Wisconsin. Thus the results of all his labors finally go and are devoted to the good of his fellow men. And it is not from what he has bestowed, alone, that mankind may hope to profit by his example. To all possessors of great wealth he has pointed out the way and said: "Go thou and do likewise."
His memory will be cherished as long as our institutions shall endure and his labors and sacrifices will serve as a constant influence for "better thoughts, better words and better deeds to the generations who shall share in his bounty and move forward upon the beneficent foundations he has so generously provided."
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 Witte Hall
Edwin E. Witte
Born in Jefferson County, Wisconsin in 1887, Edwin E. Witte was a professor of Economics from 1933-1957. He served as the chairman of the department for twelve years and was the principal author of the Social Security Act. He received a B.A. in 1909 and a Ph.D. in 1927, both from the University of Wisconsin. During his lifetime, Edwin held more than thirty government positions, nine of which were full time. He was a person of unusual capacity for warm personal relations and the good will he bestowed and received in return was exceptional. He was a prodigious worker who was widely respected by students. His impact on economics, on the University, on legislation, and indeed to the history of our time was extraordinarily profound.
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