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From a humble 1892 beginning upstairs over a downtown store in the village of Mount Pleasant to the fourth-largest university in the state, Central Michigan University's growth is tribute to the determination of visionaries who saw the Lower Michigan crossroads town as a potential home to a world-class learning center. First a private enterprise, then a state school, Central Michigan Normal School and Business College, the school would change names four more times to be known as Central State Teachers College, Central Michigan College of Education, Central Michigan College, and Central Michigan University on the road to making its founder's 19th-century dreams a 21st-century reality. With a total enrollment of 27,452, Central Michigan University offers a broad selection of more than 3,000 courses and 25 degrees. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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Westbrook traces the school's history, from its humble beginnings in 1892 with only a few dozen students in some upstairs rooms over a drugstore in downtown Mount Pleasant, to its current-day size of over 25,000 students on a sprawling, modern campus. I was especially interested in the photos and thumbnail bio sketches of the early faculty and administrators at the college, as many of them were Mom's teachers and mentors, and she wrote about them in her letters to my dad. And she loved her life in the original Ronan Hall, and knew personally Bertha Ronan, who was the Dean of Women, as well as Anna Barnard, her Latin Teacher, and E.C. Beck ran the English Department. In fact, Mom knew many of the folks who have dorms and various other buildings bearing their names now at CMU. And Wariner Hall? Well, E.C. Wariner, who was President during Mom's years there, signed all four of her yearbooks, with his signature inscription, "Forward!"
And I scrutinized later aerial photos of the campus, looking for our first apartment at the corner of Fancher and Bellows (the street which forms the northern edge of campus), and Washington Courts married housing, where we lived our last two years (all of them now gone, demolished). There were, however, clear images of Northwest Apartments, another married housing complex brand new in 1967, where some of our closest friends resided. And those still remain as low cost student housing.
And pictures of William Boyd, the new, progressive CMU president in 1968, who weathered the Vietnam war protests, and even joined the candlelight march with students and townspeople, and dealt calmly with the takeover of the ROTC building. I only vaguely remember these events. I had already done my time with the Army, and was too busy dealing with a heavy class load, with a wife and new baby, working nights, loading and unloading trucks for UPS.
Anyway, you get the picture. Because of my mom's and my own experiences at Central, I loved this little book, was totally caught up in its photos and stories. Very, very highly recommended, especially for CMU alums. Oh, and P.S. Another very good book about CMU is Robert Knapp's COMMUNITY OF LEARNING, HISTORY AND MEMORIES: THE LABORATORY SCHOOL, CENTRAL MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY, 1895-1970. (And, just as a footnote, my mom witnessed the fire that destroyed the original Lab School in 1933, watching it out her dorm window with her friends.)
- Tim Bazzett, author of the memoir, BOOKLOVER ( )