SMALLCITIES Past, Present, and Future

September 14-15, 2001

Sponsored by the Center for Middletown Studies, and the Minnetrista Cultural Center, Muncie, Conference Committee E. Bruce Geelhoed Director, Center for Middletown Studies, Ball State John B. Straw Friday, September 14, 2001 Director, Archives and Special Collections, Ball State Owen R. Glendening NOON-1:00 P.M. Moderator/Commentator: James Connolly, President, Minnetrista Cultural Center associate professor of history, Ball State Carolyn M. Goffman Registration and Book Display, Instructor, Department of English, Ball State Cantina, Minnetrista Cultural Center Session 2: The African-American J. Paul Mitchell Registration Fees: $45 advance registration Experience in Small Cities: Middletown as Chairperson, Department of Urban Planning, Ball State a Case Study James J. Connolly or $55 on-site registration: Includes Indiana Room, Minnetrista Cultural Center Associate professor of history, Ball State attendance at all sessions, conference Stephen D. Johnson reception at the home of Ball State President Brian L. Fife, associate professor of public Professor of , Ball State Blaine A. Brownell, continental breakfast, and affairs, Indiana University-Purdue University, Sally Jo Vasicko luncheon on Saturday. Fort Wayne, “Toward Integrated Public Professor of political science, Ball State Schools in Middletown and Beyond” Michael C. Jarrell $30 single-day registration: Friday includes Assistant director, Library Automated Services, sessions and reception. Saturday includes sessions, continental breakfast, and luncheon. Jack S. Blocker, professor of history, Huron Bracken Library, Ball State College, University of Western Ontario, “Why Nancy K. Turner Ball State students may attend any of the Didn’t More African-Americans Settle in Director emerita, Archives and Special Collections, Muncie, Indiana?” Ball State conference sessions for free by showing their student identification cards. Hurley C. Goodall Moderator/Commentator: Dwight W. Former member, Indiana General Assembly and visiting Hoover, director emeritus, Center for scholar, Center for Middletown Studies, Ball State Checks should be made payable to Ball State University. Participants may also pay with Middletown Studies, Ball State Master Card or VISA. Session 3: Economic Development and the Small City: A Roundtable Discussion Ball Room, third floor, E. B. and Bertha C. Ball Center, Ball State University 1:00-2:30P .M. Session 1: Creating Community in Moderator/Commentator: Hurley C. Midwestern Small Cities Goodall, former member, Indiana General Co-sponsored by the Center for Urban Policy and Large Conference Room, Minnetrista Cultural Assembly and visiting scholar, Center for the Environment, Indiana University-Purdue Center Middletown Studies, Ball State University-Indianapolis, Indiana Humanities Council, Ball State University Foundation Panelists: Drew Klacik, policy analyst, Center and the Muncie Indiana Transit System (MITS) Craig Coenen, Lehigh University, “Civic Pride, Civic Boosterism, and Professional Football in for Urban Policy and the Environment, IUPUI Four Small Towns, 1920-1933” David Kaufman, program manager, Indiana Association of Community and Economic Arthur Meyers, director, Russell Library, Development Middletown, , “The Striking of Jamie Palmer, policy analyst, Center for Mind Upon Mind: Courage and Public Urban Policy and the Environment, IUPUI Learning in Terre Haute and Hammond in the 1920s” 2:45-4:15P .M. 8:30-10:00A .M. Session 4: “The First Measured Century:” Bus tour of Muncie Middletown Returns to PBS Bus leaves from the Minnetrista Cultural Indiana Room, Minnetrista Cultural Center Center Mark D. O. Adams, University of Wisconsin, Madison, “Preserving Community Identity Christopher Jaffe, Northern Illinois Theodore Caplow, Commonwealth Professor through Landscape Protection: The Evolution University, “The and of Sociology, University of Virginia 8:30-10:00A .M. of Local Growth Control in Boulder, Colorado, Middletown” and Implications for the Mid-Size City in the Howard Bahr, professor of sociology, Session 6: Imagining the City NOON-1:00 P.M. Metropolitan Region” Moderator/Commentator: Stephen Brigham Young University Large Conference Room, Minnetrista Cultural Luncheon, MinnetristaJohnson, professor Cultural Center of sociology, Cantina Ball State Center Louis Hicks, associate professor of sociology, Moderator/Commentator: Greg Lindsey, St. Mary’s College of Maryland associate director, Center for Urban Policy German T. Cruz, assistant professor of and the Environment, IUPUI 1:00 P.M. landscape architecture, Ball State, “Getting Moderator/Commentator: Bruce Geelhoed, Keynote Address: “The Changing Shape of There: Part Two/From Feudalism to Futility to director, Center for Middletown Studies, Session 9: Crisis in the Small City: Small Town America,” Kenneth T. Jackson, Fragmentation to Wholeness/Conceptual Ball State Boosterism in the Gilded Age Jacques Barzun Professor of History and the Solutions for the Mending of the Muncie Indiana Room, Minnetrista Cultural Center Social Sciences, Columbia University Urban Fabric” Session 5: Law Enforcement in Small Cities: Indiana Room, Minnetrista Cultural Center A Roundtable Discussion Kathleen A. Brosnan, University of Diane Shaw, Carnegie Mellon University, Ball Room, third floor, E. B. and Bertha C. Ball Tennessee, “In the Shadow of a Metropolis: Jackson is one of America’s leading urban “Sorting the Small City: Early 19th Century Center, Ball State Colorado Springs, the Wealthy, Consumptive, historians. He is the author of Crabgrass Rochester, ” and a Directed Booster Strategy” Frontier: Suburbanization in the United Panelists: Oatess E. Archey, sheriff, Grant States (1985), and The Ku Klux Klan in the Moderator/Commentator: Thomas A. County, Indiana Timothy R. Mahoney, University of City, 1915-1930 (1972). He is the editor of Mason, director of publications, Indiana William C. Ervin, special agent in charge Nebraska-Lincoln, “The Best City in the West: several other studies, including The Historical Society (retired), Federal Bureau of Investigation and The Crisis of the Booster Ethos in Lincoln, Encyclopedia of New York City (1995), Cities adjunct professor of criminal justice, Butler Nebraska, and Small Cities in the Midwest in In American History, with Stanley K. Shultz Session 7: Community Variations in the University 1880s and 1890s” (1972), and American Vistas, with Leonard Size and Scope of the Nonprofit Sector Dinnerstein (1971). Moderator/Commentator: Bryan D. Byers, Indiana Room Sharon E. Wood, University of Nebraska- associate professor of criminal justice and Minnetrista Cultural Center Omaha, “The Wickedest City in America: criminology, Ball State Commercial Vice and Urban Ambitions, 1880- Kirsten Grønbjerg, Efroymson Chair in 1910” Philanthropy, Indiana University 2:15-3:45P .M.

Laurie Paarlberg, School of Public and Moderator/Commentator: Kathleen Neils Session 11: Planning in Small Cities: Environmental Affairs, Indiana University Conzen, professor of history, University of Challenges, Opportunities, Resources 4:30-6:00P .M. Chicago Indiana Room, Minnetrista Cultural Center Moderator/Commentator: Douglas A. Conference reception at the home of Blaine Bakken, executive director, Session 10: Religion and Politics in the Nancy Pekarek, director, Planning A. Brownell, president of Ball State University Foundation Small City Department, City of Valparaiso, Indiana and professor of history and urban planning Ball Room, third floor, E. B. and Bertha C. Ball Center, Ball State Larry Maggliozzi, Department of Community EVENING and Economic Development, South Bend, Joseph Tamney, professor of sociology, Ball Indiana Dinner at local restaurants with conference State, “Church Growth in the Small City” hosts (sign-up at registration) 10:15-11:45A .M. Tom Higgins, director, Planning and Session 8: Urban Growth and the Small City George Saunders, coordinator, Muncie Economic Development, Marion, Indiana Saturday, September 15, 2001 Large Conference Room, Minnetrista Cultural Interfaith Council, “Developing an Inter-racial Center Coalition of Churches in a Small City” Moderator/Commentator: J. Paul Mitchell, 7:30-8:30A .M. chairperson, Department of Urban Planning, Hannah McKinney, Kalamazoo College, Ball State Registration and continental breakfast “Rocks and Hard Places: Industrial Cantina, Minnetrista Cultural Center Development in the Land of the NIMBY” Session 12: Regionalism and the Small City Acknowledgements Context in Central Indiana: A Roundtable The Conference Committee wishes to TransportationBall State tocampus and from the Discussion acknowledge the support and Large Conference Room, Minnetrista Cultural cooperation of many offices at Ball State The Muncie Indiana Transit System (MITS) will The shuttle will also transport conference Center University and other organizations that run a shuttle from the Architecture Building to participants from the Minnetrista Cultural have contributed to this conference. the Minnetrista Cultural Center during the Center to the Bracken House for the Panelists: conference. The schedule for departures and reception at the president’s home on Friday. John J. Kirlin, director, Center for Urban Minnetrista Cultural Center arrivals is as follows: The shuttle will leave Minnetrista at 4:20 P.M. Policy and the Environment, IUPUI Center for Urban Policy and the and arrive at the Bracken House at 4:30 P.M. Greg Lindsey, associate director, Center for Friday, September 14 Environment, Indiana University, Another shuttle will depart from Bracken Urban Policy and the Environment, IUPUI Architecture Minnetrista Purdue University-Indianapolis House at 6:00 Drew Klacik, policy analyst, Center for Urban 12:45 P.M. and return to Minnetrista Indiana Humanities Council Policy and the Environment, IUPUI P.M. 12:50P. M. at 6:10 P.M. Ball State University Foundation 2:20 P.M. 2:25P. M. Moderator/Commentator: Sally Jo Vasicko, Muncie Indiana Transit System (MITS) 4:10 P.M. 4:15P. M. professor of political science, Ball State Office of the President, Ball State University Session 13: Contemporary Policy Issues in E. B. and Bertha C. Ball Center, Ball State Saturday, September 15 the Small City Architecture Minnetrista Ball Room, 3rd floor, E. B. and Bertha C. Ball Center for Middletown Studies, Ball State 8:15 Center, Ball State Archives and Special Collections, Bracken A.M. 8:20A. M. Library, Ball State 10:00 A.M. 10:05A .M. 11:50 R. Tiny Adams, member, Indiana House of Department of History, Ball State A.M. 11:55A .M. Representatives and Owen R. Glendening, 12:50 P.M. 12:55P. M. Department of Sociology, Ball State president, Minnetrista Cultural Center, 2:00 P.M. 2:05P. M. Department of Criminal Justice and “Creating a Public/Private Partnership for the 3:45 P.M. Development of Recreation and Tourism in Criminology, Ball State Delaware County” Department of Political Science, Ball State Department of Urban Planning, Ball State Kathy Segrist, associate director, Institute of The Office of University Relations, Ball State KEY Wellness and Gerontology, Ball State, “Community Center for Vital Aging: Assessing Architecture Building Community Needs in Middletown, U.S.A.” Minnetrista Cultural Center Moderator/Commentator: John Straw, director, Archives and Special Collections, E. B. and Bertha C. Ball Center Ball State

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