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Minnesotan 1952 1953.Pdf In this issue .•. SOUTH ASIA, and especially In· Know Your University- dia, is the subject matter of the Ames library, which will one day belong to the University. Read about what this library contains and how it will bene­ fit U scholars on page 3. BEGINNING WITH THIS ISSUE we start a new series about the build­ ings that have had a distinguished University history . Eddy Hall appears on this page. TURNING HIS SUMMER HOME into a vacation spot for DP children -that's what John Akerman, head of aero engineering has been doing the past two years. Pictures of his "camp" plus the heartwarming story of how it's grown, page 4. NEWCOMERS AND OLDTIMERS get separate recognition in this Min­ nesotan. New staff members are wel­ comed on page 7, retiring staffers cited on page 12. EVER WONDER WHO MAKES lJP the pollen count you see in your newspaper during August and Sep­ tember? You'll meet Agnes Hansen, and learn how she makes her micro­ Eddy Hall scopic tallies on page 10. LDEST building on the Minne­ engineering and mechanics in 1894 O apolis campus is Eddy Hall. It and had nine years later been made On the eover •.• was built in 1886 at a cost of $30,000 dean of the Graduate School. October brings us to the be­ and has had a long and varied list of Today, Eddy Hall is one of the ginning of another school tenants during its history. most "miscellaneous" buildings on the year. Our cover, appropri­ Known for some 40 years as the Minneapolis car»pus. Its ground floor ately, offers a photo of a Mechanic Arts building, it originally houses the studios and offices of U young lady who, having been housed the offices and classrooms of radio station KUOM. On the first duly orianted, registered, and mathematics, drawing, and engineer­ floor are Student Counseling Bureau initiated into the mystery of ing-plus testing labs and bench­ offices and testing rooms; tests given classes, snatches a moment's work facilities. by the bureau are scored on the third snooze in the sun with North­ These offices remained in Eddy un­ floor and in attic cubicles on the rop's pillars as a backrest. til the Main Engineering building fourth floor. was erected off the Mall in 1912. The Besides the Dean of Students of­ fices and Student Housing Bureau, THE MINNESOTAN School of Business Administration Vol. VI No. 1 then occupied the quarters until it, in the building also provides a roost for The Minnesotan is published monthly turn, moved to its present Vincent the Bureau of Student Loans and during the academic year, October through May, by the Department of Hall home in 1937. The business Scholarships and the Foreign Stu­ University Relations, Univt'rsity of Min­ school had some rather strange bed­ dents Advisor. nesota, Minneapolis 14, Minn. Copies fellows in Eddy during the 'twenties Eddy Hall is built of red pressed are mailed free to University staff mem­ bers. Subscription rates for those not -the superintendent of buildings and brick with red sandstone trim. Its on the staff are $2 a year, 25 cents a grounds, inventory clerk, University brilliant red and green Hopkins in­ copy. Photographs, unless otherwise teriors come as something of a shock credited, were taken by members of the poSt office, employment bureau, and University Photographic Laboratory. telephone exchange. in contrast to the decorous semi­ Entered as second-class matter at the In 1938 the building was renamed antique exterior. The building, in­ post office at Minneapolis, Minn. Copies of this issue are on sale at in honor of Henry Turner Eddy, who cidentally, boasts the only weather­ Coffman Memorial Union Bookstore.' had come to the U as professor of vane on the Minneapolis campus. 2 The Minnesotan r r I U to Get South Asia Library EGINNING October 15 the Ames Indian history in 1907 when, on a erous gift is significant not only B Library of South Asia, which European cruise, he began reading to the University and the State of will one day belong to the University about the notorious Sepoy Mutiny of Minnesota but likewise to the whole of Minnesota, will be open for pub­ 1357. Spurred by his interest in the realm of academic enterprise." lic use. The library-a unique re­ bloody Indian uprising which cost gional collection of books, maps, more than 100,000 lives, the St. Paul I'IJCLUDED in the Ames collection charts, and other materials on South publisher began building his exten­ are many treasures for the schol­ Asia-was accepted by the Board sive collection. It is now generally ar studying India. Among these is a of Regents last July as a gift at some reputed to be among the finest and complete 1931 census of India which, future date. largest specialized libraries on South Mr. Ames points out, is a great and Donor of the library is Charles Asia in the United States. now extremely rare anthropological Lesley Ames, vice president of the Commenting on the gift of the li­ document. Other prizes are such sets West Publishing Company of St. brary to the University, President as "The Journal of the Asiatic So­ Paul. The collection represents his Morrill said: ciety of Bengal," and gazetteers of 45 years of continuously accumulat­ "The scholarly interest and compe­ geographical units even as small as ing material on Pakistan, Afghanis­ tence of Mr. Ames are reflected in districts. tan, Ceylon, Burma, and primarily the library-collection which is recog­ Prized among the hundreds of on India from sources all over the nized as a notable and most authori­ maps is a colored English military world. tative resource for Indian and South map of the Indian mutiny area. It Mr. Ames first grew interested in Asian research and study. His gen- continued on page 14 Interior of Ames Library; Mr. Ames is at left. Above, exterior view of the library building on Blue Gentian Road. i Two Weel~s With PLAY I. T. 's John Akerman helps 32 kids to a summer vacation "Uncle John" Akerman's brood of small guests runs to greet him. JT WAS a bright hot morning in something about it.' So we decided dred yards. As the car pulled to a early August, and we were all to take a few little ones out for a stop we saw a large white summer primed for an expedition to John couple of weeks. cottage, a small wooden house to the Akerman's summer home, converted "I was very fortunate to find two right, and a spiral descent flanked for the nonce to a "camp" for Lat­ ladies, also Latvian, who were su­ by trees. vian children. We waited outside his pervisors in children's camps in Ger­ Akerman had hardly put on the office while Akerman, head of IT's many during last war, both univer· brakes before kids came swarming aeronautical engineering, cleared up sity graduates. They volunteered to from all over, hopping and scream­ a few appointments and arrange­ help as counselors. Then we got third ing "Uncle Daddy!" "Uncle John!" ments for a Washington trip, and lady-also volunteer-to cook. So in "Look here! Look at me!" One little then we embarked in his gray Ply­ 1951, 18 kids came for two weeks." moppet had an inner tube that need­ mouth for highway 12 to Hudson. Did they like it? ed blowing up; another wanted to "Is not a camp, really," Akerman "They were crazy about it," Aker­ show "Uncle John" a drawing he'd explained with a trace of Latvian ac­ man grinned. "It's nothing fancy­ done; and a little blonde girl was cent. "It is my summer place, and you'll see. Just good food, lots of simply waiting to be kissed. these 32 kids are my guests for two fresh air and freedom to play and He herded them all into the open weeks, that's all," he said matter-of­ run. " yard behind the house and paused to factly. This past spring, Akerman ex­ explain the layout. "That main cot­ How did the whole thing get plained as we turned off at highway tage is where the babies sleep-the started? 95, he was swamped with applica­ four to six year olds. One kitchen "I tell you how it was," Akerman tions, the project having been bruited is there, the other in wooden guest went on, driving fast and keeping his about in Latvian circles. house opposite where the boys six to eyes on the road. "You know there From the many applicants, 32 chil­ ten stay. When it is sunny they all was in last few years huge influx of dren were picked who filled the ne­ eat on this long wooden table under Latvian DP's in Minnesota. In spring cessary qualifications: they had to the trees." '51 we had some Latvian mothers . be Latvian DP's who were orphaned The kids were all in their bathing arrive in Twin Cities whose husbands or had only one parent; they had to suits. We followed them down the had been killed or else were still in be between 4 and lOljz years old, defile as the head counselor led the Russian prisons. since older children are eligible for way to their morning swim i'1 Lake "I myself am Latvian, and I got Y or church camps; and they had St. Croix. We sat in the cool semi­ names of these women through Lat­ to live in the Twin Cities ("If they dark of the boathouse fronting o·; vian church organization.
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