The First Century Part IV. Shelter, Bodily Sustenance, and Coffee Breaks
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University of Nebraska - Lincoln DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln The University of Nebraska-Lincoln College of Agriculture: The First Century by Elvin F. Frolik Agriculture and Natural Resources, Institute of and Ralston J. Graham (IANR) 1987 The University of Nebraska-Lincoln College of Agriculture: The First Century Part IV. Shelter, Bodily Sustenance, and Coffee Breaks Elvin F. Frolik University of Nebraska-Lincoln Ralston J. Graham University of Nebraska-Lincoln Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/ianrhistory Part of the Agriculture Commons Frolik, Elvin F. and Graham, Ralston J., "The University of Nebraska-Lincoln College of Agriculture: The First Century Part IV. Shelter, Bodily Sustenance, and Coffee Breaks" (1987). The University of Nebraska- Lincoln College of Agriculture: The First Century by Elvin F. Frolik and Ralston J. Graham. 5. https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/ianrhistory/5 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Agriculture and Natural Resources, Institute of (IANR) at DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln. It has been accepted for inclusion in The University of Nebraska- Lincoln College of Agriculture: The First Century by Elvin F. Frolik and Ralston J. Graham by an authorized administrator of DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln. From THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA-LINCOLN COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE: The First Century by Elvin F. Frolik and Ralston J. Graham. Copyright © 1987 University of Nebraska Board of Regents. Part IV. Shelter, Bodily Sustenance, and Coffee Breaks Contents Chapter 1. University Fac!l~ties on or. Near the Campus . ..... .. : . 125 Chapter 2. Social FraternItIes, Boardmg Clubs, Cafes and FaCIhtIes m Pnvate Homes. 131 Chapter 1. University Facilities on or Near the Campus Contents naming the residence halls Margaret Fedde f?r .the Dormitories and Apartments .............................. 125 south building and W. W. Burr for the north bUIldIng, Burr and Fedde Halls .................................. 125 which then housed only boys (1). Married Student Housing .............................. 125 Soon after the dormitories were filled, the occu Ag College Cafeteria ..................................... 125 pants named each floor after other faculty members. ~~;e!~~e~~.i~~.::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: ~;b Construction costs were $501,348 for Burr Hall and $187,848 for Fedde Hall (2). Married Student Housing Dormitories and Apartments Apartments for married students. and faculty are Burr and Fedde Halls available in two areas on or near East Campus. Co lonial Terrace Apartments comprise 11 buildings on College of Agriculture stude?ts have lived under a the north and south sides of Starr Street (from 33rd variety of circumstances and m all sorts of ~ccom to 100 feet east of 34th). There are seven fourplexes modations - from livestock barns to cooperatIve res and four duplexes for a total of 36 apa~tments, four idences to fraternity houses. with three bedrooms and the others wIth two. The One of the earliest buildings on the campus - a two buildings east of 34th Street (with eight. units) are wooden frame structure - was erected in 1875 to designated for faculty. All of the other unIts are for house "farm students." There was dormitory space married students. for girls in the first Home Economics (Woman's) l All of the buildings are two-story structures and all Building . have basements. Some are of brick construction and The first major dormitories built on the East ~am some are of stone. The buildings and the 2.6 acres of pus by the University, however, were not avaIlable land they occupy were bought from the Colonial Ter until 1957. Franklin Eldridge deserves a large share race Corporation in 1956 for $105,0?0 \3). of the credit for bringing them about. University Park Apartments, bUIlt In 1957 for When Eldridge was interviewed for ~he pOSItiOn of $398 012 are just north of Holdrege Street between Associate Director of Resident InstructIOn m 1954, he 42nd' and'43rd Sts. There are four red brick buildings, specified that he would not want. to ~ome to the. Uni none with basements, containing a total of 40 units. versity of Nebraska unless dormitones were buIlt on Ten of the apartments have two bedrooms, all of which the Ag Campus. He was assured that plans were al are for married students. The other 30 have only one ready underway to build dormitories. bedroom. Of these, 25 are for married students and Shortly after Eldridge arrived at ~eb:aska, he re 5 are for faculty. ceived word that plans for the dormitones had been Both apartment complexes are available to married deferred. When he called attention to the earlier students and faculty on either the East Campus or agreement, the decision to de.fer was reconsidered City Campus (2). and the University proceeded wIth the necessary plan- ning (1). When bids for the dormitones were opened, It was Ag College Cafeteria found they were low enough to permit use o.f ?etter Probably everyone who attended or worked at the quality materials in the buildings than origInally College of Agriculture during most of this ce~tury planned. For example, all of the woodwo:k, such as remembers "the cafeteria," in one of several locatIOns. banisters on the stairs, was changed to sohd oak. Some students who lived in Burr and Fedde Halls On November 2, 1956, while construction was un recall eating their meals in the Youth Wing of the derway, the College of Agriculture faculty approved Nebraska Center for Continuing Education. But there was food service of some kind for students more than lMost living arrangements and the buildings wh~ch housed t~em are described in following sections of Part IV and In other sectIOns 30 years before the first Home Economics cafeteria about the growth of the campus and its various entities. became a part of the campus scene. 125 In 1875 the University built a large frame house at Peterson, Ramona Hilton, Al Pearl and Dorothy Zie the farm to provide rooms for students. A Mrs. genbusch were cashiers (8). Helen Hengstler worked McGowan lived in the original cam pus stone house in the cafeteria as a student and later was assistant nearby and "boarded the boys." At first, board was manager. $3 per week, but it was later lowered to $2. The cafeteria and food and nutrition laboratories The S. W. Perin family moved into the frame house were scheduled to move to the Food and Nutrition in 1896 and Mrs. Perin "boarded and roomed the Building when it was completed in 1943 but with the boys." She also provided meals for University em location of the military STAR Unit on the campus that ployees. year, the move was delayed. The STAR personnel Industrial college faculty men from the City Cam were housed in Food and Nutrition and took their pus were frequent visitors at the farm, and often had meals in the cafeteria in the Home Economics Build dinner at the Perin house. Meals were substantial ing along with College students and staff, although meat, potatoes, gravy, a vegetable, coleslaw or pickles, at slightly different times. One of the students work home-baked bread and butter, jelly and jam, either ing in the STAR serving line was Hazel Anthony who pie or pudding, and "all the coffee they could drink" later became Dean of the College of Home Economics. (4, 5, pp i, ii and 1). (See also S. W. "Dad" Perin in When the Food and Nutrition Building was finally College of Agriculture/Overall - Part II, Chapter l.) made available to Home Economics, the cafeteria and Since at least 1909 there has been a cafeteria on the food and nutrition laboratories were established there. campus. According to the Journal of Home Economics From the beginning, education for home economics (6), the Woman's Building, dedicated in January of students was an important function of the cafeteria. that yearl had "dormitory space for some 60 to 80 In 1922, the Cornhusker Countryman described the students" and among other features, "two protein course in institutional work as "extremely interesting 2 kitchens and a protein dining room ." and practical. At present there are two courses dealing A separate faculty dining room - also called the directly with the Institutional work, namely, Large practice dining room - was served by students as part Quantity Cookery and Practical Cafeteria Manage of their classwork. Both dining rooms were on the ment ... One cannot become a very successful man first floor. The students also did laboratory work in ager unless she has the knowledge of cooking in large two foods laboratories on the same floor (7). quantities and still retain(s) the ability of giving foods The cafeteria was popular with Lincoln people as their best savor" .... and can serve them "in the most a place to eat Sunday dinners. On some Sundays, efficient and attractive ways possible" (9). In those people lined up outside the building and into the days, men apparently were not expected to become street waiting for the cafeteria to open for the noon cafeteria managers. meal. It was reopened for supper on Sunday evening. In the summer of 1957, the cafeteria facilities were The junior author recalls many summer Sunday out remodeled and its services reorganized in order to ings with his parents in the 1920's that included din provide meals for students who would be living in two ner at the "state farm." new residences on campus - Burr and Fedde Halls. Both women and men students were hired to work The operation was sound financially, and the cafeteria in the cafeteria - some in the serving line and, in the remained an excellent laboratory for students in in case of men, often as dishwashers. Some waited tables stitutional management. (at the northeast corner of the cafeteria dining room) Plans had to be changed, however, and serious fi for the Cafeteria Boarding Club after it was formed nancial problems arose after the Center for Contin in the fall of 1933.