DOCUMENT RESUME ED 437 321 SO 031 269 AUTHOR Frese, Millie K., Ed. TITLE Herbert and Lou Henry Hoover. INSTITUTION Iowa State Historical Society, Iowa City. ISSN ISSN-0278-0208 PUB DATE 1999-00-00 NOTE 34p. AVAILABLE FROM Goldfinch, State Historical Society of Iowa, 402 Iowa Avenue, Iowa City, IA 52240. Tel: 319-335-3916. PUB TYPE Collected Works - Serials (022) Guides - Classroom Learner (051) JOURNAL CIT Goldfinch: Iowa History for Young People; v21 n1 Fall 1999 EDRS PRICE MF01/PCO2 Plus Postage. DESCRIPTORS *Community Involvement; *Cultural Enrichment; Elementary Education; Local History; *Presidents of the United States; *Social Studies; State History; *United States History IDENTIFIERS Celebrations; Festivals; Historical Background; *Hoover (Herbert); Hoover (Lou Henry); *Iowa ABSTRACT This issue of the children's magazine, "The Goldfinch," focuses on Herbert and Lou Henry Hoover. The articles included are: (1) "Getting To Know Herbert Clark Hoover"; (2) "Lou Henry Hoover"; (3) "Meet an Iowa Author"; (4) "The Great Depression"; (5) "A Different Kind of Coupon";, (6) "The President's Mountain School"; (6) "Whore are the Books?"; (7) "Quaker Traditions across Generatic.as"; (a) 'Dear Mr. Hoover,' Letters from Children to the President"; and (9)"Peek into Lou Henry Hoover's Scrapbooks." Activities about political cartoons, managing a museum, being a history detective, and playing games are included. (LB) Reproductions supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made from the original document. Herbert and Lou Henry Hoover Millie K. Frese, Editor The Goldfinch: Iowa History for Young People State Historical Society of Iowa Vol. 21 No. 1 Fall 1999 PERMISSION TO REPRODUCE AND U.S. DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION DISSEMINATE THIS MATERIAL HAS Off ice of Educational Research andImprovement BEEN GRANTED BY EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES INFORMATION CENTER (ERIC) This document has been reproducedas received from the person or organization D Gored originating it. 0 Minor changes have beenmade to improve reprodUction quality. TO THE EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES INFORMATION CENTER (ERIC1 Points of view or opinions statedin this 1 document do not necessarilyrepresent official OERI position or policy. BEST COPY AVAILABLE Iowa History for Young People Volume 21, Number 1Fall 1999$4 dot xiss. A. nova ",, HORNETS : YUMA/mw. eittlftli? At, itourearts Mal ', 4 L'_,,, 707.=:1!" trEttylrfficew*Ens* *tot' faliaiIt IIPOVEL IELF4rNTAilY DAVETPOPI IA, MOM GLEIMITARY %Wit 1APIRATOMIJ , . C./ T.-1 14. Fr. Ikon. *tip seaktecti tit S MIAOW./ Rawl e tamotto CHI 64 0 o 0 "171.n..11"."," tiORRIETS r Jeis lasting the waY Hulbert and Lou Henry BEST COPY AVAILABLE a, Goldfinch -(11. Volume 21, Number 1 Fall 1999 Educational Press 0 4/ Association of America Member fir Winner of a 1998 gen I. Of Parents' Choice - 16,49,jef3, dal" . Silver Honor Award *VW. CITY 1h . I - - EDITOR: Millie K. Frese PUBLICATIONS DIRECTOR: Shaner Magalhaes 4 ILLUSTRATION: Mary Moye-Rowley - -- CONSULTING EDITORS: Mary Evans, Dear14ac1r5, Education Specialist, and Timothy Watch, Director, Herbert Hoover Presidential Library Herbert Hoover's commitment to children and education lives on today. and Museum, West Branch; and Ellis W. Hawley, professor of history emeritus, There are 59 schools named after Hoover located from Massachusetts to University of Iowa. California. Twelve schools named in honor of the thirty-first president of CONTRIBUTING WRITERS: Ben Butler. Nancy Colbert, Jill Esbaum, Sarah Frese, Katherine 16 the United States are in Iowa, Hoover's boyhood home. Discussing this issue House, and Delia Ray. of The Goldfinch with a few students at Herbert Hoover Elementary in Iowa EDUCATORS' ADVISORY BOARD: Carol Dighton, West Delaware Middle School, O City gave them a chance to reflect on their school's namesake. Manchester; Janice L. Gobble, Danville Elementary School, Danville; Valerie Kreutner, "It's neat to think that I go to a school that Herbert Hoover visited Black Hawk Elementary School, Burlington; and Clen A. Lincoln, Fair Oaks Middle School. Owhen it first opened," said Caroline Howard, a fifth grader. "I like to think Fort Dodge. about him standing in my classroom or maybe walking up and down the STUDENT ADVISORY BOARD: Ben Butler, Cedar Rapids; Stephen Frese, Marshalltown; hallways." Emily Johnson, Fort Dodge; Jessica Myers, Coralville; and Katie Zittergruen, Van Horne. Kerry Kamber, a recent graduate of Hoover Elementary, commented, PHOTO CREDITS: All photos, unless o"I walked past his picture at the front entrance of our school almost every otherwise noted, are courtesy of the Herbert Hoover Presidential Library and Museum. day for seven years. I'd like to read more about him." Jay N. "Ding" Darling cartoons used by aThis issue traces the lives of Herbert and Lou Henry Hoover.through permission. their childhood years in Iowa, education, careers, world travels, efforts to The Goldfinch (ISSN 0278-0208) is published three times each school year by the State Historical Society III. feed hungry kids in 5elgium during World War I, the presidency, Great of Iowa, 402 Iowa Avenue. Iowa City, Iowa 52240- 1806 (319/335-3916). Second-class postage paid at CDepression, and beyond. You'll also meet an Iowa author who wrote a Iowa City, Iowa. Subscriptions are $9.95 per year. Postmaster: Send address changes to: Carol Carey, biography of First Lady Lou Henry Hoover for kids. See if you can figure subscriptions coordinator, The Goldfinch, State Historical Society of Iowa, 402 Iowa Avenue. Iowa out the meanings of political cartoons and try exercising the Hoover Way! City, Iowa 52240-1806. State Historical Society of Iowa, 1999. No portion of The Goldfinch may be 41 reproduced without prior permission except for The c1itor classroom use. The Goldfinch is also available on cassette tape for those with visual impairments, V.S. Is your school named after someone famous? Is it named after physical disabilities, and learning disabilities. For more information contact the Iowa Department for someone from your community? Find out, then share your school story with the Blind, 1-800-362-2587. Or write to the Iowa Department for the Blind Library, 524 4th St.. The Goldfinch. Des Moines 50309. --_ 2 The Goldfinch BEST COPY AVAILABLE Herbert,Hoover is the only United 000 .StateS Presidentso farto be borrfinloWa. Learn more about him in this issue of Getting to know Herbert Clark Hoover The Goldfinch! SLouHenry Hoover I Meet an Iowa Author I 2The Great Depression III 3A Different Kind of Coupon II The President's Mountain School C10111)4k, NotiK% SWhereare the Books? ti 241,Quaker Traditions Across Generations MO"DearMr. Hoover" Letters from Children to the President ISPeekinto Lou Henry Hoover's Scrapbooks Political Cartoons:Whatdo theymean? 9 WhatIf You Were In Charge of a Museum? HooverPresidential Herbert at: Visit the web site Be a History Detective Libraryand Museum 20 Who's With Hoover? http:11www.hoovennara.gov 23 take aquiz galleries, Exercising the Hoover Way Tourthemuseum the "Just 30 life, andcheck out onHoover's forKids" page. The Goldfinch 3 BFRT COPY AVAILABLE erert Clark Hoover ; HerbertHoover was a famousand wealthy engineer when World War I stranded 120,000 Americans in Europe. Unprepared for the conse- quences of a war, they were trapped on the wrong side of the Atlantic. "I did not realize it at the moment, but on Hoover, who lived in London at the time, August 3, 1914, my engineering careerwas over received an urgent request from the U.S. Ambas- forever," Hoover said. "I was on the slippery road sador to Britain to help the Americans get home. of public life." Within 24 hours, Hoover and his wife, Lou, Hoover's career in public service begins organized 500 volunteers who distributed food, here, but the story of his life doesn't begin with clothing, steamer tickets, and cash to desperate fame and wealth. He was born in a two-room travelers. cottage by the Wapsinonoc Creek in West Herbert Clark Hoover was Entered Stanford born in West University in 1891 and Branch, Iowa. graduated in 1895. _Hoover moved to ca. 1882Hoover spent nine months with Oregon,-where he- ;,,;.;=-'--;-% his aunt and uncle, Agnes and Laban I Attended Friends :f on the Osage Reservation in Indian Territory. Pacific Academy in Newburg. He did not Hoover at 4The Goldfinch attend high school: Stanford 1.0 4/...tnecA os;1.4,;/.. 6 16*,, BEST COPY AVAILAR Branch, Iowa, on August 10, 1874. He hadan pneumonia and typhoid fever. Herbert Hoover older brother, Theodore (knownas Tad), and a was only nine years old. younger sister, Mary (known as May). Herbert's Now orphans, Bertie, Tad, and May were nickname was Bertie. separated to live with different relatives. Herbert The Hoover children loved to hike, explore, lived on a farm near West Branch with his Uncle swim, fish, and hunt for fossils and agates in the Allan Hoover's family for abouta year, then gravel along the railroad tracks. They hunted boarded a train hound for Oregon. Hewas 11 years rabbit and prairie chicken with bows andarrows old. Two climes were sewn into his clothes and he and made their own fishing poles with willow carried a basket of food prepared by his aunt. branches, butcher string, and hooks that costa Hoover spent six years in Oregon living penny apiece. with his Uncle Henry Minthorn. "My boyhood Hoover's father, Jesse, was a blacksmith. "I ambition was to be able to earnmy own living carry the brand of Iowa," Hoover once said, without the help of anybody, anywhere," he said. recalling the time when, at age five, he walked He learned bookkeeping and typing in his barefoot into his father's shop. He steppedon a uncle's real estate office and attended business glowing ember and had a scaron the bottom of school in the evening. his foot for the rest of his life. In 1891, Hoover entered Stanford University Jesse Hoover died in 1880 at the age of 34.