Kriebel Ross-Ade

Their Purdue Stories, Stadium, and Legacies
Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-1-55753-922-9
Verlag: Purdue University Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 295 Seiten

Reihe: The Founders Series

Dave Ross (1871-1943) and George Ade (1866-1944) were trustees, distinguished alumni and benefactors of Purdue University. Their friendship began in 1922 and led to their giving land and money for the 1924 construction of Ross-Ade Stadium, now a 70,000 seat athletic landmark on the West Lafayette campus. Their life stories date to 1883 Purdue and involve their separate student experiences and eventual fame. Their lives crossed paths with U.S. First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, Henry Ford, Amelia Earhart, and Will Rogers among others. Gifts or ideas from Ross or Ade led to creation of the Purdue Research Foundation, Purdue Airport, Ross Hills Park, and Ross Engineering Camp. They helped Purdue Theater, the Harlequin Club and more. Ade, renowned author and playwright, did butt heads with Purdue administrators at times long ago, but remains a revered figure. Ross's ingenious mechanical inventions of gears still steer millions of motorized vehicles, boats, tractors, even golf carts the world over.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kriebel, Robert C.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments

Introduction

PART I Ross-Ade: Their Stories

Like being in jail

Mechanic or farmer?

A good spectator

Much of the time lonely

In the Big Arena

A different breed of cat

Chicago, here he came

Meanwhile, down on the farm

“Fables” and more

Plays and more plays

Made for the movies

Peace and War

At war with Purdue

Together at last

Walter Scholer

Ross-Ade

PART II Ross-Ade: Their Stadium

A time for reflectio

Out of the Joke Division

Events of great importance

Governor Leslie

Darkest memories

Maybe sports?

Fast growing seeds

Promising news, growing Depression

A time of change

Purdue Airport

Earhart at Purdue

The “Flying Laboratory”

Pride, sadness, mystery, hope

A new season of pride

Golf courses, parties, and war

The Hall of Music

Getting serious

Wartime!

“A multiplier of the power of men”

“Home is the Hoosier”

Hovde for Elliott

Gaining in value

The “Golden Girl” and “Purdue Pete”

“I am an American”

A hallowed centerpiece

The “PAT” era

Not your average Joe

Bermuda and “The Boilermaker”

An economic plus

And then some

References

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Robert C. Kriebel is a retired editor of the Lafayette Journal and Courier where he was employed forty years in a variety of writing, editing, and executive positions. He continues in retirement to contribute a Sunday column on local history. Kriebel is the author of four books on Indiana biography, and one about the life and the work of American jazz bandleader, Herman Woody.