If tables could talk, this one would have many stories to tell.
A table full of IU School of Education history has found a home again in the Wright Education Building. The table was once used by the late Dean of the IU School of Education, Wendell Wright, and now has a home in a conference room on the fourth floor. The room includes portraits of all past deans of the School of Education.
The table is seen in this photo from IU Archives taken in May 1951. Sitting at the table starting at the extreme right with the person at the head of the table and then clockwise around the table are:
- Wendell William Wright - Dean of the IU School of Education
- Melvin Lewis - Professor of Education
- Howard T. Batchelder - Professor of Education
- William Fox - Professor of Education and Assistant Director of the Division of Research and Field Services
- Otto Hughes - Associate Professor of Education
- Raleigh Warren Holmstedt - Professor of Education
- Harold H. Church - Professor of Education and Director of the Division of Research and Field Services
- Carl Gustave Frederick Franzen - Professor of the IU School of Education
- Robert Richey - Dean of the School of Continuing Studies
- Margaret Irene Rufsvold - Founder and first dean of the new Graduate Library School, know called the School of Library and Information Science
- A. Stafford Clayton - Assistant Professor of Education
- Dotaline Allen - Director and Professor of Nursing Education
- Paul Seagers - Professor of Education
Positions of these individuals at IU were discovered using the archived minutes from IU Board of Trustees meetings.