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The men who gathered in Chicago in 1914 ranged in age from 71 (Starkweather) to 27 (Marks); their average age was just under 50. Their personal stories attest to the time span represented that day. Starkweather registered for the draft at the outset of the Civil War and recalled casting his first vote for Lincoln as president in 1864. Marks would later help retrofit the Packard Motor Company for production of Liberty airplane engines during World War I, and consulted with the War Produc- J.E. Robinson oversaw construction on many of the early buildings at Iowa State Teachers College (now University of Northern Iowa). tion Board during World War II.22 Along with the campus superintendents, representatives from Indianapolis Public Schools END NOTES 1. APPA did not keep minutes of its meetings until 1926. Information attended the 1916 meeting, joined by Culver Military Academy on the 1914 meeting is drawn from later reports. Of particular interin 1917. (Culver's August Wennerstrom attended many early est are the 1934 minutes, which reprinted letters responding to Fisk's APPA conferences and was a survivor of the Titanic disaster.) 1914 proposal. See Minutes of the Annual Meeting of the Association of By 1926, other institutions had begun to recognize the associaSuperintendents of Buildings and Grounds of the Universities and Colleges, tion's value, including several outside its self-designated "cen1934, 14-17. 2. "The New Sherman Hotel," Construction News, 6 August 1910. tral western" borders, including Cornell University, University 3. Edwin E. Slosson, Great American Universities (New York City: Macof Rochester, University of Colorado, and the University of millan, 1910), 427, quoted in John Michael Casey, "The Association of Pittsburgh. Higher Education Facilities Officers: An Historical Evaluation of its As the United States prepared to enter World War I to "make Contributions to the Academy 1914 to 1990." Ph.D. diss., University the world safe for democracy," higher education opened camof Georgia, 1994, 23. puses for military drills and government research. Schools faced 4. Ibid.; "Superintendent is Back from Meeting," Daily Northwestern, 12 May 1916; "College Building Superintendents Meet," Buildings and budget deficits as young men left to join the fight, while the Building Management, June 1917. increase in women necessitated new female dormitories.23 5. Casey, 207. Coursework and extracurricular activities reflected Progres6. Samuel Capen and Walter John, Higher education before and after the sivism's belief in the value of scientific research, service, and govwar. U.S. Bureau of Education Bulletin, 1919, no. 88 (Washington, ernment responsibility. Students chose from an increasing array D.C. U.S. Bureau of Education, 1921), 6-7. 7. "On the Campus," Bulletin of the State University of Iowa, 7 Februof electives and attended classes year-round. ary 1914; David Null, Director, University Archives, University of Through these changing times, APPA's founding members Wisconsin, E-mail to author, 16 July 2013. ensured that facilities and grounds were ready to meet the new 8. Jonnie McConnell, Graduate Assistant, Karnes Archives and Special challenges. The "Mr. Mac" and "Hurry Up" of campus lore Collections, E-mail to author, Purdue University, 18 July 2013; Gerry (Ohio State and Northwestern, respectively) would never be Peterson, University Archivist, University of Northern Iowa, Email completely replaced but would be joined by a professional staff to author, 17 July 2013. 9. Morris Llewellyn Cooke, Academic and Industrial Efficiency. The of architects, engineers, and planners.24 Since 1914, APPA has Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, Bulletin 5. continued to bring together these facilities professionals to 1910, 42-43. share expertise, discuss best practices, and take their place as 10. Calvin H. French, "The Efficient College," Association of American indispensable, forward-thinking campus leaders. Colleges Bulletin 3 (March 1917), 19-36. The good which has come to me, and I hope to others as well, is the real comradeship, one with the other, to be able to put aside all details of the job at home and to meet for a few days with those with whom I could sit and visit and confer with on some particular subject in which I was especially concerned and get some real good advice and information.25 —John M. Fisk, University of Iowa, 1930 24 | september/october 2013 | Facilities Manager 11. "Organize New Department," The Northwestern, 30 September 1904; Statutes of the University of Illinois. Urbana, Ill.: University of Illinois, 1896, 16. 12. "William C. McCracken" The Ohio State University Archives, Biographical Files, William C. McCracken [hereafter cited as OSU Bio Files, McCracken]. 13. 1914 October 12 Letter from James M. White, Supervising Architect, University of Illinois, to Superintendent of Buildings, Northwestern, quoted in Minutes of the Annual Meeting, 1934, 18-19. 14. See Minutes of the Annual Meeting of the Association of Superintendents University of Northern Iowa Archives THE FIRST APPA MEETINGS