Title: Wisconsin Industrial Arts Association Records
Inclusive Dates: 1930-1959

Creator:

• Wisconsin Industrial Arts Association

Call Number: Wis Mss TO

Quantity: 1.2 c.f. (3 archives boxes)

Repository:

Wisconsin Historical Society, Division of Library, Archives, and Museum Collections

Archival Locations:

Wisconsin Historical Society (Map)

COLLECTION MAY BE STORED OFF-SITE: see catalog entry to request materials and for additional information.

Abstract:

Records of the Wisconsin Industrial Arts Association, an organization established to promote the general welfare of industrial arts in Wisconsin. Composed of high school industrial arts faculty members, the association concentrated on projects such as curriculum reform; its correspondence, 1930-1957, relates primarily to that subject. In addition there are files of the curriculum committee, 1936-1941; district meeting papers, 1932-1940; minutes of the association, 1933-1954; and directories, 1932-1959.

Language: English

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The Wisconsin Industrial Arts Association was organized circa 1930. Its purpose, according to its constitution, was to “further the interests and to promote the general welfare of industrial arts” in Wisconsin. The Association attempted to enroll in its organization all industrial arts teachers in the junior and senior high schools of Wisconsin and to develop a program which would strengthen the teaching and position of industrial arts in the state. Several members of the Association were industrial arts faculty members of Wisconsin colleges, and they worked closely with the organization and were active in its development. Clyde A. Bowman, Dean of the Division of Industrial Education, Stout Institute, was the most prominent of this group. The Association held annual state meetings in conjunction with the Wisconsin Education Association. It also sponsored district meetings in various sections of the state for industrial arts teachers.

One of the most important projects of the Association was the work of its curriculum committee in developing a unified, statewide curriculum for industrial arts. The Association worked closely with the Wisconsin State Department of Public Instruction and the Stout Institute in preparing these courses of study. The curriculum committee was quite active from 1936 to 1941.

During the 1930's, when the Association developed into an active and strong organization, there was little, if any, connection with the University of Wisconsin. However, the Wisconsin State Department of Public Instruction and the Stout Institute actively worked with the Association in most phases of its program.

The collection consists primarily of the correspondence of the Association from 1930 to 1957. The bulk of this correspondence is from 1935 to 1941. The correspondence deals with mainly with the organization, development, and work of the Association. During the early 1940's there is material dealing with the Association's relation to a new national organization, the American Industrial Arts Association.

In addition to chronological correspondence the collection contains files for the curriculum committee, district meetings, the constitution, minutes of meetings, directories, and miscellany. A portion of the curriculum committee and district meetings records consist of correspondence. And the files noted here are not entirely inclusive; for instance, there are portions of letters in the general correspondence which relate to the curriculum committee, to the district meetings, etc.

The curriculum committee records primarily are concerned with the years 1936 to 1941. The district (or sectional) meetings records begin in 1932 and end in 1940. They deal with the district meetings held throughout Wisconsin for industrial arts teachers. The bulk of these papers are concerned with the years 1937 and 1938.

The minutes of the Association include the years 1933 to 1954. These minutes are the minutes of meetings of 1) the annual Wisconsin Industrial Arts Association meeting, 2) the executive committee of the Association, and 3) the curriculum committee of the Association. The minutes for these three groups are not complete for the years 1933 to 1954.

The directories cover the period from 1932 to 1959. They include official Association membership lists, statewide lists of industrial arts teachers, city and sectional lists of industrial arts teachers, and lists of industrial arts teachers by subject matter, e.g. auto mechanics teachers in Wisconsin.

Several of the men who figure prominently in the Association files are: Roy R. Van Duzee, Clyde A. Bowman, Thomas Hippaka, Leo R. Ebben, and H.J. Shufelt.

Acquisition Information

Presented by Kenneth L. Schank, Secretary Treasurer, Board of Education, Racine, Wisconsin, May 20, 1959.

	Correspondence
Box   1 Folder   1	1930-1936
Box   1 Folder   2	1937
Box   1 Folder   3	1938 January-September
Box   1 Folder   4	1938 October-1939 March
Box   1 Folder   5	1939 April-1940 February
Box   1 Folder   6	1940 March-December
Box   2 Folder   1	1941-1957
	Curriculum Committee
Box   2 Folder   2	1935-1938
Box   2 Folder   3	1939
Box   2 Folder   4	1940-1941
Box   2 Folder   5	District Meetings, 1932-1940
Box   3 Folder   1	Constitution
Box   3 Folder   2	Minutes, 1933-1954
Box   3 Folder   3	Directories, 1932-1959
Box   3 Folder   4	Miscellany, 1933-1938