The Book of Jim Rouse
|
|
James Edward Rouse, the son of James Madison and Hulda (Seaman) Rouse, was born 12 Jan 1883 near Deer Ridge, Lewis County, Missouri, and died 25 Sept 1958 in Hays, KS. He met his wife, Myrtie C. Van Deusen, while both were on the faculty of the First District Normal School in Kirksville; he as Associate Professor of Agriculture, 1911-15, and she as Professor of Home Economics, 1912-15. The couple married in 1917 and had one daughter, Harriet. Rouse began both his educational and teaching careers at the First District Normal School. He received a Bachelor of Pedagogy (1910) and a BS in Education (1914) from “the Normal”, earning the latter degree while a member of the faculty. |
 |
|
He left Kirksville in 1915 to earn a BS in Agriculture at the University of Missouri (1916), then moved on to Hays, KS where he spent the rest of his career at Ft Hays State College. He retired from there as Professor of Agriculture and Chairman of the Department of Agriculture in 1953. During his years at Ft Hays, he earned an MS in Agriculture from the University of Wisconsin (1933). The Book of Jim Rouse, “Consisting principally of a biography; a memorial sketch; and items concerning his career at Kirksville saved by him and furnished by his wife, Myrtie Van Deusen Rouse”, was compiled for the University Archives by P.O. Selby in 1963. Rouse was one of the Normal’s star athletes, so most of the items in the album, primarily newspaper clippings and photos, are about the school’s football and baseball teams. Identification of people in the photos is sketchy. Some IDs were provided by Rouse on the backs of pictures; others were supplied by Selby who was a Normal student at the time and knew many of the people. He, however, was making his identifications some 40 years later, so some names appear with question marks. [Selby created this album by stapling sheets of typing paper together and “binding” with cardboard and Contact paper. Some documents were used as the pages themselves while others were glued to the typing paper; some items, including at least one photo, were folded to fit. The original order of the album has been retained, but the book has been dismantled and “reconstructed” for preservation of the documents and photos.] |
|
For information concerning this collection contact: speccoll@truman.edu
Manuscripts Table of Contents | Special Collections
emd
