Contents of The Book of Jim Rouse
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| Page | Description |
| 1 | Typescript of Selby’s biographical sketch of Rouse from Biographies
of Deceased Faculty Members (Kirksville: Northeast Missouri State Teachers
College, 1963) |
| 2-4 | Eulogy, “In Memory of James E. Rouse” by Dean Ralph Coder, Ft Hays
State College |
| 5-6 | Letter, John R. Kirk to J.E. Rouse, 11 Oct 1933, re death of W.A. Lewis
[Note: William Alexander Lewis was a Professor at First District Normal School, Kirksville, while Rouse was a student; he was President of Ft Hays State College, 1913-33, and had recruited Rouse for the faculty there.] |
| 7 | Photos (2): » 1904 Normal & training school students seated on
the front steps of the Normal Building, President John R. Kirk kneeling
on ground at left end of 1st row; » Head janitor John Jack posing with
his new vacuum cleaner in the hallway of the Normal Building, nd |
| 8 | Photos (2) of Normal football team dated 28 Sept 1905: » Seated at
the edge of athletic field; » In action on athletic field |
| 9-10 | Normal 1905 football team (B.Y. Moore, photographer); 1st row, LtoR:
unidentified, H.L. McWilliams, Morgan?, Bell? Miller? Todd?; 2nd row: Ford,
Grant Oberg, James E. Rouse, George B. Israel, H.E. Millsap; 3rd row: E.A.
Burch, Kerr?, S.S. Carroll (English teacher and coach), Craig?, Spurgeon?,
Sloan?
[Note: this 13x10½ photo was folded to fit the scrapbook causing breakage along the fold; it has been transferred to the photo archives (CO.0045) so that it may be stored flat; a reduced size photocopy replaces it in the album] |
| 11 | “President Kirk Calls Them Down / A Deserving Reprimand for Rowdyism”;
news article reprinting letter John R. Kirk wrote to the Columbia Herald
re treatment received by Normal students from University of Missouri students
as they were boarding the train to return to Kirksville after a football
game on Tuesday, Oct 2 [1906] [clipped w/out paper name or
date] |
| 12 | Items re 1908 football season: » Handwritten cards (2) listing opponents
& games scores; »“Kirksville Normals Victory / North State
Teachers Defeat Central College, 40 to 0” [news article clipped
w/out paper name or date]; » “Seven All-Missouri Collegiate
Football Stars”; contains photos of End Adams, Central College; Halfback
Hamilton, Westminster; Quarterback Coe, Missouri Wesleyan, Capt; Guard
Rouse, Kirksville Normals; End Peairs, Missouri Wesleyan; Halfback Martin,
William Jewell; Tackle Jones, Wentworth; [news article clipped
w/out paper name or date] |
| 13-15 | Individual studio photos (12) of 1908 Normal football team: » H.L.
McWilliams, quarterback; » J.C. Moore, right halfback; » W.B. Fell, right
tackle; » O.C. Bell, coach; » James E. Rouse, left guard; »
A.L. Threlkeld,
left end; » George Israel [position not given]; » J.L. Baum, fullback;
» F.A. Burch, right end; » J.H. Trower, center; » J.C. Mills, left halfback;
» J.H. Spurgeon, right guard |
| 16 | 1908 Normal football team on players’ bench; 1st row, LtoR:
Rose?, Courtland Mills, H.L. McWilliams, J.C. Moore, Brice Fell, “Jake”
Baum, Joe Spurgeon, Sam Mauck; 2nd row: Joe Burch, J.A. Miller,
Jim Rouse, Joe Trower, George Israel, Walter Hopkins, Archie Threlkeld,
Carl Hull |
| 17 | Normal President John R Kirk at his desk in his office |
| 18 | “Athletics”; article clipped from The Normal School Index, 15
Oct 1909, pg 3; mentions Westminster game that was rained out last Saturday;
scrimmage with ASO last Wednesday; outlook for next Saturday’s game with
Warrensburg; schedule of second team’s games with Macon & Kirksville
High schools; and a “later” announcement that Saturday’s game has been
postponed because of Professor Vaughn’s funeral |
| 19 | New articles (2): » “Preparing for the Rolla Game” re next Saturday’s
game; » “Pictorial Illustrations by Students” re new photo lab and training
of Normal students in photography, stereoscoping and photo engraving [1909
articles clipped w/out date from The Kirksville Daily Express] |
| 20 | “Heavy Season for Normal Ball Team / Fourteen Games Arranged, One with
the State University / Five Veterans Return / Coach Bell Pleased with Prospect
for Fast Aggregation on The Diamond”; re baseball team & game schedule
[news
article clipped w/out paper name or date] |
| 21 | Photos (2): » Normal football team members standing by players’ bench;
LtoR: Dave Neals, George Israel, Jim Rouse, Curly McWilliams, A.B. Ford,
Curly Moore; » Brice Fell in football uniform |
| 22 | Photos (2): » Jim Rouse in football uniform; » H.L. “Curly” McWilliams
in football uniform on postcard (photo by Volney McFadden, Student Photographer,
Columbia, MO); message: “Columbia, Mo / Oct 25, 13 / How is the court?
Have established a branch Court here. Are you coming to see the big
game? / Jim Mc”; mailed to Mr Jim Rouse, Kirksville, Mo |
| 23 | “Tis Sad, But True”; article clipped from 26 Nov 1909 issue of The
Normal School Index, re loss of the Normal Schools’ Championship football
game with Cape Girardeau |
| 24 | Photos of baseball teams (3) seated on players’ bench at the Normal
School athletic field with spectators on bleachers behind and to the left;
labeled: » "The Dummies" [Normal School team] about 1909; » Central College
Baseball Team at Kirksville about 1909; » William Jewell College Baseball
Team at Kirksville about 1909 |
| 25 | “Two All-Missouri Teams / Kansas City Men Select First and Second State
Elevens / The University Class Schools Not Considered – Three Wentworth
Players Given Places – Two from Girardeau and Two Jewells”; Jim Rouse is
left tackle on First team [news article clipped w/out paper
name or date] |
| 26 | “Kirksville Forfeits to William Jewell” [news article
clipped from the 16 Oct 1909 College N— (paper name incomplete),
William Jewell’s campus paper] |
| 27 | Normal School Science Club, 1909; 1st row, left to right:
Wendell Dearing, Clyde Dorsey, unidentified male, J.C. Moore, H.L. McWilliams,
Henry King, John Baltzell; 2nd row: 4 unidentified ladies, Iva
Kirtley, Dale Zeller, 3 unidentified ladies; 3rd row: Miller,
Harry H. Laughlin, Jim Rouse, W.A. Lewis, Grover Morgan, unidentified male,
A.M. Swanson |
| 28 | Photos of Rouse and his friends (4); Selby has labeled the page, “Jim
Rouse and the two Curlies, H.L. McWilliams and J.C. Moore, were a triumvirate
who were together in many enterprises—football, baseball, and several forms
of innocent merriment. Jim kept these pictures of the three.” » Rouse, McWilliams, Moore;
» Moore, unidentified lady, Rouse; » McWilliams and Moore standing
at 25 yard line on Normal athletic field; » McWilliams holding football
as Moore kicks |
| 29-30 | “The All-Missouri Team / Westminster’s Championship eleven is Awarded
Three Places / William Jewell, Missouri Wesleyan and Kirksville Normals
Get Two Each – The Captaincy to Coe of the Wesleyans”; sketches of Mooreman,
William Jewell, center; Israel, Kirksville Normal, guard; Van Dyke, Westminster,
full back; Jim Rouse & George Israel of the Kirksville Normal both
made the First team [1911 news article clipped w/out paper
name or date] |
| 31 | Photos (2) of Rouse’s friends: » John Trower, Center, University of
Idaho football team, 1910 / weight 157 [ID written on face
of photo by Rouse; photo postcard mailed to Rouse on 4 Dec 1910 while he
was living in Cold Spring Harbor, Long Island, New York; most of the message
is unreadable, covered by remnants of the album paper]; » Carol
Sykes standing on Normal bridge, holding violin case, 1913 |
| 32 | Photos (4) of Rouse & friends: » Two of Rouse & 4 unidentified
young men acting as driver and “team” of horse-drawn farm equipment on
Normal farm, 1910; » Same four young men and a young lady, also
unidentified, seated on Normal lawn (Rouse not in this one); » George
Israel and A.B. Ford standing by players’ bench, Normal athletic field,
nd |
| 33 | Photos (3): » Mark ‘Short’ Stanley, “the agile 2nd sacker
and short stop of the K.S.N.S. squad 1913”; » Dave Neal wearing
Normal football uniform; » Bill Rouse (Jim’s brother) wearing Normal football
uniform |
| 34 | Class photos (2): » Group labeled “Students taking agriculture / K.S.N.S.
Summer 1911”; » Students in Industrial Arts classroom, nd (photo by Patterson,
Kirksville) |
| 35 | 1910 Normal School football team seated on steps of Science Hall; 1st
row, LtoR: (1) Earl Van Horn, (3) Walter Hopkins, (5) Rowland “Soup” Marston,
(8) Bill Rouse; 2nd row: (6) Dave Neal; 3rd row:
(3) J.A. Miller; C.B. Simmons standing in rear; all others unidentified |
| 36 | » John S. Stokes, Professor of Physics and Physical Geography, nd |
| 37 | Individual studio photos (3) of Normal football players in uniform: »
“Orville “Shorty” Long, quarterback 1909-10; » Frazier; »
Beard |
| 38 | Photos (2) of football team in action on the Normal athletic field,
nd |
| 39 | Photos (3): » Football team standing on Normal athletic field; labeled
“K.S.N.S. ‘09”; » Studio photo of “Shep”Kerr in football uniform;
» Studio
photo of Beard in football uniform |
| 40-41 | Photos (2): » Demosthenonian Debating Club, 1905; 1st row, LtoR: Walter See,
H.L. McWilliams, 3 unidentified, Joe Burch, Elton Marshall,
Charles Beardsley, Grant Oberg, 5 unidentified, Clyde Busby, J.G. Pierce; 2nd row: unidentified, Bill Rouse, 4 unidentified, Elton Marshall,
2 unidentified, Guy S. Allison, uniden-tified, Ebbert A. Funk, Forest Wilson,
Jim Rouse, unidentified, George Israel, unidentified, John Baltzell; »
Baseball team sitting on steps of Science Hall, nd; 1st row, LtoR: Hull, Jim Rouse, John
Baltzell, Joe Burch, Tad Baltzell, Grover Morgan; 2nd row: Coach Bell?, “Red” Cecil, Jackson, Ward, Leslie, McFadden. |
| 42 | Studio portrait of baseball team, nd; 1st row, LtoR: Grover Morgan, Joe
Burch, Carl Hull; 2nd row: J.C. Mills?, John Baltzell, James E. Rouse, George E.
McFadden; 3rd row: Jackson, Tad Baltzell,
Coach S.S. Carroll, “Red” Cecil, Leslie |
| 43 | 1909 Football team standing on steps of Science Hall; 1st
row, LtoR: 3 unidentified, Beschliman, 2 unidentified; 2nd row:
unidentified, Joe Otterson, 2 unidentified, Jim
“Shep”Kerr; 3rd row: Luther Crookshank, George Israel, unidentified small boy, Jim Rouse, unidentified, Walter Hopkins |
| 44 | 1909 Football team sitting on steps of Science Hall; 1st
row: none identified; 2nd row: Wade Craig at left, others unidentified;
3rd row, LtoR: 2 unidentified, George Israel, Aeschliman, Joe
Otterson; 4th row: Luther Crookshank, Jim Rouse, Walter Hopkins,
unidentified |
| 45 | Students from Lewis County, MO, nd; John R. Murdock, left, back row,
James E. Rouse, 3rd from left, back row; all others unidentified |
| 46 | Two photographs of the Class of 1911 (taken at same sitting; slight
differences in pose); no identifications |
| 47 | Photos (2): » Harriet Howard, Normal demonstration school kindergarten
teacher, seated at child-size table with six unidentified children; nd
(photo by Patterson, Kirksville); » Cast of H.M.S. Pinafore
on the ship-shaped stage built on Normal Pond, summer 1912 |
| 48 | Photos (2): » Teacher and 7 unidentified students at work in art class,
nd; » 3 unidentified men on a rocky hillside somewhere in Adair County,
1912 |
| 49 | Two additional photos of same three men in approximately same locale |
| 50 | Studio photos (3) of Normal football players in uniform: » James Edward
Rouse; » Rowland “Soup” Marston; » J.A. Miller |
| 51 | First two rows of students in Science class, nd; 1st row,
LtoR: Robert Clough, Leonard Bailey, Jim Kerr, Egbert Polley, Wendell Dearing;
2nd row: W.A. Lewis and Jim Rouse at either end, others unidentified
[2
back rows appear to have been trimmed from print] |
| 52 | “Senior Special” edition of The Normal School Index (2:9) 6
May 1910 |
| 53 | Photos (2): » John Jack, head janitor; Jim Rouse (Jack sitting on
Rouse’s lap) and E.M. McGrew, Professor of Agriculture on the athletic
field, nd; » Alumni on steps of Science Hall, March 1915: President John
R. Kirk, 3rd from right, 2nd row; Miss Ophelia Parrish, left end, 6th row (white
hair in bun); Eugene Fair,2nd from right, 7th row (directly under word “March”); Jim Rouse,
center, back row (directly under word “Group”); all others unidentified |
| 54 | [empty] |
| 55 | Studio photo of James Edward Rouse in Normal base ball uniform; matted
(photo by Moore, Kirksville) |
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