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The Indian Institution and the Evansville Day School - Coggle Diagram
The Indian Institution and the Evansville Day School
Struggle Continues
Enrollment dropped from 22 in 1891 to 8 in 1892, suggesting that Kerney was the life force behind the school
School board met in private and decided to close the Evansville Day School.
August 8, 1892, the school board hired, for $70 per month, a young deaf man, Paul Lange
Evansville officially closed on March 12, 1903
June of 1892, the school board changed its mind, offering Kerney a teaching position for $100 a month
The Evansville Day School
A women established a small class in Portland, Maine to teach deaf children how to speak and, thus, began the Portland Day School, an oralist school
Philip Emery established branch classes for deaf students in various Chicago neighborhoods and obtained state funding by 1879
Robert MacGregor was the founder of the Cincinnati day school in 1892
William French founded the Eastern Iowa day school in Dubuque in 1888
Charles Kerney was the founder of the Evansville Day School
And the Darkness Fell
The board appointed a dentist, William Glenn, to be the new superintendent of the Indiana Institution
Eli Baker was chosen to be the new superintendent, effective December 15, 1884
Oliver Morton- a powerful governer of Indiana during the Civil War and then a U.S. senator
1886-1887 school year-alumni reunion took place. Those at the reunion passed various resolutions with respect to the Indiana Institution and its betterment
MacIntire- a trained Presbyterian minister. The Indiana Institution hired MacIntire as a teacher in 1852
Evansville
forest nearby, which contained lumbar to help farms ship grain to its mills
Large meeting hall, Evans Hall, in honor of the city's founder, General Evans; the new hall could hold up to 2,000 people
Railroad connections to various cities like Chicago, Nashville, St. Louis, and Louisville
Indiana's second largest city in the 1880s
Four factors suggest that Kerney's attempt to receive government support was realistic
Institutional newspapers/weeklies were important to the deaf community in the nineteenth century
New School
The building commission recommended that a new campus be found in the north side of Indianapolis
The deaf school campus opened in 1911, it was located on an 80 acre property on 42nd street
Ample space for 500 pupils; 700 could be squeezed in if necessary
United States steel Corporation built an entire new town named Gary, with the largest steel mills
The institutional name was changed to the Indiana State School for the Deaf
Long-term Consequences
Observations on how schools moved through the entire spectrum of deaf education
Evidence suggests that Kerney's criticisms of the Indiana Institution were justified.
William Glenn and Eli Baker was also nearly forgotten by the Indiana school
Evansville, there was no building to mark Kerney's efforts. No one in Evansville or Indianapolis remembered Kerney