An art class meets outside the new
Stone Hall, built in 1957.
In 1952, a new era of leadership began for home economics when Beulah
V. Gillaspie succeeded Mary Matthews as dean. The old Home Economics
Building was remodeled and renamed Home Economics II (now Matthews
Hall). A new Home Economics Administration Building (now Stone Hall)
opened in 1957 on the site of Ladies Hall. In addition, the child
development and family life department moved to a new building, complete
with junior-sized facilities for the nursery school. By 1959, the
seven departments (art and design, child development and family life,
clothing and textiles, equipment and family housing, foods and nutrition,
home management and family economics, and institutional management)
were settled in three buildings.
Timeline
1950
U.S. enters Korea to aid South Koreans against
North Korean invasion
1953
Dr. Jonas Salk develops polio vaccine
1956
Elvis Presley performs on The Ed Sullivan
Show
1957
Purdue is the first university
to use computers to schedule classes
