Navy Pier Research Articles

"There's still more digging to do": A Story in Honor of A. LaVonne Brown Ruoff

"There's still more digging to do"A Story in Honor of A. LaVonne Brown Ruoff Malea Powell (bio) This is a story. When I started thinking about this story, I though it would be a pretty standard biographical summary of LaVonne's life as a scholar. As I sifted through some of the materials that LaVonne had sent me upon finding out we intended to devote this issue of SAIL to her, I found such a summary impossible to write. It was impossible not just because Lavonne's life, and her scholarship, has been complicated, extensive, and inspiring—though it has been. It just seemed strange to sit with that small stack of materials that she had provided to me and not think about all the other things that LaVonne has provided and made possible for me—for so many of us. I know that the simple fact that I am sitting here at this computer in my very comfortable university office, that I occupy a tenured position at a Research One university as a scholar of American Indian literatures and rhetorics, that I edit this journal, that I have been able to find a compelling and fulfilling scholarly life in archives and libraries, that I am a native woman scholar at all—all of these things are, at least partly, her doing. Many, many other scholars will testify to her influence and her significance in the following pages. My voice here is just one more attempt to echo that refrain. A. LaVonne Brown was born in 1930 in Harvey, Illinois, to Oscar Brown and Laura Witters Brown. As a young man, Oscar Brown traveled, with his brother, Bert, to North Dakota to prove up land for farms. Oscar homesteaded eighty acres near present-day Halliday, North Dakota, from 1909 until 1913. During his time there he started, [End Page 5] and managed, a semi-professional Indian baseball team and made friendly acquaintance with his native neighbors. LaVonne remembers fondly sorting through her father's pictures of the team and his neighbors—her first interest in Indians—photos that were disposed of after his death in 1967, and whose absence she worries about with an archivist's sensibility: "I would have loved to have made copies and given the originals to the Fort Berthold tribe or to the North Dakota historical society." LaVonne graduated from high school in 1948 and started working at the publishing house where she would meet her first husband, Milford Prasher, a World War II veteran and Menominee. Her fourteen-year marriage to Prasher extended her previous interest in Indians to a full-fledged education in understanding the lives of native people in the United States and the position of American Indians in the imaginations of the non-Indian populace. LaVonne now saw first-hand the consequences of federal policies like termination: "It was a disaster for the Menominee tribe" (qtd. in Marsh 20). During this same time period, she began studying at the University of Illinois branch at Navy Pier (a two-year institution that later became the University of Illinois at Chicago). She later applied at Northwestern despite much pressure from her friends to "continue to work to save money for a house and to have a family" (qtd. in Marsh 20). Her friends, and even her doctor, believed that college would be "too much for a married woman," but her grades were high enough to earn her a scholarship after the first quarter of her enrollment (qtd. in Marsh 20). She earned her bachelor's degree in secondary English education in 1953 and immediately went to work at University of Illinois–Navy Pier. While there she and her husband adopted two children—Stephen and Sharon, an Ojibwe girl. She and Prasher were divorced several years later. LaVonne had also returned to school during this time and earned her doctoral degree in 1966 in nineteenth-century English Romanticism and took a job at UIC, where she met Gene Ruoff. They were married a year later and now live in a gorgeously restored Victorian home in Oak Park, Illinois. Meanwhile, LaVonne's school-aged children "weren't learning about American Indians in school. [The...

Filtration 2003: Exhibitor Focus

The Filtration 2003 exhibition is an ideal opportunity for indsutry professionals to see the latest products and developments in the field of filtration. Below Filtration+Separation presents a selection of new products and systems that will be showcased in Chicago on 18–20 November, covering everything from new netting, production machines, cartridge bags, and HEPA/ULPA filters for application in pharmaceutical procedures and other hygienic environments. There will also be a number of new membranes, electronic aids and measuring/efficiency devcies on display at the Navy Pier venue in Chicago. We present these together with an overview of the aims and ambitions of the exhibiting companies, including those looking for distribution partners or focusing on particular filtration fields. We hope our ‘Exhibitor Focus’ section helps you to select the companies and organisations that will be of most interest to you.

Brighten the Corner Where You Are: An Interview with Wayne Booth

This interview was recorded in Chicago on 29 December 1995 at the Annual Convention of the Modern Language Association, where Wayne Booth had received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Conference on Christianity and Literature at its luncheon. Several references in the interview are to the events at that luncheon, as well as to the address that Booth had delivered the previous evening, “Story as Spiritual Quest,” published in this issue of Christianity and Literature. There are also references to Booth's “Afterword” to Rhetoric and Pluralism: Legacies of Wayne Booth (1995); two articles Booth refers to are identified under “Works Cited.” The interview took place in a hotel room high above the Chicago River overlooking Navy Pier and Lake Michigan.

Lateral Distribution of Loads in One‐Way Continuous Navy Pier Decks

Distribution of wheel loads in concrete bridges has been addressed by AASHTO using the effective‐width concept, whereby the load is assumed to be laterally distributed over a width E function of the span and limited to 2.1 m (7 ft). A military handbook addressing flat‐slab pier‐deck design to distribute truck‐crane outrigger loads recommends following these guidelines, although it recognizes that resulting designs are overly conservative. An initial finite element‐parameter study is carried out in an attempt to determine more appropriate effective‐widths values. Inservice pier tests are conducted to corroborate the numerical predictions. From these analyses and test results, a one‐third scale laboratory model using an effective‐width value of 3 m (10 ft) is designed, constructed, and tested. Classical plate‐theory solutions and finite element analyses using various edge conditions, cracked and uncracked deck properties, as well as point and patch loads are completed. Analyses and tests results confirmed t...

Burnham of Chicago: Architect and Planner

The centennial of the influential Plan of will be celebrated in 2009. Designed by Daniel Burnham, co-authored by Edward Bennett and produced in collaboration with the Commercial Club of Chicago, the forward-thinking plan proposed many of the city's most distinctive features, including its lakefront parks and roadways, the Magnificent Mile, and Navy Pier. As a result, by the time he died in 1912, was one of the most famous architects in America as well as an internationally renowned city planner. Thomas S. Hines' book is at once both a biography of and a vivid portrait of the birth and growth of an American city. In commemoration of the historic anniversary of Burnham's Plan, this edition of Burnham of Chicago includes a new introduction by historian Neil Harris.

An Evaluation of a Grading System for Physical Education for Women

IN 1946, the Chicago Undergraduate Division of the University of Illi nois was established on Navy Pier. One of the developmental problems which beset the administration in women's physical education, in addi tion to major questions of staff, space and courses, was that of a grad ing system for students. The system finally selected was that used by Staley and Stafford (5) for men. The fundamental principle of this system was the scaling o f all course activities on a one-hundred point basis, and the weighting of this material in point values, i. e., bracing in archery might be consid ered as a three point value, while the technique of draw and aim would be worth ten points, giving a total of thirteen points toward the total one hundred for the archery course. Since the University academic grades were letters, a conversion scale was established whereby letter grades could be read directly from numerical grades, with 90 or more points equaling A; 81-89 points equaling B, etc. The system was initiated in the fall of 1946 and at that time seemed to be unique in the field of w o men's physical education. Student grades were posted on large charts and were available throughout the semester for observation, re-tests, improvement and class status. Revisions in weighting have occurred from time to time, as for instance, bracing in archery was raised to five points while the draw and aim process was rated as 15 points, giv ing these two a value of 20 points toward 100 instead of the original weight of 13 as described above. With the termination of the spring semester, 1951, this system had been in use for five years. It seemed that the fourteen semesters en compassed in that time span should afford a sound basis for an evalua tion of this grading process, and the department wished to study itfrom several viewpoints, namely:

Audio‐Visual Aids*

The Modern Language JournalVolume 35, Issue 7 p. 562-566 Audio-Visual Aids* First published: November 1951 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1540-4781.1951.tb01651.x † This New Department will include Radio, Television, Maps, Records, etc. The Assistant Editor in charge is Professor José Sánchez, University of Illinois, Navy Pier, Chicago 11, Illinois. Material for this Department should be sent directly to him. The films mentioned in this Department will be 16 mm., unless otherwise indicated. [Editor's Note.] AboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat Volume35, Issue7November 1951Pages 562-566 RelatedInformation

Fabrication Featured at SPE Meeting

THE trend of the plastics industry toward standardized arid proved production methods was clearly indicated by the technical sessions of the annual meeting of the Society of Plastics Engineers held at the Congress Hotel in Chicago from Jan. 27 through 31. Held in conjunction with the meeting was the Third Annual National Plastics Show of the SPE. The show, which ran from Jan. 25 through Jan. 31, was held in the Drill Hall on Navy Pier in Chicago. Exhibitors of plastics molding and processing equipment predominated at the show; only two suppliers of materials, Reichhold Chemicals, Inc., and Rohm and Haas, were represented. In addition to a demonstration of sheet forming, Rohm and Haas showed a Plexiglas dream suite, a three-room, cut-away apartment showing uses of plastics in panels and fittings. A feature of the exhibit was the style show, held every evening at 7 and 9 P.M., in which 40 costumes of varieties ...