Male students temporarily quartered in the trustees' board room in Bryan Hall
Trailer city in Woodlawn Field
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Sixty years ago, Congress passed the G.I. Bill of Rights, dramatically changing the educational opportunities for veterans and causing any number of logistical challenges for American institutions of higher learning. Post-World War II enrollments on the IU Bloomington campus jumped from 4,498 in 1945-46, to 10,345 the following year. Enrollments spiked at IU’s “regional centers” as well, and Seiberling Mansion was purchased by the university in 1946 to establish a Kokomo campus. In the photo above, Bloomington students were temporarily quartered in the trustees’ board room at Bryan Hall as a result of the influx of former soldiers. Temporary buildings were moved to the campus from military facilities throughout the Midwest, and a trailer city in Woodlawn Field was established when 300 mobile units arrived from Nebraskan military bases.
http://www.iuinfo.indiana.edu/homepages/1010/text/giinflux.htm
Looking back to another September: Sixty-five years ago this month, on Sept. 1, the Nazi invasion of Poland was the spark that was to ignite World War II:
http://www.homepages.indiana.edu/120701/text/sept.html
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