Table of Contents

• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• PART I Ross-Ade: Their Stories
• Like being in jail
• Mechanic or farmer?
• A good spectator
• Much of the time lonely
• In the Big Arena
• A different breed of cat
• Chicago, here he came
• Meanwhile, down on the farm
• "Fables" and more
• Plays and more plays
• Made for the movies
• Peace and War
• At war with Purdue
• Together at last
• Walter Scholer
• Ross-Ade
• PART II Ross-Ade: Their Stadium
• A time for reflectio
• Out of the Joke Division
• Events of great importance
• Governor Leslie
• Darkest memories
• Maybe sports?
• Fast growing seeds
• Promising news, growing Depression
• A time of change
• Purdue Airport
• Earhart at Purdue
• The "Flying Laboratory"
• Pride, sadness, mystery, hope
• A new season of pride
• Golf courses, parties, and war
• The Hall of Music
• Getting serious
• Wartime!
• "A multiplier of the power of men"
• "Home is the Hoosier"
• Hovde for Elliott
• Gaining in value
• The "Golden Girl" and "Purdue Pete"
• "I am an American"
• A hallowed centerpiece
• The "PAT" era
• Not your average Joe
• Bermuda and "The Boilermaker"
• An economic plus
• And then some
• References
• Index

About the Author

Robert C. Kriebel is a retired editor of the Lafayette Journal and Courier where is was employed 40 years in a variety of writing, editing, and executive positions. He continues in retirement to contribute a Sunday column on local history, a column that was launched in 1977. Kriebel is the author of 4 books on Indiana biography, and one about the life and the work of American jazz banleader, Herman Woody