Carroll University Archives

Subject Newspaper Clipping Files

The Newspaper clipping files include some history of the college as seen through Waukesha and Milwaukee area newspaper sources.  Eventually, this index will be completely searchable online.  In the meantime a few popular topics have been selected and are listed below.  For more information, please contact the archivist.

Most Requested Topics

First Forward Pass (football) | Native American Indian Mounds | Kilgour, Jean | Morgan Manor (haunted house) | von Reuter, Florizel | Baby born in South Berg


Football History: The First Forward Pass

On September 5, 1906, football history was made at Carroll College.  In a game played with St. Louis (MO) University, the first legal forward pass, developed by St. Louis coach Eddie Cochems, helped to defeat Carroll on their home field.

• 09/21/1963    First forward pass event to celebrate (Waukesha Freeman)
• 01/17/1981    First legal forward pass thrown here (Waukesha Freeman)
• 06/06/1985    Portrait of the past: Passed it on
• 10/11/1990    Carroll College helped make football history in 1906 (Waukesha Freeman)

Native American Indian Mounds

Scholars estimate that more than 4,000 Indian mounds existed in Wisconsin, and a few of them are right here on the Carroll University campus.  In the 1860s pioneer archeologist Increase Lapham mapped the Indian Mounds and proved that they were build by the ancestors of the Native American Nations. 

• See The Antiquities of Wisconsin as Surveyed and Described by I. A. Lapham      (1973) found in the Library's book collection:  E78.W8 L2 1973
• 05/31/1906 A good meet : archeologists have an interesting field gathering : met at college Saturday (Waukesha Freeman)
• 02/13/2003 Ancient history outside our front door (Library Currents, the Carroll University Library newsletter)

Jean Kilgour

Quality of instruction and personal attention are part of the heritage of Carroll's faculty, many of whom are part of the Carroll experience for two, three, and four decades.  Jean Kilgour, a Physical Education professor at Carroll for 43 years (1926-1969) is remembered by hundreds of Carroll graduates for her enthusiasm and competence.  "Teach" introduced coeducational physical education classes to Carroll, and under her leadership, women's athletics became an integral part of college life.  She was the first woman to enter the Carroll University Athletic Hall of Fame and has a residence hall named in her honor.  The Jean Kilgour Fund for Women's Athletics is a lasting legacy, helping to extend Carroll's mission of educating students in a liberal arts context.

• 02/26/1969    Teach looks back  (Waukesha Freeman)
• 04/27/1969    'The Teach' jogs into retirement  (Milwaukee Journal)
• 05/19/1969    Students urged to act fearlessly in society  (Milwaukee Sentinel)
• 09/14/1974    Carroll to rename halls  (Waukesha Freeman)
• 10/09/1974    Woman among seven new Carroll inductees  (Waukesha Freeman)

Morgan Manor (the haunted house) (now known as MacAllister Hall)

In 1895, George H. Wilbur built the house still resting at the southeast corner of College and East Avenues.  Over the course of the next hundred years, the house became part of the Carroll University campus and has endured name changes reflecting those families who contributed to its renovation.  For some years, the house served as a residence hall which some students thought was haunted.

• 11/09/1895    Geo. H. Wilbur's new home  (Waukesha County Democrat)
• 10/31/1979    Ghost kept students jumpy  (Waukesha Post)
• 10/23/1984    Playful ghost haunts manor  (Milwaukee Journal)
• 10/23/1984    Eerie visions in Carroll's 'Morgue'  (Milwaukee Journal)

Florizel von Reuter

Florizel von Reuter (1890-1985) retired to the Milwaukee area, ultimately moving to Waukesha in the early 1950s.  A native of Davenport, Iowa, Mr. von Reuter spent his career playing his violin for the crown heads of Europe and ultimately headed the Vienna State Academy of Music.  Among his students in Vienna was Milton Weber who later joined the Carroll College Music Department.  Professor Weber was the first conductor of the Waukesha Symphony, which was founded in 1947 by Carroll President Nelson Vance Russell.  When Florizel von Reuter retired to this area, a lengthy collaboration between the two musicians began.  Mr. von Reuter was also a composer and an author. 

• 05/14/1949    Concert violinist, born here, is broke and hungry in Berlin, needs job to return to his native city (Davenport Daily Times)
• 10/11/1950    A teacher and his pupil are reunited in Waukesha (Waukesha Freeman)
• 07/25/1952    World-famed violinist, once child prodigy, visitor here (Davenport Daily Times)
• [undated]       Florizel Reuter accepts teaching post in Milwaukee (unknown Davenport paper)
• 05/13/1985    Musician von Reuter dies at 95 (Waukesha Freeman)
• 05/14/1985    A set of photos ... and an error (Waukesha Freeman) 
• See also the Florizel von Reuter Collection

Baby born in South Bergstrom Hall

On Tuesday, November 12, 1985, a 22-year-old Carroll College student, gave birth to a baby girl in South Bergstrom Hall. The baby's cries were heard by residents of the hall who found her in a sealed plastic bag in a dormitory trash container. 

• 11/13/1985    Baby girl found in trash can (Waukesha Freeman)
• 11/14/1985    Woman faces charge in baby abandonment (Waukesha Freeman)
• 11/14/1985    DA to charge woman in abandoned baby case (Milwaukee Journal)
• 11/15/1985    Attempted murder of infant is charged (Milwaukee Journal)
• 11/15/1985    Carroll student charged with attempted murder (Waukesha Freeman)
• 11/15/1985    Mother, 22, tells police she left baby in bag (Milwaukee Sentinel)
• 11/15/1985    People inquiring on adopting baby (Milwaukee Sentinel)
• 11/16/1985    Coed at mental health center (Waukesha Freeman)
• 11/19/1985    Mental competency expected as issue in baby's abandonment (Milwaukee Journal)
• 11/20/1985    Co-ed mom should be returned to jail (Waukesha Freeman)
• 11/21/1985    Carroll coed placed in jail; bail modified (Milwaukee Journal)
• 11/21/1985    Student mother ordered back to jail (Waukesha Freeman)
• 11/22/1985    Student mother free on bond (Waukesha Freeman)
• 11/25/1985    Student mother denied baby was hers (Waukesha Freeman)
• 11/25/1985    Carroll coed ordered to stand trial (Milwaukee Journal)
• 11/27/1985    'Disposal' of infant happened here before (Waukesha Freeman)
• 12/17/1985    Arraignment for Carroll student Friday (Waukesha Freeman)
• 12/20/1985    Carr enters innocent plea (Waukesha Freeman)
• 01/13/1989    Court: Carr cannot hire an attorney (Waukesha Freeman)
• 03/29/1989    Carr guilty of attempted manslaughter (Waukesha Freeman)
• 03/30/1989    Ex-student is guilty in baby case (Milwaukee Sentinel)
• 03/30/1989    Former Carroll student convicted in baby case
• 01/01/1989    Ex-Carroll student gets five years probation (Waukesha Freeman)