1936 – The Black ISC Student Experience to 1950

Hubert Crouch was born 7 December 1906 in Jacksonville, Texas, to George W. Crouch and Mary “Carrie” Crouch. His sister is Geneva Crouch, who also attended Iowa State University. He attended Iowa State for his Master of Science in Protozoology, which he received in 1930, and his Ph.D. in Zoology, with minors in Entomology and Botany, which he completed in 1936. He worked at Kentucky State college as a professor of biology during the time that Rufus B. Atwood, a fellow Iowa State alumnus, was President of the institution. After working at Kentucky State College, Crouch became a professor and Head of the Department of Biology and Director of the Division of Science at Tennessee Agricultural & Industrial State University at Nashville. By 1965 he was the Dean of the Graduate School there, and soon was serving with fellow Iowa State alumnus Walter H. Dabney, who was Dean of Engineering by 1969-70 (US Dept of Health, Education, and Welfare, Office of Education and National Center for Educational Statistics, Education Directory 1969-70 Higher Education, US Government Printing Office, 1970). He founded the National Institute of Science and the Council of Science Teachers, in association with the Kentucky Negro Educational Association.

In 1935 Hubert married Mildred Shipp, whose parents, John and Nellie Shipp, housed Black ISC students at their home in the 1930s and 1940. Mildred’s mother was Nellie Emira Martin, whose parents, Archie and Nancy Chandler Martin, opened their home at 218 Lincoln Way to many Black ISC students. Hubert Crouch and his sister Geneva were two of those students. After living at the Martin House, Hubert moved to 118 Sherman, the home of his future wife’s parents, the Shipps. He and Mildred had multiple children. Hubert died 17 October 1980. After his death, Tennessee State University erected a building known as “Hubert Crouch Hall” in his honor.

Iowa State College Dissertation Title: The animal parasites of the woodchuck (Marmota monax L.) with special reference to the protozoa, 1936

Iowa State University Catalog Record:https://quicksearch.lib.iastate.edu/permalink/01IASU_INST/174tg9m/alma990007117870102756

Sources

Photo Credits Kentucky State

https://doi.org/10.2307/2717664

https://www.jstor.org/stable/2717664

https://library3.tnstate.edu/library/bldgs/crouchbldg.htm

Ada was an advocate. She received her B.A. from Tillotson College, where she would later become Head of the Economics Department after receiving her M.S. at Iowa State College. She never received a formal education up until she started auditing at Austin Samuel Houston College She was then able to take exams to receive the course equivalents. She would become a local legend in Austin advocating the health of many and well-known by her later married name “Ada D. Simond.”

In later life, Simond was inducted into the Texas Women’s Hall of Fame in 1986. After a career as a teacher, she worked as a public health representative until retirement and then proceeded to volunteer for food banks and other local organizations, write children’s books, and lead in the preservation of African-American history in Austin, Texas.

Iowa State College Thesis Title: Certain housing conditions and activities of Negro girls enrolled in federally aided schools in Texas as one index of their educational needs, 1936

Iowa State University Catalog Record:https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/rtd/17754

Sources

Photo Credit Texas State Historical Association

Biography available at HBCU Connections at Iowa State University : Ada M. DeBlanc-Yerwood ( http://hbcuconnections.iastatedigital.org/Ada_M._DeBlanc-Yerwood )

Tag: 1936

Crouch, Hubert Branch (M.S., Protozoology, 1930; Ph.D., Zoology, 1936)

Simond, Ada Marie DeBlanc-Yerwood (M.S. Home Economics Education & Child Development, 1936)