July 15, 2010

Where's Bob?

Where's Bob?

University photographer Bob Elbert shot this historical marker in the first-floor hallway of Snedecor Hall. Originally the "Service Building," it was a federal Works Progress Administration project completed in 1939 to house an assortment of services, including mimeograph machines from Morrill, the Statistical Lab from Beardshear, WOI Radio from the Engineering Annex and the photo studio from Agricultural Hall. The building was renamed in 1969 for math professor George Snedecor, who taught the first statistics courses at Iowa State in 1915 and helped establish the Statistical Laboratory in 1933.