The Busey Family
Contributions made to the Development
of the City of Champaign Urbana
Patricia Plaut
Summer Fellowship 2009
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Lesson 5:
Memorial Stadium and Charles
Bowen Busey are linked. Students will learn the reason for the building of the
University of Illinois Memorial Stadium while viewing a clip of a video. The
book, The Story of the Stadium lists Charles Bowen Busey as one
of the killed veterans. His son, Charles Bowen Busey
Jr. was only three years old at the time. The Busey
family tree will be expanded.
Procedures: (2-3
days)
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Hand out a copy
of LitBuseyLineage and LitBuseyLineage2 to groups of
students. Ask students to expand the Busey family
tree by either writing in or taping the information from the new handout into Worksheet: The Busey
Family Lineage, lesson 3.
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Ask the
following questions: how many generations of Buseys
do we now have? Since Sandra Louise Busey, today
known as Sandy Busey-Isaacs, is still alive, could we
still add more names to the lineage? Her children, for example, or grandchildren?
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Show the video
clip MemorialStadium-Busey.
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Ask the
following questions: Why was Memorial Stadium built? How was the
building of Memorial Stadium funded? How do the BuseyÕs
feature in the stadiums history?
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Hand out a copy
of StadiumDonationReceipt and StadiumDonationThankYou.
What do these two sheets represent?
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Hand out WWIUIUCdead. Who are all the people listed on this page?
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Finally, show a
picture of Memorial Stadium in Lincoln, Nebraska. This too is a college stadium
built in memory of WWI alumni who died during the war.
Attachment: none
Analysis of Local Primary Sources:
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LitBuseyLineage and
LitBuseyLineage2, a hand written by a Busey
descendant. Source available from the Early American Museum, 600 N Lombard St,
Mahomet, Il.
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MemorialStadium-Busey.
Video excerpt taken from Memorial Stadium, True Illini Spirit featuring
Charles Bowen Busey column at Memorial Stadium and
the Memorial found at Woodlawn Cemetery. It also has an interview with Sandra Busey-Isaacs, granddaughter of Charles Busey.
Source available from WILL-TV, 300 N. Goodwin Ave., Urbana Il.
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StadiumDonationReceipt,
primary source showing $100 payment/donation towards the building of the
Memorial Stadium. Taped onto the first page of The Story of the Stadium.
Source available from the Early American Museum, 600 N Lombard St, Mahomet, Il.
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StadiumDonationThankYou,
primary source showing the thank you note for the $100 donation given by
Charges Bowen Busey Jr. to the Memorial Stadium fund.
Taped onto the first page of The Story of the Stadium. Source available
from the Early American Museum, 600 N Lombard St, Mahomet, Il.
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WWIUIUCdead, copy of the
list of U of I alumni who died during WWI from a page in the book The Story
of the Stadium. Source available from the Early American Museum, 600 N Lombard
St, Mahomet, Il.
Analysis of Local Secondary Sources:
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LitBuseyLineage and
LitBuseyLineage2, hand written lineage of Samuel Busey,
founder of Busey Bank. Source available from the
Early American Museum, 600 N Lombard St, Mahomet, Il.
Ties to a National Primary Source:
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Show Google
pictures of Memorial Stadium in Lincoln, Nebraska.