The Mary Crow Room (Wallace 204) was designed for audio-visual instruction and named for Mary Bartling Crow, an MC graduate ('41) who taught history from 1946-1985. Mary was a world-class traveler and photographer whose sparkling lectures were for thousands of students the first steps toward a lifetime love of history and travel.

The Mary Crow Room, long equipped with an enclosed slide projection booth and map storage area, television, overhead projecters and boom-boxes, now has a state of the art computerized projection system for power point, videos, DVD, and access to the WEB. Maps are in abundance, both suspended from the walls, on moveable stands, and hanging maps stored in the closet and projection booth.

Classroom arrangement changes throughout the day, with some traditional lectures, some discussion groups, and some audio-visual presentation. The older, more comfortable chairs provide a sense of the continuity of the past into today.

The Elmo overhead projector allows the professor to stand to the side of the room, giving everyone an unobstructed view and provides a clearer and more adjustable picture than older technology allowed.