Van Hise Room
Best Western InnTowner and The Highland Club in Madison, Wisconsin

This InnTowner meeting room was named after Professor Charles Van Hise,a geologist and educator who was University of Wisconsin President from 1903 to 1918. Van Hise's forward thinking blended the English model of liberal arts education, the German model of research and graduate education and an emphasis on outreach. In 1910 he authored the country's first textbook on the conservation of natural resources.

Links about Charles Van Hise

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_R._Van_Hise
http://www.library.wisc.edu/etext/WIReader/WER0746.html
http://www.wchf.org/bio/VanHise.html