The Buildings of Central Michigan University
Anna B. Herrig Hall
Opened: Fall 1966
Cost: $1.4 million
Occupancy: 344
Herrig Hall was designed, like most of Central's buildings, by Roger Allen and Associates of Grand Rapids. It was dedicated on December 10, 1967, the 75th anniversary of the founding of Central Michigan Normal School. At the dedication ceremony, an award was given to Allen for his service to the University.
The
hall was named for an assistant professor of Psychology and Education from 1921
to 1938. Herrig was born in Saginaw on October 27, 1966. She graduated from
Arthur Hill high school. In 1891, she became the first recipient in the United
States of the new certificate to teach at Normal Schools, the old name for teacher
education centers. She studied at Columbia, Harvard, Clark, and the University
of Chicago. She spent time 
as the principal of training schools in South Dakota
and Nebraska, taught in New Paltz, New York for twelve years, and came to Central
Michigan to teach in the Department of Psychology and Education in 1921. In
addition to her teaching, she started a World Acquaintance Tour, a Negro Acquaintance
Tour, a Sherwood Eddy Conference, a YWCA Mercier Breakfast, and an annual Christmas
party at the Indian school. She died on August 11, 1938.