University of Central Missouri - Rhetor Yearbook (Warrensburg, MO)

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I., ... .- f . - --......-. A .-Y.-...s,..- . . -........,..c..-,....- ,,,. ,...,,- ..-W. ,,.,....,,,,-..,.-..,-,.. ,...............,., .. ...,..,. -. .-.,t...1,.,, .., A-.. . .,, HW ,.,,, . -, ...,.,,...,. .,...- - V Iaisturp uf Zllitlarrenshurg State urmal Qcbuul 't' HE Missouri State Normal,and Training School for the Second District was located at Warrensburg, the county seat of johnson county, April 27th, l87l. To secure the location, the county voted 3sl28,000 in bonds, the city 5B45,000, and private citizens donated a campus of sixteen acres within the city limits. The State Board of Regents, as agents for the State, undertook the erection of buildings for the accommodation of the school. On the 28th of April, l87l, a commodious public school building was leased from the city for a year, Geo. P. Beard, A. M., was chosen president, and the school was opened May l0th with thirty students in attendance. Immediate steps were taken to erect suitable buildings on the Normal School grounds. The corner stone of the main building was laid, with appropriate ceremonies, August I6, I87l , and in june, l872, the first story was completed and ready for occupancy. The building fund being exhausted, work was suspended, and the school was at once removed to the new building, not- withstanding its unfinished condition. The building as first projected was not completed until the summer of l88l, ten years after the organization of the school. At the opening of the scholastic year l88l-82, the training department was organized, and has since been uniformly maintained, its efficiency and value increasing from year to year until it has become recognized as one of the most efficient and best organized training schools in the middle west. ' The rapid growth of the school during the three years following the completion of the main building created a strong demand for more extensive accommodations. Accordingly, during the years I885 and l886, a wing was erected south of the center of the main building, and con- nected to it by a short corridor. This improvement provided greatly increased accommodations for the training school department, and added six large classrooms, two library rooms and an assembly room to the normal department. 1 An appeal to the General Assembly in IS95 brought an appropriation for the erection of a science building. This building was three stories high, substantially built of native sandstone and was joined to the main building by a corridor on the west. It contained four laboratories, a number of classrooms, the library, study room and the general offices. The General Assemblies' of 1903 and l905 made appropriations amounting to S75,000. With this money the Board of Regents erected a thoroughly modern gymnasium, which contains rooms for the physical directors, Y. M. C. A. and Y.,W. C. A. halls, bathrooms, and the most approved gymnasium equipment. At the same time the heating plant was remodeled and an additional story was added in which was installed the mechanical arts department. ln l907 the Legislature provided for the erection of the training school building by an ap- propriation of 3550,000. This building was completed in l909 and furnished most excellent quarters for the training school and rooms for the art department and the department of house- hold arts. The Warrensburg Normal School has always stood for a high standard of scholarship. The supreme test of the value ofa school is the quality of its body of alumni. This body now numbers 2,095, and the school can point with pride to the number who have attained distinction in the world of educators and to the many who have achieved success in other lines. Very few have failed to make themselves felt as forces for progress in their communities. . W. N. LAIDLAW. Page 1 zo I

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