Butler Community College - Grizzly Growl Yearbook (El Dorado, KS)

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1927 1987: 60 years of progress In the school year 1927-28, J.F. Hughes was named the first superintendent of El Dorado Junior College when the college was foun- ded. There were only nine instructors, six full-time and three part-time, representing ten departments. They were French, Spanish, social science, English, history, mathematics, chemistry, music, library and athletics. Today the BCCC faculty numbers 81 full-time members and 131 part time in- structors, with departments ranging from business education to art to nursing to auto body to data processing to theatre. The enrollment in 1927 numbered ninety-two freshmen and twenty- three sophomores bringing the total enrollment to 115 compared to 2,139 freshmen and 991 sophomores enrolled in the fall semester of 1986. The Lantern didn ' t start as a college newspaper. Its humble beginnings were in the high school journalism department. The EJC newspaper was then called the El Doradoan. Other organizations included Pi Delta Theta, student council, debate squad, science club, YWCA, Sans Souci, one of the exclusive women ' s clubs, mathematics club which sponsored a demonstration with a magician ' s instrument called a slide rule; Gold Diggers, called this because the object of this organization was to dig out the pep which anyone in school had hidden away ; and the Hoboes, a women ' s club with the only requirement being that each mem- ber bring her lunch in a bandana. (continued on next page) 2 Introduction

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DEDICATION To those far-seeing, unselfish citizens of EI Dorado who caught the vision of the need for higher education, and gave to Butler County the El Dorado Junior College, we respect- fully dedicate this first Grizzly Growl . f 192Z-19SZ THE GRIZZLY Butler County Community College El Dorado, Kansas 67042 Vol. 58 1987

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Progress ( from previous page) The 1927 building that housed some of the first classes for El Dorado Junior College no longer exists. Contemporary marks the present campus. Athletics were just as important then as they are now. The E Club was organized for men who earned letters either in football or basket- ball. The first football team con- sisted of sixteen members and they participated in seven games, win- ning four of them. The basketball squad had seven active members and played eleven games, winning six for the season. The courses for the first year of EJC included rhetoric, required for all freshmen, and other liberal arts and science courses. No vocational training courses were offered. A total of 38 courses was available. There were five classrooms up- stairs in the junior high school building with the labs, library and study hall in the upstairs of the senior high school building, a far cry from the ten buildings and hun- dreds of classrooms available at BCCC today. Susan Burgess Brett Perry Introduction 3