Clarion University of Pennsylvania - Sequelle Yearbook (Clarion, PA)

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Clarion State Normal School ' s First Faculty 1887 Members of the Class of ' 13 Founders Hall (Science Hall) 1890 ill. I t 1 ii if .ii rniEl, fe 1 |LaL-l imi« fli Recreational Reading Room Seminar] Hall

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Ground-breaking ceremony for Harvey Gymnasium — 1931. State Normal School, Clarion, Pennsylvania, 1904. row 1, Train Station, Heating Plant, Founders Hall (Old Science Hall), Chapel, row 2. Navarre Hall (Later called Becht Hall), Music Hall, Seminary Hall, Old Stevens Hall (Men ' s Dormitory).

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CLARION TOD A Y Clarion State College has come a long way from the days of the embryonic structure, Carrier Seminary, and its seven acre plot of ground. The modern campus consists of twenty-nine buildings in use and fourteen in the planning stage. Student enrollment has grown by leaps and bounds. In 1888, Clarion Normal had a tiny student body and a graduating class of fourteen. Today, the student enrollment is three thousand, and yearly graduating classes number in the hundreds. The present physical plant of the college includes eight modern dormitories; Elk, Wilson, Ballentine, Ralston, Jefferson, McKean, Given, and bhafer Halls. Overlooking the new Administration and Library Building is a magnificent new Dining Hall with spacious, elegant dining areas. At the foot of the hill below the Dining Hall, stand the new Science Building and the new Gymnasium. Both buildings are impressive m size and appearance. Science Hall with its red brick and white pilasters, is over 400 feet long and ' will house forty laboratories and eleven classrooms. The Gymnasium will be one of the finest in the state, housing a large natatorium and also facilities for indoor track, gym- nastics, tennis, handball, basketball, and other athletic activities. Clarion State College, nineteen-sixty-eight, has become one of the finest in the state system. Its students rank high academically; its 1 acuity is competent and distinguished; and its curriculum is sophisticated. Clarion State epitomizes education in the best tradition. Its debate teams have become nationally famous by defeating large, nationally known institutions; its superb choir has sung with the Baltimore Sym- phony Orchestra; Us own Centennial Symphony Orchestra has presented excellent programs to large and enthusiastic audiences; its band has played at the World ' s Fair; its summer archeology classes attract students from other parts of the country; its athletic program has b ' een superb, turning out athletes who are exceptionally fine young men and who perform to the peak of their ability as it is witnessed by the tact that Clarion State brought home three separate state championships, football, baseball, and golf, in one year! Clarion State College has, indeed, come a long way from the days of Carrier Seminary and its little seven acre campus and it will continue to grow and progress in the best tradition of education.