Kansas State University - Royal Purple Yearbook (Manhattan, KS)

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EAR built thou In a way, Moe, you ' re lucky. You will find several of the deans and heads of departments changed when you get back. And as I remember your status with many of them, you will be the better off for the changes. There has been a reshuffling of the athletics department. Hobbs Adams, who took up the reins of director of athletics only last fall, resigned and Thurlo McCrady from South Dakota State moved in behind the desk. Sam Francis, whom you will remember as a slippery back from Nebraska, was given a three-year contract as football coach. R. I. Thackrey gave up his job as Dean of Administration to go to Washi ngton as executive secretary of the Association of Land-Grant Colleges and Universities. You can ' t blame a man for going after a job with that long a title. Dean L. E. Call of the School of Agriculture reached the retirement age and gave way to R. I. Throckmorton. Thus, the executive machinery of the College was settled for an- other year. There was perhaps more than the usual amount of hiring, fir- ing and retiring of in- structors and profes- sors, but you can sur- vey that situation for yourself. Though we need more teachers, I don ' t know where they would live, if we did get them. The city is talking of building apartments for them, or rather, of encouraging private capital to do the job. That might fix it; we ' ll see. Teachers have been one scarce item the OPA ignored altogether. Attractive of- fers from private industry and competition among schools have made prospective faculty members as independent as drill sergeants. A big drive was begun last fall to finance a Memorial Chapel. When the necessary funds are raised, the building will be erected on the east side of the campus there below the formal gardens where you used to cut across from Willard to Aggieville. It will serve as a useful memorial to si K-State students who served in the war. That ' s you, Moe. IDC nexl don I sa afn tw in: G

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The new budget for the school provides for buildings that will be a great break for all of us. Al- though we ' re not getting all we need, we ' re getting enough to ease the crowding — I was beginning to think we would have to resort to tents. Among the glad tidings received from the legis- lature came news that we were appropriated $500,000 in cash and permission to borrow more during the next two-year period to finance the construction of dormitories both for men and for women. Yes, Moe, I said for men. Imagine a men ' s dorm at K-State. We didn ' t need that any more than a fish needs water. It will be built on the Eliott tract northwest of the campus. The women ' s dorm will be put up beside Van Zile Hall. Work on plans for the two dorms should be well underway by the time you get here. They will both be native limestone. What else? Other appropriations call for, believe it or not, a combination fieldhouse and gym. It will go up at the north end of the stadium, but work will probably not be- gin on that until the spring of 1948. It takes time, Moe, to get the plans drawn up and the necessary preparations made. Three new home management houses for the Home Ec school are authorized and work will be started on them right away. They will be along the creek road on the northeast part of the campus. And then there ' s a small animal research build- ing. It will go up between West Waters Hall and the Military Science building. I ' m telling you, Moe, there ' s gonna be some changes made. You ' ll have to be shown around. Something probably will be done about getting us a student union in the rea- sonably near future, but in the words of school officials, It presents a problem (a prize understatement). No classroom buildings were provided for. That hurts. If the President ' s esti- mates of coming enrollments are correct, we ' ll need everything short of a Yankee Stadium to handle the gate. By the fall semester of 1947, he expects maybe 8,000. Although we didn ' t get it, you can imagine how bad we need a new hospital. I don ' t mean to imply that the student body is puny, but only that the present hospital is outmoded. It is 80 years old, and as historians have it, was the first building on the campus. I can believe that. ARCHIE.