Kent State University - Chestnut Burr Yearbook (Kent, OH)

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While thousands march up New York City ' s Fifth avenue to celebrate the signing of the Armistice, Kent Normal holds its own victory parade down Main street. 13

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World War I. Students leave Normal to become soldiers and make the world safe for democracy. World War I. One million young Americans are sent to France to help save the world for democracy. Students leave for service or for employment in business and industry. Old campus activities are curtailed, and a new one begins. Faculty members and students are making The Big Flag as a background for as- semblies and meetings. It will be brought out once each year, at least, in rememberance of those who fought the war to end wars. By October, 1918, the Germans have been pushed out of France. A month later they ' ll sur- render to the Allies. Soldiers and sailors who were once students return to visit the campus. Things Qo Qlittering Students return from war. Some are bitter, many are disillusioned. They are the lost gen- eration and theirs is the Age of Jazz. The Age gets its name from a restless style of music, someone says, that makes dancing an athletic experience. Forty million people rush out to the movies every week. Flappers, bobbed hair, rolled stockings, smoking in public and coonskin coats typify this glittering era when business booms, everybody spends money and almost no- body sits at home. In Kent, Ohio, a normal school is just beginning its climb to the top. In France, the Yanks are already over the top.

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The William A. Cluff Teacher Training building, later renamed Franklin hall opens June, 1927. In 1923, $175,000 is appiopriated for the con- struction of Wills gym over Blackbird Lake. ' ■1 m:. - ' :-3 - 1 - . ■«•■ ' In Kent, summer registration is 3,814 by 1926 — the largest of any teacher training in- stitution in the nation. It ' s time again for ex- pansion! The department of commercial educa- tion begins. Courses are added, dozens of them. Wills gymnasium, the Training school (now Frankhn hall) and Rockwell library are built. Kent State Normal is working toward an Arts college! President McGilvrey, interested now in a project for international exchange of students, leaves for England. Then, in 1926, he retires and acting president T. Howard Winters takes over from January, 1926, to September, 1926. Kent ' s next president is David Allen Ander- son, 1926-1928. Anderson expands the curric- ulum to include more professional and advance offerings. He tightens degree requirements. He institutes pre-requisites for upper-level courses. Then he assumes the presidency of another state teachers ' college in Aberdeen, South Dakota. Months pass. James Ozro Engleman, who believes Knowledge has to become wisdom to be dynamic, sits in the president ' s chair. He ' s dreaming. He dreams of campus beautification and new construction. He envisions a campus lake and a new science building, a new football field and . . . suddenly something happens and dreams fade away. Rockwell library, costing $250,000 memorializes a man who helped win the school for Kent. 14