Mansfield University - Carontawan Yearbook (Mansfield, PA)

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Utility services at the college will be extended in order to meet present needs and future anticipations. Electric, steam, storm, and sewage lines will be improved, as well as clock, fire alarm, and emergency lighting systems. The purpose of the comprehensive study of the campus will be to formulate a logical long-range plan for the location of future buildings on the campus. Some of these future projects to be incorporated in the long range plan are already contemplated, and, it is hoped, will have been completed by 1965. They are based on an expected enrollment of fifteen hundred students by that year. The project includes the addition of a swimming po l to the Gymnasium, provision for a central storeroom, a new infirmary, additional dormitory facilities for two hundred twenty men students, additional dor- mitory facilities for one hundred fifty women students, a new classroom building, and renovations to North Hall. Mansfield is looking to the future in other realms. The college is hoping that, in not too many years, it and the other state teachers colleges in Pennsylvania will be able to give graduate work and confer Master ' s degrees in the field of education. Mansfield has undergone many changes in the one hundred years since its founding. As the college ' s plans for the future already show, Mansfield will continue to change — and to expand — during the next century. This it must do if it is to adjust to the needs of a changing and expanding educational system, for it will be my meeting these needs that it will continue to serve the ideal to which it has long been dedicated. Expressed in 1874 at the dedica- tory exercises of the original North Hall, this is the ideal, held by all state teachers colleges: that intelligence and education shall be universal, that the sick and the poor, and child of him who has power and place and of him who treads the lowly paths of life shall all receive alike the benefits of education. Simon B. Elliott said, in 1890, that the founders of Mansfield did not work for the love of glory. Rather, they worked out of the desire that the dark places left by a poor or scanty education should henceforth be lighted. They had groped in darkness, but, realizing what they had lacked, they could now become light bringers for future generations. By providing a good liberal education at low cost for thousands of men and women over the years and by preparing them, in turn, to teach the children from all classes of society, this institution has been a light bringer ever since that early day. The world is indeed better, in the words of the Alma Mater, for the beacon light which thou hast shed abroad. This great light — the light of education — will surely become ever stronger, and its circle ever wider, in the years that lie ahead. This is the old Home Management Cottage, which belonged to the Home Economics Department throughout the twenties and most of the thirties. The building was removed in 1938 to make way for the present Gymnasium. 23

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Many Mansfieldians remember with nostalgia the old South Hall or men ' s dormitory, which was torn down in 1950. This is how the building looked in its last years on the campus. MANSFIELD FACES THE FUTURE Mansfield has indeed come far since those first days of struggle and hope one hundred years ago. This college has ample reason to be proud of the accomplishments of the past one hundred years. Yet, if an institution is to continue to advance, it must plan ahead for the future. It is with this realization that plans for an extensive program of improvements to the campus are being made under President Morgan ' s leader- ship. The four initial projects have been granted a total state allocation of $640,000. Planned for are a new adminis- tration and library building, a new athletic field, extension of utility services, and a comprehensive study of the campus. The administration and the library building, which has aroused the greatest interest of the four projects, has been alloted $520,000. The first floor of the new building will house the College Library, which has been occupy- ing temporary quarters in North Hall since the demolition of the old South Hall in 1950. On the second floor will be the administrative offices, which have been located in North Hall for many years. The style of the new building will be similar to that of the two most recent buildings on the campus. South Hall and the Science Building, but it will harmonize with the older buildings as well. The administration and librarv building is expected to be located approximately where Alumni Hall stands now. but the definite location will de- pend on the outcome of the comprehensive campus study. Alumni Hall will be torn down when the new building is constructed. When this historic old structure is finally demolished, many who have known Mansfield will feel a bit saddened, for even the clock tower, the only part of the building still in use today will have to be removed. However, the college is looking forward to the erection of a fine new clock tower to be an integral part of the administration and library building. Another part of the initial building program calls for a college athletic field, probably back of the Junior High School building. The new field will include a football gridiron, a baseball diamond, a cinder track, and facilities for home and visiting teams. Later, a field house, grandstand, and parking area will be added. 22

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This history of Mansfield State Teachers College and the pictures that have accompanied it have shown the gradual development of this institution over the course of a century. On the other pages of this book are scenes and descrip- tions of Mansfield as it is today on its one hundredth anniversary. There is pictured North Hall, which dates back over six decades but has been con- stantly modernized and improved through the years. There, too, are shown South Hall and the Science Building, functional new structures that presage a tremendous program of improvement to the campus as Mansfield ' s second century gets underway. Likewise, the organization pages feature one associa- tion that dates from two groups founded in the nineteenth century, and two organizations that have been brought to the campus within the last year and a half. Thus can be seen not only Mansfield ' s respect for the old, where the old has worth today, but also its readiness to adopt new forms and new ideas in keeping with contemporary life. All through these other pages is portrayed the Mansfield State Teachers College of 1957, serving its aim of training teachers as it has for nearly all of its first century, and ready to face its second century with imagination and confidence. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS (We are grateful to those who have given their assistance in the prepara- tion of the history, including Miss Alice Doane, Mrs. Stella Allen Ely, and Miss Helen Wood. We would like to thank the staff of the College Library for their cooperation, as well as Mrs. Bertha Palmer and the Alumni Associa- tion for the pictures printed in this section.) The clock tower of Alumni Hall. The ideals for which it ha9 stood will long endure. 24