Minnesota State University - Katonian Yearbook (Mankato, MN)

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MSG rises,stret Dream becomes reality as new facili- ties rise to meet today's challenge of MSC's student body, snowballed seven times her 1,000 on-campus students in 1946, immediately after World War II. From October, 1962, to October, 1963, alone, on-campus enrollment increased from 6,282 to 7,308. Under construction on Highland's spacious 240 acre campus are: the Edu- cation-English building-to be the new home of English, modem languages, journalism, professional education, psy- chology, special education, and the cur- riculum library-housing 135 offices and 60 classrooms, and a 400 bed addition to McElroy dormitory. Both facilities are scheduled for occupancy by fall of 1964. The English-Education Building, above, rises on the Highland Campus. Below, thc McElroy dormitory addition takes shape. Monies have been appropriated and plans are in progress for 1965 comple- tion of five new Highland Campus build- ings: a three phase Student Union cost- ing eventually 4.5 million dollars, a 600 bed High-Rise domiitory with food, study, and recreational services, a 1.5 million dollar Speech and Music build- ing, a 1.7 million dollar Library, and a Heating Plant and Utility Extension building. As Mankato State College nears 100 years of tradition, her roots seek new and deeper grounds. 5

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I Our design to choice rises, stretches, sprawls: ' within her walls we listen or ask, from her lawns we watch or are seen, down her narrow halls, broad arched, we wander, not always hand in hand, for purpose. But we create in ourselves what monuments last: movement from courts, expression from stages, trust from labs, doubt from words, Truth from the crowded heart in spite of the lonely mind. And we learn. from alternatives we learn the structure of ourselves, the material of existence, and, inevitably, the meaning -now perhaps, but sometime- of how to climb . toward Life. MANKATO STATE COLLEGE 'VAAAA V 'vxxmu ' ' ' U L a WILSON CAMPUS scuooL VALLEY CAMPUS 9 CRAWFORD CENTER I5 BLAKESLEE FIELD T, sclsuce and ARTS I0 MCELROY CENTER 2 QLD MAIN n INDUSTRIAL Anrs-cmssnoom 3 LINCOLN LIBRARY I2 EDUCATION-ENGLISH A 4 PHYSICAL EDUCATION I3 HEATING PUXNT 5 HEALTH SERVLCE I4 PHYSICAL EDUCATION mcuurlfs 6 SEARING CENTER .LIS 7 cooPER CENTER I 3 I4 0 I t Z ' N 5 ' II I2 Q Q ,T I3 L E A T i 5 I l V Q , yk V , 5 s z , I HIGHLAND CAMPUS 4

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gan Alternatives for learning at MSC have broadened apace with her growth in student body and facilities. The college has long outgrown her original status as a normal school. In addition to the preparation of teach- ers, the Bachelor of Arts degree was authorized in 1946. A broad curricu- lar change was approved in 1953 with the issuing of the Master's degree for teachers. From the last Minnesota legislative session in 1968, authoriza- tion was granted for the Master's de- gree in liberal artsg the first Master of Arts candidates are expected to com- plete their work in the near future. Beneath the gargoyles of Old Mams auditorium, a student finds solitude and perhaps Truth from the 8 Q H4 Mi A in F A 1.. mr. . M f -.' .t, ' .1-7. ', A f, -, , .jul-,1,,,-,s.-...i LE'- JA ma? 41 Q' Rs'-'5li fQ1 i :r ig-f Fiifxlm. . . .8375 Miliw Dave Eades, Donna Sampson, and Bob Hand hit the books in a much used bench-section in the lobby of Old Main. From Auwunaws , 6 Valley Campus activity emanates from Old Main, the Administration Building and nerve center of Man- kato State College. The original Old Main was destroyed by fire in the 1860's and the present structure was built on the same site. -..,,,- 1