Missouri State University - Ozarko Yearbook (Springfield, MO)

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ew .fdclobfionfi Above: The new Women's Residence Hall was completed and furnished just in time to be occupied in the spring term. Below: A spacious Student Union Building nears completion. This building of offices and new Ball Room and Cafeteria will be ready for use this fall. eesisxrf . A 6

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0l 8ll!0f' Time has a way of increasing the values and soften- ing the harder points of events which have happened in the past. In days to come, many of us will stop momentarily to reflect on the happenings of the college year of '49-505 It is the hope df the staff that when this pause arises, the 49-'50 OzarkO will be hauled down from its dusty position and remiinisced over. With this thought iin mind, we have accumulated for your reflections the happenings and events of the greatest building program which this college has ever experienced. As students, we cannot trudge to class day after day without taking note of the physical change which has come over our campus during the past year. Com- pletioin of the Women's Residence Hall and ground breaking and primary work on the Student Union build- ing have grown trom mere pipe dreams into startling reality. The old order changethf' And so, step by step, Southwest Missouri State Col- lege, advances progressively toward its ultimate goal, that of serving the State with the fiinest type of educa- ion possible for the area which it represents. For the old timers who will leave us we can only say that it is unfortunate that these changes could not have occurred during their stay on the campus. To those of us who are here, ours is the experience of watch- iing these real forward steps materialize, and finally, to those who have just enrolled, we can say, yours is the opportunity. For, to you will come all those things for which those in the dim dark past strived and wished for, but never quite realized. To you will come benefits brought about by an ever increasing enrollment and an ever increasing service rendered by SMS. We of the OzarkO Staff, have attempted to record these physical changes as they have affected our day to day college life and have also tried to catch a little of those inanimate things which we know of as the old college spirit. Above all, this is your book. Yours to glance through itn those yet-to-come moments of retrospect and remembering. Yours to chuckle over and to cry over in moments of true abstraction. Here, for you, are Reflections of SMS. per J' up , iii iii ,Q ' ' i in 'iii . 6 Su

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2 a Olfflell 5 261 QHC2 Women's Residents Hall, the newly constructed girl's dormitory was completed, and made ready for occupancy in March, l95O. This modern buildiing fur- nishes comfortable housing for sixty-five girls. Rooms are done in chartreuse, rose, blue, and green, with built-in closets and dressing tables paiinted the same color as the walls. Each room is furnished with two beds, two desks, and large adjustable lamps which can permit one of the occupants to continue study without interfering with the other. Two girls share each room. Charge for residence living is S55 per term. The lobby or lounge is a decorative masterpiece. Thick colorful carpets cushion the floors and large lounging sofas and coffee tables comprise the furnish- ings ofthe lounge. Several card tables are obtainable on both floors for those who wish to speind their leisure time playing canasta or bridge. ln addition to mail and telephone service, the residence hall has a utility room on each floor, equipped with an electric stove and refrigerator. During the week the closing hour is lO:3O p. m. On Friday and Saturday inights the check-in hour is extended to l :OO p. m. Supervision of Women's Residence Hall is handled by Mrs. Charles H. jackson, Resident Councilor, and her assistant Mrs. C. L. Maness. Miss Yutha Ciainnon is the student assistant. According to contract specifications, the new stu- dent union building should be ready for use September l, l95O. In it are to be a inew cafeteria and dining room which will accomodate 296 people, a ball room, new offices for the college publications, social director, faculty and student lounges, recreation parlor, and other activity rooms with lockers to take care of the parapher- nalia used by various organizations for their weekly meetings.