Missouri State University - Ozarko Yearbook (Springfield, MO)

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ACADEMIC HALL REAR ENTRANCE, PRE-1913 Above: The original Academic Hall, now dubbed the Administration Building, had no gymnasium or auditorium. In 1913, an appropriation of 365,000 enabled the school to coin-plete the original plan of this building. To the west side of the building were added the gymnasium, the auditorium, and four small practice rooms into which the music studios were soon crowded. The gymnasium has served as a students' lounge and presently houses the bookstore. The practice rooms have served as student publications and faculty offices. Below: Campus social life in the formative years included all-school hay-rides. The first-year students in 1906 were transported to the first picnic by four hay wagons. Class day exercises were started by the class of 1917. SENIOR PARTY, 1913 6 S l i S in X I. -S.. IZ nb l- .flf ' 1923 Gansc Little won Inter-collegiate Ex- tempore Speaking Contest, May fl. First honorary, society, Omicron Club, established, Spring. Won track championship for third straight year. Max Cherry, captain, Spring. - Class organizations take definite shape. Fall. 5250.000 appropriated for Science Build- ing. November l. First inter-class debates. Polity Club and Library Club organized. Q 1924 Country Life Club organized, February 20. Education Building occupied, April 14. Russell Baugh won state championship in oratory, April 27. Track championship. Raymond Lipe, cap- tain, Spring. Football championship. Efton Henderson, captain, Fall. Basketball championship, Clyde Iamcs, captain, Winter. Commercial Club organized. Dramatic Club formed. 1925 Aaron Botts won state oratorical contest, March 20. Cornerstone laid for Science Hall, May l. Fifth straight track championship. Ivan I-Iembree, captain, Spring. First Dads' and Mothers' Day. Honorary Home Economics Club, Science Club. and Spartans iWoman's Ath- letic Associationl organized. . A 1926 Bruin Booster organization formed. Senior Sneak Day initiated, Summer. High School work discontinued except in training school. Lyle Owen Won State Extempore Speak- ing Contest.

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1918 Dr. Clyde M. Hill named president. First rural demonstration school estab- lished. Greenwood kindergarten organized. By act of Federal Government. school was made training camp for 330 sol- diers, Fall. Christmas candle used for first timc, VVinter. 1919 Name changed to Southwest Missouri State Teachers College, Fall. Greenwood Senior High School estab- blished, Fall. First high school basketball tournament, Winter. 1920 First Student Council inaugurated. Fall. French Club and Story Telling Club formed, October. Faculty Council organized. 1921 Champion track team captained by Paul Matthews. Spring. S Men's Club organized. Iuly 17. 4 LA TERTULIA formed, Fall. 1922 Cornerstone laid for Education Building, April 10. Track championship. Herbert Collins, captain, Spring. Football team won Missouri Conference championship. Paul Matthews, captain. English Club organized, Fall. 5250.000 appropriated for training school and Education Building. STC became affiliated with North Cen- tral Association of Schools and Col- lcges. First extemporc speaking contest. X7 .fl .f Z fly x fl? -f Q71 O ,az ft! Q O l f-Ni O O 2 STATE NORMAL SCHOOL ACADEMIC HALL, ARCHITECTS DRAWING Above: The C0l'1lfCI'.i'l0IlC of the Arade-mic Build-ing of State Normal School, Dis- trict Four, 'was laid on August 10, 1908. Classes C011-'L'8ll8d in the new ba'ildi1z-g on January 14. 1909. Below: Basketball and temzfix were deemed the best games for .i'l1ldL'1'll.YU from the begillnmg of ilzc school. The first basketball team used the city YMCA gfW7l7lClA l1L'lll for il.: practice .ves.rion.v. BASKETBALL TEAM, 1909 5

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1927 - Edgar M. Eagan won State Oratorical Contest, March 18. Eagan, representing the state. won Inter- state Oratorical Contest, April 29. Roy Ellis elected president, Fall. Admitted, in full standing, by North Cen- tral Association for four-year work as a liberal arts college and as teacher-'s training institution. One of just twelve in tl1e United States. Ranked as first class by American As- sociation of Teachers Colleges. F-Square organized. 1928 Basketball championship, Thomas Dodd, captain, Winter. Football championship, Ieffords Wise. captain, Fall. Music Club and WAA organized. 1929 Inter-collegiate Debating Tournament Championship. L. O. Sanderson, War- ren Cook, Elmer Smart, Paul Roper, winning team, May 10. Inter-school Oratorical Contest. John A. Morris, winner, May 15. Ieffords Wise captained football team to another championship, Fall. First cross-country race. November 17. College Campfire Girls organized, De- cember 4. ' 1930 New stadium dedicated, September 19. Pi Beta Chi, honorary science fraternity, founded. Interfcollegiate Oratorical Contest won by john A. Morris. Inter-collegiate Extempore Speaking Con- test won by L. O. Sanderson. Pi Gamma Mu organized. Men's pep squad. the Grizzlies. formed. International Relations Club. Wallis. X ig. X. it N X is t x on 'N QNX-J fri P 'iii Q. 'QS hw, Q5 11 X W-:B 21. N rx N. fi sa 'Qs . stirs P NW PRESIDENT HILL Above: The second president of State Normal was Clyde M. Hill. Hill, who had graduated with the first class in 1907, returned to teach mathematics in 1910. In 1911, he was made head of the department. Hill became president of State Normal in 1918. He serfoed as president nntil 1927 when he resigned to accept a professor- ship in the Department of Education at Yale University. Below: Football was officially recogni.eed'as a campus sport in 1910. In 1916 the State Normal entered Missouri Inter-Collegiate Athletic Competition. It was the 1922 football team, captained by Panl Matthews, that won the first football championship for Spring- field. FOOTBALL TEAM, 1922 7