San Jose State College - La Torre Yearbook (San Jose, CA)

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deparTmenT, The library, and The science deparTmenT. Under consTrucTion are a Three-sTory classroom building and an adminis- TraTion building. To be Tollowed by a caTeTeria, sTudenT acTiviTies building and possibly an arTs building. FuTure developmenr plans include exTension oT The campus To The easT and souTh. AlThough Too much emphasis cannoT be placed on The physical and academic growTh oT The college, no hisTorical slceTch would be compleTe or oT genuine sTudenT inTeresT unless iT Told oT The Tremendous expansion in The area oT sTudenT acTiviTies and sTudenT governmenT. One imporTanT phase oT sTudenT acTiviTy has been The develop- menT oT sTudenT publicaTions. The SparTan Daily and l.a Torre have rooTs in The old Normal PennanT. The school's TirsT real aTTempT aT esTablishing a publicaTion Tor periodic producTion. The PennanT was a monThly wiTh a special yearly ediTion, The predecessor To The presenT yearbook. ln IQIO, This monThly paper was replaced by a semi-monThly called The Normal Times, which concerned iTselT wiTh sTudenT aTTairs. This iournalisTic eTForT seT many SparTan Daily precedenTs. The paper's name was changed again To The College Times, Then To STaTe Teacher's College Times. Finally in I933, iT became The SparTan Daily. The Normal PennanT disconTinued publicaTion in l9IO and was Tollowed in IQI6 by La Torre. which is Spanish Tor The Tower. The name remains Today. The TeaTure magazine, l.yke, was inspired by a group oT l945 sTudenTs who TelT The need Tor such a campus publicaTion. ln I946. The TirsT issue oT Lycurgus appeared, and in December, I948, The name was shorTened To l.ylce. ln our hisTorical research on The sTudenT governmenT, we Tind Thar l-larrieT E. Q'uilTy became The TirsT presidenT oT The STudenT Body. STudenT governmenT never really goT going, however, unTil l909, when Loyd T. Bell became presidenT. AT ThaT Time, a new consTiTuTion was adopTed which gave sTudenTs conTrol oT Their own social acTiviTies. In I923, The name oT The governmenT was changed To AssociaTed STudenT Body. lTs income is derived Trom The sale oT sTudenT body cards and Trom a campus book sTore proceeds. The ASB has grown Tremendously. IT has esTablished a courT, many commiTTees. and class council, and iT has imainTained iuris- dicTion over sTudenT publicaTions and acTiviTies.

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school educaTion or iTs equivalenT To enroll in The school. The Board adopTed The resoluTion, and iT wenT inTo eTTecT in I9OI. When The school was TirsT esTablished, iT oTTered a one-year course oT sTudy. ln T876 a Three-year course was adopTed. WiTh The new admissions requiremenT in I9Ol, The school changed To a Two-year plan and remained ThaT way unTil I92l. The course was Then expanded To Two and a halT years, laTer To Three years, and Tinally To a Tour-year curriculum in l93O. A second caTasTrophe occurred on The morning oT April l8, I906. On ThaT daTe, The San Francisco earThqualce broughT hearT- ache and disasTer To The enTire sTaTe, as well as The college. The Normal School building, while sTill sTanding, was damaged by The quake, and again classes were moved To local schools in The San Jose area. PresidenT Morris Elmer Dailey appealed To The sTaTe Tor emergency Tunds and almosT immediaTely received 2529.000 By SepTember oT l906, The building was again ready Tor use. ln OcTober oT ThaT year, however, The Board oT TrusTees was advised by experTs To desTroy The old building and erecT a new one. As a resulT, a new sTrucTure arose in l9IO, The same main building in use Today. FirsT The Tire, Then The earThgualce, Then The sTill, small voice, which on July 5, I9I9, called Morris Elmer Dailey To The land beyond. l-le was head oT This insTiTuTion Tor nineTeen years. When we survey The lisT oT pasT school presidenTs, we cannoT help buT single ouT The name oT Morris Elmer Dailey, Tor special disTincTion. The presenT Morris Dailey AudiTorium was named in honor oT This greaT educaTor. The school's early presTige, growTh and inTluence on The educa- Tional liTe oT The sTaTe are monumenTs To him. l-le is remembered as a man loved by boTh TaculTy and sTudenTs. Following compleTion oT The Morris Dailey assembly hall in 1920, The college grew sTeadily, acquiring buildings Tor The arT deparTmenT in l924 and The women's gymnasium in I928. The growTh conTinued Through The presidency oT Dr. Thomas W. MacQuarrie, To whom much oT The college academic and physical growTh can be aTTribuTed. Since Dr. John T. WahlquisT became presidenT in I952, The insTiTuTion's expansion and developmenT have been phenomenal. WiTh greaT ToresighT, Dr. WahlquisT has careTully planned a program oT building expansion and enhance- menT oT academic presTige. ln Tour years, consTrucTion has included an engineering building, a music building, a speech and drama building, and addiT'ions To The men's physical educaTion

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There have been sTuolenT organizaTions since The earliesT days oT The college. Probably The TirsT organizaTion oT imporTance was The Allenian SocieTy, an acTive group unTil recenTly. All early socieTies were educaTional and culTural, buT as years passed They expanded To include social purposes. In l922, several oT The Temale socieTies Tormed an inTer-socieTy council, now Panhellenic, and in l935, The men Tollowed suiT wiTh an inTer-TraTerniTy council. All groups aT San Jose STaTe were local unTil l939, when Alpha Phi Omega, naTional service TraTerniTy, became The TirsT naTional Greek leTTer TraTerniTy, and in i947 The TirsT social TraTerniTy aTTiaTed naTionally wiTh Sigma Alpha Epsilon. By I948, nearly all social groups had aTFiliaTed wiTh The naTional groups. lndependenT organizaTions on This campus also have grown unTil There are more Than one hundred and ThirTy groups in all Tields oT college life. Possibly The independenT groups have noT received The publiciTy aTTorded The social groups because They have noT combined Torces To Torm a co-operaTive council, as The social groups have done. l-lowever, The independenT organizaTions represenT Tar more varied Tields oT inTeresTs. We have now venTured Through a small segmenT OT San Jose STaTe hisTory. The highlighTs oT one hundred years as seen Through expansion oT The college physical planT, iTs academic sTanding, sTudenT governmenT, publicaTions, and organizaTions. Each has played iTs parT in pioneering educaTional sTandards in our sTaTe and in helping our cenTennial herald a signiTicanT milesTone in CaliTornia educaTional developmenT. We look Torward To The TuTure. We pray ThaT Those oT The year 2057 will look back upon The second cenTury wiTh The same pride ThaT we review The TirsT. To paraphrase a speech once made in a high school radio play: The birTh of a College is noT an easy maTTer. IT is full of blood, sweaT and Tears. BuT if ThaT College is To survive iT musT have men oT greaT ideals-men who will see Through The conTlicTs of Today To The beTTer world oT Tomorrow. Morris Elmer Daily, Charles Allen and Thomas W. MacQuarrie were some of Those men, and The beTTer Tomorrow They visioned is whaT our greaT College is Today. Now we musT have men of greaT ideals. We musT see Through hysTeria, confusion and Tear, and plan and work Tor Tomorrow's sons and daughTers To say wiTh The same Tevor we declare Today-Long live SparTa!