University of Alaska Fairbanks - Denali Yearbook (Fairbanks, AK)

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MRS. BARBARA JAM] S S I . t.ir i.i [ ' resident MRS. UNICI CO! 1 l S Curator of the Museum III I 1 JORGINSON Registrar HI 1 IIK KARJOLA Assistant to tin- Registrar MR. MAHLER Librarian MRS. SklOl IC, f

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H. W. JOHANS1 tssiscant Professor v 1 1 Engineering C. C. HULII1 Professor ol Historj ROBERT P. ISAAC 1 lireccor of Athletics and Instructor of Physical Education I . F. GEORGE Professor » f Physics FRED VH ' . WAGNER Professor of Business Administral i in HE] EN M. MEYER 1 tormitory 1 fostess and Campus Nurse COL. N. 1. FOOKS Professor of Military Science and Tactics Sgt. ROBT. L. EVANS Instructor in Military Science and Tactics SGT. KARL SWANSON Instructor in Military Science and Tactics Instructor in Military- Science and Tactics

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(SfPTBt UNIVERSITY ALASKA ( I ENTY-FIVE years ago six students walked into - ' I a lonel) new building and were greeted by six W (acuity members .is thej enrolled in the Alaska cultural College and School of Mines. The school has been born through the legislative act of the United States Congress passed March 4, 1915. granted the Territory land for the college . i d through the Alaska Territorial legislative act ol M.n 3, 1917, and a subsequent act accepting the land and granting S60,000 for buildings and equipment. This Territorial bill was modeled after that creating the State Agricultural College of Maryland. ht trustees were appointed August 10. 1917, by the ernor and their duties were to prescribe the general rules for the conduct of the school. On June 2S, 1918, the location for the future college was selected. The site was near Fairbanks on top of a birch knoll that overlooked the bed of an ancient sea. In the distance was the mighty Alaska Range. The highest of all North American mountains, magnificent Denali. loomed above the other peaks, 130 miles to the south; it seemed to symbolize the educational heights to be obtained in its omnipotent shadow. The first two storey framed structure was finally completed November 15, 1918, but it was not until more appropriations were made available that the President of the College was selected on August 11, 1921. The first six pioneer students were soon augmented by eight more regular students and 48 short-course enrollments. Courses in agriculture, general science, civil engineering. home economics, and mining engineering were offered. Volume 1, Number 1 of the faculty-published Farthest North Collegian was printed in magazine form February 1. 1923. The Mining Engineering Society was organized February 28 of the same vear. In the summer ot 1923 a wing squal in size to the original building was con- structed. The first annual commencement was held June 12, 1923. This was the first year that the campus reflected the eerie light of the now traditional freshman bonfire. The nest academic year saw 133 students attending the young school and a faculty numbering 21. Transfer of the Bureau of Mines Station to the college was effected July 1, 1924. In the preceding years new buildings as well as enroll ment grew. The first college play was given March 14. 1925. On September 1, 1926, a station of the United States Bureau ot Biological Survcv was established at College. The Busi- ness Administration Society was organized October 1, 1927, and later that year our basketball team toured Alaska on a 3,000 mile trip that extended over 28 days. The team played sixteen games and visited as far as Metlaktla in distant southeastern Alaska. In 1928 four years courses in chemistry, geology and mining, business administration, metallurgy, and education were added to the curriculum. On March 5, 1929, the Civil Engineering Society was organ- ized. February 20, 1931, was the year that Congress autho- ized the transfer of the Fairbanks Agricultural Experiment Station to College and in 1932 the transfer of the Matanuska Agricultural Experiment Station was effected. Early campus life might be compared to that of the typical sourdough. A log cabin fraternity house was con- 10