Appalachian State University - Rhododendron Yearbook (Boone, NC)

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« ' ?Kwrjs Boys ' Gymnasium here indoor ath- letic contests are staged I president and Mr. D. D. Dougherty, treasurer and busines.s manager. Legislative action in 1925 changed the name to The Appalachian State Normal School, and in 1929 to The Ap- palachian State Teachers College, authorizing it to confer such degrees as are common in Ameri- can colleges.

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u m An annual appropriation ot $2,000 for cur- rent expenses and $1,500 for buildings was granted on the condition that an equal amount be subscribed by private donations. The public- spirited mountaineers removed this condition and a period of steady development followed. In 1921 Mr. B. B. Dougherty was elected Girls ' Gymnasium where centers physical education

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i From a student body numbering six hundred in 1929 and a first graduating class of eleven, Appalachia has grown to have a student body of one thousand and seventy-nine in 1933 and a prospective graduating class of seventy-eight. These figures, of course, do not include the two- year normal students. The institution has ex- College InFirmary in its winter dress 1