Arkansas State University - Indian Yearbook (Jonesboro, AR)

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CADDO INDIAN leaves reservation to at- tend ASC on Phi Mu Scholarship.

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A GLANCE BACK AT THE PAST Arkansas State College was established as Arkansas A. M. College under Act 100 of the Acts of 1909. Governor George W. Donaghey signed this act which authorized the establishment of four schools of agriculture to be located near the geographical centers of the four quarters of the state. The College opened its first year with an enrollment of 189 students. Classes were held in business buildings in down- town Jonesboro while an Administration Building was being constructed. Two private homes were leased as dormitories. During ' the next quarter of a century, the College grew steadily, and in 1929 a new building program was inaugurated. Throughout the early nineteen hundreds and during the flapper era. State ' s vamps and shieks pursued various campus activities, such as building homecoming floats and playing in the band as shown in front of the old Administration Build- ing. This building burned in 1931; and through the efforts of the Board of Trustees, the present Administration Building was erected at a cost of $350,000.