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STUDENTS OF STATE AGRICULTURE SCHOOL pile in a truck for one of the rare retreats from studying. V
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PARADES DOWN THE WHITE WAY, Main Street in Jonesboro, were a yearly diversion for students. This is one of the first Home- coming Parades staged by the students at State Agriculture School. in the beginning . . . 1909 VICTOR C. KAYS, first president of the school, guided the school through many financial strains. Many hopes, many dreams and many ambitions were visual- ized by a group of farmers in the Washington County Farmers Union in I906. They wanted an agricultural school to be accessible to their area. However, the Union ' s hopes lay dormant for awhile. Governor Donaghey vetoed the bill to establish one school at the request of the Farmer ' s Union. The Union pushed onward and in I909 J. J. Bellamy of Lawrence County introduced House Bill No. 2 appropriat- ing $160,000 for four agricultural schools. The Agriculture Committee of the House returned the revised bill and the House and Senate passed it. On April I, 1909, Governor Donaghey signed the bill and set the wheels in motion for the founding of Arkansas State.
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a time to work and a time to play . . The first board of trustees — J. J. Bellamy of Smithville, O. N. Hammett of Paragould, C. E. Bush of Antioch, W. L. Banks of Smithdale and J. B. Lewis of Jonesboro — toured northern colleges and C. E. Bush visited schools in the south. Plans for the school were drawn up and V. C. Kays, director of an experiment station in Alabama and an ex- perienced teacher, was hired as principal. On July 5, 1910, the day Kays arrived, the site was chosen. Jonesboro of- fered 200 acres of land, free water and lights, and $160,000 for the school. Classes began in October, 1910, in the Elks Hall on Main and Washington in Jonesboro. Boarding students lived in two houses; the cafeteria was in the girls ' dormitory on Main, several blocks from the boys ' . FAITHFUL OLD MAUD transported passengers in the hack from Jonesboro to school several times daily. SPORTS PLAYED A BIG PART in extracurricular activities.
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