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foreword FIFTY YEARS OF PROGRESS AND GROWTH — THAT IS WHAT ARKANSAS STATE COLLEGE ' S HISTORY HAS BEEN. THIS 50TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION OF THE INDIAN REFLECTS THE CHANGES THAT HAVE OCCURRED IN OUR SCHOOL ' S PAST IN RELATION TO THE PRESENT AND THE FUTURE. FROM A STATE AGRICULTURE SCHOOL TO A JUNIOR COLLEGE TO THE SENIOR COLLEGE GRANTING BOTH BACHELOR ' S AND MASTER ' S DEGREES — THAT IS OUR HISTORY. THOUSANDS OF STUDENTS HAVE BEEN GRADUATED AND HAVE MADE A LASTING MARK ON THIS INSTI- TUTION. THIS COPY OF THE INDIAN IS ABOUT OUR SCHOOL — A REFLECTION OF THE PAST, A PICTURE OF THE PRESENT, AND A VISION OF THE ALL-IMPORTANT FUTURE. FIFTY YEARS AGO THE STATE AGRICUL- TURE SCHOOL WAS ONLY A FEW NEW BUILDINGS WITH MUDDY ROADS LINK- ING IT TO THE WORLD. ONLY A FEW BUILDINGS, LIMITED FUNDS AND LIMITED FACULTY ... BUT MUCH MORE IMPORT- ANT, A DREAM OF A PROGRESSIVE EDU- CATIONAL INSTITUTION TO SERVE ARKAN- SAS, WAS VISUALIZED BY OUR FOUND- ERS. WHEN GOVERNOR DONAGHEY SIGNED THE BILL ESTABLISHING FOUR STATE AGRICULTURE SCHOOLS AND WHEN THE FIRST BOARD OF TRUSTEES FORMULATED PLANS FOR THE SCHOOL ' S OPENING, A TREMENDOUS FORCE WAS LOOSENED. SEVERAL PERIODS OF ADVANCEMENT CAN BE SE C N IN 1 ARKANSAS STATE COL- LEGE ' S PATTERN. UNDER THE GUIDANCE OF VICTOR C. KAYS, ARKANSAS STATE MADE UNPARALLELED STRIDES FORWARD WITH BUILDING PROGRAMS, FACULTY EXPANSION, LIBRARY, SOCIAL CULTIVA- TION, AND INNUMERABLE EDUCATIONAL AREAS. KAYS BECAME PRESIDENT OF THE SCHOOL WHEN IT WAS FOUNDED IN 1909. EACH MOVE WAS PLANNED TO BENEFIT THE PEOPLE OF ARKANSAS. AL- THOUGH THE ENROLMENT IN 1909 WAS VERY SMALL, THE BOARD ' S AND MR. KAYS ' FORESIGHT ENABLED THEM TO SEE THAT THIS SCHOOL WOULD SOON BE ONE OF THE NATION ' S FOREMOST EDU- CATIONAL INSTITUTIONS. SLOW STEADY GROWTH — ALLOW- ING THE SCHOOL TO MATURE FROM WITHIN — WAS KAYS ' IDEA OF EXPAN- SION. THIS PERIOD OF INFANCY AS A STATE AGRICULTURE SCHOOL IS THE FIRST STAGE OF GROWTH. FROM THIS STAGE THE INSTITUTION ADVANCED TO A JUN- IOR COLLEGE. IN A FEW SHORT YEARS IT BECAME A SENIOR COLLEGE ACCREDIT- ED BY THE NORTH CENTRAL ASSOCIATION OF COLLEGES AND SECONDARY SCHOOLS. INFLUENCING THE SCHOOL WERE MANY OUTSIDE FORCES. — WORLD WAR I, THE ROARING TWENTIES, THE DEPRES- SION DAYS OF THE 30S, THE WORLD WAR II ERA, THE POST-WAR INFLUX OF SERVICEMEN, AND FINALLY THE MODERN AGE OF SCIENCE, MISSILES AND SPACE TRAVEL. OUR SCHOOL HAS BEEN FORTUNATE IN HAVING A SMALL NUMBER OF CAPA- BLE LEADERS. AFTER MR. KAYS ' TERM OF PRESIDENT FROM 1909 TO JANUARY, 1943, HORACE THOMPSON, A GRADUATE OF ARKANSAS STATE, WAS NAMED PRESIDENT BY THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES. HE RE- MAINED IN THIS POSITION UNTIL JUNE, 1945. DR. W. J. EDENS BECAME PRESI- DENT IN APRIL, 1946, AND SERVED UNTIL 1951. DR. CARL R. RENG, THE COLLEGE ' S PRESENT ADMINISTRATOR, FOLLOWED EDENS. THIS FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY EDITION OF THE INDIAN IS DEDICATED TO THE FUTURE OF ARKANSAS STATE — EITHER AS A COLLEGE OR AS A UNIVERSITY. HER OPPORTUNITIES ARE UNLIMITED, AS ARE THOSE OF THE MULTITUDES OF GRAD- UATES. 5
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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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