Black Hills State University - Eoicha Yearbook (Spearfish, SD)

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u - We became a gleam in H'Ie eyes of Iegisla+ors who vofed. February 26. I88l. +0 es+ablish a normal school a+ n Spearfish. Buf +he gleam grew dim. Again. Hue eye grew brighf and hope flared for a Spearfish normal school. And so +he l88l legislarion was renewed b l883 le isla+ors. B Herculean per- y, u - siZ+ence. mgulish barrieyrs were pushed M aside. Affer a near-disashous begin- , , p - ning. Dakofa Normal School and Fay- 1?, e++e L. Cook were firmly unHed. - e, ,V And we have persis+ed eighfy years. Our forward +hrus+ has occasionally faHeredesomefimes due +0 our own in- adequacies. somefimes due +0 discour- agemenf rrom o+hers. Ye+ have we per- sisfed +0 become Sou+h Dako'ra's mosf '1 ' rapidly growing ins+i+u+e of higher learning. ' On Hue occasion of our eighfieih an- J niversary. l963-64. SouH'I Dakota legis- ,, L Ia+ors again looked our way. Their looks were me+ wifh cons+erna+ion by some, hopeful aniicipaHon by o+hers. Lawmakers deba+ed whefher +he ' Spearfish ins+i+u+ion for higher learning should become a branch of a grea+er .. i UniversHy of Sou+h Dakora or merge ' W, h M b wi+h +he School of Mines in Rapid CHy and be known as Black Hills S+a+e Uni- versi+y. lncomple+e dafa and poli+ical pres- sures resuHed in uncer'rainfy. And so, in Hue manner of legisla+ors. +he pro- posal wenf +0 commiHee for fur+her s+udy. The Legislafive Research Coun- cil will repor+ i+s recommenda'rions in I965. Black Hills personnel, in I955. began a campaign +0 drop feachers from +he college name and replace 1+ wi+h s+a+e. Efforfs were renewed in I962 when +he s+uden+ council forwarded +0 +he Regen+s of Educafion a factu- sfudenf pe+i+ion for +he name change. Wiih +he greafer universify and H19 merger proposals shelved for +he year. I964 legislafors approved +he change +0 Black Hills S+a+e College. , to shape To be or no+ +0 be a sys+em of ad- coMP're Vanced learning in Wes+ern Soy'rh Da- Conege. Hm kofa rer:nalns perhnent Changing our ndea 0'5 s+a+us wrll perml+ advancemenf of learn- bose e h infenh ing: maintaining +he s+a+us quo wrll ln- neH' ' e ; the pad hibif our po+en+ial. p 0 Se eXpreS pmo '3 r slls 00 99 Em Fayette L. Cook, 1885-1919 I! lms been our purpose to make the srhool truly professional in character. 23

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r-u.w . ' ' 'Pv Ml. ' a ' 7 45' .' av; 9:9 .... . . ' :. l'. '90 q. u From myriad even+s +ha+ conspire +0 shape it e ? e::-:.v: +he hisfory of Bhack Hills CoHege. . 5 1m:- Triad Reporfs accen+s +hose endeavors +ha? ' ' ' seem +0 franscend all o+hers. The in+en+. here, is +0 record th memories of +he pas? a view of Hue hopes for ?omorrow expressed by +hose who cons+i+u?e Black Hills College.

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' wm,wmm..mm..mmw. of lite Magic famp You will undoubfedly recall Aladdin and his magic lamp-how Hue liHle ur- chin inadverlenlly released a genie sub- iecf +0 his command. There is a allel be'rween Aladdin and +11e sludy group appoinfed +0 examine flue fu+ure of Black Hills 1Sfa+el Teachers College Like Aladdin. +11e group gof more. +han if anlicipa+ed-+he genie released from +11e lamp lowers over +hem awe- somely. Unlike Aladdin. +l1e commiHee can'f be cerfain +ha+ 11 will be able 10 influence 1118 genie of H19 fufure. Mem- bers hope +11e lufure is +11e1rs +0 com- mand; bu+ +11e Jtask is n01 simple. The college should confinue 10 em- phasize leacher educaHon and a1 1he same fime provide opporfunifies in hiqher educafion for 1hose inferesled in ofher fields. defermined flue sludy group. To implemenf +1115 obieclive 'lhe commiHee examined +11ese aspeds: Sludenf enrollment number of fac- tu, sludenf-facully rafio, adminisfra- five organizaHon. curricula. buildings. food services and housing, library needs. and special services. Increased u+iliza+ion of presenf facil- ifies was eyed by +11e group. By adding fwo periods 10 +11e curren+ daily class schedule of eighf and wi+l1 +he addifion of Safurday sessions. classroom uliliza- par- 1. :- Hon would be up fwenly percent A Ten -Year .. - Greafer u+ilizalion will no+ minimize . +11e need for addifional classrooms. . ' ,1 l Nofed firs+ on +119 expansion plan sub- PrOJeCtlon 5 miffed by 1118 college presidenf 1who worked separa+ely 1rom +he sludy groupl is a large classroom s+ruc+ure es+1ma+ed of Growth, Needs a1 111011101615. He 711910995 eliminafion of +119 old laboralory school and ifs sife +0 be used for a library . 1: :1 1 cenfe1. at BIaCk HIIIS :3 Presiden+ and sludy group disagreed '1 : ', relafive 10 library cons+ruclion. The ' presidenf recommends con+inued addi- +1ons lo +11e presenf library: 1oward +11e end of +119 len-year period 119701. +l1e possible cons+ruc+ion of a separale li- brary. . . n . Annual Enrollment PrOjeCtIO Enrollment by AcademIC Year Projected symbol represents 2336 Symbol represents 990 students 1963- 1964 990 1968- 1969 1964- 1965 1089 1969- 1970 1965-1966 1198 1970-1971 9 -1956 1966-1967 1318 1971-1972 l 55 1953-1954 315 1958-1959 1954-1955 446 1959-1960 571 1960-1961 . 9 7 639 1961-1962 1967-1968 1450 1972-1973 1956 l 5 1957-1958 657 1962-1963 128E, 913511118311, 31333.1 ?1 11151516115.