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

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from commitment to realization , a outcommbditybideas, our product people Having committed ourselves to fostering individual excellence, we have prepared a program designed to meet our objectives and to fulfill promises made to our state and its people. We have housed our program in modest accommodations. In an era of modern Goliaths, ours is the stature of a David. We submit that size is not a necessity for excellence, that size does not inhibit our academic integrity! When scarcely more than a twinkle in a legislator's eye, we assumed our mantle of educational integrity. We began fitfully, awkwardly in a barn-Iike structure. Our first year was dedicated to a group of ninth graders! Like an acorn, we grew - slowly, but with the strength of oak. Program by program, year by year, the curriculum grew. Before we reached our silver year, we were a two-year school; by mid-roaring twenties, we achieved our four-year goal! Our adolescent years were meaningful, sometimes painful years. Occasionally we faltered, but we persevered. Never loosening our hold on educational integrity, we turned adversities into meaningful experiences; we resolved obstacles and are stronger for them. Heidepriem Hall, 1964, will be joined by a twin dorm in 1966.

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SQUARING up plywood put to use basic industrial arts' lessons Hem. Examples of industrial arts production were the exhibits above. A course in electronics was added to the curriculum this year Hem. For the student in the Division of Industrial I d . I Arts the marriage of mechanics and art to n UStrla produce functional objects begins with Bench Woodwork. Bench Woodwork teaches basic processes of woodworking with hand tools, and begins the application of artistic techniques to Arts mechanical production. Through the medium of classroom projects Bench Woodwork foreshadows the major teaching process in industrial arts: learning through creating. A major and minor in industrial arts are offered by the division, with an additional minor in mechanical drafting.