Cape Cod Community College - Foreseer Yearbook (West Barnstable, MA)

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INTRODUCTION Long before anyone thought of a Cape Cod Community Col- lege, students were hard at work in the classrooms we now use, for underneath the still shiny plaque over our main en- trance are engraved the words State Normal School, and on the cornerstone is the date 1897. Until 1942, first as the Hyan- nis Normal School, then as the Hyannis State Teachers ' College, our classrooms housed thous- ands of students, many of whom became teachers in our towns all over this part of the state. With the closing of the Teachers ' Col- lege in 1942, the building next became the home of the Massa- chusetts Maritime Academy. For the next six years— until the Middies moved to Buzzards Bay in 1948— our campus had a de- cidedly nautical flavor. Between 1 948 and 1 961 , a variety of en- terprises were housed in our buildings which the town of Barnstable had purchased.

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FORESEER 1963 CAPE COD COMMUNITY COLLEGE Hyannis, Massachusetts

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Among them were the Cape Cod Conservatory of Music, The Registry of Motor Vehicles, Civil Defense, The National Guard, and The Coast Guard Reserve. In the meantime, after many years of work— much of it by our own Senator Stone— The Gen- eral Court, in 1958, set up the machinery for a statewide sys- tem of community colleges which ultimately resulted in the present school, one of a group of three authorized during the second year of the state pro- gram. In October, 1960, almost a year before the first student ar- rived, Dr. Irving H. Bartlett ar- rived in Hyannis to begin the job of recruiting faculty and stu- dents and supervising renova- tion and reconstruction of the building. The following Septem- ber Cape Cod Community Col- lege opened its doors to its first students, and began a new chapter in the rich educational history of the old buildings. ?: ' ■ '