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

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THE NEW In the meantime, after many years of work — much of it by our own Senator Stone -- The General Court, in 1958, set up the machinery for a statewide system of community colleges which ultimately resulted in the present school, one of a group of three authorized dtiring the second year of the state program. In October, 1960, almost a year before the first student arrived. Dr. Irving H. Bartlett arrived in Hyannis to begin tlie job of recruiting faculty and students and supervising renovation and reconstruction of the building. The following September Cape Cod Community College opened its doors to its first students, and began a new chapter in the rich educational history of the old buildings. Now, ten years later, we are about to move to a new and larger group of buildings. These buildings will be called the new Cape Cod Community College. Left behind are the, two old, now nameless, brick buildings that face South Street. We hope with the moving of the college, will only be another chapter in the long his- tory of these red-brick buildings.

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THE OLD ' J,l» j Long before anyone thought of a Cape Code Community College, students were hard at work in the classrooms we now use, for underneath the still shiney plaque over our main entrance are engraved the words State Normal School, and on the cornerstone is the date 1897. Until 1942, first as the Hyannis Normal School, then as the Hyannis State Teachers ' College, our classrooms hovised thousands of students, many of whom became teachers inour towns all over this part of the state. With the closing of the Teachers ' College in 1942, the building next became the home of the Massachusetts 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 1948 and 1961, a variety of enterprises were housed in our buildings which the town of Barnstable had purchased. Among them were the Cape Cod Conservatory of Music, The Registry of Motor Vehicles, Civil iDefense, The National Guard, and The Coast Guard Reserve.

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DEDICATION The opening of the Community College in 1961 brought many enthusiastic workers. Through the years, there has been a steady change in personnel. Many accept the chal- lenge of working in a small school, but few possess an undy- ing dedication to it . The following people have been at the college since its opening, and it is to them that we commemorate this yearbook. President E. Carleton Nickerson Dean Elinor E. Hanna Mr. Admont G. Clark Mr. Paul G. Doiron Mrs. Doris Fauteaux Mr. W. Douglas Mitchell Mr. Alfred L. Nickerson Mrs. Betty Porter The yearbook staff appreciates your wisdom of old that pro- gresses to the new.