Central Washington University - Hyakem / Kooltuo Yearbook (Ellensburg, WA)

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ment until the beginning of the school year 1913-14, when i t was made a separate department and housed for inside work in two rooms on the third floor of the administration building, with E. R. Kooken as head of the department. The equipment is narrated elsewhere by the present head of the department. At the beginning of the school year of 1915-16 Miss Angeline Smith, of Boise, Idaho, was installed as Dean of Women. Prior to that time the duties pertaining to that | osition were performed by the home life committee and the matron in conjunction. The trustees of this school have been somewhat averse to con¬ ducting a summer term, on the ground that by having longer summer vacations the members of the faculty are able to do better work during the regular school year. A summer term was held, however, during the summer of 19tl. and again in 1906. No summer term was held in 1907 nor 1908. But the demand for summer schools seemed to be growing, and in the summer of 1909, the year of the Seattle exposition, it was thought wise to hold a summer term at Burton, on Vashon Island, about one-third of the distance from Tacoma to Seattle, and accessible from both places. The buildings of Vashon College were used. The session of 1910 was also held there. During the summer of 1911 two summer schools were conducted, one in Ellensburg and one in Centralia. This was continued for three years. In 1914 only the summer school at Ellensburg was conducted hv the Normal. Tn 1915 the two schools were again operated, and they are to be during this year (1916). The school and the Chamber of Commerce of the City of Ellens¬ burg have for a number of years conducted a lyceum course of six, seven or eight numbers each year for the benefit of the students and community. The charges have been $2.50 for members of the faculty and the townspeople for a course and $1.50 for students. The trus¬ tees have also paid for lectures from time to time for the benefit of the students. There are two extra entertainments year after year, in addition to those given by talent in the school. I lie Outlook winch was sometimes monthly and some vears a quarterly was bora in 1899. Its publication was continued until 1906, when it was discontinued. The letters of the word “Outlook” were reversed, forming the name “Kooltuo,” which name was given to the year book, the successor to the monthly. Weekly leaflets have some¬ times been printed since the publication of the annual, hut with no regularity. The Kooltuo has had a continuous existence. This year it is merged with the Quarter-Century Book. Dining the first year ot the school, a Young Men’s Christian Association was organized in conjunction with some of the people of the town. Gradually the citizens ceased to take an active part. The Hugo 22.

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bio ,ogy for those wlu. are not high school graduates extends through- ° Ut T tht time the department of biology was establishes! in 1899, t r nf the work in science was placed under the caption tvZT » ' »■« ' • ' -rr •»« w r W ili the general advance of the school. It now includes work m phy- • inigtrv physiography, astronomy and geology. Tin- depart Tut ocZiS’ an enfire floor of the Industrial Arts Budding. X‘„ consists of a class room, two good sized laboratories and two Ht H .k rooms. An interesting geological collection of several hundred speliens of minerals, rocks and fossils has gradually been acquired bv the department. The manual training department was established in 1908. t has improved from year to year until it now has 28 benches and sets of tools, 18 drawing tables, cabinets, lockers, general tools, six lathes, a bench planer, a band saw. and a good manual trnimng library, ami occupies one floor of the Industrial Arts Building The domestic economy department was established in 1908. It has improved from year to year until it now uses six rooms; store room, kitchen, dining room, sewing room, fitting room and teacher s office. The sewing room is furnished with four tables, chairs and six machines, with pier glass and equipment for measuring, cutting and fitting. The kitchen is supplied with both electricity and coal cooking apparatus and tables accommodating 1 at one time, lhe dining room is not large, but is fairly well equipped lor small lunch and dinner companies. Agriculture was taught in connection with the biological depnrt- IIBATING PLANT Pace 21.

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