Dickinson State University - Prairie Smoke Yearbook (Dickinson, ND)

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NORTH DAKOTA'S FASTEST GROWING North Dakota’s fastest growing college is Dickinson State Teachers College. Enrollment has been on an increase, new buildings are ap- pearing on campus every year, and the overall atmosphere during the past three or four years has changed from one of a small teachers college to that of a progressive liberal arts school. In the aerial photograph above, the recently constructed and the proposed buildings for the campus are numbered. Number 2, the library, and 7, the college apartments, have already been completed. Numbers 4, the student union, and 5, the science building, have been approved by the State Board of Higher Education. Those structures that Dickinson State hopes to have in the near future are: 1, a new athletic field and bleachers; 3, another’s men’s dormitory and 6, a laboratory high school. 5

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GOVERNOR WILLIAM GUY Governor William Guy, North Dakota's Democratic hcad-of-state, was elected for his first term in 1960. With his election and that of North Dakota’s first Democratic senator, our state was fast becoming a two-party state in which political events and ideas gained in interest. During the first term of Governor Guy, Dickinson State College continued its rapid growth. We, the students of Dickinson State, are grateful to Governor William Guy for the leadership he afforded during one of the most important years of our existence. STATE BOARD OF HIGHER EDUCATION During 1962, the State Board of Higher Education approved the plans for two more buildings for Dickinson State College. They voted to appropriate the money necessary to construct a new student union and a badly needed classroom building that will house the science facilities for our growing school. The Board was aware of the growth of Dickinson State and under its able direction, we will now be able to offer much more to the ever-increasing number of students. Pictured below is the State Board of Higher Education. I eft to right Minot; A. E. Mead, commissioner, Bismarck; Mrs. Elvira Jestrab, arc: John Conrad, Bismarck; Mrs. Mildred Johnson, vice-president, Williston; Fred Orth, Grand Forks; and Albert Haas, New Rockford. Wahpeton; Martin G. Kruse, Kindred; Ralph Christensen, president,

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May Hall, the main building of Dickinson State’s campus, at present houses all the classrooms for the school. With the construction of a new classroom building in the near future, May Hall will be relieved of its over- crowded classrooms. MAY HALL Photographers Robert Metzger and Howard Foreman captured May Hall in two different settings. Metzger’s picture, at left, was snapped through the rocks on top of the wall that surrounds our campus. Foreman’s photo, below, taken on a frosty winter morning, is one of the winter scenes that we in North Dakota see so often during the course of a school year. 6