East Stroudsburg University - Stroud Yearbook (East Stroudsburg, PA)

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Street now is. The building which cost $10,000 was started late in 1895 and dedicated on May 15, 1896. Now known as Wayne gymnasium, it was then the largest gymnasium in the state. There was provision made for a pool and bowling alley in the basement. The building contained a playing floor, reception room, parlor, office, and an apartment for the physical education instruo tor. The yearbook oihce now occupies one of these rooms. All students were required to take a physical examination at least once a year and to take two hours of exercise or its equivalent each week. Regulation gym suits for men cost from three to five dollars; womenTS outfits cost less than three dollars if made in the sewing department. A football team, a tennis association, a baseball club, and other athletic sports were organized with Professor Brasefield as coach. According to the annual statement released in May, 1896, the school was highly prosperous. There were one hundred and nineteen graduates in the Class of 1896. In the fall term of 1896 a special department of manual training was formed, and in the same year C. A. Houghton was added to the faculty as physical director. In an article appearing in the Stroudsburg Daily Times several reasons were given why students should attend the State Normal School at East Stroudsburg. Among them were: Homelike Treatment of Pupils; Home Comforts. We are the first and only school in the State to furnish its students room with Brussels carpets, good springs and mattresses on all beds. 2. We were the first school to introduce and the only one that systematically maintains a Department of Sewing, Dressmaking, and Fancy Needlework without additional cost to pupils. 3. Our Rates Are Reasonable. Not as cheap as some schools where they make up the difference in poor boarding and lack of home comforts. 4. We have new buildings which are always kept neat and clean. Indeed it is one of the features which always calls for com; ment from a stranger when he enters. The buildings are heated with steam and lighted with gas? It might be interesting to note that George Kunkle was nearly overcome by gas while resting in his room. He was saved by one of the members of the faculty who happened to pass the room. The total expense for the fall term of fourteen weeks was $5 6.00. The rates for the second term of twelve weeks were $48.00, or a cost of $4.00 per week which included board, furnished room, heat and light, washing, tuition, etc. According to Dr. Bible, 1 Teaching has made rapid progress and more is expected of teachers

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election as teachers for the next term. One teacher, Professor Bertlet, was added to the faculty in the spring of 1894. The close of the spring term of 1893 found the students happy that their examinations were over, and the State Board of Examiners were very much pleased with the work done. The first class to be graduated from the East Stroudsburg State Normal School was composed of seventy, four ladies and gentlemen. The first successful year of the new Normal School was over, and credit was given to the Board of Trustees, Dr. Bible, and Dr. Kemp for its success. The fall term of 1894 opened with a very good attendance. Four courses of study now offered were: Elementary, Regular Normal Course, SCiI entihc Course, and an Advanced Normal Course. WAYNE GYMNASIUM The three'year and the fourryear curricula car! ried, respectively, the degree of Bachelor of Pedal gogy tBIU, and Bachelor of Science $5.1. A11 diplomas granted by the Normal School were of blanket type, conferring the right to teach in any public school of the state, whether elementary or higher. In April, 1896, a state appropriation of $5,000 was voted for ground improvements. One hunr dred and fifty trees were to be planted, and a grandstand was to be built. Plans were made for a summer house, lake, track, tennis courts, and a croquet court. The trustees felt a need for a new gymnasium for the school, and every effort was made to raise the necessary funds. The proposed gym was to be south and west of the ice house, which stood about where the back entrance from Normal GYM CLASS

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Teachers would have to attend summer schools to get the necessary training but summer schools are too expensive for the average teacher; so Chautauqua summer institute is the answer.n A Chautauqua composed of lectures in psychology, methods, and all branches of subjects taught in school was opened July 5', 1897. Instructors of great reputation such as G. Stanley Hall and Byron King were engaged. The Chautauqua lasted for only two years. Basketball was played at East Stroudsburg for the first time, at a field meet held in the Wayne gymnasium, February 25, 1897. According to the reporter who witnessed the exhibition, lllt re, sembles football only it is less rough and is played with the hands instead of the feet. The captain of one of the teams broke a bone in his cheek during the game. New regulations announced by the administrar ' tion were: DORMITORY LIFE Each occupant will be held responsible for the condition of his or her room and any damage done to the furniture. No nails, screws, tacks, etc. shall be driven into the walls, doors, windows, furniture, etc. No contrivance shall be attached to locks, 0r transoms for the purpose of opening them. Climbing into the rooms over tran' soms breaks the locks and doors, and is prohibited. No gentleman not connected with the school will be permitted to meet, walk, or ride with a student of the opposite sex except in cases of necessity and by per mission. Pressing botanical specimens under bed