East Texas State University - Locust Yearbook (Commerce, TX)

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il- - ' . 1. ln H l' , . ze 'J,t ,..,'.9 5 ,- Q1 ' 4 THE- M1937 LOCUST lit 4 4 l bf 1 Q . 3 As, Cur Campus Progresses . . . p STABLISHED in 1917 as a state institution by an act of the Thirty-lifth Legislature, for the purpose. of training teachers, East Texas State Teachers College began with buildings, equip- ment and grounds of the former East Texas Normal College, appraised at iB175,000. These buildings included the Main, Industrial Hall, Heating Plant and Girls' Dormitory on which build- ings improvements totaling an expenditure of 5B200,000 have been made. Main, a brick with basement and three stories, contains administrative offices, auditorium, and laboratories for physics and chemistry as well as numerous class rooms. Industrial Hall, a 350,000 brick building, is used for science laboratories, departmental ofhces, offices of the Dean of Men and Dean of Wfomen, girls' gymnasium, shops, and industrial arts. A total of 3-370,000 has been expended in remodeling this structure since 1917. Supplying the steam heat for the campus, the Heating Plant is operated with natural gas and also houses the machine shop for the metal workers. The Girls' Dormitory, on which improvements are continually made, con- tains offices, a large living room, a spacious dining room and kitchen as well as the rooming quarters. . The Thirty-eighth Legislature appropriated S275,000 to be used in the erection of an educa- tion-auditorium building. This three-story structure accommodates the training school, an auditorium with a seating capacity of twenty-two hundred, and a gymnasium as well as offices and classrooms. Offices for the President and the Dean of the college are located in this edihce. Fire-proof and modern in every respect, it is constructed of dark, red velvet brick, trimmed with terra cotta and covered with concrete, gravel and asphalt. Following this addition to the cam- pus, a modern home for the President was constructed in approximately the same style. VVith the appropriation of fiB200,000 for the construction of a modern library building by the Forty-first Legislature, a three story building was erected containing a large reading room. seven class rooms, eight seminar rooms, four floors of stack space for books, a museum, a child's library room, and several offices. The extensive and spacious reading room is two stories in height finished with a beautiful bronze effect, and all the floors of the entire building with the exception of the lower corridor is laid with moultile. After the old gymnasium burned, a new athletic plant was erected and ready for use by the summer of 1935 at a cost of 340,000 Additional improvements have greatly increased the cost of the structure which contains one large court with an enormous seating capacity, several store rooms, shower rooms, recreation rooms, dressing rooms and a series of offices. Construction under the plan of the Federal Government's Public VVorks Administration made possible a new Boys' Dormitory at an expenditure of 5S106,000. Ready for use during the summer of 1936 and accommodating seventy boys, this structure houses a modernly equipped cafeteria, a recreation room, laundry room, offices, eighteen bath rooms, thirty-six bed rooms and a suite of rooms for the director. Purposing to give home economic majors an opportunity to meet the administrative and social problems involved in group living, a Home lvlanagement Residence was erected in the spring of 1936 with an approximate cost of 38,000 This modern home is adequately furnished at a cost of 351,600 Page Z4

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I . g r M? 1 V. -:-' mmwfbuvtcan . . . Educators . . . dispensing facts, theories and philosophies ..... guiding student thought and action ..... administrative officials rendering in- valuable service solving the problems confronting the institution ..... conferences with the deans . . . . . registration . . . . . matriculation . . . . . library administration ..... instructors diligently imparting knowledge to eager students ..... over a golf ball our faculty takes its moments of relaxation . Page 25