Emporia State University - Sunflower Yearbook (Emporia, KS)

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Contents + Views of the Campus Administration Classes Senior Junior Sophomore Freshman Faculty A Studenfs Day Features Organizations Athletics Sororities and Fraternities Wh0's Who Index

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Sevent -Five Years of Educational Service ,NQSQWSTQTE K .. Q09 Els LU' qThe seventy-fifth anniversary of the establishing of the Kansas State Teachers College was celebrated March 18 and 19, l938, with an educators' conference. Simultaneously, the college and the edu- cators of the country recognized the twenty-five years of service of Thomas W. Butcher as president of the college. qMost of the prominent educators in Kansas were present to take part in the two-day celebration, and several educa- tors from outside the state participated in the various programs. QA feature pro- gram of the event was the historical pageant presented under the direction of the Speech Department in Albert Taylor Hall. Here was presented the seventy- fivc years of educational service of the college, as interpreted by actors, dancers, and narrators. One of the largest crowds ever to assemble in Albert Taylor Hall saw the pageant. qScores of nationally known educators from every section of the country, from almost every college and university in the land, sent letters to the college expressing their regard for the college and President Butcher.

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edication This book is dedicated to the many great Kansans, both dead and living, who contributed to the wel- fare of the Kansas State Teachers College, and built it to the institu- tion it is today, seventy-five years after its birth in the state legisla- ture. May the benefits of the edu- cational service of the school be forever to their credit. The Sunflower Staff.