Emporia State University - Sunflower Yearbook (Emporia, KS)

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42mm pioneea ta College HIRTY YEARS ago, in 1913, Thomas W. Butcher became the eighth presi- dent of the Kansas State Normal School which is now the Kansas State Teachers College of Emporia. President Butcher is a true pioneer who trudged into Kansas in the wake of a prairie schooner when eleven years old. Coming with his par- ents from Illinois, his eXperience in the sunflower state began in a sod dugout in Phillips County. itThere were years? said President Butcher, iiwhen, because of frontier conditions, I was not in school at all? But our president was undaunted. At the age of twenty he entered what is now Friends University at Wichita. Later he transferred to the University of Kansas where he graduated with an A. B. degree in 1894. In 1904 he received a masters degree from Harvard University, and in 1908 he entered the University of Berlin. EFORE BECOMING a college president, President Butcher taught several years in rural district schools and in high schools. Then in 1913, President Butcher took the responsibility of guiding the Kansas State Normal School to years of greater achievements. The year 1928 looms as a bright milestone on the road of progress and was the realization of our presidentis most cherished dream for our college. That year the Kansas State Teachers College was included in the Col- lege and University Association of Col- PresiJent by Helen Henehel leges and Secondary Schools. Many honors have come to our president during his thirty years here . . . from winning a shiny milk pail with a red ribbon in a milking contest at Miller Brothersi 101 Ranch to being district governor for the Twelfth District of the Rotary Interna- tional in 1924 and 1925. President Butcher is a well-known speaker through- out the state. He has delivered many commencement addresses and has been a guest speaker for numerous occasions. He was a guest instructor at the Univer- sity of Chicago for four summer sessions. A man of reserve and dignity, Presi- dent Butcher has shouldered the adminis- trative burden of our college for three decades. Behind his office doors, he has carried on the business which coordinates . a complex institution into a smooth-func- tioning 2hall of learning? LIVING IN this world of combat between freedom and military dictatorship, we are grateful to have known a man of true democratic principle, to have come in close contact with a pioneer who has been a leader in progress. N ow in recognition of a faithful president, the editors, in be- half of the students, take this Opportunity to congratulate President Butcher for his thirty years of efficient service. We shall regret the departure of one who has shown us that he meant that oft-repeated message to his students-iiThis is your school; enjoy yourselves?

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continue to serve wisely the state of Kansas and Em- poria State Teachers College until the in-. auguration of the new governor, Andrew W. Schoeppel, on January 15. UUVLA 1101' ruyue Rhtller Will a 1m; . .:: . .A . .e lv I.?TK 'Y v l -, . . . 1.: 'h . . t g! - N ' t . . .- ...A'. w.- .--. . A. h , . av . '3 . ?tW'Y' aewm-m -..wmvgu-mw o? 93'? - ;' .2 R3. 't..;.f.-.j.v.. .' . .. . ... ........ . . . . . .' '5JD' .I3'vv . - NM? .,;-...;:; ;.- :1: ' . . . .k'xl 131.3: .'. . ... .. . . H, . '..'. l, '. .-... '.'.-l.-Z . r :.;.'.'. :l IIII :j:'.':;:': . - q. -,-...;. 3.. 4'. . . . .V' .0. 3424-99525: '2'. . . I . : xh' . .. u. '. 5,... The Board of Regents, nine men and women ap- pointed by the governor, serve Kansas and Kansas leducation as a governing council for each of the state-supported institutions of higher learning. They are pictured left to right lseatedl: Mrs. Eliz- abeth Rei'gart, Baxter Springs; Grove Poole, Man- hattan; Willis N. Kelly, Hutchinson; F. M. Harris, 6 4: . -;-.-:-:-'-.;.. .::- ------ 14w 414a When 36d? ginJ 3142' . a ND FRESHMAN, this is the Music Hall. From it comes the finest music in the state. I hOpe that all of you will come in contact With Music Hall some- time in your college career. You Will? he said as he smiled. ttAlmost all of you will take Freshman Survey, an orienta- tion course designed to acquaint you With the college and its departments? The speaker was an upperelassman, address- Chairman, Ottawa; Hubert Brighton, Secretary, Topeka; Mrs, Donald Lester McCoy, Garden City; Muir, Anthony; lstandingl Miss Katherine Moot, Secretary to Mr. Brighton; W. T. Markham, T0- peka; Drew McLaughlin, Paola; and Oscar Stauf- fer, Topeka.