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FAIRMONT STATE NORMAL SCHOOL Fairmont State Normal School Flower, Yellow and White Daisy Colors, Yellow and White Fairmont, We Cheer You HAIL to the Fairmont Normal School! Hail to the Fairmont Normal School! Come and join us in our song of praise, For this our school we cheer! Hear all our old Alumni sing, Here all their fondest memories cling, Round their Alma Mater Which is to them so dear, Come praise the Normal, one and all; Come be all loyal students, Come hear her call! Raise now her banner yellow and white And let her colors ever stand to us lor right. Chorus Fairmont State Normal School! We cheer you! We cheer you! You are the finest school In all old West Virginia! We sing of your glories all, Both faculty and students, And all who hearken to your call, Hurrah! Hurrah!
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{ 5 -5 £5!IS si ? 5 ■ EVOLUTION OF THE F. S. N. S. w v S e5 Ti- « ' fv rC ' VS s . ' C? ' i5 v 5Cj»oS « ' VLa £ ? o V »- s t! Qc»» CS Evolution of the Fairmont State Normal School [4, HE history of the Fairmont State Normal School divides itself into three distinct periods of development, and each period culminates in the out- growth of its home and the consequent provision of better buildings and facilities. Now that we are again about to leave our outgrown shell for a larger and grander one, it is with no little interest that we review the history of our school. In the year 1867, through the efforts of Dr. Wm. White, State Superintendent of Schools, and ex-Governor A. B. Fleming, the first step toward the establishment of a Normal School at Fairmont was taken, when the Legislature appropriated the vast amount of $5000 for the purpose of training teachers in the improved methods of instruction and discipline adopted in the schools of other States. On this enormous sum, the Normal began its work in a building on the corner where the Wotson Hotel now stands, and in later years known as the Old Shot Tower. In the very beginning, the Normal School started out to be what it is now, primarily a school for the training of teachers, for we find that, by act of the Legislature, the Independent District of Fairmont was authorized to send part of the pupils in its district to the Model School of the Normal. In the school ' s first published catalogue, we find that two courses were offered, namely: the Elementary Normal Course and the Professional Normal Course, the latter not unlike our modern plan of Normal training. But, for some unknown reason, a chasm gradually formed between the Normal and Public School system. The Model School was abolished, and for several years, it was a Normal School in name only. This fact, however, did not detract from the interest of the public in the school. In the Spring of 1872, which was a memorable year in its history, a great many new students entered the school, and new organizations and activities were established. In June, at the end of the school year, the first commencement exercises were held in the old M. P. Church, and diplomas were awarded to the first four graduates of the Fairmont State Normal School. Early in the same year, the Legislature had provided means for the erection of a permanent home for the rapidly-growing school, and in June, 1873, the Normal School took up its abode in what is now known as the Second Ward School building on Quincy Street. The following year was a most prosperous one. There was a splendid graduating class of twenty-five young men and women, among whom was ex-Superintendent of Schools, Thomas C. Miller, and other men who have since become prominent in edu- cational circles. The commencement exercises attracted a great deal of attention, and the present order of having a regular commencement week was established. The Alumni Association was formed by the Class of 1873. Housed in its new home, the Normal continued, with varying fortunes, toward its educational goal. Its progress was sure and certain, and its growth comparatively 7
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