Fort Hays State University - Reveille Yearbook (Hays, KS)

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Fort Hays Kansas Normal School FACULTY OF 1913-1914 William A. Lewis, A. B., B. S., B. S. in Ed., President . Valparaiso University, Armour Institute of Technology, Missouri State Normal School. Clarence J. Smith, A. B., A. M., Professor Manual Arts. Kansas State Normal School, Fairmount College, University of Kansas, University of Chicago, University of Wisconsin. Thomas M. Wood, B. S., . . . Professor of Blacksmithing and Leader of Band. Kansas State Agricultural College, Kansas State Normal School, College of Emporia, Stout Institute. George R. Tilford, A. B. in Ed., B. C. S., . . . . Professor Commerce. Kansas State Normnl School, New York University. Charles A. Shively, A. B., A. M., Professor Education. Kansas State Normal School, University of Kansas, University of Chicago. Anna Keller, Director Training School. Kansas State Normal School, University of Chicago Julia M. Stone, B. S. in Ed., .... Kansas State Normal School, University of Chicago James H. Beach, Kansas State Normal School, University of Kansas. ♦Ward W. Sullivan, A. B., A. M„ Professor History. Fort Ilays Kansas Normal School, University of Illinois. Elizabeth J. Agnew, B. S., Professor Domestic Science. Kansas State Agricultural College, Columbia University. Elizabeth Condit, Professor Domestic Art. Kansas Manual Training Normal. School. ■(■Jennie E. Nickles, A. B., A. M., Professor German. University of Kansas. Elizabeth Apel, A. B., Substitute Professor German. University of Kansas. Annette Foster, Professor Latin. Kansas State Normal School, University of Chicago. Doing advanced work in University of Illinois, t Traveling in Germany and Italy. Page 21 Professor Rural Education. Professor Geography and Civics.

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Normal School for the four- weeks session. In September of that year the School, twenty-three students strong, began business all alone. Through various vicis- situdes, students and faculty waited, hoped and labored in the old quarters until 1904, when the new building provided for by the Legislature of 1903 was ready for occupancy. There was great rejoicing on that day in June when the school moved into the new building. This building comprised what is now the central portion of Picken Hall. The library occupied room 12. The “assembly room” consisted of what is now the quarters occupied by the Commerce and Latin de- partments. Sliding doors permitted these three rooms to be thrown into one. Here were held the general exercises of the School, the lecture course numbers, and the various school entertainments. There were three recitation rooms and one laboratory. Very meager this seems to us now, but then it seemed splendid. We rejoiced in our good fortune and looked forward with faith and hope to the future. The next building to rise upon the campus was the gymnasium. Completed in May, 1906. This at once became the social center of the School. For two years this building was used for “gym” work, general exercises, lecture course entertain- ments, commencements, and social functions galore. For all assemblies folding chairs were used. At the conclusion of “Chapel” each morning, the students would rise, fold their chairs, and to the strains of music would march around the room, depositing the chairs in neat stacks against the wall, — thus converting the auditorium into a gymnasium. A movable stage, built in sections, served the dramatic department in presenting such plays as Hamlet and As You Like It. Some of the scenery now used on the Auditorium stage was first used on this tem- porary stage. The main building was completed in 1908, by the addition of two wings. The Model Rural School building was first occupied on September 1, 1907. Next came the power plant and the dam. The latest addition to the group of buildings on the campus is the Industrial building, completed in 1912. The shops and the engineer’s residence are “immigrants,” having been brought over from the old fort. A good-sized volume might be filled with the chronicles of the School. It is an interesting story, too long for our space, — how the curriculum has expanded from a two-year course with no certificate privileges, to an eight-year course grant- ing one-year, three-year, and life certificates, and the degree B. S. in Education; how the faculty has grown from two members to twenty-four ; how the enrollment has grown from twenty-three to over seven hundred in the school year; how the legal status has changed from that of a branch of the Emporia Normal School to that of an independent institution, with a president of its own. Will the next twelve years witness as great progress as the first twelve of our history? Yes, and greater. Page 20

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Librarian Lulu M. Bice, B. S., in Ed Fort Ilays Kansas Normal School, University of Illinois. Elsie Macintosh, Assistant Librarian and Public Speaking. Fort Hays Kansas Normal School, School of Oratory, Kansas City. Doha E. Grass, B. S., Professor English. Ottawa University, University of Kansas, University of Wisconsin. Ernest B. Matthew, A. B., in Ed., Professor Mathematics. Kansas State Normal School, University of Chicago. Henry E. Malloy, Professor Music. Kansas State Normal School, Bethany College, Voice under George Hamlin. Chicago, Ella Baehus-Behr, Berlin, Hinshaw, Metropolitan Opera. New York, George Fer- guson, Berlin, Kirk Towns, Berlin. Helen C. Bovee, M. M., A. B., .... Professor Public School Music. Michigan University School of Music, Michigan State Normal College. Ira H. Van Cleave, Phys. Dir., . . Professor Physical Education for Men. Springfield Training School. Daisy B. Roper, Phys. Dir., . Professor Physical Education for Women. Sargent School of Physical Education. John S. Bird, A. B. in Ed., Professor Chemistry and Physics. Kansas State Normal School, Kansas State Agricultural College, University of Chicago. Lyman D. Wooster, A. B. in Ed., .... Professor Botany and Zoology. Kansas State Normal School. Whitcomb G. Speer, B. S. in Agri., Professor Agriculture. Kansas State Agricultural College. Aloysius F. Bieker, . Lily I. Moore, Fred J. Wagner, . Alva D. Hull, Registrar and Secretary. Stenographer. Custodian Buildings and Grounds. Engineer. Page 22