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

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THE CAMPUS To the beginning student and to many of those who have been acquainted with it for some time the Campus does not stand for anything in particular. To some, perhaps, it wears a stern and forbidding aspect. But you. Former Student of F. H. N., who shall peruse this book years hence and recall your relations to the dear old place, — you know well that you cannot express what it has meant and still means to you. When you visit the former scenes you will be conscious of change. New ' faces will pass you, strange voices sound in your ear, the trees, shrubs and flowers somehow will not be the same. Perhaps fine new buildings will be pointed out to you with pride. Yes, it has changed. But some note of familiarity recalls you to yourself and once more you know that it is all yours still. It has become a part of you. Time and change cannot take it from you. “Here on the lawn in the shade of this tree I spent many a pleasant hour with a book, or, — well, — a friend. There is the old gridiron where I battered myself stiff and sore in more than one battle, and the track where the boys sported like little children sometimes, sometimes struggled heroically for the honor of the school. I will stroll down to the Spoonholder and seated on the rough plank I will muse upon these things and listen to the trinkle, bubble, swirl and flow of the water beneath. “Ah! The people who are now filling the halls and treading the Campus of Fort Flays Normal, they, too, are part of an endless stream, — the great stream of humanity. But they shall not lose themselves in a great sea of oblivion. For the spirit and ideals of this great institution are making and moulding men and women who shall make the old school famous.” Page Fourteen

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FORT HAYS NORMAL IN THE MAKING What is born into the mind of men who not only dream but act finds glorious fruition in some form. When William S. Picken opened the school in June, 1902, he saw far beyond the foundling of an institution under his care. He had dreamed of an institution here on the plains of Western Kan- sas that should meet the great need for adequately equipped men and women and he at once set about the realization of his dreams. School began in the old hospital building of Fort Hays and was in prog- ress there until the central part of Picken Hall was erected on its present site in 1904. The Gymnasium was built in 1906 and became the social cen- ter of the school. The two wings of the main building were completed in 1908. The Power Plant and the Dam soon followed. The Industrial Build- ing was ready for use in 1912. President William A. Lewis succeeded W. S. Picken in 1913 and has car- ried on the plans for a bigger and better school with splendid success. The latest and largest addition to the group of buildings is “Sheridan Coliseum” on the south side of the Campus. This new structure has been rightly termed “The Convention Hall of Western Kansas.” Its auditorium has a seating capacity of thirty-five hundred people. The Gymnasium is now located in this building. In the fall of 1919 the old “gym” was remodeled for the “Woman ' s Building.” It is used by the girls of the school for recreation and entertainment and is the center of many social activities for both boys and girls. The school has a faculty of thirty-eight as compared with two when it was opened. It offers the one-year, three-year, and life certificates, and the degree B.S. in education. Credentials from Fort Hays Normal are accepted without question by the leading schools of this and other states. The future of the Fort Hays Kansas Normal School is as promising as its past growth has been miraculous. The spirit of the school is the spirit of the plains, the unconquerable spirit that accepts nothing short of the best. Page Thirteen

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DEPARTMENTS education ENGLISH HISTORY COMMPRCG MUSIC MATHEMATICS LANGUAGES SCIENCE FINE ARTS AGRICULTURE PAYS ICS MECHANICS PAYS. GDUC . LI BRAKY