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

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• ■ F. H. N. ■ • r ELIZABETH J. AGNEW B.S. DEAN OF WOMEN The Dean of Women presides over the Woman ' s Building which is the social center and the real home of student life on the campus; the place where every girl may feel as free to come and go at will as in her own home; where in an electrically-equipped kitchenette she may make a batch of fudge or cook a full meal just as her inclinations dictate, or where in the sewing room she may clean and mend a garment or construct a new one, for this room is provided with a sewing machine, an electric iron and running water. In the large recreation room or school parlor are to be found all the comforts of her home parlor — beautiful pictures, soft rugs for the floor, com- fortable chairs and davenports, a piano, writing desks and game and reading tables. Here also is a huge wood fireplace, which suggests a pleasant hour with popcorn, toasted marshmallows and roasted apples. In this building also is the office of the Dean of Women, who spends her entire time with problems that touch the lives of the young- women on the campus, i. e., right living conditions, individual health problems, discipline, employment for those who are self-supporting, and social and recreational activities. Last, but not least, this building is headquarters for the Young Women’s Christian Association, one of the strongest student organizations on the campus. Its cosily provided rest room has been the quiet retreat of many an over-tired nervous girl, where she has been able to get away from the crowd and get a new hold on self. The building itself, which houses all these comforts for the women of the school, has been used for various purposes. It was primarily a gym- nasium, and was also used as an auditorium, and at one time the building was used as the Normal library, but with all its former usefulness never before has this building filled a greater need in college life on the campus than it is doing in its present capacity of a School Home. Page Tweaiy-moe a 1921

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• ■ F. H. N. L. D. WOOSTER A.B.. A.M. BIOLOGY DEPARTMENT OF BIOLOGICAL SCIENCE An acquaintance with the common, every-day facts and processes of nature, with which we must deal, in one form or another, all our lives; A realization of the educational values of the nature interests of chil- dren ; Such a habit of observing nature and such an understanding of its com- mon objects and activities that one has an ever-present and ever-growing source of pleasure and recreation of the highest type; A clearer discernment of truth and less mystery, superstition, and prej- udice ; And finally, such an acquaintance with nature and such an ever-growing understanding of its ways and processes that one comes to understand, more and more, something of the laws and principles of all life, in all times and places, and especially of human life and its possibilities. These, in general, are the aims of the work in courses under the super- vision of the Department of Biological Science. Page Twenty-eight

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GEORGE J. WOODWARD FLORA MAY ELLIS PHYSICAL EDUCATION The equipment of the Physical Education Department of the Fort Hays Normal School rivals the best-equipped departments in the school. Coach George G. Woodward as Professor of Physical Education for Men has been in the institution only one year so far, but is one of the peppiest, best-liked physical directors the men have ever had. Miss Flora May Ellis, Professor of Physical Education for Women, has been with us for two years. The value of her instruction is estimated by the immense enrollment in her classes, which include swimming, aesthetic dancing, playground work, regular gymnasium classes and ail games that girls play, such as basketball, field hockey, indoor baseball, etc. Under the auspices of this Department the high schools of Western Kansas come together to play off the final games of the Basketball season and to be awarded the honors which they win. It is not to be wondered at then that the boys and girls of Western Kan- sas are strong and healthy, both b odily and mentally, when the Physical Education Department is examined and found to be as nearly perfect as a department of the kind can be. Page Thirty