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

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LULU M. BICE LIBRARIAN The Library is located on the second floor of the William Picken Hall. It consists of a reference room, reading room, the Librarian ' s office, the stacks and the Extension Division room. These are the same rooms into which the Library was moved in 1917. However, we need more room, as the shelves which have already been built up to the ceiling threaten to push their way up into the attic. The Library consists of about 9,500 books. Approximately 120 period- icals are taken. These periodicals, which consist of the best standard maga- zines published, are carefully filed and bound for further use in the Library. The Library has five dailies. Most of the counties furnish their papers for the use of the students. Miss Bice, the Librarian, offers Library methods to the college students. This course gives training in the use of the library. In addition a training course is given to student assistants in the Library or those who wish to become assistants. In addition to the regular Librarian there are fifteen stu- dent assistants. The Extension Division of the Library has grown even faster than the regular Library. Magazines, package libraries and plays have been added for the use of this division. The high schools, common and rural schools and women’s clubs of Kansas are constant users of this department. The Li- brary is willing and ready to accommodate them with any material which can be found for their use. Our mottor is: More and better service. Page Thirty-one

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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

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FLOYD B. LEE A.B., A.M. EXTENSION The Extension Division is a comparatively new department of work in the Fort Hays Kansas Normal School. It aims to co-ordinate a(l the re- sources of the campus and make them available for schools and communities within the territory of the school. While Correspondence Study Work has been handled for ten years by the institution under the direction of the Gen- eral Office, the Extension Division, with all its departments, was not or- ganized until September 1, 1919. The Extension Division carries on work in the following departments: Correspondence Study, Extension Class, Professional Study Center, Lecture Service, High School Dramatics and Debate Service, Package Library and Information Service, Library Extension Service, and Public Service. The fourth biennial report of the Fort Hays Kansas Normal School to the State Board of Administration shows the number on the roll of Correspondence Department as follows: September 1, 1916, to October 1, 1918, 188; Septem- ber 1, 1918, to October 1, 1920, 1,485. The number of assignments received, read, checked, and returned from October 1, 1918, to September 30, 1920, was 10,144; averaging six pages to the assignment, makes 60,894 pages of manu- script. The number of counties served is 77. The number of states where our students have gone to work and who are taking Correspondence is six. I f The following departments offer courses by Correspondence: Agricul- ture, Fine Arts, Commerce, Education, English, Biblical Literature, History, Home Economics, Language, Mathematics, Music, Physical Education, Biol- ogy, Chemistry, Physics — a total of fifteen departments with 105 courses. During the year July 1. 1919, to July 1, 1920, there were twelve Exten- sion Classes organized with a total enrollment of 192 students. During the ! Page Thirty-two la ...... - i 92 i • .