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

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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 • .

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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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» F. H. N. present year there has been even a larger service. The professional Center Service has been strengthened by the addition of Miss Julia M. Stone to the Extension Work, and she has, during the past year, gone intp twenty coun- ties and given demonstration teaching to 2,000 teachers. In addition to Miss Stone the faculty members have held professional center service meetings in several counties. There has been unusually large demand for members of the faculty to deliver lectures before teachers ' meetings. Besides the usual call for entertainment courses from among the faculty members there has been three student organizations which have given enter- tainments. There has been a girls’ quartette, under the direction of Mrs. Henry Edward Malloy; the Y. W. C. A. Sextette, under the direction of Miss Helen N. Wilson, and the Boys ' Glee Club, consisting of twelve men. under ■the direction of Prof. Henry Edward Malloy. The package library has been in demand very largely by high schools pie- paring for debate and women ' s clubs in connection with their program work. The Library Extension has gone into several libraries in the various high schools and assisted in cataloguing the library, and thus making available to the students the material which the library contained. The Public Service Department, as the name indicates, is the clearing house for the Normal School and stands as a means by which the public is informed concerning the resources of the institution. Public Service prepares copy for newspaper publicity, and prepares mailing lists foi the publicity ma- terial. The Public Service Department also prints “Public Service,” the pro- fessional periodical of the institution. The mailing list foi Public Service, during the past vear has been 6,000. Prom this numbei it is evident that “Public Service” has gotten into the hands of nearly one-half the teachers of Kansas, located in 58 counties. The possibilities of the Extension Division for service are almost unlim- ited and its activities are being increased as rapidly as the resouices of the Normal School will allow. Page Thirty-three