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

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Fort Hays Stated first president was also a man of vision. William A. Lewis could see no limit to the possibilities of the college whose administration he un- dertook in 1913. What a tremendous venture the build- ing of Sheridan Coliseum must have represented 38 years ago when the ground was officially broken. The photo below shows the ceremonies as President Lewis watches with justifiable pride the laying of the conerstone. It was 1917 before the building was com- pleted and officially dedicated in the presence of the capacity crowd, shown at 7

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history Shown above is officers row at the old Fort in 1869. It was in one of the Fort buildings that college classes were begun in 1902. There was a day when Fort Hays State existed only in the dreams of a man named Martin Allen — whose vision enabled him to see beyond the limited horizons of old Fort Hays to a day when the crude and still-tottering village of Hays City might be the center of education and research for all of Western Kansas. Martin Allen did not live to see his dream come true, but we believe he would be well-satisfied with the product of his persistence, as Fort Hays Kansas State College pauses in 1952 to celebrate its fifty years of educational service to the

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Students in the little old frame building, which had been moved from the site of the Fort across the creek to the present campus site, held a tremendous spontaneous celebration when word came that the legislature had appropriated money for their first permanent building. It was our own Picken Hall, shown above as it appeared when it was first completed. 8