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

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class of 1903 Freda Schwaller Fred Lindley Shown belovv School ' s first Picken, holdir his office. Ida Shaffer At the left is one of the early class- rooms, with the late Professor John Bird In charge 9

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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

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1 The baseball players, shown at the left, are the Lorbeer brothers, of a somewhat later vintage, but of unmatched fame in Fort Hays State athlet- ic history. Athletics have been a se- rious and important part of life at Fort Hays State from the vey beginning, as these early pictures show. Participants will de- ny that commercialization has added anything to the thrills of athletics, when they were played solely for fum (or perhaps for added prestige in the eyes of the fairer sex). 10