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

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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

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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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It looks like things were certainly gay enough around Fort Hays State when grandmother was a girl. The gym in which the Bloomer Girls are posing you’ll recognize as the present Social Building. All was very formal as they crowned a Queen and wound a Maypole in front of Picken Hall, some 30 years ago. The bridge across Big Creek was known as Spoony Bridge, even before Custer Hall was built on the other side. Being a good skater was better than being a good dancer back ' in the good old days. Musical organizations, shown below, dit- fered only in costume from our modern 11 -ai m