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

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m mm tail U M Fred Lindley, San Diego, California, lawyer, banker, rancher, who returned to deliver the principal address. Is shown above with Mrs. Lindley, who also attended the affair. The success of the anniversary celebration was due principally to the fact that so many early cay students returned to join In the festivities. Chat PIcken, son of William S. Picken, the first principal of the school, came from Loveland, Colorado. Two of the college ' s three first graduates, were back for the celebration. They were Mrs. Fredetla Schwaller Trlnkle, LaJolla, California, and Fred E. Lindley. assembly The early-day students, shown be low on the front rows of thi Coliseum arena, enjoyed a pro gram of early-day entertainment songs sung by a vocalist popula on the campus in another era the address by Mr. Lindley, anc the singing of the three anthem the college has used at variou times in the past fifty years. 16

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thrice The welcome mat was truly out on the campus on June 23. The spotlight was on the old timers and special recognition was given to those who were students that first year. Eighteen of the forty-one students who en- rolled for the first summer session back in 1902, returned to Fort Hays State to partici- pate rn the celebration. At the right, Miss Maude McMindes, who has chairmanned the entire anniversary plan, took time out to greet a guest as registrants crowded the Coliseum foyer. Faculty women, faculty wives, and women students dressed themselves in 1902 costumes to serve as hostesses and guides about the campus. In the photo at the right, Miss Marjorie Butler, dean of women, chats with Mrs. Ethel McKenna, who was for many years Custer Hall director, and is now a beloved member of the emeritus clan at Fort Hays State. . 15

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o stir nostalgia, tht Jay students who lay students who were jack for the celebration ere taken in the cob 3ge bus to Custer ' s Is- and, to see that whiie wildings and new faces hange a college the old atural trysting spots stay ■ retty much the same, he top photo shows the iroup alighting from the us. At the right is Mrs, ennie Ward Philip, the ollege ' s first enrollee, ecked out for the oc- |asion, and finding herself ie center of interest as monade is served. Left, Cody Commons was crowded for the Anniversary Luncheon, with old grads, summer students, faculty members, and friends of the college in attendance. ■ - •fl j fjH iSI 23?jv . , ) 17