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

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I Auto mec hanics Melvin Kollman, Larry jenisch and Larry Higerd find lhat skill as well as a hook of instructions arc needed to assemble the complex parts of an engine. Equipped with pie pans, bowls, egg beaters and rolling pins, pie bakers Sally Kay, Beatta Maurath and Mary Garner combine in- gredients in the Davis Hall kitchens. -• J ij- V

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Heme economist 5. artists and students of industrial arts {tattler at Davis Hall, the center of creativity and workmanship on the campus. : Talented Minds Produce Creative, Practical Works Marilyn Metz, who is pinning Sharon Goetz ' s dress, discovers that tailoring requires much skillful calcic lation. Whether put to a potter’s wheel, a sewing machine or an elec- trie saw, a pair of skilled, ready hands can produce and create. It is for these dexterous workmen that Davis Hall was built, for here there are opportunities for the talented and practical mind to express itself. Displayed in the hall showcases of the building are creations from the sewing rooms of the home econo- mists, studios of die artists and the workshops of the industrial arts classes; One is free to participate or enjoy, create or criticize. The Faculty Art Exhibition in December and the Student Art Show and Industrial Arts Fair in the spring are annual events, Davis Hall, formerly called the Applied Arts Building, was dedicated last fall to Edwin Davis, professor and head of the industrial arts department for 40 years. 1 2

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Myrl Walker, director of museums, explains the fossil exhibits in the geology and paleontology museum to a group of summer students enrolled in a geology work- shop. Forsyth Library, the nucleus of study, attracts campus scholars and visitors from Western Kansas schools and communities. Giggles and shouts usher from the natural his- tory division of the museum, where children from local schools examine the well-preserved animals. Several thousand specimens of mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, fishes and inverte- brates are displayed.