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

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Campus Center of Study Also Attracts Visitors Faces — some staring dreamily into space, other ex- pressionless, a few with brows drawn tight in concentra- tion- — line the tables of Forsyth Library. From the congest- ed aisles in the stacks to the bulging shelves in the docu- ments department, students from diversified areas of study are probing, seeking knowledge from printed ma- terials. Overcrowded conditions have prompted plans for a new building to be constructed across the street from the present library and expected to he completed by 1966 . Forsyth Library is a melting pot for visitors as well as students. A popular attraction is the museum, which is divided into natural history, geology and pale- ontology, prehistory and history, and the Flam Bartholo- mew Herbarium sections. Items published by the federal and state governments are filed in the documents department, where Francis Bieker pages through a booklet on taxation. C. L. Magana consults the Western Collection, which consists of theses written by FHS students, hooks about Kansas and the West, and folklore.

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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.

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Teachers, psychologists and philosophers are trained in the classrooms in Karick Hall. Student teacher Carol Tomasheck works with a reading class in the third grade while doing her teaching block.