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

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OLD STONE 22 GRASS ROOTS . . the prairie lay wild and unbroken . . by C ay Manes T X-iong before the first settler chi sled into the stubborn sod, the prairie lay wild and unbroken. But strong hearts and hard- hands met with her for- midable forces; blizzard, drought and the relentless Plains Indian. Many fell victim to the prairie ' s ob- stinent refusal to be settled. But Time , marked by the deaths of thousands of hearty emmi grants, saw the flat lands give in and spread her patch -work quilt of tilled ground and lush, life-abounding pas- tures on the table of the first Kansans ' harvest feast. I At was with that same pioneer spirit that the founders of this university built the normal school, a one-room limestone building in a cow town that was scarcely an oasis on the flat, open tableland. But that barn- raisin’ enthusiasm and practical bent for hard work soon made Fort Hays State a popular and productive institution. Perhaps it is our strong bind to the land and the spirit of its past which colors the character of the people of Fort Hays. We An innate familiar to the Kansan, a windmill is cast agamic son set west of Hays. are only a few generations removed from a time when a man had but the strength of his own two hands and the com- passion of his neighbor on which to depend. The Kansan lent his heart to the land and to his fellow ' man in a give and take relationship that grew r , flourished and blossomed on the abundant plain. And though those early days are long gone, one will still find that type of spirit here. Even in the steady current of technological growth and growing enrollment. Fort Hays State clings to the old- fashioned” attitudes which brought her to life in 1902. Cooperation. Strength. Growth. That was the staff of life on the young prairie and it continues to mold the character of a peo- ple in a land that has grown up. 2 OLD STONE

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Commonly known as Tiny Todd Oh Baby, ' Todd Conklin blesses the airwaves with his wk as a jock with KjLS. Conklin 5 air time shared time with his position as a graduate assistant in the Communications department. 4 “WE LIKE IT THAT WAY