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feP.feF TH i liFIPIf f t :P r -5 ..:jv «r ; „ r r f i ' - ! ' :i :- .•• -; -. .i- -: ' »lSw.iSj GRAPE VINES graced the front of the college shortly after completion. H. A. Barkelew donated 10 acres — mostly in vines — for the new campus in 1912. It wos an extension of Van Ness Avenue, a half mile north of the city limits. The campus was dedicated November 17, 1916. IJSC: THE INNER COURT of the $350,000 Fresno State Normal School nears completion on March 9, 1916. The school today is the Fresno City College. HA ARTHUR G. WAHLBERG, professor emeritus of music, is the only living member of the 1911 faculty. FIRST CAMPUS IS LOCATED ON VINEYARD SITE By donation the normal school acquired ten acres of land just north of the city limits for the purpose of erecting build- ings. The legislature of 1913 appropriated $10,000 for the purchase of an additional five-acre tract odjacenf to the original site. Two other appropriations were made by the same legislature; first, $10,000 for the improvement of the new site and erection of temporary buildings, next, $370,000 for the construction of permanent buildings. On the site of the present campus, which was a dying vineyard in 1913, frame buildings were erected and at the end of the summer vacation in September the normal school moved into its new home. The wooden buildings were the class rooms and labora- tories for the students the following three years. Construction of the present permanent buildings was started March 5, 1915 at a ground-breaking ceremony. The new building was completed in August, 1916; furni- ture and equipment were in place by the end of the month and the normal school opened in its new home on Septem- ber 11, 1916. A special dedication ceremony was held on the campus November 17, 1916. The legislative session of 1921 abolished state normal schools and in their place estab- lished teachers ' colleges. This change made possible the addition of four-year courses leading to the A.B. degree and giving a much broader range of training. 11
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1911 LEGISLATIVE ACT ESTABLISHES FRESNO NORMAL A demand for feachers in the San Joaquin Valley schools a half century ago is one of the principal reasons for the organization of what is now the Fresno State College. A legislative act on April 11, 1911 established the Fresno State Normal School, but the history of the college dates back to 1908 when a group of citizens first conceived the idea of founding a higher educational center in Fresno. Charles L. McLane, first president of the normal school, was city superintendent of schools when the Fresno County Chamber of Commerce appointed a committee of eight men to place the problem of establishing the normal school be- fore the legislature. The attempt failed, but under the California law of 1907 permitting high schools to carry on post graduate and junior college work, Fresno established a two-year junior college. The Fresno Junior College was the first preparatory college in California. The Fresno State Normal School was formally opened September 11, 1911. President McLane ' s hopes were fully realized as no less than 150 students enrolled before the end of the first day. This figure jumped to 170 before January, 1912. Instructors devoted part time to the city schools and the remaining time to the new normal school, both under one management in the old high school building. C L McLANE, superintendent of Fresno city schools from 1899-1913, was the first presicJent of FSC FRESNO HIGH School at Tuolumne and O Street was the first home of FSC The Polytechnic tower was symbolic of stote college sites. il M p ri yl iiviilflAL iVki ' RESNO IS ■ ¥ I So: • V . }{...;. .■ Commit j I ' AVOKABLE OPIN ' TONS EXPRESSED ON PILL M. Apprniv ' Mt;,-)]: M«- ' v Pr ' - ' ;v-:oi; Clnnr c; M( ' L r. ' Ur:;c •• Adoquiitc Syctcm for Thir, St ' tc CONSTRUCTION WORK on the Fresno Slate Normol School as it appeared Sept 15, 1915 The newspoper article at the left wos clipped from the Jan 28. 1909 issue of the Fresno Morning Republican. f ' T a I;it.| ' t ■• ' Il • -•iii.l ' l I i W5
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SUMMER SESSIONS FOUNDED AT HUNTINGTON LAKE Busy as he was with developing the new campus, McLane took time to establish the normal school ' s Sierra Summer Session in 1914 in an abandoned power company work camp at Cascade. Two years later it was relocated on 14 acres near Huntington Lake. There students could combine summer fun and outdoor study, and an estimated 5,000 had participated in the annual six week sessions by the time rising costs and declining at- tendance forced the school ' s closing in 1948. With the establishment of the Fresno Teachers College the Fresno Junior College at the high school joined the col- lege on the present campus. Enrollment increases necessitated more adequate equip- ment. To meet the increase of the college the 1925 legislature appropriated $50,000 for the purchase of land. The appro- priation was used to obtain the present site of the college stadium. Construction costs of $51,000 were raised by the sale of investment certificates. The installation of the lighting system for evening athletic events was made with an addi- tional expenditure of $9,000. During the summer of 1925 a new training school build- ing was erected on the north side of the campus. The re- moval of the training department from the main building released many class rooms for the use of regular college classes. r FRANK W THOMAS became the second college president in 1927 ond retired in 1948 at the age of 70 NORMAL SCHOOL coeds, wearing high button shoes, long dresses ond their hair in a bun, flocked to the cafeteria in 1916. PARKING SPACE was no problem in 1972 — few students owned cars and the streets were long and wide. 12
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