Fresno State College - Campus Yearbook (Fresno, CA)

 - Class of 1961

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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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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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FAR -WESTERN CONFERENCE CHAMPIONS 1930 THE 1930 FOOTBALL team is the only undefeated, untied grid team in Fresno State ' s SO-year history. F5C faculty members on the team, which celebrated its 30th anniversary reunion this year, included J. Flint Manner, Myron Anderson and Hal Beatty. WlM COLLEGE STUDENTS gathered in the inner court to hear President Herbert Hoover ' s radio broadcast in March, 1929. ■m • The new Fresno State stadium on Blackstone Avenue was dedicated in the 1920 ' s. The first West Coast Relays were held April 30, 1927. DR. THOMAS NAMED COLLEGE PRESIDENT IN 1927 McLane, who died in 1949 at the age of 87, retired as FSC president in 1927 and was succeeded by Dr. Frank Waters Thomas, a member of the college faculty since 1917. In 1931 a state appropriation of $30,000 completed the payment of the investment certificates for the stadium. The title to the property was passed to the state of Califor- nia. The first unit of the expansion plan of the college was the construction of the McLane Hall east of the main build- ing. This was completed in 1928 at a cost of approximately $200,000. A new library, built at a cost of $225,000, was completed in September, 1932. The last unit in the development program was the con- struction of the $20,000 field house at the stadium. Later a five-acre tract north of the stadium was completed. Enrollment reached 1,493 by 1930 and Dr. Thomas and the Fresno representatives in the legislature began the bitter five year battle to give Fresno status as a liberal arts college, rather than just a teachers ' college. During 1935 the college campus was increased to twenty- five acres. A special study was made by the state depart- ment of architecture as to the future building needs and a comprehensive plan of future building construction was developed. 13

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