Fresno State College - Campus Yearbook (Fresno, CA)

 - Class of 1961

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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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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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SCHOOL BECOMES FRESNO STATE COLLEGE IN 1935 The 1935 legislature changed the state teacher colleges to state colleges, thus increasing the field of instruction at the Fresno State College and abolishing some of the previous requirements. The number of four-year courses leading to the A.B. degree was increased and many liberal arts courses were authorized. The next major extension of college offerings came in the spring of 1946 when the California State Department of Education granted Fresno State College permission to add a fifth year of graduate work leading to the general secondary credential. The fifth year ' s work became effective at FSC with the 1946 summer session. Only three years later, in 1949, the California legislature sanctioned the offering of a Master ' s Degree. While the college was growing, academically speaking, the State Department of Education and college officials were busy planning the physical growth. Shortly before World War II, it was decided to construct four new buildings ad- jacent to the old side, now owned by the Fresno Junior Col- lege. Plans were made for industrial arts, music and ad- ministration buildings and the gymnasium. However, the shortage of materials and labor caused postponement of actual construction. By 1940 enrollment had risen to more than 2,100 and the number of fields in which FSC offered the bachelor ' s de- gree had risen in five years from 12 to 30. At this time there were about 121 faculty members. Immediately after World War II, the college administra- tion once more considered expansion. THE COLLEGE LIBRARY, built al o cost of $725,000, was com- pleted in September, 1932, and hobsed 32,000 volumes. AERIAL VIEW of the college campus in the late 1920 ' s The church building in the center foreground was later converted to the University Street Playhouse. « 1 M k - 3 H RK L ' V ,T «|fl 1 J itu ' Sffi i ' . ,4 ■i! m THE VtNE-QOVERED Administration Building housed the cotlege administration for 40 years on the University Street campus. SOME 7 5,000 people attended productions in the University Street Playhouse from 1930 to 1945. M

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