Georgia Southern University - Reflector Yearbook (Statesboro, GA)

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DEDICATION The Senior Class of 1958 is dedicating their annual to Dr. James Durward Park, Chairman of the Division of Education. Since his arrival on the campus of Georgia Teachers College in September 1954, Dr. Park ' s cheerful dis- position and willing cooperation has proved to be a tremendous contribution to this, a teachers college. He has never failed to go out of his way to place graduates in good jobs, and even then has not forgotten the education major graduate. It is his attitude that placement does not end with the initial job assignment but is a continuing proposition as long as the GTC graduate remains in the teaching profession. To Dr. Park, teacher-student associations do not end in the class room. He is genuinely interested and con- cerned with each student ' s extracurricular activities, thoroughly subscribing to the educate the whole stu- dent belief. It is with pleasure that we, the members of the 1958 senior class, dedicate this REFLECTOR to JAMES DURWARD PARK.

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ADMINISTRATION BUILDING— Erected 1908 50 YEARS OF PROGRESS . . . In November of 1957, the Board of Regents of the State of Georgia granted Georgia Teachers College the right to confer the Master of Education degree in seven fields. The college, with an enrollment of 914 students, and with a faculty numbering 93, had crowned fifty years of growth by obtaining a long-sought-for privilege. January of 1958 brought the opening of bids for the new Student Center-Dining Hall to add to the 18 buildings already constructed in Collegeboro, Georgia, a suburb of Statesboro. The GTC students govern themselves, under the leadership of the Student Council and the Interdormitory Council. Girls who make their homes on campus are allowed to date every night in the week if they so desire. They are expected to be back in the dormitory at 11 p.m. Sunday through Thursday, and 12 p.m. Friday and Saturday. The GTC Physical Education Department sponsors teams in two intercollegiate sports— basketball and baseball— with a great deal of success in each. The George-Anne, The Reflector, and the Miscellany, the T-Book, and the GTC Agenda comprise the school ' s pub- lications. The newspaper, the annual, the literary quarterly, and the student manual are published by and for the students; the Agenda is a faculty bulletin. It wasn ' t always this way. These facts are the end results of the fifty years of progress since 1908 when the First District Agricultural and Mechanical School was established. In order to supply the needs of the First District, and in conjunction with an act passed by Congress to establish vocational schools throughout the United States, Statesboro and Bulloch County citizens contributed the land on which to build the First District A M High School in 1908. Fifteen students were enrolled that first year— taught by four faculty members. The school was operated by a Board of Trustees, made up of one member from each of the counties in the first District. 6