Henderson State University - Star Yearbook (Arkadelphia, AR)

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x Q . court and new apartments for married students and faculty are. Mooney Hall was built in 1935 and was the first building constructed after H. S. T. C. became a state school. The dining hall was located in the bottom of Mooney, and the girls moved from the top of College Hall into the second and third floors of Mooney. Proctor Hall was originally planned to be an Alumni Building. It was finally constructed and used for a field house, for showering and dressing rooms. The president's home used to be an old frame house. The present home was built in 1937. Womack Hall was built next and named for J. P. Womack. The present Foster Hall which was called Men's Dorm for a long time was built. It was eventually named for Beniamin Foster, Professor of logic and philosophy, who taught from 1908 to 1925. The Science Building named McElhannon was built in 1939, then Caddo Center and Arkan- sas Hall were erected around 1949. Evans was builtin 1951. There was a Negro cemetery located where the new dorms and Foster are. A few graves at a time have been moved as new dormi- tories have been built. A cemetery for Civil War soldiers extended to where the tennis The grove of pines on the campus are situated where a cotton field used to be, and the hump on which they are growing was dirt from the ruins of the old buildings. Originally there was a lake where the Holly trees are, and during the 1890's, the young ladies could be seen riding in boats out there. The lake was drained in 1901 and has been filled in since. e .0 '3 'Q s