Idaho State University - Wickiup Yearbook (Pocatello, ID)

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changed-to Southern Branch of the University of Idaho, and the T on Red Hill became an NI . In October, 1946, a report by the Peabody Edu- cational Survey Commission was made public stating that the need for higher education in the southern part of Idaho is at present inadequately served and recommended development of the Southern Branch as an independent, degree-grant- ing institution. The bill passed both houses unani- mously. As a four-year college, ISC grew rapidlyg en- rollments jumped, the faculty grew in numbers, and research activity was increased. In 1957 the first master's degrees were granted and in 1958 the third college, the College of Education, was estab- lished. fThe College of Pharmacy had been created in the 1930's, and the College of Liberal Arts in 1947. The College of Business Administration was added in 1963.j New agitation for a change in the institution's status, from college to university, began in 1959 when the Bengal published editorials, columns and stories with a name changei' theme. The follow- ing year the idea caught fire with state legislators during ISC,s biennial Legislator's Day and in 1961 the first ISU bill passed the House and was de- feated in the Senate by two votes. For the next two years, students, alumni, organ- izations and individuals throughout the state con- tinued the campaign until in February, 1963, the Hnal step of the 50-year-old dream was realized- the Senate passed, the House passed and Gov. Robert E. Smylie signed the bill creating at Poca- tello a state-supported but independent, full- fledged, degree-granting institution called Idaho State University. Alums of ISU's predecessors frequently visit their old school. President Donald E. Walker, right, points out features of ISU to campus visitors. The Old Dining Hall, second oldest building remaining at ISU, is scheduled to be razed

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THE OLD 1901 1915 1927- 1947 1963 1915 1927 1947 1963 Predecessors to Idaho State University Academy of Idaho Idaho Technical Institute University of Idaho Southern Branch Idaho State College Idaho State University Eugene O. Leonard started the College of Pharmacy at ISU 8 By Dorald Stoltz It took more than half a century of growth and improvement, argument and effort, but the Acad- emy-Institute-Branch-College at Pocatello finally won. It became a university. The State Legislature voted in January, 1963, to give Idaho State College the name of Idaho State University, and on July 1 the name change went into effect. This was the climax to an intense struggle that began before the school opened 63 years ago. The institution was originated in 1901 when the State Legislature voted to establish and maintain a school to be called the Academy of Idaho at Pocatello . . . uthe purpose of which shall be the teaching of all the branches commonly taught in academies, including also the various studies per- taining to a good common school education, and such special courses are are usually taught in business colleges. The bill was drafted by Sen. Theodore F. Turner, the mayor of Pocatello, passed the Senate and House and was signed by Gov. Frank W. Hunt on March 11, 1901. This was one of the easiest legislative victories the school was destined to experience in its first 50 years, Dr. Merrill D. Beal, professor of history at ISU, wrote in his 1952 History of Idaho State College. The process of locating the campus provided the first real fight of the many the institution was to face in future years. Groups of citizens and in- dividuals got into the battle with, in general, the east side of Pocatello pitted against the west side. After two months of almost weekly mass meetings and numerous smaller strategy-planning sessions, the old cemetery site on the east side was se- lected. Only three students enrolled on the first day, September 15. However, registration picked up and the academy finally drew a year total of 70 students. Agitation for a new name and status for the school apparently began in 1910 when the first issue of the student newspaper, the Idaho Techniad, was published. A bill to change the name and function of the academy to Idaho Technical College was passed by the 12th State Legislature in 1913, then vetoed by Gov. John M. Haines. At the next session of the Legislature, a bill creating an Idaho Technical Institute which could offer no more than two years of college-level work was passed by the House and Senate, signed by Governor Haines and went into effect that fall. Students continued to agitate for a four-year school. They wore lapel tags, commented in the school paper and conducted demonstrations. Out- side of the school a Four-Year Tech Club was formed. The 19th State Legislature gave the Tech a full and complete two-year course and such extension of the pharmacy course as necessary to meet the standards of schools accredited by the American Pharmaceutical Association. The name was also

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N 'LXSEE Walt Cole photographs the first senior class to complete a full year at Idaho's newest university. ,. ' ' 'z .A . I Ti. - ,F gp.- . WZ THE EW ose a 'CG By janet Fisk An old name is hard to throw away . . . just like a favorite book. After the school,s promotion to university status last summer, Idaho State students were left tongue-tied and gasping when asked the name of their school. Puzzled friends probably wondered why students from Idaho State Col- Universityv seemed unsure of themselves. Students and college Coops, universityj ofiicials were not the only guilty parties. As late as May 1964, the Associated Press was sending out stories about Idaho State College. Exchange newspapers sent to the Journalism Department and the library are still addressed to Idaho State College. One newspaper consistently sends its exchange copies to University of Idaho, Southern Branch, Pocatello. no fofIni'BENGALS ..