Iowa State University - Bomb Yearbook (Ames, IA)

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Widespread war in Europe brought anxiety and mobilization to the nations college campuses. Drills for all able-bodied students, Red Cross and conservation projects for women, technical training through special schools and induction of about 1,700 men into the 1 Student Army Training Corps, were contributions of Iowa State students and faculty to the war effort. ; 901 leads the way to improved communications Advances in communications began to increase in 1921 when a transmitting station, later to use the call letters WOI, was built by the Department of Electrical Engineering. Four years later the 1, station outgrew its experimental function and was reorganized as part of the college. 1921 marked the beginning of publication of the Iowa Homemaker. A chapter of Sigma Xi, scientific research honor society was installed the same year, the second to be estab- lished at a separate land-grant college. In 1925 the College Library building was completed at a cost of $626,474. 1 ke'I Resources and facilities of the college were organized and utilized to meet the demands placed on educational institutions with the advent of World War 1. Special schools concerned with such problems as telegraphy were set up on campus to train students in technical ttwar2 skills.

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Student festivals were of great interest in the early days of the 190013. In 1907 the Women1s Athletic Association began May Day to honor senior women; St. Patricks Day was originated by students in Civil engineering in 1910; and the first Ag Carnival was held in 1912. All were ab- sorbed by Veishea in 1922. Athletics, scholarship emphasized Parading on its way to a picnic celebrat- . . ing the semi-centennial of selection of the Importance of athletlcs and scholarshlp site for the college in 1909 is a group of was emphasized through developments officials led by Dean Charles F. Curtiss, left. beginning in 1908. In that year the hrst intercollegiate basketball game was played at Iowa State against a present traditional rival, the University of Kansas. Kansas won! Later in the year the college became a member of the Missouri Valley Confer- ence, withdrawing in 1928 to become a charter member of the Big Six. Phi Kappa Phi, senior scholastic hon- orary, was installed on campus in 1911; and 2 Years later Omicron Nu, home economics honor society, was introduced. Home economics became a division in 1912 under the direction of Catherine MacKay. 1916 marked the beginning of 11practice homes used by home economics students. The year was another in the chain of 11hrsts when Leslie A. Kenoyer in the Department of Botany received the first Ph.D. degree. A spot of beauty, placid and refreshing, is Lake LaVerne, a gift to the college from LaVerne Noyes ,72, who donated $10,000 in 1916 for landscaping the campus and constructing the lake which now bears his name. Highlight of spring was the May Day Festival begun in 1907 to honor .semor women. Dayts events reached thelr c11- max with the coronation of a queen.

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1919 Communists found the Third International. Peace conference meets at Versailles following the end of the war. The Eighteenth Amendment is passed giving women throughout the United States the right to vote. 1920 The League of Nations meets for the first time. 1922 Mussolini seizes control of Italy. 1927 Charles Lindbergh wins wide ac- claim following his solo flight across the Atlantic. 1928 The Pact of Paris is signed out- lawing war as an instrument of national policy. 1.: Elna :7. Stars Over Veishea, 1925 version, was a song, dance and comedy affair. Known as Veishea Night Show in the beginning, this scene Radio had its early beginnings on'cgm- portrays a part of the show 9Going Downl, pus in the 192015 when a transmlttmg 4 station was built which began operating under the call letters WOI in 1922. .94 An early Veishea float from the Division of Home Economics depicted departmen- tal curricula available and pointed out highlights of divisional class work.