Memphis State University - DeSoto Yearbook (Memphis, TN)

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Twice the grim shadow of a world war has fallen across the campus of Memphis State Col- lege. The first time, during World War I, the south campus from the front steps of the Admin- istration Building to the Normal Depot on Southern Avenue was covered with tents of a thousand soldiers, members of the Students ' Aux- iliarv Training Corps. The northeastern campus, including the area where the Men ' s Dormitory, the football field, and the gymnasium are now, was converted into a liberty garden by the faculty and agricultural students of the college. On the first floor of the Administration Building was a Red Cross Chapter room where the women of the college made surgical dressings. The third and fourth floors served as a dormitory for tin- officers of the S. A. T. C. Shoe rationing! So Staters dance in sox. Y Wholesale moving day when girls change dorms. During World War II, in 1943, Mynders Hall was taken over by the Army to use as a dormi- tory for Army Air Corps Cadets receiving pre- flight training on the campus. In a workshop erected by N. Y. A. students in 19+1, both men and women are being trained as welders and sheet metal workers. Lights burn far into the night in Manning Hall and the Administration Building where Civilian Defense classes are be- ing conducted. From the erstwhile football field ring out the sharp commands of the drill master and, sometimes, the song of the Army Air Corps. Overhead is the ceaseless drone of planes flying the trans-continental route to some mysterious battle front.

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Training School Mynders Hall THE CAMPUS North from the foot ol the circling drive that winds up past the Presi- dent ' s home stretches MSC ' s roll- ing campus . . . to the left, the John Willard Brister Library for studious Staters . . . Mynders Hall, scene ol many sorority and so- cial events, and since March 1, AAF barracks . . . the Industrial Arts Shop . . . the old water tank and power house . . . the Cafeteria . . . the Administration Building with its ol lie es and c lass- rooms . . . the Training Schoo . . . the Memorial Gym, with its intramural spoils, and a rigi State-required physical education program . . . the former boys ' dormi- tory, taken over by girls in March, 19 l. . . . and Manning Hall, with its austere science labs, and C. P. T. ground schoo Administration Building