Memphis State University - DeSoto Yearbook (Memphis, TN)

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1 % Jl 3 Foreivord Eli GO This is it . . . the story of the year in pictures ... in words ... in memories. Here are the little things that make up student life at Memphis State. The Saturday football games as the crowd filed into Crump Stadium to watch the Tigers match forces with rival teams . . . those last frantic hours in the library before a term paper is due . . . that mad rush for an eight o ' clock class. Here are the lines on those hectic registration days . . . the variety of noises in the Student Center at the ten o ' clock hour . . . the impressive graduation march. Here are the professors who have given of their time and patience to help us prepare ourselves for the future . . . the faithful friends who have worked and played side by side . . . the undercurrent of excite- ment on election day. Here is the Administration Building bustling . the silence of a classroom ity ig the majestic appearance of the President ' s home . . . that big formal iance that new date This is the 1956 DeSoto This is Memphis State THE DESOTO STAFF I The beautiful building to be the new men ' s dormitory will be con- structed across from Hayden Hall. The new women ' s dormitory that will open this fall is between Patterson Street and Mynders Hall. , 1 JutfiMiM? , . ,.

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President and Mrs, Smith pose for a formal por- trait in their home on the campus. Memphis State s Greatest Decade Ten years ago, in 1946, J. M. Jack Smith became president of Memphis State College, an institution at that time having an enrollment of 1,500. Since then, Memphis State has grown in all directions — buildings have been more than doubled, the faculty has been enlarged to 200 members, the enrollment has passed the 3,500 figure and the institution has gained in prestige throughout the South and the nation. President Smith came to Memphis State well prepared to place the college on the map. He came up through the one-room, one-teacher school in rural Hardin County to head Tennessee Polytechnic Institute, to direct instruction for Memphis City Schools and to serve at one time as Tennessee Commissioner of Education. All of these roles served to prepare Presi dent Smith to take the helm of this institution which had so much to offer and which had so far to go. In the way of buildings during this period we can mention two large additions to the Adminis- tration Building and the addition to Science Hall. A new men ' s dormitory, named in honor of Grover C. Hayden, was completed and an- other is on the drawing boards and will be ready soon. The Student Center and the Cafeteria were completed and the Den, formerly housed in the Administration Building, gave way to new offices and classrooms, The new gymnasium was completed; the Training School enlarged. The Girls ' Dormitory was remodeled and a new addi- tion started. The library took on a new wing, plus air-conditioning. Even the auditorium re- ceived new seats. 18