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' ' S V. m Out of Cottonfields On Nov. 23, 1931, the journalism club premiered The Tiger Rag, the school ' s first newspaper. In 1941, West Tennessee State Normal School became Memphis State College due to increasing accreditation and becoming a four year institution. In 1957, the course was continued with a change to Memphis State University after the first graduate level course was offered in 1950. In 1962, doctoral programs were first offered. That was also the year the ent ire May 26 graduation ceremony was broadcast on WKNO- MSU History
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Flying out the window is Tiger spirit as displayed by these women in Rawls Hall. Dorms are the witness to many different scenes, from students in an assortment of pajamas whose sleep is interrupted by 3 a.m. firedrills to the common spring scene of bodies basking in Ithe sun. (Photo form thel Press Scimitar archives, courtesy of MVC) A Passing Parade
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TV, which was a part of the Public Broadcast Network and was completely owned and operated by MSU. Then President Cecil C. Humphreys called it our baby. That broadcast also showed the first black to graduate from MSU, Luther C. McClellan. The next year the law school was approved. From then on there seemed to be no stopping Memphis State University. The Tigers charged on, obtaining coup after coup. When Thomas G. Carpenter became the 10th university president in 1980, he inherited an institution that had seen Barbara Jo Walker crowned the 1948 Miss America, Chucalissa Village preserve much of the native American heritage in the Memphis area beginning in 1961, The Tiger Rag change to The Daily Helmsman in 1972 and Claire Ford crowned Miss Black America in 1977, the Center for Egyptology became known worldwide under his media-hip guidance and the men ' s basketball team became a household word. Not bad for a school situated on Joseph H. Creath ' s old cotton field. Rod S. Hagwood Baring his teeth, Tiger mascot captures fan Beverly Jones in a tight hold. Appearances at a variety of activites such as this one in August, 1976, demands a lot of the person whose job is to capture and pass on the spirit of MSU. (Photo from the Press Scimitar archives, courtesy of MVC) A Passing Parade
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