Minnesota State University Moorhead - Praeceptor Yearbook (Moorhead, MN)

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A town of colleges, Moorhead today is also proud of Concordia and all that it stands for Looking down Center Avenue, we ealeh zz glimpse of Moorhead as we know it today. . . . Anxious for the wefore of its young men and women, Moorhead boasts of thfs modern semor high school A new structure is the ug' Armory, where each Monday night can he found college men at guard drill. normal, or Crookston, which was actively interested but which was outmaneuvered by MR. CoMsToc1c's tactical ability and his con-tribution of six acres of land for a campus. Later M11 .Coivrsrocx served as member of the Normal School Board and of the University Board of Regents, and lived to see the campus take its present shape with the completion of the great rebuilding program of 1931-32. His daughter, DR. ADA LOUISE, was graduated from the Normal School, and now, as president of Radcliffe college and one of America's most dis- tinguished women, returns to her Alma Mater to deliver the Golden Anniversary Commencement address. Thus the spirit of this far-sighted pioneer, Father wr the College, lives on. ESTABLISHED by the legislature in 1887, the Normal was ready to function in the autumn of 1888, and when the lone janitor proudly' opened the doors to Old Main, most com- modious and handsome structure of the Northwest, in walked twenty-nine students and a faculty of four, at the head of which was DR. LIVINGSTON C. LORD. ALL WHO KNEW DR. LORD, and particularly those who came under his influence at the Moorhead Normal, testify to the inspiring nature of the man, his unremitting energy, his strict attention to the business at hand and his insistence upon the same attention in others. You could have heard a pin drop, early graduates say of the daily chapels which he conducted. But he was a friend to all, and his influence comprehended i not only the Normal School, but the state as well. No history of education .in Minnesota is complete without reference to this fine scholar and cultured gentleman. ' '

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, ,. ,. ., ,,.,., Wheeler hall in honor of the beloved first preceptress of the College, FRAN- cEs G. WHEELER CLUTZJ. The life at Wheeler Hall is pleasant to an unusual degree in such an institution, said the St. Paul Pioneer Press on August 19, I 89 5. Present day studentsrwho expect to see MRS. LUTZ for the first time when she returns for the Golden Anni- versary, will be interested in the- fact that until 1917 the daily schedule included rising at 6z45, chapel, closing exercises, calisthenics every day, and classes from eight to six. The precep- tress had complete control of evenings out. Dormitory doors were locked at three Sunday afternoons for all to write home, and total darkness de- scended daily at IO:I5 p. m. . BUT THERE WERE variations-the delight of stolen hours making coffee by candleglow, weekly talent programs or rhetoricals of an evening, a Vic- toria in Wheeler, and even a May Day festival and queen. 1899 SAW THE INAUGURATION of DR. FRANK A. WELD as president, to take over the work relinquished by DR. LORD and carry on through a rounded two decades-important formative years in the life of the institution. Broad and understanding sympathy, an unaffected dignity, 'painstaking devotion to the art of expression, and a scholarly interest in literature wer: the outstanding characteristics of -this Two cay young coeds look -wisyully-probably for the one man on the campus in llzose days .... Lucky young man-and plucky too. Presenting the jirst proud graduating class of the Moorhead Normal 08901. Standing left to right, JULIA BEGLANDQ GER- TRUDE BELL: HENRY DICKEYJ JUNA EDDYQ CLARA MATsoN. Seated, LOUISE MERRl'FTf ANNA WAGNERQ ANNA HANCOCK .... A group offacully members- 1897-1898. Upper row, lqft to right-Mxss HANCOCKQ' Miss MCELLIGOTT, MR. HENRY JOHNSON, Miss EVERHART, and MR. GooDE. Lower row-Miss FoRD, Miss WHEELER, Miss, ALICE, and MRS. BARTHOLE .... Retiring this year, after thirty-eight years of devoted service, CAswELL A. BALLARD leaves a host of friends and admirers ..,. Remembered as a devotee of good literature, we .ree DR. FRANK A. WELD, second college president, in a characteristic pose. mang and his cultural influence on the school has been a persistent one.