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

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I. I, '51 if Faeully memher: and patronr af lhe Jehool gaiher informalb on the porch of lhe old hoarding house .... Comfortahb' Victorian wa: lhe .felling of the dean of women'.v room, in Wheeler Hall in lhase earbv days .... Times and custamr may have changed, but then as well as now, the pietzzre: have it, in a girl': dormitory room .... Speaking of the candid ramera, here ix what it mighi have taken for the PRAECEPTOR fealure .feetion-had there been a PRA!-:cEP'roR in lhose day: .... Time: have little allered this .felling-where the .rtudentx gather informally and exchange hit: of gossip to Ihe tune of elinking dishes. THE SAME YEAR marked, in the addition 'of CASWELL A, BAL- LA1rD to the science faculty, the beginning of an influence which has been felt throughout all of the thirty-eight years since. Serving the Normal School and Teachers College longer than any other person, Mk. BALLARD has chosen this Golden Anniversary year to announce his retirement, and there will be a host of associates and former students to do him honor. MEANWHILE THE SCHOOL was recording progress. Additions were being made to Old Main to provide more room. The Model School for student teaching was completed in 1908. Comstock Hall, second dormitory for women, was erected in 1911. Weld Hall followed in 1915. Entrance requirements were raised, and a iifth year above the level of the eighth grade was added to the curriculum. IN ATHLETICS, a football team, sans coach, defeated North Dakota State College 5 to 0 in 1900. The Owl fraternity was formed in 1900, to be followed by two active literary societies and a debating society, the Witches, later the Pi Mu Phi sorority, in 1905, the Y. W. C. A. in 19075 and, Gamma Neche, later Gamma Nu sorority, in 1909. The Normal Rea' Leiter, a news magazine, flourished in the first decade of the century. In those days the annual class play was an event of importance to the entire community as well as to the school. CHAPEL C1-10111 AND ORCHESTRA were well established

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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.

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Proud of their lille as ehampions, was this, one of the frst football teams of the Moorhead Normal School. Back row: L. LARSON, Juuus SKANG, HENRY BODKIN, H. M. STANFORD, and ERIC AHLSTROM. Middle row: WALTER WRIGHT, GEORGE BARNES, HENRY BoBs'r, E. M. ASKEGAARD, A. H. ASKEGAARD. Front row: WALTER BUTLER, GOTTHELD EASTLUND, HERBERT HANsoN, and CURTIS POMEROY .... Way bdek, when everyone go! ducks-even the faculbl members .... 7udging by their wide smiles, they must have been champs, these comeb' basketball players. I before the World War. The first Praeceptor came in 1916 and has been an annual publication ever since. Men in khaki featured the 1917 edition of the yearbook. Students knitted for 'the soldiers in classes and on Sundays in those stirring days. On the school service flag there are eighty stars, representing as many young men to go ffom its portals. Two are gold stars for those who made the supreme sacrilice. SHORTLY AFTER THE WAR, DR. WELD was succeeded by DR. OLIVER M. DICKERSON fI9I9,. It was during the latter's administration, in 1921, that the name was changed by legislative enactment from Normal School to State Teachers College, and from that time all sub-collegiate courses were dropped from the curriculum. The teachers colleges were authorized to offer courses leading to a standard college degree in education. THE COMING or DR. R. B. MACLEAN to the presidency in 1923 marks the latest and in many ways the most im- portant era of development in the College. Shortly after that time the first degree student was graduated, and in 1928 teachers colleges in Minnesota were made authorized agencies for the training of all types of public school