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

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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

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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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nu at 'the fi'illillZ irvmuzez-'i4x,'s.i1NslggIias,'1?I1iq,-4T' g , ' teachers from the kindergarten through the senior high school. Year by year the curriculum has been enriched, the latest develop- ment being the shifting of all professional studies required for the degree to the senior college level, leaving the junior college years to deal with standard college or university courses of a cultural type. The faculty grew steadily until it reached its present size. Rural schools were affiliated with the College to make training facilities complete. Moorhead, in fact, has always led in the field of rural teacher training. EXTRA-CURRICULAR ACTIVITIES-national, professional, honorary organizationsg college newspaperg band and other musical groupsg the Student Council, shortly to evolve into the Commission+most: of these either were instituted or grew approximately into their present form during the decade of the I92O,S. THEN CATASTROPHE, or what seemed like catastrophe, descended. On the night of February 9, 1930, Old Main, which had grown into commodious dimensions-a structure of architectural distinc- tion if not of modern beauty-was destroyed by fire, carrying down ' ' ' M ' ' '-'TSP' DIDO Coming to Moorhead thirty-eight years ago, is ii-:iz viumi-x Mn. C. A, BALLARD has followed with interest the school's growth and development .... Mas. GRACE GOODSELL, -who knows a great deal about the growth of the school, first as a student and late. as a faculgf member .... Recalling many interesting incidents in the evolution of the Moorhead Teachers College is the privilege of Miss :KATHERINE LEONARD. . . . Calling to mind the day-when the play was the thing is this picture of Miss MAUDE HAYES, who has contributed much to the literary distinction ofthe College .... Former 1 faculgf members of M. S. T. C. gather for a reunion on the campus of Eastern Illinois S. T. C. Left, J. PAUL Goomz, center, DR. Loimg right, FRANCES WHEELER Lvrz .... Facalg' members and friends gather at the Fair Hills cottage of the Prices'. Mn. MACKALL, Hunojicial historian of the College is on the extreme right .... Did you take this for a . - -.7 V . - copy of The Gleanersn? If so, you were not far wrong. Y! was posed by students of the art department to represent that 'well-known A '- ' ' f - L masterpiece .... Miss ETHEL TAINTER, at -, ,3 is-fn s.m,n.y I X 1,l'IH-' VI .XSS illli A11fi.IS ' ' V 4' present head of the dramatics department, in Lg ..,,1fQf, ':'wu1f1ft , 'Q the role of Dido, one of her many dramatic V ' appearances.