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

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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.

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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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PRESIDENT R. B. MACLEAN, who guided the affairs of the College succesjully through the trying days of lhe fre and reconstruetion. with it the old Model School and the library, and severely damaging the central heating plant. Only Weld Hall and the dormitories were left. UNDER PRESIDENT MACLEAN,S resourceful leadership, however, and with the enthusiastic support of alumni, students, and faculty, classes were reorganized, temporary classrooms were carved out of every available niche, and, order once again came out of chaos. It was under these difficult conditions that faculty and student body carried on for two years until in May, 1932, the great rebuilding program for which the state had appropriated Z765,ooo, was completed. THIS BRIEF ACCOUNT necessarily omits mention of many who have contributed greatly to make the College what it is. Those who served unselfishly as resident directors, however, we cannot omit. They include MR. Coivrsrocx, THOMAS C. KURTZ AND GEO. N. LAMPHERE C92-'99, MR. CGM- STOCK C96-'ggjg CARROLL A. NYE COO-,O3Jg MR. CoMs'rocK C04-'o7Jg MR. NYE and L. A. HUNTOON CO8-,IIDQ MR. HUNTOON and C. G. DOSLAND C12-'igjg LESLIE WELTER C16-'I9Dg MR. WELTER and DR. O. J. HAGEN V20-23,55 DR. HAGEN C24-'gljg and DR. G. L. GossLEE C'32-'37l- WE ARE LOATI-I to close also without tribute to another man who, though never connected with the College in an oH'icial capacity, was probably acquainted intimately with more faculty members, past and present, than anyone else-- the un- official historian of the College and beloved pioneer citizen-BENJAMIN F. MAGKALL, who passed away April'I9, 1935. TODAY THE COLLEGE stands upon the threshold of a new era of usefulness to the Commonwealth of Minnesota. Majestic even in ruins was Old Main, as only the outlines of the three traditional arches stood the day after the fire of 1930 .... Construction days hegan soon after the fire-toward the building ofa larger and more modern edueutionol center .... Smiling and happy qre these three young students as they catch a glimpse ofthe new Moorhead Teachers College whieh was to he .... DR. G. L. Goss LEE, resident director of the Teach- ers College, to whom helongs some of the credit for the present-day institution.