Mississippi State University - Reveille Yearbook (Starkville, MS)

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• • a t MISSISSIPPI Lady Students sary seals are being used on off-campus mail; a thirty by six foot anniversary ban- ner will be displayed at public celebra- tions. An alumnus of the college, Senator John C. Stennis, spoke at the a nnual spring meeting of the Alumni Association March 21 . At the spring commencement May 24 and 25, a distinguished alumnus, Turner Catledge, managing editor of the New York Times, delivered the baccalaureate address. With three quarters of a century be- hind it, the college is looking ahead to even greater service as it moves toward its one hundredth birthday. Foreshadowing the challenge to come are the record numbers of children in the elementary schools of Mississippi. Those who study birth rates and predict future enrollments warn college administrators The Faculty ! {ffS r« i •■ „ , ' ■

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„ PROGRESS riculture, Experiment Station, and Exten- sion Service into a single team effort. The 1952 Legislature appropriated funds for the construction of a chemical engineering building, the first of three proposed units for chemistry-related uses. The State Building Commission allocated $120,000 for the completion of a high voltage laboratory in the Patterson Engi- neering Laboratories. The AmericcinH-foteWAStitute, a na- tional progj tlmf O e Hon for ho- tel employe w estab he4J h head- quarter rhe campus. m£ cajfepe seed labora ory was desianated as the southern Regiojf Th vide s initio was est honor tho strated outstd pro- h an i»mp Day ent to demon- ip ability. William Flowers Hand, The Life and Philosophy of a Mississippi Educator and Scientist, was published by the college. Ben Hilbun is the author. Dr. John K. Bettersworth completed the manuscript for the history of Mississippi State Col- lege, which is expected off the press in May, 1953. The Diamond Jubilee of Progress cele- bration was officially opened February 10 with Governor ' s Day on the campus, when a large crowd heard Governor Hugh White extoll the college. A special anniversary exhibit was shown at the Mississippi Education Asso- ciation meeting March 18-20. Anniver-

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STATE The M Club that the flood of young people who will be demanding a college education ten year s hence will greatly surpass the tidal wave of World War II veterans that swamped the campus in 1946. Coupled with this approaching on laboratory and classroom spa ever-increasing demand for services and more scientific res buildings already high on th list to take care of present elude a School of Business b dent dormitories, a Student Alumni House, a Chemistry an Regulatory Building, Experimen buildings, a Food Preservation an Processing building, and a Biology B ing annex. Plans for the future also call for ad- ditional academic offerings by the college faculty. These include expansion of train- ing for elementary education, a broader program of graduate education, an un- aduate curriculum in homemaking iyhon, and the establishment of a de- Sprlit ainrspf music and a curriculum in radio. worth concludes his history with these words: Missis- liege has become a univer- if not by law; for its role in ' the state has become so ex- aried and the needs of the in- classes for which it was created Itifarious, that there can be no turn- ing back. mmmmb i00sm mmii 3p¥S E55 r Z- XSi SM S