Missouri Southern State University - Crossroads Yearbook (Joplin, MO)

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The Joplin Junior College is located at Fourth and Byers Avenue. On the first floor are three class rooms and student lockers. On the second floor are the offices of the Dean and his secretary, the office of the Registrar, the library, the audi¬ torium-gymnasium, and class rooms. On the third floor are the laboratories, the machines rooms, and other class rooms.

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OF THE STUDENTS OF JOPLIN JUNIOR COLLEGE, JOPLIN, MISSOURI

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The Joplin Junior College opened September 6, 1938, in its own building at Fourth and Byers Avenue, but classes for approximately one hundred students had been held in the Joplin High School building during the academic year of 1937-1938. These classes were conducted by eight instructors who taught under the direct guidance and supervision of the University of Missouri. These faculty members were Martha Mc¬ Cormick (Mathematics) ; Edna Drummond (Botany and Zoology) ; Ada Coffey (English) ; Eugene Henn¬ ing (Spanish) ; John Sommerville (Chemistry) ; T. Frank Coulter (Chorus) ; Armel Dyer (Track) ; E. O. Humphreys (Football) ; and H. E. Blaine, Dean. At the beginning of the second semester, Mr. De Ford of Miami, Oklahoma was added to this first faculty to teach history. By the fall of 1938 the enrollment had grown so great that it was necessary for the young junior college to move into a separate building. The old high school building at Fourth and Byers Avenue was remodeled, redecorated, and opened to three hun¬ dred and twenty enrollees, with H. E. Blaine as its first Dean and with a faculty of twenty-three members. The college now comprises the following divisions: College of Arts and Science, Col¬ lege of Terminal Commercial Education, College of Vocational Education, and College of Terminal Vocational Education. Dean H. E. Blaine devoted ten years of enthusiastic and zealous service to the junior college. When he retired in June, 1947, the Joplin Junior College honored him at the annual alumni banquet and presented him with a gift. Blaine Hall, which was dedicated November 1, 1946, was named in honor of him. The Junior College is directed and sponsored by the Board of Education; hence the Superintendent of Schools acts also as the President of Joplin Junior College. The first president was E. A. Elliott whose administration extended from September 1938 to March 1943, when he resigned to accept a position as a Director of Education in Germany. Roi S. Wood, the second president of Joplin Junior College assumed his duties March 1943. Under his administration, the college has acquired G.I. City, the Franklin Vo¬ cational School, and Blaine Hall, which houses the college cafeteria, the Lion ' s Den, and workshops for the Chart and the Crossroads. H. E. BLAINE Page 5