Morgan State University - Promethean Yearbook (Baltimore, MD)

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Not teachers, not laboratories, not athletic field and game ; not fraternities, club , nor dance are what really matter most In higher education. The heart and spirit of a college or university is its library. It is the treasure house of the best that mankind has thought and done; it is the depository of the records of human achievements and failure . It i the locus of the life intellectual, where higher education really take place. For he who would be educated must educate himself. Morgan has provided for her student the best facility for higher education that she is able to afford. Soper Library, named in honor of former Board Chairman Judge Morris A. Soper, who gave 3-1 year of service to the College as a Trustee, had two new wing added in 1936-57 and was extensively renovated. The informal browsing area of the new Subject Reading Room on the second floor, a portion of which is shown above, coupled with the new partial open stack system, makes it easier for those who will to educate themselves. 1956-1957: Library Additions and Renovations 10

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 Nurse EUie B. Queen make» one of her patient more comfortable in Ward B of the Woolford Infirmary. Named in honor of Miss Harriet Woolford. class of 1913. the Infirmary bas facilities equal to those of a «mail city hospital. Alumna Woolford was a teacher and dormitory matron at the Virginia Collegiate and Industrial Institute, the Lynchburg. Virginia, branch of Morgan State College, which was in operation from 1891 to 1917. The girl»' dormitory wa destroyed by fire one freezing December night in 1917. Mi » Woolford. although drenched by water and cosered with ice, made repealed re-entric into the fiercely burning residence hall to awaken and lead to safety her sleeping or befuddled charges. A the result of her exposure to the combination of cold water and freezing temperature. Miss Woolford was taken ill with pneumonia and died December 19, 1917. She wa perhaps Morgan's first “Second Miler.” 1955-1956: Woolford Infirmary 9

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J During «he current academic year I he Department of Military Science and Tactic» moved all it» activities except those of the rifle range into the recently completed Soldier» Armory, the structure being dedicated to the 8,543 Free State Negroes who fought in the Civil War. The Armory will make it possible for the department to raise its already high level of achievement in the training of Morgan » swelling male enrollment. Thi year the department ha had 525 students, the largest number since the Morgan ROTC unit wa organized July 9, 1948. The picture on this page wa» taken in December, 1957, when the department held open house in the Soldiers Armory-. Clockwise from the back row are Col. Minot. PMS T, Loyola College; Lt. Col. Barnes, Assistant District Engineer. Maryland area; Col. Luckcn bach, G3 Sector, 2nd Army. Fort George Meade; Cap!. Dudley, Assistant PMS T, The John» Hopkins University; Lt. Col. Johnson. PMS T. Morgan State College; President Jenkins and Mrs. Jenkins; Col. Keefe, Maryland-Di»trict of Columbia Sector Commander. 1957-1958: Soldiers Armory 11