North Dakota State College of Science - Agawasie Yearbook (Wahpeton, ND)

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Pictorial Section Che Acjautasi'e SECTION NO. 1 WAHPETON. N. D. 1950 The Campus The North Dakota State School of Science, a school of vocational-technical education, as seen in this aerial view is located in Wahpcton, a city of 5,000 at the head of the Red River of the North and at the gateway to the world-famed Red River Valley. Beginning actual operation in 1003, Wahpoton Science, as the school is familiarly known, is nearly 50 years old and now is made up of three interacting departments: trade school, business school and junior college. The junior college is the second oldest public junior college in the United States and the first not operated in conjunction with a high school. The business school began operation in 1905. The trades school, founded in 1921, has become one of the best and most widely known schools of its type in the United States. Starting in the lower left-hand corner of the pic- tures and following the campus oval clockwise you see the cottages, girls' living quarters; Burch Hall, men’s dorm; Chemistry building: Old Main; Trades Annex and hangar: Main Trades building; Old Trades building: Campus Hub; Gymnasium; the Barracks, and the tennis courts. In the upper right-hand corner can be seen a portion of the trailer camp. The campus airport and athletic field are at the extreme top of the picture. The school has become famous throughout the United States for the success it has achieved in training young men and women to fill the needs of employers and communitcs in its own area. Its training programs have been developed with just one aim in mind: to provide the skilled technicians necessary for trade, business and industry in North Dakota. All training is based on the school’s slogan. ’’Where Students Learn By Doing” and textbooks take a back seat to shop and laboratory, work on jobs typical of those in which students will find employment.