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

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PAGE THE 19S0 AGAWASIE Campus Entrance Dominated By Towers Of Old Main Looking north down Wnhpeton's sixth street and through the brick gateposts at the State School of Science entrance, the towers of picturesque Old Main rise at the center of the campus. The Chemistry building is located directly to the left of Old Main, with Burch Hall at the extreme left. The neat arrangement of the buildings around the campus oval makes any point on the campus convenient from most any other point. Recently a campus expansion plan has been drawn up to give organization to additional campus building. One of the main features of the campus plan is the addition of a new boulevard drive entering the campus from Fourth street on the East and the changing of the present campus ovnl to a boulevard drive. Girls' Cottages Known For Homey Atmosphere Just ask any of the 700 men on campus and they'll confirm your beliefs that these two houses. West and Center cottages, possess the homiest atmosphere of all dorm facilities on the campus. The two cottages provide modern living quarters with home-like touch. They are supplemented by Cottage Court, a four-apartment building which is a modern experiment in campus housing. The cottages arc under the supervision of the Dean of Women who makes her home in Center cottage. In the past the cottages have had a versatile background as campus housing units. During World War II. they went to war along with other parts of the school serving as quarters for Navy personnel stationed on campus and early in the war. as living quarters for campus males. “Just ask the 700 men...

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THE 1950 AGAWASIE PAGE 3 Burch Hall Is Home To Over 100 Campus Men Throughout Year At the left upon entering Un-campus stands Burch Hall, which over 100 men call their home while attending Wahpcton Science. As shown in this winter scene, the men's dorm is a Ihree-storv brick structure which furnishes large, comfortable rooms and excellent accomodations for those men. Dorm life is an important phase of the campus life. Associations among students formed during Burch Hall days are often lasting ones. Kvery night the walls of the building resound with evidences that life is far from dull for the students who call the dorm, •■home.” In one room you'll find a group of young men engaged in the all important bull session discussing anything and everything from atomic bombs to atomic blondes. In another corner will be a friendly game of cards with plenty of onlookers. Cliff Johnson and his guitar may be holding forth in still another room with the hushy voices of a hastily gathered quartette giving words to the songs he plays. Another time these same rooms may be the scene of some ardent cramming for a final exam or some hasty work on a last minute assignment. All of these spell Burch Hall. Chemistry Building Houses Labs Of Three Science Departments In the northwest corner of the campus we find the chemistry building. This is one of the older buildings that has been completely modernized throughout. On the first floor is a modern and well-equipped physics lab ami lecture room. On the second lloor are the biology and chemistry laboratories. The building is equipped with alternating and direct current: gas: compressed air: hot and cold water and has a vacuum line in each laboratory. The three laboratories have over $30,000 in equipment. In these laboratories is where we find many students spending tiring hours of study finding a definition for matter or dissecting frogs trying to see what makes them tick. In the chemistry lab students are tinkering with acids and test lubes, all anxious to see which one will be the first to blow the roof of this famous building. famous for having withstood the ravages of three generations of classes and still being able to stand on its own foundation. Although the building is probably used by fewer students than most any other instruction building o.i campus, it holds special memories for most every student who has had occasion to make use of its facilities. Maybe it’s the odor of a particularly potent chemistry experiment, the noise of a physics problem in sound or the not-too-close-to- linner, please aspect of some of the biology experiments, but it will always hold down a special spot in the college days memories of those students of science.

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THE 1950 AGAWASIE PAGE 5 Winter Is A Season Of Beauty At SSS To a North Dakotan winter is more or-less taken for granted, but to visitors from warmer climates the Dakota winter is a subject of fascination. Does it actually get 10 below?” Do snow banks get as high as houses? How do you stand those blizzards ? and similar questions are common. But to anyone who has been away from the Dakotas for a few winters, the season of the snow is more than just a few months of bad weather. The camera frequently brings this point forceably home to us. Since most of the photography for the Agnunxir is. of necessity, a winter project, snow scenes fill the files. Here are a group of them, selected at random, that proves the point that the campus has a distinctive beauty in the winter as well as during the “green months. In the first picture to the right is the Red River of the North under a blanket of snow. The famed Red wends its way northward just a couple of blocks cast of the campus — providing a natural boundary line between North Dakota and Minnesota. Along the Red is Wahpetons modern Chahinkapa park, providing recreation facilities of all types. During winter months, students make use of its large skating rinks. Its baseball stadium is home to the Wildcats diamond teams: its picnic grounds are popular with student groups, with the added color of the zoo. rock garden and miscellaneous recreation facilities. During other seasons the swimming pool, the football stadium, softball diamonds, tennis courts, band concerts and other facilities are popular with students. Campus golfers cast an anxious eye on the new links nearing completion. The Science gymnasium (second picture) is located on the right upon entering the campus. Two stories high, it serves the dual purpose of athletic court and auditorium. Above the basketball lloor is a cork-faced running track which is used for conditioning athletes and for indoor exercise. The first lloor of the building provides showers and other accommodations for both men and women and has a general recreation room. A new field house, to be built this summer, will bring many changes to the gymnasium, including the conversion of its basketball court into a permanent auditorium. Picture number three demonstrates how the towers of Old Main command the countryside. The perennial evergreen stands out significantly on the snow-covered ground in a typical North Dakota winter scene. Moving closer to the school we meet the campus trailer camp face-to-face. Married students and their families find permanent living quarters in the trailer camp at the east end of the campus. The camp also has facilities for students who wish to move their own trailers onto the campus.