Pittsburg State University - Kanza Yearbook (Pittsburg, KS)

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G RGC!! 614 . . . Page 23 The campus today bears little resemblance to the campus in August, 1914. Then, Russ Hall was being restored, but it was still a mass of blackened ruins. The Industrial Arts building was the only usable brick building on the campus. just east of it stood the cafeteria, made of boards, covered with roll roofing. Just east of the cafeteria stood the barn-like auditorium, consisting chiefly of ship-lap and 2 x 43s, and covered, roof and sides, ia la cafeteria. But from the stage in that auditorium Schumann-Heinck's Danny Boy sounded as entrancing and charming as if it had been rendered in marble halls. From that stage came worthwhile school plays and the Messiah, and there public speakers denounced the machinations of Germany and made patriotic appeals as effective as Congressmen in the Capitol. Prexy tried to get the faculty to sit on the stage during the Chapels. As I sat in the back row, admiring the architectural beauty of the rafters, I often tried to figure out how many tons of baled hay I could store in the auditorium, if I owned it, and had the hay. The football field was between the Mine Rescue building and the Industrial Arts building. There was one cleaning and pressing plant in town, cash and carry, S1.50 for a suit. There was not a beauty parlor in Crawford County. I know, I hunted them, I needed their services, then. When there was no strike, the street cars ran to Girard, Columbus, Joplin, Croweburg and other far away places. And they were quite often on time. The students waited with good humor for the cars, filling in the time by describing the antics of Charley Chaplin and humming or whistling Over There, Mis- souri Waltz, or 'fSympathy. And the street car that ran to Joplin was a big coach, every hour and a quarter, and it was usually full, on the return trip. A special train carried the students to Noel for a picnic, 51.00 R. T. During and immediately following the first World War, the faculty was a group of peregrinating pedagogues. It was not uncommon for a professor to meet his regular schedule of classes on the campus during the day, then travel to Weir for a class Monday evening, to Columbus on Thursday evening and on Friday evening to Ft. Scott, Coffeyville or Iola, and on Saturday to a class in Osage City or Kansas City. I usually spent Sunday afternoon and evening at Home. Every year the trees on the campus are a year older, the list of the alumni is a little longer, the bricks in the walls are a year older, and so is the faculty. But the student body enjoys perennial youth-it never grows old. PROFESSOR O. F. GRUBBS

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Hikes men . .. X ,gr- www? 1 . june Henthoz-ne, board of publicationsg joyce Colas, sec- retaryg Louise Baker, student counciI,' Pat Bally, presidentg Wendall Hoover, treasurer. Patricia Bally Bill Neighbors Jimmie Scalet Lois Hall Louise Burcham C. H. Schecker Jim Brown Lenore Hamm Julie Lee Paris Rex Graham Margaret Charlton Leah Knox Page 24