Rocky Mountain College - Yellowstone / Poly Yearbook (Billings, MT)

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HtiUrif ojf the School Thirty-nine years ago two young educators, Lewis T. Eaton and his brother, Ernest T. Eaton, became possessed with the dream to give to the neglected youth of the Northwest their chance for a training in life. Failing to secure the necessary financial assistance for buildings from philanthropists, they inspired a group of young men who were longing for a higher education to join them in building a college. In the summer of 1909, in a sugar beet field near Billings, Montana, these ambitious youths cleared off the beets with a farm team, exca- vated the ground for an institution which would meet their educational needs and those of hundreds more to come after them. Founded as a School of the Open Door, it maintained vocational and academic courses of an elementary and secondary nature, filling the needs of the frontier region then served. In 1922 the Technical School became fully accredited as a distinct unit. In 1934 the four-year liberal arts college was instituted. In 1947 there was a merger of Polytechnic Insti- tute and Intermountain Union College under the new name chosen by the students — Rocky Mountain College. Rocky Mountain College, virtually alone in this vast northwestern mountain and plains country, affords the opportunity for Christian Higher Education. It now proudly presents a fully accredited college of liberal arts, a superbly equipped school of technology, and with the transfer of our Business College to the main campus a complete course of business administration and secretarial science. Completing our college are the evening classes which include Spanish, taught by Mrs. Elliott; German, by Mrs. Hugo Anderson; dramatics, by Mrs. Carl Carter; art, by Mr. Harry Hazard; and visual education and mathematics by Mr. Robert Hamilton.