San Francisco State University - Franciscan Yearbook (San Francisco, CA)

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70 ca eazaaa . Plans for this expansion were under way when he died. of the school. In the two brief years that he held office he saw the completion of the gymnasium and the ground breaking ceremonies on the science building that was to bear his name. Dr. Anderson died in 1927 a short time after he was named presif dent, having an acting president's status prior to 1927. Dean Mary A. Ward assumed the presidential chair for a period of two months and relinquished it to Doctor Alexander Crippen Roberts in Sep' tember, 1927. Anderson Hall was rushed to completion and the dedicatory exercises were held in January of 1928. Dedication found Dr. Roberts just a trifle nervous. It was his first oflicial act as President of the College. Tracing back to 1921 the story of San Francisco State really begins. Prior to that time it was merely San Francisco State Normal School and was conf sidered as such. In 1921 the Legislature created the State Teachers Colleges with three year courses. In 1930 the four year course was instituted. Nineteen twenty one saw further advancements. The kindergarten department was organized into the kindergartenfprimary department and in 1923 the college was authorized to grant credentials in that and the elementary fields. Further credentials were added as time went on. San Francisco was now the metropolitan city. The great bridges were still a topic for discussion and the War Memorial Buildings were still on paper. Mayor James Rolph Jr. was sporting his high heel boots and boasting on how much higher the City Hall dome was than that of the Capitol in Washington. THE ADMINISTRATION building of the college as it stcmds today. College I-lull hcis been condemned os cr fire- trczp cmd is one of the structures to go if the building corn- pcrign is successful. The year 1930 saw the opening of the Frederic Burk School. This department of the college gained national recognition. The opening of Frederic Burk gave impetus to the drive that saw the start of the present building campaign. San Francisco State seemed to be the weak sister of the seven state colleges. The promises for buildf ings were often made and never kept. In 1931 the plan to move the college to an Ingleside location was broached. The apathy with which the legislaf ture and governor greeted the idea brought its sudden death. The year 1931 saw the demolition of the old Administration building and the renovation of College Hall. The year 1931 saw the start of the Golden Cater. In reality the Golden Cater was the outgrowth of the old Bay Leaf into an eight column paper. October of 1933 brought the first real crisis in the campaign for new buildings. The report of the fPage Eighteenl

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7ke ma aww . Lusty San Francisco was in the midst of Civil War fervor when the State of California opened the first teacher training institute within her gates. Lusf ty San Francisco was too interested in the fight be' tween the states and the fight to keep California within the Union to care much for the infant school that was starting in the city. Little heed was taken when Governor John G. Downey signed the measure that legislated the first State Normal School west of the Rockies into ex' istence. The infant school had its troubles. Politics beset it and finances were not strong enough for its continued existence. After a few years it was moved to San Jose. The year 1875 saw the start of the second teacher training venture in San Francisco. The city was settling down from the effects of the Civil War agif tation and was starting a campaign against Chinese Immigration. The second attempt was purely municf ipal in scope and was started at the Girl's High School as a post graduate course. Apparently the city fathers thought San Francisco should have the advantages offered in the little hamlet of San jose and so started the post graduate course at the high school. This existed until 1899 when the present State College was founded. California and San Francisco in particular were wrapped up in the excitement incidental to the Span' ish American War. San Francisco had gone through the hectic years that marked the eighties. The Carf men's strike had been settled and due homage had been paid to that Royal Hawaiian Kalakua who died in San Francisco. The shooting of judge David Terry had been forgotten and the city was looking to the new century. The Midwinter Exposition had been closed and the visit of President Benjamin Harrison was past history. fPageSeventeen1 I .GN wig iw 4 I i Xitrgjfrx-if lx i K, I i - r .rib 'J X . Thus what is now San Francisco State College came into existence during the hectic years at the turn of the century. The second school was to perch on the crest of Powell Street. Little is known of the early years of that institution. With the fire and earthquake came destruction of the Powell Street building and disruption of the Normal School. Dr. Frederic Burk took hold after the 1906 catastrophe and the college was moved to its present site. An old negro church was converted into the library for the normal school and College Hall was erected. Two opinions prevail as to College Hall. One source says that it was a temporary measure and the other declares that it was the Hnestischool building in the West at the time of its erection. Frederic Burk guided the college until his death in 1925. The Winnetka system of instruction was given to the educational world as the product of this man. He visioned a separate administration building and a new training school and gymnasium. RUINS OF the Powell Street building of the ecrrly college. ln the background can be seen the old Ferry lower. The picture Wcxs lciken crfier Ihe fire ond earthquake of 1906. .F i. rx MA - Q li7i ?-iTi1i-ig :-i1l l.il in1171lSi 1L lp

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'Qf . I , H 'I . , l. L1 DR. ALEXANDER C. ROBERTS President of the College Bureau of Fire Prevention and Public Safety was released. The inspectors of the department wrote the following opinion: The Administration Build' ing is entirely too dangerous to be used for school purposes. Past fires in school buildings of similar construction have verihed our opinion. ln a sup' plementary report made three years later the inf spectors had the following to say about the laxity of State officials in rebuilding College Hall: Very little, if any concerted action has been taken to correct the existing hazardous conditions in this group of buildings. The annexes were built in 1934 to care for the overflow of students. Twentyfhve thousand dollars were spent on these buildings that had, according to the Golden Cater, lighting, heat and ventila- tion that is all modern and eflicientf' San Francisco State College came into existence in 1935 . With the dropping of the traditional teacher's from the name came an expansion of the liberal arts curricula. Written in its entirety the story of the college is more than the mere chronicling of events. It is the history of the people who make up the college. fpage Nineteen I Eilie McFadden has written her part. When she rounds out thirtyfeight years of service as a faculty member in May, it will be with the thought that she has aided in the growth of the college. Educated at the Los Angeles State Normal School, she later took graduate work at the Univerf sity of California and completed work for her Bachelor of Arts Degree at Stanford University. She started her career in the Held of education in the rural and urban elementary schools of the State. Later she was City Supervisor of Elementary Science for the Cakland School system and then came to San Francisco State College when it was San Francisco State Normal School. Her tribute lies in the multitude who are honored by her friendship. Each year adds a little more to the college name. When Edward Morgan started his trek southward to attend the Pacific Student President's Associaf tion convention in Los Angeles in the Spring of 1936 little did he realize that within a year the student body president of San Francisco State Colf lege would hold the high post in that organization. Little did Colden Cater Editor William Buchan realize the evident value of the S180 spent on the four day jaunt, when he made sensational charges of graft. In the spring of 1937 the groundwork as laid down by Morgan began to show results. Wilf liam J. J. Smith became president of the P.S.P.A. and will preside when the convention meets in Seattle in May. Member colleges include the Uni' versity of Washington, Washington State, Cregon and the like. Each year adds a new crisis to the building situaf tion as well. February saw record rainfall flood through the cracks and crevices in the roof of Col' lege Hall and make classes an impossibility. Anti'