Southwest Texas State Teachers College - Pedagog Yearbook (San Marcos, TX)

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Other important things were happening during the '20's, too. The name of the College officially became Southwest Texas State Teachers College in 1925. The Science Building, costing 3150,000, was erected in 1926, taking the place of the older building which had formerly occupied that spot. The Allie Evans Demonstration Cottage was added for the benefit of the Home Economics Department, which had started back in 1910 with 80 girls. The Industrial Arts Building was added to the Power Shop in 1924, the first Men's and W0n1en's Gymnasium built, and a 40-acre Demonstration Farm for agriculture students purchased. DEPRESSION YEARS Enrollment reached a peak in this period before the crash of 129. More than 2,000 students were registered here in the fall and spring terms of 1927 and 1928 but after that came the big decline. By 1955 only 701 students were registered the fall semester. The National Youth Administration put out a helping hand at this time. Under the campus direction of H. E. Speck, dean of men, as many as 300 students a month were given employment. Ap- plications poured in for jobs that paid from 25 to 30 cents an hour, and many a student worked his way through school in the depression years with the help of the nine to fifteen dollars he could earn under NYA. Main difficulty was finding legitimate jobs for everyone. Stu- dents mowed lawns, painted houses, compiled research papers. A host of student librarians provided book-seekers with the best and most rapid service ever seen on the Hill, and almost every teacher had a sccretary. Enrollment began to cimb again after the mid ,30's, and Dr. Evans' building program, helped by US grants, never slackened. The Atfditorium-Laboratory School was completed in 1929 at a cost of S145,000. The Boys, Gymnasium, finished in 1952, was enlarged and remodeled in 1937. That same year the Girls' Gymnasium was com- pleted at a cost of S65,000. The old Music Hall building was renovated and enlarged in 1958, and Southwest Texas State Teachers College got its first dormi- tories during these years. Sayers Hall, first occupied in 1936, and Harris Hall, which received its first men in 1957, were added to the C3mpuS. The building of dormitories on the campus had been approved by the Legislature in March, 1929, but it was not until the 1950's that money became avail- able at a reasonable rate of in- terest to permit construction. During the '50,s Cliffside, Pick- ard, Northside and Hines Halls for girls were opened, and Low- man Hall provided room for 30 members of the Hill athletic squad. The period of expansion be- gun during this period has nev- er slackened, except for war- time restrictions on building ma- terials. In 1942 Dr. Evans re- Ex-Student tired, after 51 years of faith- Senator Lyndon lohngon ful service. lSee Presidents of the College J. Events of the 19403, the war years, the decline of college en- rollments and the swift rise after war with the return of the HG. I.'s to the campus, the inauguration of the postwar building pro- gram, the passage of Gilmer-Aikin laws and their effect upon our entire public school system are too well known to justify lengthy description here. This story of growth will be seen by the ex-student visitor as MAIN ENTRANCE TO LIBRARY stands on the steps in front of historic Old Main and gazes over a hill that has suddenly sprouted new buildings its length and breadth. To mention all of the Southwest Texas State Teachers College exes who have won fame, would be a tremendous taskhand would require many more pages than appear in your 1952 Golden Anni- versary Pedagog. But the editors decided to scan old Pedagogs and Stars in an effort to compile a list of a few of our outstanding for- mer students. Everywhere we looked information relating to promi- nent exes was found. There was the 1915 PEDAGOG ad telling the word that Roy J. Beard and R. H. Montgomery were campus agents for Hollands, Ladies Home journal, and the Texas School Magazine. Now Roy's head of the Star Engraving Company and Dr. Montgomery, whose picture we also found as a member of the Hill track team, is a member of the University of Texas faculty along with Doctors Hob Gray, Clarence Alton Wfiley, Auline Raymond Schrank, and Alfred Wilson Nolle. Certainly the Gaillardians must be mentioned, declared the PEDAGOG searchers, and they hauled out the 1926 PEDAGOG, first year the annual favorites were picked. There were the pictures. Ray Dickson, Janie Ivey, Ben Brite, Vera Lee Cook, Geneva Lancaster,

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Brown finished the Normal as a senior', in 1910 and received a permanent teacher's certificate. Later, when a fifth year of work, approximately the present junior year, was added, Miss Brown came back to finish that and to receive another permanent certificate. With the authorization in 1916 of the Board of Regents making the Normal a senior college able to grant degrees, Miss Brown came back to the Hill and received her third permanent teaching certifi- cate. XWhat single woman could live down three permanent cer- tificates?', asks Miss Brown, who is now a member of the faculty at Texas A 8: I. By 1919 Miss Ruby Henderson had completed her first year of work as supervisor of the fifth and sixth grades in the Training School and started on a teaching career which was to earn her so many friends and admirers. Mrs. Gates Thomas, then Miss Lillian Johnson, was teaching her first Hill classes in art, and Miss Ethel Davis, who came to the Hill the year before, was assistant librarian. The History Department was strengthened with the addition in 1919 of Miss Retta Murphy, whose store of knowledge and sharp humor has delighted and still delights students. And Dr. Alfred H. Nolle, who was to do perhaps more than any other single person on the Hill to build and maintain high academic standards, not only for this college, but for other colleges and universities in the South and Southwest, joined the faculty. 4 NOLLE IOINS FACULTY Dr. Nolle, a 1915 graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, and the first doctor on the Hill, came to San Marcos in'September, 1919, as professor of foreign languages. In 1923 Dr. Nolle was ap- pointed Dean of the College, succeeding A. W. Birdwell, who had been elected president of Stephen F. Austin. Dean Nolle's worth to the College and to education in general may be measured partly by the positions entrusted to him. A member of the committee on Standards for the Association of Texas Colleges since 1942, he has been chairman of that committee since 1936. For two terms, 1944-46, he was president of the Association of Texas Col- leges and in 1940 was chosen as chairman of the Conference of Aca- demic Deans of the Southern States. He has never missed a meet- ing of the Texas College Association or of the Conference of Deans. The year after the war saw the beginning of the Bobcat band, 22 members strong under the direction of D. D. Snow. Its first greatxmoment came on March 12, 1921, when the band broadcast over the San Antonio Light radio station, closing the program with The Old Gray Mare. It was 1923 when director R. A. Tampke took over his duties and five years later the band received uniforms, ma- roon and gold with capes and caps, the band costume so many thou- sands of exes remember. ' THE REBELLIO US TWENTIES The 1920's were the rebellious years for students all over the na- tion. It was the day of the Charleston and It Ain't Gonna Rain No More. Flaming youth, flappers, Red Grange, Jack Dempsey, and Bobby Jones and Rudy Valle crooning My Time is Your Time. Sinclair Lewis was picturing American life and business in Main Street, and Babbitt. Here on the Normal campus at the end of the war the use of tobacco was still forbidden for both girls and- boys. Practically the entire student body was campused for threeidays when students, disobeying regulations, attended a dance that the Fire Department gave on the San Marcos Square. Boys and girls slipped away from the Hill to the Blue Moon, a downtown confectionary with a victorla hidden behind a bamboo screen. A football player and his girl friend were threatened with expulsion from school because he took the girl for an auto ride-with his family along as chaperones. Dr. Evans, when he proposed to let students dance after World War I, was cautioned to wait a while. He evidently had to wait quite a while as the first College dance was delayed until 1926. This entertainment milestone was held in the Boy's Gym and 72 couples attended. During this period swimming regulations also were relaxed. Clara Bow was the It girl of the movies but Hill students found time in 1928 to make a movie of their own. Called the San Marcos Shiek, it starred Eleanor Parke as heroine and Boody johnson as the hero. Other college students appearing in the pro- duction were Lynette Dailey, Annie Marie Barnes, Frances Parke, Lauris Serur, Cotton Brannum, Sloppy Shelton, Albert Harzke, and Lynn Cox. The movie was made by a Hollywood cameraman and shown to capacity crowds downtown. A host of now-familiar faculty faces first appeared on the cam- pus during the twenties and early thirties. With the celebration of the Golden Anniversary of the College these faculty members will all have completed 20 or more years -of service on the Hill. Lack of space forbid s the individual recognition they deserve. Faculty members and the schoolyear they joined the staff are: 1920-21 Miss Irma Bruce ' 1922-25 Dr. Carroll L. Key, Miss Georgia Lazenby, Dr. E. O. Wiley, Fred Kaderli 1923-24 H. M. Green, H. E. Speck, Dr. R. A. Tampke 1924-25 Miss Alma Lueders 1925-26 Miss Sue Taylor, Dr. David F. Votaw, Dr. L. N. Wright, Yancy P. Yarbrough 1926-27 J. R. Buckner, Dr. Leland E. Derrick, Tom Nichols, D. J. Lloyd Read 1927-28 Dr. Dorus A. Snelling, Miss Elizabeth Sterry 1928-29 R. R. Rush 1929-50 Mrs. Verna L. Deckert 1930-51 Dr. Claude Elliott, Dr. Buford W. Williams Charles S. Smith Alfred H. Noole

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PRESIDENT T. G. HARRIS Carrol Stevens, Lela Stulting, Ella Sorrel and Vane Terrell. But we didn't have room to congratulate all those favorites. His fiery editorials gained wide comment, said the 1928 PED- AGOG of one STAR writer. That same editorial writer and his part- ner, Elmer Graham, under the coaching of M. L. Arnold and H. M. Green, won a hard fought debate decision over a Huntsville team in 1928. And that same writer and debator, who was also to gain fame as the painter of the president's garage, is, of course, ex-social sci- ence major, now Texas Senator Lyndon Johnson. His remembrances are here with usfand so many others. Try it and see. There are nostalgic memories on every page of those old PEDAGOGS. His highest ambition is to edit the Normal STAR, said the PEDAGOG in 1911 of Fred Adams, now a suc- cessful Austin businessman. There's the cryptic notice I want a Smith but not a blacksmith, on the Chautauqua Literary Society roll beside the name of Henderson Coquat, now an eminent Texas citizen. Just to mention all the favorite sons and daughters of the Hill who can be remembered from PEDAGOG pictures and inscriptions woud require a sizable chunk of the Encyclopedia Britannica. The same with listing those who have become prominent after gradua- tion. There are all the men and women of the armed forces of two wars. Edward Gary, first ex-student to die, killed as Jap bombers swarmed over unprotected Clark Field on December 7, 1941. So many others. We can't even begin to thank all those exes who so graciously contributed time, help, and money to the College. The Student Union, the Evans Field Bleachers, the Memorial Organ are memori- als to the generosity of members of the Ex-Students Association. Should we concentrate this section on noted educators? A sur- prising number have come from Hill classes. Dr. Joe Roberts of the University of Rochester Medical School, president of the National Heart Association, Dr. David Votaw of Yale, Dr. Joe L. Berry, chairman of the Biology Department at Bryn Mawr, Carroll Key, di- rector of Electronic Research at Pennsylvania State, Sadie Ray Pow- ell, classroom teacher and former president of the Alamo District TSTAQ Dr. Paul Milam, dean of the School of Business Administra- tion, University of Arkansas, and . . . There are even a group of college presidents, Dr. Harm,on Lowman, president of Sam Houston State College, John F. Barron, president of Texas Southmost College, Brownsvilleg J. O. Loftin, president of San Anltonio College, Dr. Bryan Wildenthal, president of San Angelo College, R. P. Ward, president of Edinburg Regional College, R. S. Von Roeder, president of Southwest Texas Junior College, H. F. Springfield, president of Southern School of Fine Arts, Dr. Raymond M. Cavness, former president of Corpus Christi College, and of course the Hill's own Dr. J. G. Fowers. In government service you'll find C. H. Cavness, state auditor, legislator Judge J. Martin Combs, a 1912 diploma graduate, Senator Lyndon Johnson, Henry F. Alves, director of the Division of School Education of the US Office of Education. In every profession, business, calling, trade, there are exes who have made good. Add your own friends to this random sampling. Sciences-Dr. Burnard S. Briggs, organich research, Bell Tele- phone Company . . . Dr. Ben P. Dailey, professor of chemistry, Columbia University . . . Dr. Harris H. Goodman, research chemist, DuPont . . . Dr. Jack Brown, professor of physics, Cornell . . . Dr. James B. McBryde, professor of biology, North Texas State . . . Dr. Darwin D. Davies, professor of chemistry, University of Houston . . . Dr. Iben Browning, research biologist, Washington, D. C .... Dr. Herschel W. Hopson, research chemist, Stanolind Oil Company . . . Dr. Joe Horeczy, research chemist, Humble Oil Com- pany . . . Dr. Elsie Bodeman, chairman of Biology, Department at East Texas State . . . Dr. George Turner, prominent physician of E1 Paso. Law-Edwin Smith, Houston . . . Alexis Brian, Marshall . . scores of others. Home Economics-Miss Lenora Walters, Area Supervisor, Home- making Education, Texas Education Agency, Houston . . . Miss Bess Barnes, assistant professor of Home Economics at this College . . . Mrs. Vivian Johnson Adams, chairman of Home Economics Educa- tion, School of Home Economics, Texas Tech . . . Miss Rhita Jean Sullivan, Area Home Economist, Production Marketing Administra- tion of US Department of Agriculture . . . Miss Nell Krueger, home- making teacher, South San Antonio Schools . . . Mrs. Marion Under- wood, city supervisor, Home and Family Life Education, Corpus Christi Public Schools . . . Dr. Marjorie Brown, head of Home Economics Education, Colorado State College, Fort Collins, Colorado . . . Miss Laura Jim Alkire, Home Economist, Consumer Home Ap- pliance Division, General Electric Company, Bridgeport, Conn .... In music, math, agriculture, journalism, social studies, the list of names is just as l-ong. And even if we mentioned all the people in these fields we could never hope to print all the names and pay appropriate honor to the ex-students who are working at the profession for which this college was established, the classroom teachers and public school administrators. A large majority of the 50,000 students who have studied at this ,College have been or are now, public school teachers. This College can envision no persons of whom it is more proud than those students who have gone forth to a life of teaching. It's impossible for us to attempt a listing of all the exes we are proud of. We're proud of you all. III. PRESIDENTS OF THE COLLEGE -Three Men - One Goal You who desire to qualify yourselves to teach in the schools of Texas, and who have resolved to be real students, will meet a hearty welcome . . . Our mission is to prepare worthy teachers for the schools of Texas. Thomas G. Harris, president, 1903-11. The Legislator of Texas established the Southwest Texas State Teachers College to prepare teachers for the public schools of the state. The entire machinery of the institution is organized in harmony with this purpose. -C. E. Evans, president, 1911-42. This college must continue to train men and women teachers . . . who will go into the communities of Texas to free the minds of boys and girls, to inspire in them a love of the highest virtues and a devotion to Christian democracy as a way of life. In so doing this college can and will bear its share in preserving and extending American democracy. -J. G. Flowers, president, 1942