St Marys College - Dial Yearbook (St Marys, KS)

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HISTORICAL RECENT PROGRESS The chronicle of events from 1913 to the present day offer us but few incidents of large import. Yet the growth of St. Mary’s during these ten fruitful years has been steady and progressive. The west wing of the faculty building was begun early in the spring of ’17 and completed before the opening of the fall term. During the war St. Mary’s rallied to the call of the nation. The faculty placed the institution at the disposal of the government and for a time the S. A. T. C. Student Army Training Corps was established here. But perhaps even greater than this was the response of the Alumni to the needs of the country. Over seven hundred “old boys’’ joined the colors and of this number no less than nineteen paid the supreme sacrifice. One of these, Lieut. William T. Fitzsimons, was the first American officer to die for the cause in France. The memorial arch, the gift of the Alumni, is now being erected and will be dedicated in June. In the course of the school year of 1917-18 the students raised funds to erect a new Shrine. During the 17th, 18th and 19th of June, 1919, the College celebrated the Golden Anniversary of its birth as a chartered institution. A host of enthusiastic Alumni and admirers attended the three days’ celebration, which coincided with the Alumni meet. LIEUT. W. T. FITZSIMONS DIAL ANNUAL One Hundred Ninety-Three

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One Hundred Ninety-Two HISTORICAL DIAL AN AT UAL FACULTY, 1893-94 PHILALETHIC SOCIETY, 1895

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NEW REFECTORY BUILDING In the spring of the following year (1920) the old Coppens and Van der Erden buildings were torn down and work on the new Refectory building was at once under way. The structure was completed in time for the fall term of 1920. It is a three-story edifice of irregular native stone, with a frontage of 107 feet, and a depth of 130 feet. It is of Gothic archiecture to harmonize with the Immaculata and the Gymnasium. The entire main floor is occupied by the kitchen and an immense dining hall which accommodates six hundred at a single sitting. The hall is oblong in shape, 105 feet long, and has a maximum depth of 90 feet. The second floor contains six faculty rooms facing the quadrangle, a waiters’ dormitory and a large dining hall originally intended for the Junior division, but at the present used for other purposes. The entire third floor is taken up by a spacious dormitory, a physics laboratory, mechanical drawing rooms and a wireless station. NEW DINING HALL DIAL ANNUAL HISTORICAL Onr Hundred Ninety-Four