State Normal and Industrial School - Snitcher Yearbook (Ellendale, ND)

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ALEXANDER D. PLKMINGTON I’a c 5

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Dedicated to the memory of Alexan- der I). Flemington, a North Dakota pioneer, whose interest in the founda- tion and organization of the State Nor- mal and Industrial School has been of incalculable benefit, and thru whose earnest efforts was inserted in the State Constitution provision for the founding of our school.

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HISTORY OF State Normal and Industrial School jil Ellendalc, North Dakota, by the Constitutional Convention in 188!) which further provided for an endowment of 10,000 aeres of land. In the year 1808 the citizens of Kllcndale purchased and donated as a site for the present buildings, a traet of forty acres of land, which was after- wards supplemented by a further donation of two acres of adjoining land. The State Legislature in the year 1807 authorized a bond issue of $15,000, from the proceeds of which the first building was erected and equipped, the corner stone having been laid on June 14, 1800. School was opened in September of that year, with a faculty consisting of three teachers, who had charge of tin departments of Manual Training, Cine Arts, and Home Economics. During the year 1002 an arrangement was made with Andrew Carnegie for furnishing funds, whereby the second building, known as Carnegie Hall, was erected and equipped. By Legislative Enactment, a Normal Department was added in the year 1907, and the name of the school changed to the State Normal and Industrial School. Since the completion of Carnegie Hall, the following buildings have been completed: Armory and Gymnasium, 1005; Girls’ Dormitory, 1910-11; Power House and Mechanic Arts Building, 1011. The teaching force has been increased from a faculty of three to a present membership of eighteen regular instructors and four assistants. W. 10. MICKS, President, 1899—1905 W. M. K10UN. President 1905—1911