Tennessee Technological University - Eagle Yearbook (Cookeville, TN)

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rediclenfg lie er Tennessee Tech's yearbook for 1950, THE EAGLE, records a particularly signihcant year in the college's aca- t t demic life and in the history of our American civiliza- tion. Tennessee Tech, at the mid-century, looks back to the beginnings of its college life thirty-five years ago as a junior college and then sweeps on to its emergence as a full-fledged technical college with physical facilities, faculty, and educational standards to match its curricu- lum and the size of its enrollment. Today, after an era of expansion, your Alma Mater takes its place and full stature in the family of American universities and insti- tutions of higher learning and moves forward with in- creased determination toward its original goals. This year at the turn of the Twentieth Century, Americans may obtain a new perspective of our way of life which may help us in scanning the future. During the Hrst hfty years of this century, we have marched on into an increasingly complex, mechanized, and indus- trialized era with emphasis always on the application of knowledge. If these gains are to be made secure, We must now focus on the understanding of knowledge. Only spiritual qualities, such as sympathy, tolerance, and agreement can produce ways and means of making our way of life meaningful to men ol' good will the world over and give reality on earth to the Brotherhood of Man and the Fatherhood of God. This present student generation, as it moves across the threshold of adult life, is not only the heir of the first half of the Twentieth Century but it now looms as the potential architect and builder of a vaster structure that may at last crown the ages with a reflection of man made in the image of his Creator. lI77dl?TSff171diTlg-ll'1lS is the challenge still sounding prophetically for your generation and the Twentieth Century. XVith all thy getting, get UNDERSTANDING. l 1 .....x..'rrf:-EQIIW9 BBW' Pqge, 7 Q.-um-, f ,-,f,a.m , 7 ,,,. ,N ms , A em aan 14, -W w..m.,.W.,...y..wwm, .,

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l i . .1 -l -i 1 - .....l ibeabcafion In gratitude for leadership in helping us BUILD TODAY FOR A BETTER TOMORROVV, We dedicate this l950 edition of the EAGLE to EVERETT C. DERRYBERRY on his tenth ZIIIIIIVCTSZIFY as president ol' 'Tennessee Polytechnic Institute. I 6

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Kuifcbng 3 clay o During the past few years at Tennessee Tech a new institution has been born-a larger and greater Tech, under the leadership of an outstanding president. Sweep- ing changes have been made in instructional develop- ment as well as in the expansion of Tech's physical plant. The sessions 1948-49 and I949-50 are indeed high water marks in the growth of Tech. One of the greatest marks of Tech's advancement came in September, 1949 with the division of the college into five separate schools. The growth of the college from the standpoint of the student body and the increased facilities has necessitated this movement to a great extent. For example, there are as many engineering students now at Tech as there were students in the entire college a few years ago. Tech's enrollment for the 1949-50 session is approximately 2,200 including in-service students. June 1940 marked the largest graduating class in the history of the college. In June 1950 there will possibly be 500 graduates. Tech's enlarged enrollment and the separa- tion of the college into schools has brought the largest and one of the best trained faculties that Tech has had since its beginning. It is probable, too, that this division into schools will serve as a stepping stone for graduate work at Tennessee Tech a few years hence. Certainly Tech will now be able to meet professional accreditation requirements in certain professional areas. Each division of the college will be able to advance under its own heading, thereby aiding the respective student to gain more value from his school. Tech's recent physical development has reached its climax during the past two years, with the beginning of its ten-year building program. The session 1949-50 saw a new million dollar building program begin on the campus. A gymnasium addition and new dormitories are included in the project. Launching of the first unit in the new million dollar construction program at Tech, the second since the end of the war, Tech moves on to a greater physical expan- sion. Highlighting the extended building program is the erection of the modern health and physical education building, which will be completed by December, 1950. The health and physical education building, of which a rearranged old gymnasium and the recently completed gym annex are to be a part, will be one of the hnest units of its type in the South. A new wing now under construction, will be located in front of and adjacent to the present gym structure and will extend forward to place the front of the build- ing in line with the fronts of South Hall and West Hall. A seating capacity of 5000 will be available upon the completion of enlarging the old gym. Both the north and south sides of the existing structure will be widened by 35 feet to provide additional seats for thousands on the main level. Extending the front of the building forty feet forward will make possible a horseshoe bleacher arrangement. Double-decking of gymnasium seats and galleries on three sides in a U-shaped arrangement as on the ground 1