Truman State University - Echo Yearbook (Kirksville, MO)

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Honorable Samuel M. Pickier- THE Honorable Samuel M. Pickier, born in Indiana in 1846, came to Kirksville in 1866 and entered the Old Normal School being a student for two years. In 1.868 he became a memlxrr of the faculty serv- ing until 1873. during which time the Normal School moved from the Cumberland Academy Building to the Original Baldwin Hall. Mr. Pickier served as a member of the Board of Regents from 1899 until 1905. As such he assisted in the erection of the first Library Build- ing. While Mr. Pickier was a resident of Kirksville he has seen the Normal School of sixty or seventy pupils, housed m a small frame build- ing, grow into a Teachers College with an average attendance of about nine hundred, housed in five brick buildings. He saw Baldwin Hall built, then Library Hall was added, then Science Hall, The John R. Kirk Auditorium Building and the Ophelia Parrish Demonstration School Building. First he saw the original Science Hall burned and rebuilt, then he saw Baldwin Hall and the Library Hall destroyed in the same manner. When the Baldwin Hall and Library Hall were burned we dis- covered with what interest Mr. Pickier has followed the growth of the Normal Scluxil and the great spirit of service and loyalty that still moved him. We all acknowledge the spirit that prompted his gift of more than $25,000 making possible the continuation of the work of the Teachers College. We wish to express our appreciation of the service Mr. Pickier has rendered this institution and the cause of Higher Education in Mis- souri. I'agc IA

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