Truman State University - Echo Yearbook (Kirksville, MO)

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,,-fl' ' 4,....r Baldwin Hall Then Ground was broken for the old Baldwin Hall on May 17, 1871, with special services. With the laying of the cornerstone on September 6 more elaborate exercises were held. Students, faculty, bands, and townspeople marched in a parade to the site of the new building. Among those giving addresses were Presi- dent Baldwin, State Superintendent Monteith, and Colonel Nor- man 1. Coleman. Cn the memorable day of lanuary 15, 1873, the entire school marched from the old Cumberland Academy in the northern sec- tion of Kirksville to occupy the new building on the present site of the campus. Dedicatory services were held in the chapel on February 13, 1873, with Dr. B. D. Shannon as representative of Governor Woodson, giving the principal address. During the exercises President Baldwin reminded the people of Kirksville that in his first address in Kirksville six years before he had asserted that with proper encouragement his school would be- come a credit to the state. This building, named in honor of loseph Baldwin, was the only building of the school until 1901 when the first annex was built on the northeast side. It was a two story brick building of the French-Normal style of architecture with a tower one hun- dred and twenty-six feet high visible for many miles around. 4. 1 4631 p , , . . f Q . 4 Mix ' if M.: 3 wg. -5-V +A- z f ' , V., ., .,..,. 'K 14 . 'A S 1

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Classes ln I-lctiun Students in the act of learning of another age and those of the present are shown here. Hair styles and costumes are dif- ferent, of course, but the students are much the same. The real change has come in the opportunities and facilities offered to them. The history of the Teachers College is one of continued growth in curriculum and instruction for the training of teachers. After loseph Baldwin made arrangements for using the old Cumberland Academy building, he selected the following five persons as the first instructors: Professor and Mrs. F. L. Ferris, Mr. and Mrs. I. M. Greenwood, and Prof. W. P. Nason. Now in l942 the faculty numbers between sixty and seventy persons with a corresponding increase in courses offered. Under the present organization the curricula are offered for a two-year course for rural and four year courses for elementary teachers, high school teachers and the Bachelor of Arts degree. ln the early years of the college, library facilities were extremely meager and it was during President Blanton's admin- istration that a beginning was made. The first state appropria- tion was 32,500 in l89U, which was used for departmental libraries. ln l9U3 a large new building was constructed, and all books were classified under the Dewey decimal system with Miss Ophelia Parrish as librarian. ln l924-l925 the Pickler Memorial Library was erected.