Valdosta State University - Pinecone Yearbook (Valdosta, GA)

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uf Tczge from lze Hzkiory of S. W HE spring of 1913 saw the first May Festival on the lawn in front of Converse Hall, the only building on the campus at that time. The simple costuming and dances were hardly comparable to the elaborate May Festival of today-but traditions must begin somewhere! That same spring saw the organization of a Y. W. C. A, and a Student Government Association, for who can live a full life without religious expression and self- governing control? The first Christmas that students inhabited the halls, the tradition of Ye Olde English Christmas Festival, which has grown so deep into the life of the college, was begun. If those first girls could enter our feast hall, they would End much that is different, yet the spirit is un- changed and the songs and the plays would be quite familiar. Field Day, too, is an old-established event. For the first few years a whole day was devoted to Field Day and May Day together, then on being made a separate oc- currence it became the day on which the athletic rivalry between classes, sponsored by the Athletic Associations, reached its culmination. Of course, there has always been Chapel,-for years the students filed in for the exercises singing the Adeste Fideles now reserved for Christmas Festival processional. The second year of the college saw the organization of two literary societies whose interest centered about things dramatic. They, however, were soon discontinued, to be reorganized later. But the college grew in numbers also, until another building was necessary and in 1916 West Hall was added. The curriculum was changed and broadened, the faculty increased as the need for it occurred 3 the rapidly enlarg- ing student body made another dormitory necessary and in 192.1 Ashley Hall was completed. From being the South Georgia State Normal College, a Normal school, the institution became a senior.college in 1922 called the Georgia State Womans College. Two years later the first four-year graduates received their degrees. The patient guidance and careful work of the administration, steadily improving the college, aiming always at the best and highest, received its first prominent recognition in the admission of the Georgia State Womans College to the Southern Association of Colleges in 1929. A year later it became a member of the American Asso- ciation of Teachers Colleges, and in 1931 was admitted to the Association of American Colleges. In the meanwhile social and recreational life kept pace with the growth of the curriculum. Smooth lawns, well planted and landscaped, took the place of oat fields-what had been a pasture and hayfield became a golf course, hard-surfaced tennis courts, and archery range. .j?'- The Glee Club, one of the first active groups to be formed, was definitely organized in 1914 and began the important role it has played ever since. A long felt need for expression in literary fields was met by the publication of the Pine Branch in 1917, first edited by the Writers' Club of the college. Soon after Dr, Powell's return from Red Cross work during the World War, the exciting activity of Hat Day began with the hiding of one of his hats. The hat is worn and bedraggled now, but the enthusiasm for the tradition is still vital-witness any 19th of the month. The development of larger interests was indicated by the sudden growth of a large number of organizations in the years between 1922 and 1926. The Argonian and Sororian Literary Societies, organ- ized to take the place of the previously disbanded clubs, were doing effective work when the dramatic interests led the way for new organizations in 1922, an Expression and Dramatic Club, later to develop into the Sock and Buskin Club, The Phi Kappa and Phi Lambda Athletic Associations came into being in 1924, a natural outgrowth of the single athletic association, the class rivalry in sports that had been going on since the first spring after the college was organized. The Philharmonic Club grew out of the ever-present desire of youth for music, it has held a not unimportant part in campus life from its very beginning. The Fine Arts Club added its motto, Art for art's sake, to the increasing richness of college tradition-an outgrowth of the former art club of alumnae members which met occasionally to renew their interest and to compare notes. The Lowndes County Club, an organization of the town and county students, was begun, and a few years later became the Valdosta Club. Long desired, but long delayed, the senior, class of 1925 published the first annual, and called it The Pine Cone. These clubs and activities developed and flourished and in 1928 a new interest became prominent on the campus when the International Relations Club was organized. The Mathematics Department came to the fore with the Euclidian Club in 1930, and the Biology Department, feeling its importance, in the fall of 1931 formed the Natural History Club to investigate the indigenous plants and animals of South Georgia. 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