Wake Forest University - Howler Yearbook (Winston Salem, NC)

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r bustling downtown district is .i marked quiet streets of uLi Wake Forest. There were many buildings, and all were laid out ac- cording to plan with stairs and walks threading among the newly-seeded ground. Wake Forest was no stranger to Winston-Salem, tor already the medical school had been in town tor 1 years. The moving of the College came with no rush, but with thorough and reasoned, certainly saddened, feelings. Just as she had made her place in the small rural community of Wake County, so now the College began to carve an inevitable niche in the much larger metropolitan area to which she had been transplanted, and to which her roots must be firmly affixed. More than ever she thought out the meaning of Pro Humamtate in her challenging new surroundings. Greater service to humanity did, indeed, lie ahead. 11 Also situated among spreading magnolias, the Bostivick Dormitory is named f or its predea on the old campus.

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■ ■■ Taylor, Kitt Inn and Patent Ihrms, built in honor oj the president! they are named fo art thret oj the four boys ' housing units which replace crowded Hunter Dormitor An aerial view shows the spacious, tree-dotted lawns oj Wake ' s brand-new campus soon after its completion in 1956. 10 BJI LJM-II .

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A new campus was an accomplishment not to be gloated over but to show more than ever what could be the future — and yet more con- vincingly, what must be the future. Wake Forest ' was not through building in 19 56. Winston Hall became a reality in 1961 to rehouse the expanding departments of biology and psychology. It was a gift from the people of the city, given as their own testimony that Wake Forest has a great future. The campus plan, indeed, was far from finished. The grass began to grow and the campus took on that lived-in appearance. Now it was looking like a college. 1 he first coats of paint were added to the woodwork and dorm rooms received new coating also. Things began to look a bit worn, as it students had been here. The edges of grassy plots were worn thin although constantly rehabilitated with fertilizer. And still, there was the continuation of construction. Down across the street next to Johnson Dorm rose another girl ' s dorm, appropriately christened Mary Reynolds Bab- cock Dormitory in honor ot a noted bene- factor of the College. After it was finished the ground was filled in, the red Piedmont clay was packed down, and grass was sown. Soon all was back to normal — but normal fir a short time only. Across the street ground was broken and construction was begun on a sorely- needed classroom building. For IK months muddy walks plagued coed shoes, along with jovial hoots of construction workers. Soon, however, the building was greatly appreciated as the library was emptied of classes and students could finally both hear and take notes. Indeed, it was an improvement that had to come and was but the first of many. Yet there is more — much more — to Wake Forest than mere bricks and mortar and side- walks. A faculty member is quick to point out that no one has ever sought to deny him the privilege of speaking his piece in the class- room. Stacks of books in the library halls stand still unpacked and uncatalogued, waiting for their places on now ghostly shelves built to ac- commodate a million volumes. Opportunities abound, as the spirit of progress so necessary to educational development pushes Samuel Wait ' s dream ever forward. 12 .