Wayne State College - Spizz Yearbook (Wayne, NE)

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I AUDITORIUM 4 .F - Page 12 GENERAL VIEVV

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PHYSICAL-INDUSTRIAL BUILDING SVVIMMING POOL Page Il

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'gf' WN ' MAIN BUILDING 1911 TEN YEARS OF PROGRESS It is difiicult to realize that ten years have elapsed since the organization of this institution as a state normal. It seems but a short time since the writer and his family and the members of the faculty with their families came to,Wayne to enter upon their new field of work. Limited resources, poor buildings and almost no equipment did not make a very cheering outlook. But everyone worked with a will and despite the handicaps, the early years were happy ones for all concerned. Changes in buildings, equipment, campus and prestige of the school have come so regularly that we have scarcely been aware of the process by which the institution has grown from nothing into the largest estate normal school in Nebraska. We have forgotten all about the old central building, poorly built and cold as a barn, which at various timesserved the purpose as training school, library, science hall, conservatory and dormitory, until it was displaced by our splendid'Administration Building. At the outset we had no domestic scien-ce, kindergarten, music department, department of expression, and but two teachers in the training school. I On September 19, 1910, about twenty members of the faculty sat upon the platform in the old chapel which was then in the present training school, and faced about seventy-five young men and young women who had come to-be stu- dents in the new school. It was a humble beginning, but everyone was in earnest. Good reports went out and before the.year was over a total of 538 had enrolled in the State Normal School. Each year since has seen not only an increased en- Przgelj' , gg QI 9202 .