Wayne State College - Spizz Yearbook (Wayne, NE)

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r.f-- l' ' ' WS NTT ' rollment but better prepared students entering the institution. During the first year there were three seniors, about a dozen juniors and the remainder of the school was composed of students of high school rank or lower. Practically no graduates of nearby high schools during the first two or three years thought of attending at Wayne, but nowthe best students from the best schools in Nebraska are glad to avail themselves of the unusual advantages offered by our modern buildings and apparatus, and our excellent faculty. When the school opened the campus contained but ten acres. There were few walks, all the buildings were in bad condition and none of them was modern. The first substantial improvement was the installation of a modern water and drainage system in 1911. The end of the second year brought the .completion of the Science Hall. Three years later the Administration Building was ready for occupation, and at the end of the eighth year the Physical and Industrial Training building was completed. - The enlargement of the campus to forty acres brings many possibilities for parking and landscape gardening. The plan will include the lake which is now under construction, the laying out and paving of drives, the placing of additional walks, the.completion of the athletic field and the building ofa permanent track. Two buildings next on the program are a training school and a modern dormitory equipped with an up to date cafeteria. '43 ' i ' V While-the writer is very much gratifiedwith the progress of the school, he is not unmindful of the many favorable influences which have contributed to its suc- cess. My best and chief adviser has always been'Mrs. Conn, whose advice has al- ways been solight and considered. No one has ever been associated with a more loyal, enthusiastic and capable faculty. Co-operation has been the motto and the Wayne-State Normal is recognized throughout the state for itsteam work. Last but not least' is the loyaltyof our students, who have always, enlarged' upon the virtues of the institution and have minimized its defects. They haveitold their friends of the school and have rejoiced in its progress. ' These experiences and conditions have drawn us. all a little closer together and have nfade our association in the State Normal' School something to be cher- ished as a pleasant memory. I sincerely hope that the interest of every student in the schoolmay-suHiceito bring him back once a year to the Hill to visit his alma mater, where all may again be just boys and girls. I +U. S. CONN. A v Uk Page I4 -, rnszox .

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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 .

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