West Chester University - Serpentine Yearbook (West Chester, PA)

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Our college was not always a State Teachers College. It traces its beginningb to the West Chester Academy, which was organized in 1812 today a tablet on a house at 212 West Gay Street commemorates that founding. In 1869 the trustees of that institution took the first lishment of the West Students came to this teaching, and in 1871 money to pay for port of State Aid, as it was then under different forms up the institution on South steps toward the estab- Chester Normal School, school to prepare for the State began to grant their training. This called, has continued to the present time for High Street. g{13}®

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WEST CHESTER, 1942 Its History pages 13- 16 Administration and Faculty 17-50 Students — Day and Dorm .; .■.„•..■..•..., .. 51 -1 26 Organizations 127-178 Athletics 79-222 Activities 223-234 Business 235-256 g(12J-®

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The West Chester Normal School hod five principals from 1871 to 1927: Ezekiel H. Cook, A.M., Ph.D., 1 871 -72, William A. Chandler, A.M., Ph.D., 1 872-73; George L. Maris, A.M., 1 873 81; George Morris Philips AM , Ph.D., 1881-1920, Andrew Thomas Smith, A.M., Ph.D., 1920-1927 During Mr. Maris ' s administration, one of the first summer schools in the country was held here. It was for Dr. Philips, the fourth principal, that the auditorium and admin- istration building (the Philips Memorial Building) was built and named in 1927, through the efforts of Dr. Robert F. Anderson and John hHollinger on the site of the Principal ' s Residence. In Philips Memorial are housed the college ' s famous collection of auto- graphed books and letters. Through his vice. Dr. Philips to education of be proud, hie stood a builder. When the school, there on the campus, what part and north wing dormitory. During i m i Tl ' « f • lit GREEN GABLES The Principal ' s Residence a number of valuable long term of ser- made contributions which we can all out pre-eminently as he took charge of was one building is now the central of the women s his principalship the plant was gradually increased with additions to the Main Building, including the South Wing (1882), the Dining Room, and the Chapel. The latter took up the space n occupied by the corridors of rooms along Chapel Alley . ow THE MAIN DORM CHAPEL Before Chapel Alley Days THE MAIN DORM LIBRARY Do you recognize the Y Room ? QlUfd