Western Michigan University - Brown and Gold Yearbook (Kalamazoo, MI)

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and new buildings . . . Many favorite and familiar scenes are now replaced by new brick structures . . . the Indian Trail is gone in favor of Waldo Stadium and Hyames Field, the Botanical Gardens have been excavated for the Lavina Spindler Women's Dormitory, and the Temporary Buildings have served their purpose and the Hall for Men now casts its shadow upon that site. The favorite haunt of students is now the Union Building with its soda bar, cafeteria, Men's Union Rooms, Women's League Boom, ballroom, and lounges . . . Next door is conveniently located the Walwood Hall Residence for women . . . The new Health and Personnel Building upon the Hill saves us much climbing up and down . . . we now stop there for classes and visits to the Curriculum Library, the Deans' offices, the Health Service, the Infirmary, the Speech Clinic and the Psycho-Edu- cational Clinic . . . While on our way to the Science Building, we now see the tropical plants housed in the new greenhouse. From the changing and beautiful campus we now enter many new and changed classrooms . . . increased enrollment to over 2400 has made practical curriculum changes . . . most modern change is Aviation Mechanics and Civilian Flight Training . . . All seems fine except the uncustomary three hour examinations under the new semester system. The opening of Graduate School brings back many familiar faces . . . Greatest honor of the year . . . Western is selected by Commission on Teacher Education of the American Council on Education . . . one of thirty-four institutions in the United States conducting study of teacher education. New hopes and a new spirit have thus come to Western . as its campus grows, so does its educational ideals. LAVINA SPINDLER HALL FoR WOMEN

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The late DWIGHT B. WALDO l i I h 1 W r l 1 President Emeritus .412 .Memoriam To the memory ot Dr. Dwight B. Waldo, founder of our school and its beloved president tor thirty-four years, we dedicate this the l94O edition of the Brown and Gold. Fathering the growth of Western in a small pear orchard to one of the largest teachers colleges in the United States, Dr. Waldo has implanted a spirit of loyalty and duty within our institution which neither time nor growth will erase. As years go on and Western continues to grow, we will just be taking more stepslin the direction of achieving the many things of which he dreamed and planned. Always behind the spirit of growth at Western there will be the indomitable spirit of Dr. Dwight B. Waldo. 6 P AU