The library being housed in what is now the Fielding Wright Art Building. Scribes Club is organized and sponsored by Evelyn Hammett. Boy's basketball team finishes third at National Association of Intercollegiate Basketball tournament. In anticipation of war, a civilian pilot training program is established. December, Japanese attack Pearl Harbor and the United States declares war on the Axis powers.
Nursery school opens as part of the home-economics program.
19 buildings make up campus. Delta State broadens its course offerings and receives authorization to offer both the Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Science degrees. Because of war rationing, an area of campus is converted into a wheat field. 1944 First public demonstration of the mechanical cotton picker near Clarksdale. 1945 Roosevelt dies and Truman becomes president.