The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-08-04
OUTLOOK FOR NEXT YEAR
STRENGTH q FAcUL A6I III
STRUGTTON WILL REMAIN
THE SANE DESPITE THE
CUTS MADE IN MANY
SCHOOLS THROUGH
OUT THE UNITED
STATES

While other schools in the United
States are cutting down the number
Of their instructors, the Fort HAYS
Kansas Normal School will continue
IS work in September with the same
strength of faculty and instruction.
In looking forward TO the work for
1918 the character and quality of
the work OF the summer school must
be taken into account. Tt is consen-
sus OF opinion Of the faculty that the
work OF the summer school this year
vas superior to any previous sum-
ner. Not only in the character of
he work but in the amount accom-
)lished was this evident. This per
laps bespeaks for next year an in
creased interest in education in the
Western half of Kansas.
Sheridan Coliseum will be in use
With the opening of school. This viii
give chance for the expansion of
some OF the departments that are now
much Overcroweded.
The third floor of Sheridan Coli
scum will be devoted TO music and
Inc arts The Department of Music
vii have Its studios and class rooms
mere. The practice rooms viii re-
nam IN the basement of the Admins
ration Building. Miss Wooton viii
transfer her work from the Admins
ration Building to the third floor
back, where suitable quarters have
9een provided for all fine arts work
The second floor viii house Mr..
Wooster and his work in Biology,
Mr. Matthew and Mr.. Rouse will
AXE their Agricultural class rooms
md laboratories to this floor The
Creamery, however, will go to the
Dairy barn. The Agricultural Bulle-
IN Library will have a room here
Mr. Davis viii bring Farm Carpenter
ng, Cabinet Making and Manual
Training to the second floor of Sheri-
Ian Coliseum. The Physics class
DOM and laboratories under Mr.
Wood will also occupy quarters on
his floor The first floor will contain
he general Offices of administration
IF the Normal School The general
reception room, faculty, and board
meeting room will be in the southeast
corner of the first floor of the Sheri-
Ian Coliseum. Gas and steam engines
nd blacksmithing will occupy the
irst floor, back. The offices of Mr..
Speer and Miss Flanders viii be found
On the first floor, together with the
several locker rooms, the showers,
The swimming pool, and the big new
gymnasium. At the present time the
seats of the amphitheater are being
put in
The industrial building will under
go a complete change. Domestic Sci
ence under Miss Agnew and Miss
Cave viii occupy the top floor. The
Domestic Art Division of the Home
Economics Department under Miss
Condit and Miss Faubion will take
III of the second floor. The basement
viii be devoted entirely to the activi-
ties of the Normal Dining Club.
The old gymnasium building viii
become the Normal School Library.
The changes already mentioned
viii make possible several needed ex-
0ansiOns in the Administration build
ing. The Y W. c. A, and the Y NJ.
G. A. will now be permitted to have
permanent headquarters on the sec
md floor of the building. The De-
Dartment Of Education viii be enabl-
ed to expand in class room and Office
coons- More practice rooms for mu-
sic will be permitted. Several read
justments in other rooms viii take
place. The entire available space viii
be occupied all of the time
There will be very few faculty
changes for next year, and most of
them have already been made. The
Leader can announce that when the
official list is issued it will contain
among its items the following:
Miss LoRee Cave, formerly of Ness
City, became assistant professor of
Home Economics. She graduated
from the Fort Hays Kansas Normal
School with the Degree Of B. S. in
1913. During the summer of 1914
she travelled and studied in Europe.
In 1914-16 she was principal Of High
School at Sharon Springs and Hill
J
uate work at the University Of Wis
consin she received her Masters De-
gree in the spring of 1917, in Home
Economics.
Mr.. Rel Christopher becomes the
professor of Theory and Harmony,
and director of the band. He is a
graduate of the Dana Musical Insti-
tute, Warren, Ohio. He has been a
special student at the New England
Conservative of Music, Boston, Mass,
and the College of Musical Art, New
York City. He was the baritone solo
ist for the famous Hermann Bellstedt
Band, and for three years was mem
Der of the Chautaugua orchestra at
Chautaugua, n. Y. He was formerly
head of the Theory Department at
was the director of the Music De-
partment, Hiram College, Hiram,
Ohio. He resigned the professorship
of Theory at his Alma Mater to come
to Hays.
Miss Jennie Youngquist becomes
the assistant professor Rural Edu-
cation. She is a graduate of Normal
University, Normal, H., and the
Teachers College, Columbia Univers-
ity, New York City. She is a special
list in Rural Education and comes to
this school from the Warrensburg
State Normal of Missouri.
Mr.. James E. Rouse is a graduate
of the Missouri State Normal School
and the Kansas State Agricultural
College. He received his Masters
Degree of the University of Wisconsin
this year. He becomes professor
of Animal HuSbandry at this school.
He was for four years professor of
Chemistry and Agriculture and three
years professor of Animal Husbandry
at the Missouri State Normal school.
Mr.. Willard Crane, Professor of
Rural Economics at this school, is at
present In the Officers Training
Camp at Fort Riley. He has been
there since the declaration of war
early IN the spring. He was Spanish
American war veteran; one OF the