The Coconino sun., 1925-11-20
FLAGSTAFF TEACHERS
COLLEGE HAPPENINGS
BY HOWARD w. DENMAN

The annual home coming was the
best in the history of the school,
Seventy-one of the alumni returning
to their alma mater. Those register
ing at the college were: Mrs. Amy p.
Gibbons, Miss Levaun Gibbons, Mr..
and Mrs. D. w. Rodgers, j. Morris
Richards and Silas Jarvis of St.
Johns; Mrs. R. H. Miller, the Misses
Helen Maxwell, Helen Easton, Minnie
Anderson, Pauline Jones and Eloise
Sullivant of Williams; Mrs. D. T..
Udahl and Miss Mary Kramer of Hoi-
brook; Miss Frances Sharpe, Crane
Canyon; Mrs. Evelyn c. Sleeth,
Parks; Miss Iva Bochat, Camp Verde;
Miss Florence Maggie. Rillito; V. Paul
Richards, Ashfork; Emery Vickers,
Jerome; Mrs. E. Best, Mrs. Paul Cof-
fin, Mrs. Robert Cree, Mrs. Frank G..
Curtis, Mr.. and Mrs. Clyde Etter, Mr..
and Mrs. Charles Fillerup, Mrs. j. S.
Hulet, Mrs. Alex Johnston, Mrs. Har-
old Linn, Mrs w f. Pace, Mr.. and
Mrs. Clarence Pulliam, Mr.. and Mrs.
Joe Rickel, Mrs. Earl Slipher, the
Misses Gertrude Glasser, Willie
Smith, Louise Switzer, Marion Wal
lace, Eleanore Greenlaw, Dorothy
Jake, Lura Kinsey, Etha Osborn,
katheryn Keller, Cecile Olson, Zella
Jones, Catherine Hillebrandt, Cleon
Etter, Catherine Beckwith, Elizabeth
Harrington, Frances Stringfellow,
Catherine Shirley, Almira Hammond
and Dorothy Gregg; the Messrs.
George Hanley, Jesse Gregg, Clyde
Etter, Jake Bracker, Lawrence Camp
bell, Jack Heckathorne, Don T.
Bushby, John Conrard, Buster Thorn
ton, John Marine, Robert Caring, Ed
mund Harnish, Richard Riordan, Wal
ter Fleck, Herbert Coe and Robert
Koch, all of Flagstaff.
Miss Boyer spoke in assembly re-
Gently giving the history of the school
in an interesting and humorous man.
ner. Leaving out her humor and
charming manner of delivery, the fol-
lowing is an outline of the substance
of her talk:
The Northern Arizona Teachers
college has an interesting history,
having been founded in 1893 as a re-
form school, changed in 1897 to an in
dANlLIi
instance of Mr.. Ellinwood and Mr.. M.
j. Riordan, established as a normal
school, with A. N. Taylor as presi-
dent and Miss Fannie Bury as assist
ant. The school at this time had but
% students, but it grew slowly until
in 1902 there were Al in attendance,
most of whom were housed and fed
by Mrs. Charlotte Acker, who used
her home for dormitory.
Beginning in 1903 the school took
on more rapid and substantial
growth, Taylor hall and the library
being added in that year, Bury hall
in 1907, dining hall in 1911. heating
plant and Morton hall in 1913. Camp
bell hall in 1915, Ashurst auditorium
in 1917, training school in 1919, the
presidents cottage and McMullen
field in 1921, and the new gymnasium
in 1925. These were the outstanding
steps in the material progress of the
institution. The enrolment at present
is about $50 in the regular session,
running up to two or three times that
figure in the summer session, while
the course of study has been improved
and enriched even more than the
growth in buildings and pupils would
lead one to expect.
The training school football team
surprised their friends by handing the
eighth grade and small high school
team a sound defeat, the score being
33-7. The game was marred by an