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1903 |
State Legislature authorizes creation of Western State Normal School. |
Prospect Hill was chosen from four prospective sites
by the Olmsted Brothers Landscape Services firm of Brookline, Massachusetts. |
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The site, $40,000 for construction, and
all utilities connections were donated to the State by the Kalamazoo school
board. |
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1904 |
Dr. Dwight B. Waldo elected Principal on April 1, 1904. |
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Classes start fall, 1904, in leased facilities; groundbreaking for first building was on July 9, 1904. |
Dr. Waldo served Western
from 1904 until 1936. |
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1905 |
Administration Building opens for classes on September
1, 1905 |
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The first commencement
was held on June 6, 1905, before the first building was completed. |
1906 |
First departments
were Civics, Domestic Science, Drawing, English, History, Manual Training,
Mathematics, (Teaching) Methods, Physical Education, Psychology, Rural
School, and Science.
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A two-year training
program would earn the student a Life Certificate for teaching. |
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| 1908 |
Gymnasium and Annex (addition to Administration Building) |
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State appropriations to construct the new buildings
totaled $84,000. |
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1909 |
Training School |
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The State appropriated $60,000 for the construction
of the Training School. |
1910 |
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1910 photograph of postman, horse,
and mail wagon on Oakland Drive, with East Hall in the background. |
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1911 |
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1912 |
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1913 |
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