The Elmwood Apartments were Western's first married student housing. They replaced the trailers that had been installed to house returning WWII vets and families.

Bertha Davis Hall

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Bertha Shean Davis served first as a music instructor in 1914, then as Dean of Women from 1917 until 1947.

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Davis Food Commons

Elisabeth T. Zimmerman was one of Dr. Waldo's first hires in 1905. She taught German and Latin at Western for 40 years.

Physical Education Building

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Dedicated as the Gary Physical Education Center. Mitchell J. Gary was Chairman of the Department of Physical Education, Health, and Recreation from 1952 to 1957, and Head of the Men's Athletics Division from 1952 to 1968. His career first started as Western as a teacher in 1928.

Ellsworth Hall

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Frank Ellsworth was Director of the Campus Elementary School from 1916 until his death in 1938.

Elmwood Apartments - units N-Q

Student Center

The Student Center would be renamed and dedicated the John T. Bernhard Center in the late 80's, after Western's fifth president.

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Western's Student Center was first completed in 1956, with subsequent additions in 1964 and 1989.

Dr. Theodore S. Henry was a member of the Psychology Department from 1917 to 1948, serving as chair from 1939 to 1948.

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Dedicated as Read Field House. Herbert W. Read, hired as an assistant footgal coach and physical education instructor in 1919, served as the men's basketball coach from 1922 to 1950.

Dwight B. Waldo Library

Dr. Dwight Bryant Waldo, Western's first president, served from 1904 until 1936.

Additions were constructed in 1967 and 1991.

Hoekje Hall

John C. Hoekje came to Western in 1916 as an instructor. He was appointed Registrar in 1921 and Dean of Admissions in 1945. He retired in 1955. He also directed the Extension programs from 1917 to 1947.

North Valley Apartments

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Later renamed Goldsworth Valley Apartments.

French Hall

Anna L. French was Western's head librarian from 1918 until her retirement in 1946.

Bigelow Hall

Named after economics professor Howard F. Bigelow, who taught at Western from 1924 until his death in 1961.

Grace and Mary Moore Hall

Named after Grace and Mary Alice Moore. Grace operated the campus school lunch room and then the Walwood Union food services until 1940. Mary taught Home Economics from 1911 to 1947.

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Leslie H. Wood was Western's first teacher of the natural sciences, and served in the Geography Department until his death in 1933.

North Valley Residence Unit #1

Later named Goldsworth Valley Unit #1