80 th Year of Classes Celebrated

Photo by John PoMch

Ceremony Recalls
Opening of School
Tem pe, Arizona_____________ Tuesday, February 8, 1966

Vol. 47—No. 59

---------------- ---------------- SPECIAL REPORT----- ------- -------------- -----

Whither ASU
President Durham Envisions Future of the University
By PAUL SCHATT
Campus Editor
The transformation of Arizona State University from a small teacher’s college culturally dependent on California and the northwest into
a modern state university developing its own
cultural community didn’t happen overnight.
But the process, which took some 40 years, is
virtually complete. Now the question arises —
where to, now?
*
Dr. G. Homer Durham, University President,
examined this exceedingly complex issue this
week, and cautioned against easy answers?
“Theoretically, how large can the University
grow?” he asked. “Land is one limit, obviously,
the land area available is limited. But I don’t
think anybody knows what the limits of a human
organization are.”
Projections of enrollment increases are rel­
atively easy to estimate, Dr. Durham said, by
obtaining statistics on births, high school en­
rollments, and migrations. But the demands on
higher education by society are not static.

“If we were in the United Kingdom, somewhere between 5 and 7 per cent of the college
age youths would be attending; in the United
States nearly 50 per cent of the graduates of
high schools continue their education,” Durham
noted,
“In Maricopa County, if I ’m informed correctly,
a student pays $17 to $19, for fees for a semester,
(Continued on page 2-A)

Inside

Junior Colleges Expand
For example, Dr. Durham said, the Maricopa
County Junior College District is expected to
serve about 15,000 persons in the next ten years,
through six junior colleges in the county.
“But those six junior colleges will increase
rather than decrease enrollment in higher edu­
cation,” Durham said.
He explained that two factors governing the
growth of education are not under the Univer­
sity’s control — the changing demands' of an
industrialized economic system and the broad­
ened concept of democratic education.

T he 80th A n n iv ersary of th e opening of A rizona
S ta te U n iv e rsity w ill b e com m em orated a t 8 a.m. today
by a n e ig h t-ro u n d sa lu te from a 105mm h o w itzer a t the
flagpole a t th e c o m e r of F o re st A v enue an d 11th S treet.
T he trib u te by A rm y ROTC D esert R angers and
AFRO TC cadets w ill h onor th e m an w ho m ad e possible
th e firs t d ay of classes a t Tem pe N orm al School on Feb.
8, 1886.
Now A rizona S ta te U niversity, th e in stitu tio n w as
c reated by act of th e 13th L e g isla tu re of th e A rizona
Territory that was signed by
Governor F. A. Tritle on March
who have an interest in guerilla
12, 1885.
and
anti-guerilla warfare, will
On Feb. 26 of that year John
Samuel Armstrong had intro­ send 20 cadets as an honor
duced “An Act to. Establish a guard. The AFROTC will supply
Normal School” in the terri- two cadets to make up part of
tori$...assembly. The bill was the color guard.
The Army ROTC borrowed
vigorously supported by the
founder of the University, Char-” the howitzer from the Mesa Na­
les Trumbull Hayden of Tempe. tional Guard and will also fur­
It passed the house of March 6 nish the team that will fire the
and was affirmed by the Coun­ weapon.
Cadet Colonel David Shehorn,
cil on March 11.
Army
ROTC, will be in charge
On Feb. 8, 1886, under the
supervision of Hiram Brandord of all ROTC personnel at the
Farmer, 33 students met in a Founders Day ceremony.
one room building here for the
first classes in an institution
that was to provide “instruc­
tion of persons . . . in the art
of teaching and in all the vari­
FAMOUS ALUMNI
ous branches that pertain to
The University days of Sen.
good common school education;
Carl Hayden and TV star
also, to give instruction in the
Steve Allen are remembered
mechanical arts and in the hus­
on page 3-A. Allen will be
bandry and agricultural chem­
speaker at the Alumni Asso­
istry, the fundamental law of
ciation Founder’s Day Din­
the United States and in what
ner, Feb. 23.
regards the rights and duties
of citizens.”
EXPANSION
Since that time the Univer­
The addition of new col­
sity has grown to a total enleges and expansion of the
over 70 buildings on 305 acres of
physical plant are examined
ground.
on pages 4- and 5-A. The new
This morning’s commemora­
College of Law opens in 1967.
tive ceremony is open to the
CHANGING FASHIONS
public. It will include formal
Photographs and recollec­
raising of the flags of the State
tions of alumnae provide a
of Arizona and of the United
look back at 58 years of wom­
States.
en’s dress on campus start­
The Army Desert Rangers, a
ing on* page 6-A.
voluntary group of RQTC cadets

DR. G. HOMER DURHAM

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STATE PRESS

Tuesday, February 8, 1966

Durham Looks to Dynamic Future
greatest development lies in the applica­
tion of physics to the life sciences — this
has opened up a whole new field of spec­
ulation."
The question that must be asked upon
talk of new fields of research and expan­
sion of existing departments is whether
the university can afford it

Graduate Production
Durham said that the situation has
changed greatly from the days when an
engineer had to be imported from the
Universify of Michigan to design Roosevelt Dam.
‘For the last 50 years, we have slowly
come to share in the production of fac­
ulty." he said.

(Continued from page 1-A)
compared with $115 a semester for res­
ident tuition — just the low cost encour­
ages more people to attend."

A table produced by Dr. Durham’s
staff as part of a 10-year projection of
ASU needs and capabilities pointed out
that in the past 42 years, the University
gave bachelor degrees to 94 persons who
later received doctorates elsewhere. This
put ASU at the bottom of the table, com­
pared with the University of Arizona’s
347, University of Colorado, 696, and the

*
“They know that you have to have a
first rate university to make a com­
munity of this size function effectively,”
re said.

“If the School of Engineering deter­
iorates, they’ll put their plants where
they can prosper. Knowing this,” Dur­
ham added, “this won’t happen.”
Both the University of Arizona and
ASU are "well on their way” to achieve­
ments placing them on the level of some
of the middle west’s finer universities,
he said.
-We must do this with a faculty with
dedication, interest, and desire to come
and help. Now. certainly you have to
have adequate salaries — one isn’t going
to come if he finds that he won’t be able
to buy that automatic washing machine
if he accepts the position.” said Durham.
"Our salaries are not competitive with
the middle west of with California,” he
conceded. "We’re doing everything w.e
can to improve them.”

University Financing
The salary problem, of course, is part

Beyond the general availability of ed­
ucation, he said, lies another persuasive
reason for increasing enrollments.

Training Essential

“And there is the recognition that ed­
ucation is the best door to opportunity.”

“Supposing, some speculation takes it,
that if the life sciences team up with
engineering as they are now, with in­
strumentation and electronics, you could
eliminate the tragedy of malformed chil­
dren," he suggested.
Still, he added, there will always be a
place in the university curriculum for the
liberal arts.
“People will still be human beings —
man will still have to learn to view
himself in terms of history, philosophy,
and literature,” he said.

"The investment the state makes in
ASU is no greater and maybe even less
than the investment the state makes in
high schools,” he said. He produced a
table that says the state spends more
on each student in state high schools
(an average of $773) than on each ASU
student from freshman to doctoral can­
didate ($715).

Boost to Arizona Economy
“In addition, of 20,000 students, each
spends about $3,000 a year, which goes
right into the Arizona economy. The
University is a great economic engine
which helps drive the economy,” Dur­
ham said.

Expansion of the student enrollment is
expected to raise that figure. Current
estimates put the 1974-75 enrollment at
30,000, of which 24,600 are full time stu­
dents. This compares with current en­
rollment of about 19,000.

“Up to about 1840, a university edu­
cation amounted to the classics, rhetoric,
the liberal arts," Durham said. He
pointed out that even such now basic
curriculums as business administration
didn't emerge until after World War I,
and the latest arrival, the nursing pro­
gram, didn't come of age until after
World War II. In the meantime, science
has asserted its influence.

For the future, Durham said that the
possibilities of improvements in the qual­
ity of life through science are boundless.

“But the point is that higher educa­
tion is a bargain so far as the state is
concerned.” he asserted—

Total economic impact of the Univer­
sity on, the Valley is about $80 million
annually, Durham said. “We’re quite a
large enterprise,” he smiled.

These factors have combined to dras­
tically. alter the character of the uni­
versity, Durham said, and while “the
schools didn't create this,” they had little
choice but to answer the needs of the
social and economic orders.

Tomorrow's World

“The economy demands this. Western
Electric is not going to build a new
plant for an unskilled labor force,” he
said.

Added to that figure is more than $2
million annually spent for research and
academic grants. Too, some 300 Air
Force officers taking courses through the
Air Force Institute of Technology live
in Tempe, and add to the area economy
the equivalent of what another Air Force
base might contribute.

“The unemployed today are the un­
skilled. A skilled laborer has greater op­
portunities, if he has a skill that is com­
mensurate with the needs of society,”
Durham said. "The requirements of an
industrialized economic system require
mere training and more education.

“There has been great change in the
university’s departments.” he said. “The
world's changing, science is changing
every day. Your chemists, physicists and
other physical scientists have been re­
making the world for about a century.”

____________: _________ ___________________
“Raising
requirements is not going to
be the solution,” he said. “If you re­
vert back to the European tradition and
exclude all except the upper five per
cent, you'll have to provide institutions
for the others which will be just as
costly, or even more so.

Durham said that a solution to some
of the campus enrollment problem could
be to expand considerably the Univer­
sity extension program.
The extension division, which receives
no state money and must at least recoup
its costs, serves 2,093 students now.
“I can see no reason why we can’t
serve 6-8,000 or even up to 10,000 stu­
dents in Maricopa County over the next
10 years,” Durham said.
University of California, Berkeley, the
leader, with 3,806.
That was the past 42 years, though,
Durham said. He said that ASU has
spent that time reaching the level at
which it could end dependence on “col­
onial” influences from California.
“We are part of the west,” he said,
“those things are normal.”

ASU Attracts Industry
Assembling and retaining a good fac­
ulty is rendered more urgent by the in­
creasingly heavier weight placed on re­
search facilities by industry.

“It might be that 50 years from now
people studying the humanities might be
studying engineering, as part of human
enterprise.

For example, General Electric Co.
chose Phoenix for its computer center in
late 1958, placing strong emphasis on
the potential of ASU’s research facilities.
The plant employs 4,000 in the Phoenix
area, and uses every possible University
service.

“I think, though, that Chaucer will still
be studied, and Shakespeare, and the
Bible,” he said. “However, I think the

Durham said that industry wants to
locate its plants near the very best facil­
ities.

of that perennial headache of the large
university — financing. Durham said that
the position a university takes on fin­
ancing depends considerably on the edu­
cational philosophy, of the officials.

He noted that UCLA, which serves an
area of 6 million persons, has an en­
rollment of 175,000 in its extension pro­
gram.

“A lot of people think we should have
students pay a large share of the cost
of their education,” said- Durham. “The
problem is, can we set the level of the
fees at the point where it is adequate
to satisfy the feeling of those people while
still not diminishing educational oppor­
tunity?
“This is a matter .of great concern,
he said. “My feeling is that to do our
duty to our people and our future we
have to keep education within the reach
of all those who are qualified to profit
by it.”
Durham said that to follow the sug­
gestions of some critics and raise en­
rollment standards -and fees to lower
taxpayers’ share of university costs
would be flying in the face of America’s
democratic concept of universal educa­
tion, and, besides, would actually raise
the costs.

Photographs by John PoHch

Tuesday, February 8, 1966

STATE PRESS

A well-known television star and the
Dean of the U. S. Senate have a common
bond — Arizona State University.
ASU was a stepping stone for Senator
Carl Hayden and Steve Allen en route to
the naional prominence that they com­
mand today.
Allen will be coming “home” Feb.
23. He is scheduled as speaker for
the Founder’s Day dinner that night. His
“homecoming” will be the first since

he left the University after his one year
stint here in 1941-42.
ALLEN, REMEMBERED as the be­
spectacled boy who was always playing
the piano in West Hall, has achieved his
fame through his songs, movie appear­
ances, books and currently as master of
ceremonies on “I’ve Got a Secret.”
According to alumni records, Allen left
school to go to work for Phoenix radio
station KOY. From Phoenix, he traveled

Page 3-A

to the greener pastures to the west. He
got a job as a disk jockey on Los Angeles
radio station KNX where, according to
alumni records, he was a hit.

continued in television and got his own
variety show.

New York and television drew Allen to
the East where he made several appear­
ances on the “Tonight Show.” During this
time, in the early 1950’s, he became ac­
tive in alumni meetings in both Los
Angeles and New York.

Allen’s services to the University have
been many. He appeared on state-wide
television to appeal for the passing of the
legislative bill to change the name of
Arizona State College to ASU. He awards
a $100 mass communications scholarship
to an entering freshman each year.

FROM THE “Tonight Show” Allen

(Continued below, left)

Senator, Star
Among Alumni
By JERRY HOFFERBER

STEVE ALLEN
(Continued from above)
Fifty-four years is almost a lifetime for
many people. But another alumnus, Sen.
Carl Hayden, has devoted that long a
span of his life to representing the people
of Arizona in Congress.
SEN. HAYDEN was the first AngloAmerican child born in the Salt River
Valley. Charles Trumbull Hayden, his
father, founded the city of Tempe, op­
erated a ferry boat service across the

Salt River and was influential in per­
suading the territorial legislature to es­
tablish Arizona Territorial Normal
School. La Casa Vieja, the house where
Sen. Hayden was born, is still standing
across from Hayden’s flour mill on the
banks of the Salt River.

sentative to Congress of the baby state.
DURING HIS 54 years of service in the
House and Senate, Sen. Hayden wrote
some of the most important legislation
in behalf of reclamation and highways,
matters of vital concern to the Western
United States.

Sen. Hayden attended ASU, then Ari­
zona Territorial Normal School, and was
graduated in 1896. He started his political
career by being elected to the Tempe
town council in 1902. In 1904 he was
treasurer of Maricopa County and in
1907 became Maricopa County Sheriff.
In 1912, when Arizona was admitted to
the Union, he was elected the first repre­

The 88-year-old senator is the most
powerful man in the Senate through his
position as Chairman of the Appropria­
tions Committee. The law-maker has
been the father of the action to divert
water from the Colorado River to arid
cities and towns in Arizona. Sen. Hayden
has also been president pro-tern of the
Senate in addition to his other duties.

For Founder's Day Dinner Reservations
. . . Mail This Coupon
t Alumni House
Arizona State University
Tempe, Arizona

ARIZONA’S FAMOUS son has had his
share of honors. He received an honorary
Doctorate of Law here in 1958. Sen. Hay­
den was also awarded the Most Dis­
tinguished Alumnus Award, the. only per­
son the award will ever be bestowed up­
on.
Though of different generations, both
Sen. Hayden and Steve Allen still have a
common bond in the past and future of
ASU.

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Tuesday. Februa,

Colleges Broaden Educational Environm
By ANDY SILVERMAN
With the addition of three colleges during the past
two years, the University has entered the realm Of a
well-rounded university.
The three new colleges of law, nursing and fine arts
were approved by the Board of Regents in the fall of 1964.
The College of Law, which will open in September
1967, is in the infancy stage of planning.*
“Definite plans for the organization of the college
will be formulated when the dean, Dr. Willard Pedrick,
arrives in July,” said Vice President Dr. Gordon B. Castle.
Dr. Pedrick, three professors and a law librarian will
constitute the'law staff during the first year of the college.
Law School Enrollment
“Since the law school will begin with about 100 firstyear students, a faculty of four should be sufficient at
the start,” commented the vice president.
The four members of the law staff will be.selected
by Dr. Pedrick during the latter part of this year.
Dr. Castle added that the faculty will grow each year
and then in 1969 a full three-year law program will be
offered.
The only admission requirements thus far are that
all prospective students have attained a bachelor’s degree
and taken the Law Aptitude Test.

“A further requirement, possibly, is that all appli­
cants have better than just the minimum “C” average
needed to graduate from a college,” contemplated Dr.
Castle.
Admission Requirements
He said the law school will have no program for ad­
mitting students that have acquired just 96 undergraduate
hours. This program allows a student to complete his
undergraduate and law studies in six years. The six-year
program is now being discarded by many law schools in­
cluding the U. of A.
Dr. Castle commented that the law college hopes to
enroll as many non-residents as possible but “of course
state students will have some priority.”
Law college fees, which are designated by the Board
of Regents, will be identical to the rate paid by the la\v
student at UofA. Currently a law student in Tucson pays
the regular university registration fees plus an additional
$70 a year.
A two-story law building is planned to house the
initial legal facilities at the University. The structure will
be built so additions can easily be constructed as the law
college grows.
<
*~—
The vice president said the"law building will be built
on Orange Street, east of the new Women’s Physical
Education Building, and will include a law library and
a moot court room to try mock cases.

FUTURE COLLEGE OF NURSING
t

College Of Nursing
Another college addition was the
nursing program in 1964 from a school ti
The study of nursing began here in
dents, and today the college’s enrollme:
more than 600 per cent.
“The present nursing enrollment oi
mated figure the coliege set for the schc
said Miss Rosemary Johnson, acting d
Loretta Hanner is serving two years with
Because of the quick growth, the p:
nursing enrollment in 1970 has been al
doubling of students in the next four ye
. .To accomodate this growing collej
nursing building is near completion on C(
University Drive. The structure, to be in
will consolidate presently scattered nur
A main -feature of the building, wh
used by other colleges, will be a multilaboratory that will be used for demon
nursing methods.
“The extensive lab section will be i
students to perform such skills as taking
giving medications and aiding in surge
Miss Johnson.
She said to supplement the lab wc
ceive training at numerous valley ho
homes and health departments.
“The lab and field instruction portic
ing curriculum are quite important as r
medical treatment can not be learne<
stressed the acting dean.
College Of Fine Arts
Completing the trio of new colleges i
Fine Arts, which was formed by the com
liberal arts departments—humanities,
speech and drama.
The college has an enrollment of ove
and a staff of 100.
“The College of Fine Arts expects a
dent increase yearly for the next decade,”
Bruinsma, college dean.
He quickly added that the predicted
ures are underestimated; for example, ir
partment, an 80 per cent increase was e
year.
The dean attributed the expanded en
“growing interest in the arts in the valley
As in the nursing college, fine arts i
scattered throughout campus utilizing
buildings.
’ The growth and classroom problems ]
the future plan to construct three new' bi
music and speech and drama.

inmen l
"

Of Nursing
tion was the elevating of the
rom a school to a college,
began here in 1957 with 56 stuege’s enrollment has advanced

Physical Plant Expansion
Modern New Buildings House Growing Needs

enrollment of 365 is the estiet for the school year of 1967,”
ison, acting dean while Dean
two years with the Peace Corps
growth, the prediction for the
10 has been altered to show a
e next four years,
growing college, a four-story
unpletion on College Avenue at
cture, to be in use by next fall,
scattered nursing classrooms,
e building, which also will be
ill be a multi-purpose nursing
sed for demonstrating various
ction will be utilized to teach
kills as taking blood pressures,
iding in surgery,” commented.

nt the lab work students re>us valley hospitals, nursing
ents.
truction portions of the nursimportant as many aspects of
iot be learned from bqoks,”

Df Fine Arts
new colleges is the College of
ed by the combination of four
—humanities, art, music and

ollment of over 1,200 students

irts expects a 25 per cent stu>next decade,” said Dr. Henry
the predicted enrollment figor example, in the music dencrease was experienced this

e expanded enrollment to the
ts in the valley.”
;ge, fine arts courses are also
ipus utilizing nine different

>om problems have resulted in
:t three new'buildings for art,

NEW WOMEN’S P.E. COMPLEX

By MARET VIKSJO
The University campus — all 305 acres of
actual campus and surrounding area — is,
to no one’s surprise,' growing at a rapid
rate.
The University’s total land area includes
80 acres in the stadium river-bottom area.
Malls and new buildings are planned to ex­
tend the University to its boundaries as
new land is continually being purchased.
The mall, which is under construction
now with the removal and relocation of
trees, will extend from University Drive to
Apache Boulevard upon completion of the
MU extension. Thus, College Avenue will
become one mall of landscape and side­
walks between major buildings.

Library Completion in June
The Charles Trumbull Hayden Library
will be completed in June and the mall will
be completed with the library as far as
Orange Street.
A number of other buildings are now be­
ing built and will be finished, ready for oc-

cupancy, next fall. The Women’s PE build­
ing is scheduled for completion and occu­
pancy by September.
The nursing building will be finished in
May for possible use this summer. The In­
dustrial Technology Center, which was rec­
ently completed, is already planned to have
an aeronautics 1addition and a third floor
which will house electronics facilities. Con­
struction will be completed the first of
April.
Housing plans now in the making con­
sist of a 15-story women’s dorm which will
house 1,000 women. Construction will be­
gin in late spring and the building will be
located east of PV East.

MU Construction Upcoming
The Legislature is now attempting to get
additional funds for new buildings. Build­
ings now in the planning include the addi­
tion to the MU, which will extend to the
south side and will double the present size,
the Home Economics Building, the Educa­
tion Building, a law building, a remodeling

of the Arts Building, and a central heating
and cooling center.
The Art-Architecture building is funded
and now in the planning, as is the busjngss
administration building. The plans for the
math building have been completed and
construction will begin in April.
At present, there are 35 major projects
which are being planned and constructed,
all under the direction of the Physical
Plant.

Faculty Gets the Ball Rolling
In order for this building and expansion
to progress, there is a process which starts
with the faculty. The faculty of a depart­
ment first compiles an academic program
which must be approved by the Registrar.
After approval is received, the Physical
, Plant then takes over the planning of the
building to house the department. The Phy­
sical Plant interprets the academic pro­
gram into a building plan, a process which
usually takes two years to complete before
construction begins.
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STATE PRESS

By PAT HUNTER
Society Editor
N othing is p e rm a n en t except change in th e w orld of
fashion — and cam pus fashion is no exception.
B ut a look at the fashions of th e p ast th ro u g h the
eyes of Mrs. Della (Schall) M iller, class of 1908, Miss
L ucy Doyle, 1924, and Mrs. B e tty T ipton, 1945, reveals
th a t ju s t as change is found in the fashion w orld, so is
re tu rn .
O ver the last 58 years fashions a t ASU have varied
g reatly , but a m odel of each m ay be seen in to d ay ’s fash­
ions.
Mrs. M iller cam e to Tem pe N orm al in 1904. T here
w e re ap p ro x im ately 250-300 stu d e n ts enrolled and the
g rad u a tin g class of 1908 had 23 w om en and five m en.
D uring th a t fo u r-y ear period, th e P re sid e n t’s house
(now the Alumni House) was built. The campus consisted of Old
Main, the training school, a men's dorm, a women’s dorm, and
a dining hall,
Shirtwaists were the most popular campus wear with skirts
and loose blouses worn frequently.

Tuesday, February 8, 1966

Change Permanent in
waists were predominant.” The
sailor dress style was also pop­
ular during that time, which
knew no synthetic fibers.

an illness,” she says. Hair was worn both up and down, frequently
parted in the middle or worn in a pompadour on top.
Bows were used to trim hair — with small bows in the front
or a large bow in the back. “We didn’t wear much jewelry. Girls
wore lockets and pins we.call broaches,” Mrs. Miller elaborates.
But lockets gave way to long ropes of beads and long dangly
earrings replaced broaches as the rage when Miss Doyle was
campus queen.
Elected out of 17 nominees, Miss Doyle reigned as the second
queen when the Charleston was making its bid for fame and
the fox trot was still the most popular dance.

Coeds even played in their
long dresses. “We had basket­
ball, and tennis was just com­
ing on the campus,” she says.

Dressmaker
Wasn't Particular

The basketball costumes were
long olive drab dresses with
maroon letters and puffed sleev­
es. “The letters were upside
down on some of them. We
bought material and took it to a
Tempe woman to be made up.
Dresses Were 'Gorgeous'
She wasn’t too particular,” Mrs.
“We wore great, long dresses that we thought were gorgeous,” . Miller explained.
Mrs. Miller remembers. “All the dresses were handmade by the
Hair styles were a ir long.
girls and their mothers. Everyone knew how to sew then.
“Some of the dresses were quite dainty and trimmed with “Only one girl had short hair
ruffles, Embroidery was also popular for trimming dress-up and I believe that was due to
clothes.”
Sleeves were all puffed — both for school clothes and dress.
Dress-up dresses had wide ruffles around the skirt as a rule.
The sleeves and bodice were frequently trimmed with ruffles also.
“They were elaborate and fancy,” said Mrs. Miller.
“Everyday dresses were more tailored,” she recalls. “Shirt«

i

Flapper Look Adopted
Dresses were still long, but had adopted the flapper look. “Ma­
terials were richer and more attractive,” Miss Doyle remem­
bers. Taffeta, satin, organdy and velvet were all popular.
School clothes were skirts and sweaters. The small accordion
pleats were big. High heels and mid-heels were worn to class.
The dropped hipline was big — frequently accented with a tie
or belt. The flat chest was accentuated but not to the degree
television would have us believe, says Miss Doyle.
Dress-up clothes of the period were the most fun. Beaded
and swaying, tiered and ruffled, these dresses set the mode for
the later Roaring ’20s fashions.
“They had lots of fringe and long beads and we wore long
dangly earrings,” says Miss Doyle. “I loved the beads.”.
Miss Doyle’s Campus Queen dress was tiered and worn with
a wide, wide headband and a silk cape with “ermine” trim made
with cotton and shoe blacking.

Fur Trim Was Popular
Coats were belted low and wrapped around without buttons.
They came about four inches above the hemlihe of the dresses.
Fur trim was very popular and was used at the neck and sleeves
or even down the front.
“My father thought I was a little daring to wear the long
earrings, but my brother went to bat for me,” says Miss Doyle
of the jewelry rage.
Hats were popular with the close-fitting cloche with turned
brim straw hats leading the fashions of the time. Hair was worn
long to medium length.
“Only the flapper wore bobbed hair then. The boy I was
dating said he’d never see me again if I bobbed mine,” she
explains. Bobbed hair hit the fashion world about five years later.
Knickers were worn for sportswear by both men and women.
The year 1924 saw the beginning of the flapper and all its
looks which were reflected in campus parties and clothing.

WWII Meant Shortages

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MRS. DELLA MILLER
Class of 1908

In 1945, the war was causing shortages of shoes and film,
but cadets brought here for training provided an abundance of
men to act as fashion incentive.
Cadets filled all the dorms except for one where all the
women on campus lived and coeds dated the officers from sur­
rounding air bases.
Mrs. Tipton recalls the war and its effect upon the campus
fashion world. Nylon hose were rationed. “We hoarded a couple
of pairs from before the war for fancy occasions and used
makeup on our legs. This was one of the reasons bobby sox were
so popular,” she reasons.
Shoes were also rationed and material, was scarce. Girls
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Campus Fashion World
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Twin Sweaters Were 'In'

wore high heels — open-toed with straps — and saddle oxfords
to classes. Skirts were gored, pleated and gathered into low
hiplines, but none were very full.
The square shoulders and fitted waists were most representa­
tive of the period. Many shoulder lines were padded, but even
jacket waists were tightly fitted.

Skirts and sweaters were popular for classes. “Twin sweaters
were very popular. They had a short-sleeved pullover and a
long-sleeved matching cardigan. Sweaters were wool, not the
orlons and synthetics of today," explains Mrs. Tipton.
- The dresses — both- fancy and everyday — had dropped hips.
They were short — about the same length as popular today.
V-neckline blouses were popular as were tight, round necklines.
Formals of the time were fitted. “We thought they were
very sexy and siinky,” 'says Mrs. Tipton. “Now when I think
about it, it was probably due to the material shortage.
“We didn’t like to wear hats, but wore them when we had
to, probably more than girls today.” she says. Hats were big,
straw, picture hats. Accessories included beads and bangle brace­
lets much like those,, popular today.
The two-piece bathing suit was a fashion favorite. “Almost
everybody had one,” recalls Mrs. Tipton. Other bathing suits
had skirts or little-boy boxer legs.

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MRS. BETTY TIPTON
Class of 1945

Campus Geared To War
The whole campus turned out for Wednesday night dances
and the Varsity Inn — site of the College of Nursing now under
construction — was the nightly meeting place. The campus was
not collegiate but geared towards the war with the cadet train­
ing programs for the Air Corps.
Women and the fashion world made the best of the shortages,
and fashions of the era had an active, yet feminine air all their
own.
*
Today we still see and wear the bows that were in the hair
of 1908 coeds. The short skirt of 1945 is still hitting the knees of
college women. Perhaps most prominent is the dress of the 1920s
which returned to high fashion about 10 years ago and is still
present in the beaded and fringed go-go dresses, popular dropped
waist and the swinging skirts. Special tribute should be paid to
the skirt and sweater .which is now a classic.
Most evident is the interest the fashion world has held for
women over the years. Every girl then and now wants to be
well-dressed and in style. This is as true in 1966 as it was in 1908
— and each time felt its clothes were special, as will all those
to come.
MISS LUCY DOYLE
Class of 1924

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Tuesday, February 8, 1966

A lum ni Association A ids
Students a n d G raduates
By BOB JOHNSON
Arizona State College became
Arizona S t a t e University in
1958, the MU was built in 1956,
and many students are attend­
ing ASU who otherwise would
not be able to, thanks to the
Alumni Association and i t s
members.
In 1958, when the Board of
Regents and the Arizona Legis­
lature refused to change the
name of the campus to Univer­
sity, even though physically the
campus had been changed, the
association spearheaded a drive
directly to the people of the
state, who approved the change
by a vote of 2 to 1.

ALUMNI HOUSE

On October 25, 1954, ground
was broken on campus for the
MU after the state provided an
appropriation and the alumni
and friends of the University
collected the additional funds
needed to construct the student
center.

Alumni Nominations Committee Named
Members of the Alumni Asso­ the committee with suggested
ciation Nominations Committee nominees for the offices.
have been appointed by Alumni
Past Alumni President Harry
President Ralph Watkins Jr., Mehrtens, ‘50, Phoenix, w i l l
‘51, Buckeye.
serve as Nominations Commit­
The nine committee members tee Chairman. Other members:
will meet in late February or Past President Ed Carson, ‘51,
early March to select alumni Phoenix; Bob Stump, ‘51, Phoe­
to serve on the Alumni Board nix; Kemp Biddulph, ’60, Phoe­
of Directors as Officers and Di­ nix and Glendale; Jack Dail,
rectors. President W a t k i n s
‘61, Stanfield; Past President
urged all alumni to take an in­ Marvin Palmer, ‘38, C a s a
terest in the nominations pro­ Grande: Ed Walsh, ‘46, ‘50 MA,
cess and to contact members of Tolleson; B o b Bonnes, ‘55,

Phoenix and Buckeye, and
Pauli (Udall) Perkinson, ‘57,
Mesa.
Nominations from the com­
mittee will appear in the spring
issue of the Alumni Magazine,
the Arizona Statesman, to be
mailed to alumni in mid-March.
Names of suggested nominees
may be given to members of
the Nominations Committee or
written or telephoned to Alumni
House.

First president of the associa­
tion was J a m e s McClintock,
who served from 1894 to 1897.
He was to be followed by 38
other presidents. Ralph Watkins
Jr., ’51, Buckeye, serves this
year.
Those 20 graduates who be­
came the first members of fhe
association met on the veran­
da of the original Arizona Ter­
ritorial Normal School building
(Old Main) on an unusually cool
summer morning in 1894.
There, over homemade ice
cream and cakes, Principal E.
L. Storment addressed the ear­
ly graduates and asked that
they begin to formulate plans
for the association.
Don Dotts, acting executive
secretary of the association,
who serves over a staff of six
in the Alumni House on camp­
us, defines the group’s purpos­
es as “serving the alumni, ASU.
and most of all, the students.”
The association began in 1894
just a few years after the Uni­
versity was established, and
since that beginning with 20
graduates, the group has con­
tinued to grow with the Univer­
sity.
Every student who graduates
automatically becomes a mem­
ber of the association which
now has 18 chapters throughout
Arizona and 19 c h a p t e r s
throughout the nation serving
more than 30,000 living gradu­
ates.
The association is supported
by state funds and student fees.

During a student’s senior year
and his first year out of school
he receives the alumni quarter­
ly m a g a z i n e , The Arizona
Statesman. “After those two
years the subscription to the
magazine is $1 per year,” Dotts
said. There are no dues.
Since 1922 an alumni loan
fund has aided needy students;
166 in all last year. The annual
alumni fund, set up in 1961,
made eight scholarships avail­
able this year and that number
will double next year.
Annual meetings of alumni
chapters are held in a wide va­
riety of places, some as far
away as Europe, Japan and
South America. One was held
last spring at the New York
World’s Fair when ASU Day
was proclaimed and celebrat­
ed by more than 200 members.
T h e Homecoming activities
this year drew more than 1,000
alumni back to the campus
where they once studied.
The association also sponsors
an annual senior breakfast in
May, an awards program and
donates books to the expanding
University Library.
Now in its second year of op­
eration is the high school liai­
son program
in Arizona.
Through the program a network
of alumni in se v e r a 1 high
schools throughout the state ad­
vise and recruit scholars to at­
tend ASU. '
The association will host the
Founder’s Day Dinner on Feb­
ruary 23.