Photo of White Gym--constructed in 1924
Fairfax Field named--baseball
Photo of first co-ed Forensics and Debate team
Article from PICKET "Faculty Flappers" describes effect on campus when two female instructors chose the bob as their hairdo
All photographs in this display were taken by Ms. Tara Carlisle.
1924: CELEBRATE A HUNDRED YEARS!
Fall term 2024's display is a look back to another century. It was the "Roaring Twenties," and even here at Shepherd, celebration and change were occurring. The celebration here was the 50th anniversary of the first graduating class of 1874 and the changes included the addition of a gym building to campus, new campus organizations, and new ideas.
Outside of campus, mass-produced items were making life more comfortable for the general public, new discoveries were announced, and how Americans perceived the world and their place in it changed.
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All contents are listed from the back of the case to the front
Source Citations
1925 Cohongoroota pg 82-83 "The Fiftieth Anniversary Pageant" by WHS White (center)
1924 Cohongoroota pg 87-88, "EXAMINATION AND FIRST COMMENCEMENT AT SHEPHERD COLLEGE, JUNE 18,19, 20, 1874" Reprinted from the Shepherdstown Register, June 27,1874
First Winter Olympics held--Olympic Fact Sheet
George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue first performed
Kleenex tissue first produced and marketed
Robert Frost wins Pulitzer Prize for Poetry--book is NEW HAMPSHIRE: A POEM WITH NOTES AND GRACE NOTES
Statue of Liberty declared a national monument
Native Americans formally granted US Citizenship
Edwin Hubble proved the existence of other galaxies