Helen left Matfield Green after graduating from Chase County High School in 1921, and headed for Manhattan, Kansas, to attend Kansas State Agricultural College. While the title for today's post comes from the college's Alma mater, selected by students in 1903, I find it ironic that Helen's photograph, taken shortly after graduation from KSAC, was taken in 1926 in Manhattan, New York.
While attending KSAC as a freshman in 1922, Helen lived at 920 Laramie, as women's dormitories had not, yet been built. Maud, Helen's mother, received a letter from the Dean of Women at KSAC, Mrs. Mary Pierce Van Zile. The Dean informed Maud that should Helen have any problems adapting to college life to please contact her for assistance. Wow! Is it no wonder that the first women's dorm built at KSAC in 1928 was named Van Zile Hall?
Helen's first semester of classes at KSAC included chemistry lecture, recitation, and lab; foods, recitation and lab; physical education; folk dancing; and college rhetoric. Second semester classes included physics recitation and lab; clothing I, recitation and lab; gardening; English literature I; costume design; folk dancing; and chorus.
Helen took an interesting mix of classes by today's college standards. It's not often one sees a gardening class offered at the college level! In our next post, about Helen's social life, we'll see why the folk dancing classes came in so handy.
--Lynne
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