Suzanne Rogers Remembers WT
In 1950, I entered the fourth grade at what was then called West Texas Elementary - the demonstration school at then West Texas State College. In UIL activities it was called WTE even though the junior high was in the same now moth-balled Education Building. First through fourth grades on first floor, choir, gym and fifth and sixth grades on second floor, and seventh and eighth grade on second floor.
It was a magnificent building - surely there are blueprints and photos of it with its three floors and basement where the cafeteria was where the WT football and basketball teams ate. There was a stage, library and a gymnasium. The floors on the hallway and stairs looked like marble.
After I graduated from Canyon High School, I entered the education and music classes at WTSC. That fall as a member of the choir we sang the Alma Mater as Lyndon Johnson (Senator then) was introduced as the next President of the U.S. (didn't happen at that election), but WT became WTSU then.
I took most of my elementary teaching courses in that building as did so many of the educators are and were Texas Panhandle teachers and administrators. Rex Reeves was one of the principals there before he was at the "new" elementary school later. Dr. Ruth Lowes helped all to learn to be the best teachers.
In the early 50s, R.O.T.C. would march chanting down the street on the north side of the Education Building. (Korean War era).
When I was in primary school, we would swim in a wonderful pool at the Buffalo Courts, and I took a swimming course (WTSU course) there as one of my physical education courses.
I was in the first group of students in 1959 who took music education courses, choir, and piano/organ lessons in the (new at that time) first Fine Arts Building which is scheduled to come down I believe when the new Fine Arts facility is completed.
Suzanne Lemons Rogers (B.S. in '67) is a resident of Amarillo.
It was a magnificent building - surely there are blueprints and photos of it with its three floors and basement where the cafeteria was where the WT football and basketball teams ate. There was a stage, library and a gymnasium. The floors on the hallway and stairs looked like marble.
After I graduated from Canyon High School, I entered the education and music classes at WTSC. That fall as a member of the choir we sang the Alma Mater as Lyndon Johnson (Senator then) was introduced as the next President of the U.S. (didn't happen at that election), but WT became WTSU then.
I took most of my elementary teaching courses in that building as did so many of the educators are and were Texas Panhandle teachers and administrators. Rex Reeves was one of the principals there before he was at the "new" elementary school later. Dr. Ruth Lowes helped all to learn to be the best teachers.
In the early 50s, R.O.T.C. would march chanting down the street on the north side of the Education Building. (Korean War era).
When I was in primary school, we would swim in a wonderful pool at the Buffalo Courts, and I took a swimming course (WTSU course) there as one of my physical education courses.
I was in the first group of students in 1959 who took music education courses, choir, and piano/organ lessons in the (new at that time) first Fine Arts Building which is scheduled to come down I believe when the new Fine Arts facility is completed.
Suzanne Lemons Rogers (B.S. in '67) is a resident of Amarillo.
posted by DrDave | 3:18 PM
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I, too, remember the training school at WT. I began kindergarten in the barracks which were located where the Cornette Library currently stands. We then went to primary school in the Education Building where our classes often were observed by education students. After the new elementary school was built in Canyon and we were transferred there, the barracks remained as additional college classrooms. Area UIL solo and ensemble contests were conducted in those old wooden buildings.
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