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every Thursday at 7:25 am (during the Fall) on KVOE AM
1400
Questions and Answers:
Question 8: This
ESU department has one of the oldest and longest
running programs in the State of
program.
Answer: (Oldest)
The Department of Communication and Theatre, a
unit of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
(Longest continuous running) The
program, Summer Theatre.
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1913 the department was known as the
Department of Public
Speaking and Expression, the head of this academic
program was
Professor Franklin L Gilson. He organized the Gilson
Players in
1915.
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1926 the department was reorganized and
named Department of
Speech.
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1955 the department inaugurated the first
Summer Theatre
program in
The information in this question and answer comes from
the ESU
Theatre Handbook, which can be found
online.
Question 7: Welch
Stadium on ESU campus, when did it open and who
is it named in honor of?
Answer: Opened
in 1937, the first football game was played on
Armistice Day, November 11, 1937.
Dedicated in 1960 to honor Francis George Welch,
long-time coach and
athletic director. Welch lead the
Hornet football program from 1928 to
42 and again from 1946 to 54, winning 115 games,
making Welch the
longest winning coach in ESU football history.
Question 6: What
is the name of the
Answer:
could carry on water research. He and his students used to
bring in
stones and plants from field trips and arrange them along
the stream.
Eventually a dirt dam was constructed and a lake
appeared."
From The Bulletin, January 20, 1962
Named for Lyman Child
educational exhibit for the World's Fair in
became professor of biology in 1897, later professor of
geology at KSN.
He lived in
Question 5: Are
there any buildings still standing from original
campus?
Answer: No,
the first two campus buildings burned to the ground
October 26, 1878. Plumb Hall,
erected 1916.
Question 4: The
early days for Kansas State Normal School (ESU) were not
always easy, which of the following mishaps and/or disasters
threatened to close
the school:
A. Grasshoppers
B. Appropriations for teachers training shut off by
the legislature
C. Entire faculty dismissed with the exception of the
President
D. A big land sale swindle and embezzlement
E. Tornado and torrential downpour
F. Drop in enrollment
G. Fire
Answer: All
of the above.
A. 1874
Grasshoppers, the effect on the area, forced salaries down by as
much as eighteen percent.
B. March
1876, the legislature shut off all appropriations for teacher train in
institutions.
C. June
1876, the entire faculty was dismissed except for President
Pomeroy.
D. 1877,
Plans were made to sell the school's endowment lands, but an agent
with EP Bancroft had sold portions of the land, collecting
payment for his
own use. Funds totaling $6000.
E. April 13,
1878 a tornado tore off two-thirds of the roof from the main
building and half the roof from the smaller building. Then the
torrential
downpour that followed dumped ed
water from roof to basement.
F. 1878,
enrollment dropped to 90 Students
G. Saturday
October 26, 1878,
burned to the ground.
Question 3: How
many different names has
what years did these changes occur?
Answer: 4
Names:
Question 2: The
20 - acre track of land secured for the
was part of an Indian Reserve, which tribe was it
reserved for?
Answer: The
Wyandotte Indian Reserve, commonly know as Floats, this
particular reserve was number 25. It was one mile square which
would be from 6th
Avenue to
Indians did not live on the land it was simply
reserved for them.
In 1863 the land was owned by Giles E Filley of
the Charter Oak cookstoves. Mr.
Filley gifted the land to the State of
the Normal School.
Information on the Wyandotte Reserve was provided by
Land Surveyor
Steve Brosemer of GeoTech, Inc.
Question 1:
When was the school established? Where were the first
classes held?
Answer: In
Old Stone, on the second floor, at 7th and Constitution.
The following is a quote from the book "History
of
County,
Tuesday Night at the Museum. Please join us October 09, 2011,
7 P, ."Howe- lo- ween", at the Richard Howe House,
come sit around the fire and tell historically scary
stories, bring
flashlight, lawn chair and blanket.
"C. V. Eskridge, a
representative in the Legislature of 1863,
introduced a bill in the House providing for the establishment
of a
Senate by Perry B Maxson,
and it became a law March 3, 1863. A
commission to select a site was appointed by Governor Carney,
and a
20 - acre tract was secured.
The school opened with eighteen
students, February 15, 1865, in the upper room of the newly
erected
furniture, and the equipment consisted of a Bible and a
dictionary.
Seats were borrowed from the Congregational Church.
Lyman B
Kellogg, a young graduate of the Norma University of
Illinois, was
the principal, and only teacher. From this small but
significant
beginning has grown a magnificent institution, the
two in number, was graduated in 1867. these
graduates were Mary
Jane Watson
and Ellen Plumb."
2011
Question 8:
shops. However, there was one pie shop on
popular with college students, in the 40's. What was the name
of this Pie
Shop and where was it located? Share your favorite
memory.
Answer: Wrightman's Pie Shop, located at
Question 7: During
the Prohibition era a dozen or more of these local
businesses sold liquor. What type of business were they and how
did
they get around the Prohibition Amendment?
Answer: Drug
Stores. As a way of getting around the Prohibition
Amendment, under the pretense of keeping within the
law, drug stores
sold liquor on prescription from physicians for alleged
medicinal purposes.
These drug stores did a thriving business; without the
liquor revenue, they
could not exist.
Although one drug store, Kraum,
later Kraum & Son, did not sell
liquor or permit it on premises. Kraum was
established in 1892 and
was still in business in 1961.
Question 6: There
was a time that it seemed as though there was one of
these on every corner in
why they are greatly reduced in number?
Answer: Gasoline
and Oil Service Stations as they are
listed the Polk's
Emporia City Directory in 1946 (65 years ago) had 32
listings. In the
1961 Polk directory, under Gasoline Stations, there
are 43 (50 years ago)
listings. With the "Service" dropped from the
heading, but many of the
businesses listed still had service in their name. By 1995 (16
years ago)
under Gasoline Stations, there are only 12 listings,
with the word
"Service" dropped from most of the
business names.
Self-Service might be the blame for fewer Gasoline
Stations. Or
increased number of pumps at one location.
Do you remember the last "Full
Service Station"?
Question 5: Today there
are only two lumber yards in
after WWII there were as many as five lumber yards. Some of these
were still in business in the 1960's*. Can you name at least one
of these
lumber yards and its location?
Answer: 1946
*Burgner-Bowman-Matthews Lumber
Co,
*Home Lumber & Supply Co,
*The Kansas Lumber Co,
617 Mechanic
*McKee-Fleming Lumber Co,
Corner 5th and Congress, 215 W 5th Av
(the only one with buildings still
standing)
Smith Lumber Co
Question 4:
Local Creameries and Dairies were common in this
area.
Name one of the Creameries or Diaries and share a your
favorite memory of that establishment.
Answer:
Ely Dairy,
Emporia Creamery Co, later changed to Beatrice Foods
Co,
212 Commercial.
Hoch Dairy, Rd 2
Meadow Brook Creamery, 22 Commercial
Victory Cremery Co, Later
Victory Foods Inc, 22-24 E 7th
Question 3:
Fifty years ago
Answer:
A Dispensary is a charitable facility where medicines
are
furnished and medical advice is available .
Hospital, known as
Hospital, known as
part and The Hillcrest (high rise apartment building) in
the old part.
Question 2:
Reminiscing back to the years between
1946 to 1964 what businesses were in the 400 Block of Commercial on the
east side of the street, where the new
Answer:
402 Court House
410 Polk-A-Dot Café, Dabbs Bros
Hotel (1946)
410 Siesta Hotel and Cafeteria(1964)
412
412 William Cook Acct., Farrow Real Est., Moon
Abstract Co (1964)
412 1/2 Good Eats Café (1946)
412 1/2 ---- (1964)
414 Roberts Leather Goods (1946)
414 Roberts Leather Goods (1964)
416 Polly Ann Grill (1946)
416 Roberts Leather Goods (1964)
418 National Home & Auto Store (1946)
418 GAC Finance Corp (1964)
420 Bratton Home & Auto Supply (1946)
420 Bratton Home & Auto Supply (1964)
422 Lee's Barber Shop (1946)
422 Sportsman's Barber Shop (1964)
422 1/2
422 1/2
424 Farmers Supply (1946)
424 Murphy Finance Co (1964)
424 1/2
Foundation for Infantile Paralysis Inc. (1946)
424 1/2 Alcoholics Anonymous (1964)
426 - 428 Harry A Ropfogel Clothing (1946)
426 - 428 Harry A Ropfogel, Inc Clothing (1964)
426 1/2 - 428 1/2 Above Ropfogel's. In 1946 the second floor was occupied by
small businesses and apartments. Including the
Control Office) and
By 1964 the second floor was mostly vacant with a only
a few occupied
apartments. The third floor was vacant.
Question 1:
Gone are the days of neighborhood grocers and meat
markets. At one time
three and share your favorite memory from at least one.
Answer:
Bales Super Market & Café 325 Commercial
David W Barb
Benders Food Market
W H Brooks and Sons
Burch's Market
Burt Grocery
Cannon's Market 505 S Commercial &
Chet's Food Market
Economy Superette
Albert T Grant
Great
Hanna and Keefer Market
Hoffmans Food Market
Houser Suburban Grocery
Horton's Market
Kent Food Market
Mrs Sarah M. Miller 1028 Exchange St
Mossman's Food Market
Don L Moyes
Normal Grocery
Lino Ramirez 12 S Arundel St
Rayls Food Market
Reeble's 124 and
Rose's Neighborhood Grocery
Harold Snider
Stair Grocery
Star Grocery
Stotts Grocery
Lester T Tate
12 Avenue Grocery 302 E 12th Av
VanderVelde Bros
Wieland Grocery
Wisler and Hendrickson
Wynn Grocery
Mrs. Lillian Young
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