Volume 11 , Issue 22

1938 - Northwestern Gets Two Dormitories

As The Oklahoman reported, December 18, 1938, on page 24, the college at Alva was given $220,000 project for Dormitory work for boys and girls dormitories at Northwestern State Teachers College.

Actual work on the construction of two dormitories at Northwestern State Teachers College was expected by December 19, 1938, when Dr. Dr. E. E. Brown, president of the college gave the announcement.

The project was brought about by a public works administration grant and loan, involving $220,000. The two dormitories, one for boys and the other for girls, would give Northwestern its first college living quarters for students.

Private homes and apartment houses had been accommodating the 900 students at Northwestern in the past. President brown felt assured that dormitories would bring about an increase in the enrollment at Northwestern sufficient to fill the rooms in the two new buildings.

So ... I was trying to think back to the oldest dormitories on campus. Were the two dormitories Vinson Hall (on the Eastside) and Shockley Hall on the Westside of campus?
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