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THE CALIFORNIA BULLETIN

BUILDINGS

fom·-year curriculum for the preparation of teachers for publi�
::iecondary schools. In 1929 the school became officially a Teach­
ers College, fourteen students receiving degrees at the Com­
mencement in )Iay.

THE CAMPUS, BUILDINGS, AND EQUIPMENT
PRESENT BUILDINGS

Eighteen buildings, of which 12 are brick. are arranged in
a quadrangle on a campus of 28 acres. The entire campus has
been laid out by a landscape architect, ,Yith hedges, shade trers.
flower plots, and shrubbery. Many uncommon plants and trees
are included in the collection, which. besides adding beauty to
the campus, offers a valuable laboratory for students in the
biological sciences.

In the fall of 1930 an industrial arts curriculn111 was added.
Sjnce that time the services in the elementary fielcl have been
extended to include courses for the preparation of teachers in­
terested in speech correction and in mentally retarded classes.
Today the College, with three four-year curriculums and
several specialized services, rank& among the outstanding insti­
tuitions of its kincl in the state as well as in the Eastern IJnited
States. During- ] 948-] �J-W. jt serwd 1,000 fnJl-time students
and more than 150 teachers-in-service. It has a faculty and
administrative staff of 68 persons.
The sen-ice area of the College includes, for the prepara­
tion of elementary and secondary school teachers, ·\Yashington,
Fayette, Greene, and Somerset Counties, and for the prepara­
tion of teachers of industrial arts, all of "\Vestern Pennsylvania.
LOCATION

The State Teachers College at California, located in what
is known as the Tenth Teachers College District, is 35 miles
south of Pittsburgh; 16 miles from Uniontown; 25 miles from
\r ashington, Pennsylvania; 25 miles from "\Vaynesburg; and
(i6 miles from Somerset.
The 'College is most easily reached over U. S. Route 40,
which comes within four miles of California at )lalclen, a short
distance from "\Yest Brownsville, and over Pennsylrnnia Route
88.
Bus and railroad services add to its accessibility. One bus
route, between California and Roscoe, makes half-hourly con­
nections with the interurban trolley from Pittsburgh; others
furnish service to Brownsville, Charleroi, )fonessen, and Pitts­
burgh.

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Main Hall, the oldest building on the campus. was first used
in 1870. The administrative offices, the library. the auditorium.
and a number of classroom� are located in this building.

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North Hall, South Hall, and Dixon Hall, all of which facr
College Avenue, are student dormitories. )forth Hall was built
in 1874; South, in 1876; and Dixon, which in addition to serving­
as a dormitory includes the Georgian Dining Room, in 1907.
Fayette, Greene, Sonie1·set, and Washington Halls, temporary
dormitories for men, are located on the north side of the back
campus between Science Hall and tbe Heating Plant. They
were completed in January, 1947.
Science Hall, which stands near the center of the northern
boundary of the campus, was built in 1892 and remodeled in
1938. rrhe laboratories, equipped to acrommodate 30 students at
a time, are modern in eYery respect. Short-waYe Radio Station
W8S"CS is located on the third floor.
. Science A1111c.r. a temporar.,· structure located on the north
s1de of the campus, has been constructed recentl.v to accommo­
date classes in biological science. mathematics. ancl speech.
The Noss Laboratory School, built in Hl30 on the southeast
�orner of the campus, is a ceuter for student teaching-. inclucl­
mg observation and demonstration · work.
The l11clusfrial Arts Builcl1:ng, opened for use in 1939, is
on the east campus. This building is one of the best planned arnl
mo�t complete of its kind in the country. It proYicles labora­
tories, classrooms, offices, storage rooms, a reference library,
and shop facilities for printing, woodwork, painting, machine
shop, �heet metal, forging, welding, auto mechanics, electricity,
ceramics, and the graphic arts.