Catalog of Howard Payne College, 1954-1955 Page: 26
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BULLETIN OF HOWARD PAYNE COLLEGE
Taylor Hall. The boys dormitory is located on Fisk Avenue
at the southeast corner of the main campus. The building is twostory
and fireproof throughout. It contains guest rooms, apartments
for the dean of boys and his family, reception rooms; and
rooms for one hundred and sixty boys.
Ministerial Apartments. This building is on the southeast side
of Fisk Avenue, opposite the Physical Education Building. It
contains twelve efficiency apartments for ministers and their
families.
Federal Works Administration Buildings. Under the Mead
Act for Colleges educating Veterans under the G.I. Bill of Rights,
Howard Payne College has received from Camp Bowie and set
up on Fisk Avenue opposite the Main Campus, a music building
for band and related activities; an Art Building, containing a laboratory
and large class rooms; a class room and office building
combined. These are temporary buildings to care for the large
enrollment of students in the post-war period and will be removed
when permanent buildings can be erected on the Main Campus.
Other temporary buildings which have been moved from
Camp Bowie are: A Public Relations building, a biology laboratory,
a Business Administration building, a museum building, an
apartment house and an industrial building.
Science Hall. The College purchased from the city schools,
the four-acre campus and building known as the Center Avenue
High School. This structure contains three stories and a basement,
with eleven large class rooms and several offices. This building
has been equipped for work in Chemistry, Physics, and Biology.
Walker Memorial Library. In the fall of 1952 the new library
building was opened for service. The building is named for Mr.
John Allen Walker and Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Walker who endowed
Howard Payne College. In it are memorial rooms to former
President James Harvey Grove, Mrs. Grove and their daughter,
Dr. Roxy Grove. The trustees and club room is named for
Mr. W. A. Bell. The Treasure room for rare books bears the
name of Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Walker. One of the graduate study
rooms is in memory of the Joe Davis Family of Lometa. The
lobby entrance is named for Judson Taylor Quinn, a volunteer
for foreign missions, who recently died. The reference reading
room is in honor of Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Wasson who gave their
entire estate to Baptist causes. Friends of Dr. M. E. Davis, led by
Dr. and Mrs. G. Kearnie Keegan of Nashville and Rev. R. C.26
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Howard Payne College (Brownwood, Tex.). Catalog of Howard Payne College, 1954-1955, book, April 1955; Brownwood, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth46498/m1/28/: accessed April 30, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Howard Payne University Library.