Campus Laboratory School

In 1917 the Campus Laboratory (Training) School (Model School), a 120 x 142 ft. one-story brick building with a basement and a red tiled roof, was built.

                           The basement was occupied by the Domestic Science and Art Department along with the lunchroom.  It was an excellent teacher-in-training laboratory facility. 

Model School Manual Training 1911

In 1921, the Model School took on the name Eastern Campus School. The Model School consisted of three departments: The Kindergarten-Primary Department includes the Kindergarten and the First and Second Grades; the Intermediate, the Third, Fourth, Fifth and Sixth grades; and the Junior High consists of the Seventh, Eighth and Ninth grade.

In 1924, the Campus School Junior High School Class moved from it’s old habitat in West Wing (later named Beadle Hall) to the Campus Training School.

In 1947 the name of the Eastern Campus School changed to Beadle Campus School.

On January 19, 1963, the Campus School was destroyed by fire, leaving 350 students without a school.

   The school had been used to train college students to be teachers in the elementary and secondary school systems.  

Eastern Breezes was the name of the newspaper for the campus high school and The Blue Jay was the name of the yearbook.   

In 1968, the Mundt Library was built where the Campus Laboratory School once stood. ⁸⁴

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