In celebration of 100 years of service to Buffalo State, The Record will re-print
one former article in each of its 10 issues this semester, chronicling the paper’s
rich history since its establishment in 1913. This week, we feature content that
appeared in Vol. XVII, Issue No. 15, published June 5, 1928.
Eighty-five years ago, The Record published architectural renderings of
what would become the campus we know today. In 1928, while the campus
was undergoing a state-of-the-art transformation across the West Side from its
location on Normal Avenue to its current spot, the school released the plans for a
five-building campus. Shown below are the campus’ original buildings, including
the trademark Rockwell Hall. Buffalo State was known as the Normal School at
Buffalo back then before undergoing a name change shortly after its move to the
State Teachers College at Buffalo.
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One hundred years ago this week, The Record published its first issue ever
toward the end of the Spring 1913 semester. Back then, The Record was much
different than the present-day publication the campus has come become familiar
with. For its first 15 years, The Record published three times a semester as
a literary magazine, featuring poems and short stories written by staffers with
the occasional news blurb mixed into its 16 pages. When the campus moved
from its location on Normal Street, the current Grover Cleveland High School,
to its current perch on Elmwood Avenue in 1931, The Record adopted a more
journalistic format that mirrors the newspapers of today. The editorial below ran
on the cover of the first issue, distributed to students for 15 cents a copy.