The Crisis of the Depression

• Essay on SFA during the Crisis of the Depression

• The Threat of Closing

• Memories of the Depression: Oral History by Dr. Bobby Johnson

• SFA and the Public Works Administration

• Reflections on the Depression by Lois Patterson

• A Demonstration Farm on Campus

Above, the Legislative Review Panel has a formal lunch on the Vista in 1932.  The students and faculty of the Home Economics Department prepared and served the event.  The entertainment was provided by the band and choirs.  Use of the Vista for official functions like graduations as well as for picnics and even exercise classes was common in the early years before there was a university center or an auditorium.  Aikman Gym was the backup in case of bad weather. For enlargement >

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