1930s, 1930-1939

The campus directories offer information about students and faculty including both home and office addresses, hometowns of students, phone numbers for students and faculty, and home addresses and spouse names for faculty. The Leader created the first directory in 1930. As attendance grew, so did the size of the directories. The campus directories continued to be physically printed until 2015 when they transitioned to a digital format.

The Kansas State Teacher’s College of Hays Leader created the first campus directories, beginning in 1930. Responsibility for creating the directories then changed hands to the writers of the Reveille Yearbook in 1934, before becoming an official college publication in 1937. Once the college began publishing the faculty and student directories, the publication changed departments multiple times. After the staff of the Reveille Yearbook, authorship for the directory transferred to the Seventh Cavalry local honorary leadership fraternity, Centrex (a telephone company), and The Society for Collegiate Journalists, and finally, University Relations.

The University Archives at Fort Hays State University has more than 250 copies of student and faculty directories for years from 1930 to 2015 when the directories were transitioned to a born digital format. The digital format allowed information to be updated after the start of the semester, and made the information more readily available. While student information is still available to current staff and enrolled students, this information is no longer made available to the general public.

The Kansas State Teacher’s College Leader staff wrote and published the first directories, with cooperation of Mid-Continent Engraving Company in Wichita, and the Consolidated Printing and Stationery Company in Salina, Kansas. Eventually, the college/university press took over the printing and publication of the directories, which led to local advertisements being removed from copies for a brief period during the 1930’s. As creation of the directories changed departments, advertisements made their way back onto the directory pages.

Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) defines directory information as information contained in an education record of a student that would not generally be considered harmful or an invasion of privacy if disclosed. For more information see "Legal Status" under "Additional Description".