THURSDAY, AUGUST 1
From 1 to 3235
Phone
Seventy-seven yea
was no problem to
rectly to the telepho
at the University
but one telephone.
Today there are 3235
on the campus and begi
day, it will again be
off-campus callers to
to the telephone desi
caller has the number
This direct dialing
the main feature of th
tern that is designed to
to the campus.
The Bellefonte •
Watchman, in a to
graph, announced on
1883, that "the Stat
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June 22,
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A CIRCUIT in the new dial equipment is checked by Harold Snook
of the Bell Telephone Company. This circuit is one of thousands
housed in the new Telephone Building, behind Boucke
now is connected by telephone bought out the Commercial sys-
to the outside world."
Earlier, the College catalog for
1882-83 reported that a line is un
der construction between Belle
fonte and the College and that it
should be in use during the school
year.
By 1886, the University had;
been connected with Lemont, as!
well as Bellefonte, and in 1888 it:
was reported that State College;
has "eight houses from which one)
may have instant communications
with any one of 166 other tele-!
phones of the Bellefonte Ex-i
change and with 1800 othersl
through the Central Pennsylvania'
Telephone Co."
Dr. George W. Atherton,
whose 24 years as head of Penn
State brought a new era to the
struggling school, was respons
ible for the first telephone on
the campus, • although, Mrs.
Helen Govier recalls, he always
considered the telephone "an
indipensable nuisance."
The first telephones were locat
ed in the President's Office, the'
Business Office, Engineering
Building, Agriculture Building,
and the Registrar's Office.
State College opened its own
exchange, which was located at
130 E. College Ave., in 1898 and
in 1900 there were 40 positions on
the board, including the tele
phones in campus buildings.
Competition arose in 1898
when the Commercial Tele
phone Co. was organized by in
fluential Slate College and
Bellefonte residents "to render
efficient service." Some Uni
versity offices had both ser
vices. The Bell Telephone Co.
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tern in 1926.
More than 25 years later, on
Oct. 3, 1925. the University began
operation of its own switchboard.
It was located in Room 105, Old
Main.
There were three operators and
the campus patrol was responsiblei
for handling calls at night. The
board had five trunk lines to they
town, about 150 extensions, and
the number was State College 500.;
Following World War U it be- I
came evident that the growth
of the University was making
it impossible to locate people by
name and officials insisted that
extension numbers be used in
placing campus calls. The in
stallation of the present dial ,
system in 1950 necessitated call- 1
inn by number. 1
The campus dial system. with
headquarters in Willard Building,l
followed the installation of the
dial system in State College in
1936. When the dial system was
introduced in the community, the
University number was changed
from 500 to 711. Later, this num- ,
lber was changed to 6711, as they
(community system grew, and in:
1950, became 8441. More recently,
as the result of further expansion,
the number was changed to AD
ams 8-8441.
The system going into operation
Sunday will combine the separate
!the
hall switchboard and
!the administrative office system
into one University telephone sys
tem: The residence hall system
was started with a small switch
board in Atherton Hall in 1938
and greatly expanded with the
installation of the switchboard. in
Simmons Hall.
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The budget problem has been
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when the Assembly became tied,
up in revenue raising problems.
Gov. Lawrence has iephtedly,
said taxes must come first, then
appropriations
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