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The
sign for Johnson Hall
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The
first health center was built in 1957, replacing an earlier Ferris
Institute hospital which had burned. Dr. Frederick Birkam served
as staff physician from 1969-1976.
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In 1976, he became Chief of Medical Services. The building
was renamed in his memory in 1988.
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Emmanuel
M. Clark served on the Ferris faculty for 40 years. His subjects
included history, geography, civics, art and agriculture.
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He
also served as interim president (1935), business manager, and Dean
of the College Preparatory division.
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Taggart Field, Ferris State's football stadium
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Ferris
State University
Ferris State University (FSU, Ferris) is a
public university with its main campus in Big Rapids, Michigan,
USA. Founded in 1884 as the Big Rapids Industrial School by
Woodbridge Nathan Ferris, an educator from New England who
later served as governor of the State of Michigan and finally
in the US Senate where he remained until his death in 1928.
The school was noteworthy at its time for accepting female
students beginning with its first graduating class. It is
also the only public university in Michigan to be founded
by an individual.
Today Ferris is the ninth largest university in the state
with 14,381 students studying on its main campus, at one of
the 19 off-campus locations across the state, or online.
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