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central yesterday 16 SPRING 2011 Remember the dolphins and their 1939 debut Green-tiled swimming depths stretch across the front entry to Einstein Brothers Bagels and continue around the restaurant, symbolizing much more than a retro recycle from one of the campus’ oldest buildings. When Central Missouri students finally got a swimming pool in 1939, it was big news. The day was Dec. 13, 1939, when the university celebrated the dedication of the Walter E. Morrow Physical Education and Health Building. At that point, the campus had 15 buildings and 1,631 students. Its largest annual enrollment had been the previous year at 2,590. There were 96 faculty members, and so far, 100,000 students had attended with some 20,000 earning certificates or diplomas. Students had waited quite awhile to get a pool. It didn’t happen when Dockery Gymnasium was constructed in 1904. It happened in 1939, thanks to the Works Projects Administration. The Depression era, New-Deal program provided $90,000 toward the $270,000 used to build the 36,000-square-foot facility. It featured two gymnasiums, one for men and another for women; a basketball arena with seating for 2,000 spectators; a health center; locker rooms; showers, classrooms and special purpose rooms; offices, laundry and other special facilities. Its Gothic design was considered modern. The swimming pool held center stage in the new building and became home for a new athletics and entertainment tradition, men’s and women’s swim teams. Reading about the Dolphins swim team and its high school companion, the Dolphinettes, and seeing their old photos bring back some colorful moments. Call it a carnival or circus, for the building’s dedication, the teams presented their first public show March 28, 1940 — 16 water skits for the 250 people lucky enough to get tickets, since seating in the balcony above the pool was limited. Think what the evening was like by the titles of some of the acts alone: Fish Antics, Snake Charmer, Water Pyramids, Trained Seals. The Student reported, “The girls have obtained new suits of velvet, lastex, scarlet in color, with a black dolphin on the front. A red ‘W’ is on the dolphin which has a red eye.” The teams continued to perform and compete until around 1980, garnering collective and individual titles at conference, state and national levels. Other than swim records of wins and losses, history, though, is somewhat sketchy about the teams and how they ended, but in the new recreation center, their legacy lives on.
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