Howell Hall
Named after Cameron President Vernon C. Howell, Howell
Hall has housed many academic departments. Built in 1968,
the Department of Business first occupied the rooms. Rooms
204 and 205 were one long accounting room with rows upon rows of
tables. Electrical outlets on the floor provided electricity
to the heavy calculators on each table. Just next door in
room 203, the click clack ping of typewriters filled the
air and drifted down the hallway. Business classes moved
to Nance-Boyer and finally to their present location.
Downstairs, the Department of Home Economics filled the
air with the cling clang of pots and pans. The delicious
aromas drifted out the door to entice students sitting
outside on the west porch where the decorative concrete
blocks at one time stretched all the way to the top. One
too many bird made its nest in the holes however, and the
blocks were torn down to a more manageable level. The
Department of Home Economics worked to become more
manageable as well. It merged with the Department of
Psychology and moved over to Nance-Boyer to create the
Department of Psychology and Human Ecology.
Today, the Department of Computing and Technology fills the upper floors with new sounds: the quiet buzz of computers from the computer lab and mechanical whirls and beeps from the mechanics and electronic labs.
Cameron University serves as an integral part of OneNet, Oklahoma's statewide telecommunications network. In doing so, students, educators and local area businesses are able to connect to a communications infrastructure that is one of the most comprehensive in the nation. Utilizing state-of-the-art technology on CU's campus, students from local areas, across the nation or around the world can interactively participate with instructors and other students in one of two distance-learning classrooms located downstairs in Howell Hall.
Located in Howell Hall:
