Ohio University - Athena Yearbook (Athens, OH)

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FTER three years of anticipation and eager expectation it has been .announced that the student body, within another twelve months, will be gathering for convocations, musicals, and college plays in a new and spacious auditorium. The building, seating several thousand people, will contain equipment for staging the finest dramatic and musical productions, and a splendid pipe organ for daily noon-hour or vesper recitals. All classes, with the possible exception of the class of 1928, are familiar with the details of the campaign inaugurated to secure for the University the finest auditorium to be found on any campus in the state. For the benefit of the Freshmen a brief resume is made. Early in May. 1922. a number of prominent alumni came together in a meeting which gave birth to the idea of a gift building for their Alma Mater. Plans for a structure such as they conceived called for an estimated expenditure of $300,000. An organization of students, alumni, faculty members, and citi- zens of Athens was effected to secure pledges for an Auditorium Fund. The efforts of the soliciting groups were not successful immediately. Many exten- uating circumstances and conditions were apparent for their failure to attain an early success. Continuous work on the project, however, has brought the total amount pledged and paid into the treasury to well near the $200,000 mark. The finance committees of the State Legislature, without hesitancy, approved a request of the state in the amount needed to complete the fund. The new building, therefore, will be under way shortly after Commencement, 1925. B 1ll £Sfefeacv 14

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x x - fMJ£T M E K A Super Hall -» H - IO imperative had become the need for larger quarters and more complete equipment in the Department of Physics, Engineering, and Manual Train- ing that a new building was planned and begun in the late fall of the present year to house those departments. The new structure is located on President Street opposite Science Hall just below and next to the new gymnasium. It is built in the form of a T with a 100 foot front and fifty feet deep. The back part of the building (and of the T ) is 60 feet deep by 6 feet wide. The first floor is to be used for auto mechanics work, under the Professor- ship of George McLaughlin. Prof. McLaughlin and Prof. A. A. Atkinson will occupy the second floor together, for iron work and manual training. The third floor is to be given over entirely to the Physics Department and the fourth floor to Civil Engineering. The building is built of cut stone up to the second-story windows: from there up it is to be of brick. When entirely completed, which is expected to be by the first of September, it will be approximately the same height as the men ' s gymnasium, at a total cost of $200,000. Unusual honor has been given to Dr. Charles W. Super, former President of Ohio University as well as Dean of the College of Liberal Arts, in the naming of the new hall. Dr. Super has been a life-long resident of Athens. Although quite old now. he is one of her most honored and respected citizens as those for generations to come will be reminded while enjoying the oppor- tunities offered by Super Hall. -ct g LLJ 1 5||g 5[C - 15