Ohio University - Athena Yearbook (Athens, OH)

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iii !■■ ' - mi rei.-L. CUi aiPew fwmt When the first brick was used to start the first building on the Ohio University campus, it was to build a two-story, two-room brick structure at the cost of $500. Only a sundial behind Memorial Auditorium marks where that building stood and Cutler Hall, McGuffey and Wilson are the only buildings that remain from that period. Since t hen a hundred times the cost has been spent to build structures ten times the size of that first building. And the campus has grown to what it is today Eleven-dorm project

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] « m m j People, prols, personol problems. Joke slaxed flTof people, profs, and personal proJ ims, you went to the Frontier Room j ne neighboring Bunch of Grapes Room. Dg airs, at the lowest level of t he build- ing j| |oked more and laughed, because you ipeted at the same time. In the lounges upstairs you often ignored your magazine or television to tell a friend your troubles, or just to inform someone about how the world crises should be settled. And while you talked and listened and your mind was stimulated, your student leaders meeting in the same building dis- cussed objectively and guided you. Unnoticed television.

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Physical education plant. Projects amounting to ten and a half million dollars have just been completed, are in progress and about to be built. These include the East Green 1 1-dorm project which will house 2100 men when completed. The Commerce Building has already become another landmark on the OU campus by being the tallest building yet. And the latest de- velopment are plans for the first unit — a skating rink — of a three unit physical education plant. Funds for these projects come from three sources: bonds, state funds and contributions made by students themselves. Site of first OU building, 1808. Growth of a building. i E II H 111 nut- '