Oregon State University - Beaver Yearbook (Corvallis, OR)

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Memoritil Vmou THr: MI:M0RIAL union idea had its inception hack in 1919-10 in the minds of certain members of Gauntlet and ' isor, a self-apjX)inted honor so- ciety organized by ex-service men to promote the lart er interests of the campus and student body. The organization was short lived, but lived long enough to initiate several projects for student body action, the most important of which was the idea of a student social center in commemoration of their comrades who had lost their lives during the World war. The idea in its final form, as proposed to the student bodv in the fall of 1910, was gradually developed from a sense of the social needs of the campus enter- tained in the minds of Warren Daigh and A. G. Tonv Schille. These men, among others, la- mented the lack of facilities for holding large social functions, such as student body gatherings and dances, on the campus. They reported to Gauntlet and ' isor their convictions that a voluntary movement should be launched by that organization as a nucleus for building a social center on the campus. During the Christmas holidays of the year 1919-LO, while this initial movement was taking form, Warren Daigh made a trip to Ann Arbor as a delegate to a national convention of his fraternity, and became acquainted with Michigan ' s magnificent Student L ' nion building. He came back enthusiastic over the possibility of a student union building on this campus. Together with Tonv Schille he wrote to over fifty colleges and universities inquiring about such buildings. Replies showed that some of the student union buildings were being erected as memorials of the students and aliinini who lost their lives in the World war. I hus by the fall of 1910, sentiment was rapidly cr stallizing in favor of uniting the memorial idea with the student union building. The matter was presented to the EdwaudC. Allvvorth Aijiuj fr of Memarul i ' uson ■ V m: m )i DcJicatinn uf McmoriAl Union Site 1

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' , — ,.»•• ' t V I j I ' •■ ■ 1 -=rf ' i THE PERFECT TRIBUTE MEMORIAL UNION

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DoSStLI HtMllR«)V PriiiJeat » SUmcrial L ' nitii PtRlV (.1 HflH Chairman of Boar J of Dirtctort Student boJv, and a committee composed of R. S. Spec Keene, student body president, Vm. Bill Heiss, Tony Schille and Warren Daigh, was appointed to work out wavs and means. The committee consulted an architect, college executives and far-sii hted business men; and, realizini that the first step necessary to enlist general interest was to secure concrete action by the students themselves, recom- mended the student tax of three dollars a term, or nine dollars a year. This plan, approved by President Kerr, was promptly adopted bv a great mass meeting of the students and then put up to the Board of Regents (or ratification. The Regents considered the plan in the fall of 1911, a committee comprising Harold Readen, new student body president. Earl Price, first vice-president, Claude Palmer, editor of the Barometer, Tony Schille and Warren Daigh, outlining the whole project and standing cross examination on it. As a result, the plan was approved and went into effect for the first time with the beginning of the second quarter of the college year iijii-11. The building is outlined by students ■ •iS,t.VJ}iJti-iiJJJJ. MlJJViUll-l.li.lHMIM a S- »9 ' ' T- T T ■ ' :z23xz;