University of Texas Austin - Cactus Yearbook (Austin, TX)

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Complete restoration cost up to $37,000, but most felt it was a worthwhile cause for the University to invest in an historical antique. The stock exchange represents American ingenuity and innovation in the financial world. It created a climate for different ways of raising capital to finance the corporations that are the backbone of the U.S. and world economies today, Zuriel Loera, business junior, said. Other trading post owners included such prestigious schools as Harvard University, Uni- versity of Chicago and American University. I saw the trading post during a tour of the campus when I first came to the University, Marion Keith, education-French sophmore said. I think the post is a very interesting part of the business school. by Christina Dacey N - i I

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Feature Stock exchange post comes to UT pon entering the ultra-modern structure of the Graduate School of Business for the first time, students often looked surprised to see the brass and oak trading post located at the entrance. This old-fashioned structure was the New York Stock Exchange Trading Post Num- ber Five, which held a position on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange from 1929 until 1981. Thousands of stocks were exchanged at this post on Wall Street, including such stocks as Hupp Motor Car Corp., Eureka Vacuum Clean- er Corp., Bon Ami Co., Pure Oil Co., and Metro Goldwyn Mayer Pictures. I like to see the post when I come through the GSB, Lisa Moyers, marketing sophomore, said. I think that Wall Street activities and the stock market are a vital part of the business world, and the trading post represents all those things it ' s a good symbol for the business world. The University obtained the valuable tradii post through co-operation with the Stock change Post Preservation Program. There we only 14 trading posts preserved, and the ber Five post was the only one on display in southwest. Alumni Edward Randall III, Chairman of tl Board of the Rotan Mosle Financial Corpi ration, lead the effort to restore the trading pos I t mm

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' J . . IT T ' T X T T 7k k man, pre business junior, talks with nursing homes was just one aspect of the philanthrope effort: home rrsulent Nina MiCarty Apr. 18 Visiting nursing undertook by the Greek community. 394 Greeks