Assumption High School - Crusader Purple Raider Yearbook (Windsor, Ontario Canada)

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over an extruded period of time. The architec¬ tural planning is already in process and the first of the new buildings, the Memorial Science Building, is nearing completion. This building will he dedicated to the memory of the more than 200 former Assumption students who gave their lives in W orld War II. But the construc¬ tion of the other buildings planned has been made contingent upon tin assurance of the nec¬ essary funds for each building before ground is broken. rite development plan shows the proposed building expansion am! landscape changes. Be¬ fore setting out on the program of expansion it was decided that it was desirable to retain as far as po--ible all that was established and familiar both in architecture and landscape. Accordingly the buildings along Huron Line will be pre- served intact and present and future expansion will lie projected in a northerly and easterly direction. I lie park-like character of the front¬ age on the Detroit River and the fart that Lon¬ don St. is one of the chief thoroughfares through the city determined the importance of the main entrance to the campus at this point. When the new buildings are erected this driveway from Loudon St. will lead into an inner campus around which all college activities will centre. New drives and walks through this enclosed quadrangular area will he created as the need arises, and the planting of trees and shrubs will bring hack the park-like character it enjoyed in past decades. As one enters the inner campus from the north along the driveway from Ixmdon St., on the right-hand side stands historic Assumption Church first erected in 1702 replacing at that time the Huron Indian Mission Church which stood on the shore of the river. At the head of the main driveway ami screening from view the central heating plant, will he erected a now administration building. To the east is the new Science Building which will house the depart¬ ment of Physios, Chemistry, Biology, Psychology and Mathematics. North of this building will he the new Library with stack capacity for 65,000 volumes, and containing also classroom facilities for the humanities and the social sciences. On the corner of London St. and Patricia Hoad will he a theatre-auditorium, which as an auditorium w ill have a seating capacity of 1500, and will he so designed that its rapacity inav lie reduced to half tliut number for the presentation of plays. I his building will house also a little theatre and music rooms, classrooms eluhrooms. etc. Vs planned the theatre-auditorium will serve a- a social union building and will he one of the most attractive features of the campus. Its accessibility und location at the main entrance to the college will insure its use by both college students and the public for M cial activities. A cafeteria for the use of college students will he provided in this building. A group of dormitories for 200 or more resident college students is also being planned. To the south of the group of buildings is the athletic and recreational field providing facili¬ ties for football, baseball, tennis, etc. New hand- hall courts have been erected and the gymnasium has been doubled in size. Additional property near the campus has been purchased and is available for the varsit sports, ami the erection of a field house ami stadium is being plunned by the DadV Club of the College. BOOK STOKE ■ i i

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Assumption College Development Flan O n thf. south shore of the Detroit River, in the residential district of the village of Sandwich, Ontario (part of the city of Windsor, since 1935) Assumption College is located on land donated to the Church by the Huron Indians who occupied this territory when the missionaries first arrived. Beginning as a High School in 1857, in a build¬ ing which now forms the south wing of the group of buildings along Huron Line, Assump¬ tion College became a college in fact as well as in name in 1870, when the Basilian Fathers ar¬ rived to conduct the College courses. The enrol¬ ment that first year was 29. In the intervening years it has grown steadily until today there are over 600 students enrolled in the College De¬ partment, and this year has seen the largest graduating class in the history of the college when 120 young men received their B.A. degrees. (There are, moreover, about 900 students attend¬ ing Assumption High School, and over 300 adults enrolled in Night School classes in both College and High School subjects.) Dormitory ' facilities, once more than sufficient for all hoarding students, both High School and College, are now limited to the accommodation of about 300 High School students only. All out- of-town College students must seek lodging and board in the homes of the community. The oldest building, South Hull, a simple building of classic design erected in 1855-57, now houses the departments of Music and the Manual Arts on the first floor and provides some dormi¬ tory accommodation on the second and third. Centre Hall dating from 1875 and possessing good architectural proportions is the most ex¬ tensive building on the campus and contains the administrative offices und the faculty residential quarters. An east wing to this building was erected in 1881 as Dining Hall and Infirmary. The Gothic Chapel erected in 1907 forms a north wing. St. Michael ' s Hull erected in 1912. is a dor¬ mitory building for High School students. St. Denis Hall, the gy mnasium, constructed in 1915. and enlarged during the present year, contains exercise rooms, lockers, showers and swimming pool, und when remodelled will provide space for athletic offices, two basketball floors, and an indoor field 105 x 120 feet. The Recitation build¬ ing erected in 1927 und at that time providing sufficient accommodation for classrooms and library facilities for both the High School and College Departments, now is completely occu¬ pied by the High School alone. The existing buildings are served by a central heating plant which in 1945 was equipped with two new boil¬ ers and space allowed for the addition of a third should the need arise. e When, in 1945, it became necessary to increase the capacity of the institution to a minimum of 500 College students, and to improve and en¬ large the physical plant, the college authorities selected an architect and directed the prepara¬ tion of a general development plan to control the necessary g rowth and expansion. At the same time a financial program was adopted which contemplated the solicitation of funds to a 9 4 ' ft TM- 9 9 t i n WkLj 1 f £ 65 Jit, HI hh ■» -

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ASSUMPTION ( ALLEtiE AUXILIARY IIW YEA It KOOK COMMITTEE Rev. E. L. Pokriefkn, G.S.R. Moderator Griold J. Gt ' llIIIHT E tcrliii|t Priming Go. Patrick G. Jcuklc, Editor Jetikle Letter Pro X OITkpI Printer Noel Wild Photographer Trunk Her 1 ' iildirity Director l.ucicn Benetcan Circulation Maniger