Brigham Young University - Banyan Yearbook (Provo, UT)

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Gordon B. Hinckley Joseph Fielding Smith 27

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HKfttiiaiiir.j ' . ' : u . . ADMINISTRATION Dr. Ernest L. Wilkinson, President THE PAST YEAR JL | ineteen hundred and sixty-five was the year at BYU when a large portion of the University ' s destinies became realities. While the school will con- tinue to improve its facilities and grad- ually increase enrollment, the year marked a plateau of which many aspects have been in the planning stages for some 14 years. Newly opened for opera- tion were the new Wilkinson Center (comparable to a student union build- ing), five seven-story Deseret Dorms, the Harris Fine Arts Center, an exten- sion to the George Albert Smith Field- house, already the largest in the West- ern Athletic Conference, and the all steel 26,000 seat football stadium. Still under construction was the new Stephen L Richards Physical Education Build- ing, with four gyms, three swimming pools and many other useful facilities. It was in 1950, with the appoint- ment of a dynamic attorney-educator. Dr. Ernest L. Wilkinson, as President of Brigham Young University, that much of today ' s reality began. It has been under President Wilkinson that the BYU campus, faculty, studentbody, curriculum, and academic organization were integrated into one of the world ' s important universities. Eighty of the present 100 buildings of the spacious campus were built during his adminis- tration. Because of the great emphasis he placed on scholarship. President Wil- kinson was instrumental in completely revising the curriculum: the original five colleges were expanded into 12; an Air Force ROTC unit was organized; and the two year certificate and doc- toral programs were inaugurated. In January of 1964, Dr. Wilkinson re- signed his office at BYU to seek the Utah Senate nomination; a close defeat was followed by his reappointment as 28