Carnegie Mellon University - Thistle Yearbook (Pittsburgh, PA)

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Morewood Gardens Morewood Gardens has become an integral part of the campus life of a Carnegie Tech co-ed. It supplies her with more than adequate living facilities at a surprisingly low cost. There are 233 rooms available which, at capacity, are able to house 429 girls. Morewood held that capacity this year until Thanksgiving. Now there are five vacant rooms which are used for visitors to our campus. Each room is equipped with a chest of drawers, a bed, a bookcase, a desk, and a chair for each girl. Closet space is plentiful. There are 126 baths, some privately attached to the rooms, and others not attached. On each floor there is a utility room complete with an ironing board, washtubs, brooms, mops, and a hotplate. To the outside viewer Morewood appears to be one building but, upon examination it is found that there arc actually four separate buildings connected by an open lobby. Each section is known as a tower. Each tower is divided from the next by a firewall and has its own elevator. Before Morewood came into ownership of the college it was a very exclusive apartment house. To have the address 1060 Morewood Avenue at that time showed that one had very good taste. Carnegie Tech took it over to be used as a dormitory for girls and opened it in the fall of 1948. The dormitory, however, is not only a place to live to the students at Carnegie Tech. Since the present Carnegie Union is not big enough to accommodate all the activities that the campus sponsors; many groups hold their meetings in Morewood. The Dorm Council Room, the Blue Room, the Private Dining Room, the Library, and the Recreation Room serve as meeting places for various organizations. Women's Dorm Council, Pan Hellenic Council, Cwens, Mortarboard and Omicron Delta Kappa are a few of the groups that regularly use Morewood Gardens for their meetings and socials. The girls are also able to take advantage of Morewood s central location to the cultural center of Pittsburgh. Within a few minutes walking distance can be found Phipps Conservatory which conducts several flower shows each year, the Carnegie Museum which has one of the most authentic and lifelike collection of murals of prehistoric animals ever seen in this area; and also Syria Mosque, where the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra performs, is near at hand. Morewood Gardens plays an important part in the over all educational process that each and every Tech student undergoes because of its facilities, its nearness to a city of varied interests, and also because of the women who reside there. A nice view of Morewood Gardens can be seen on the opposite page—Morewood Gardens in the spring. II

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