Drake University - Quax Yearbook (Des Moines, IA)

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Z J. K. BROWN PHOTOGRAPHS ALL Slanforcl Hulshizer led 500-voice Messiah chorus, a unlversiiy-communily group, fhrough 'len weeks of re- hearsals before final performance of Handel oraforio

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Usually common snow scenes were less i'l1an abundani' as Iowa enjoyed a mild winler -T. K. BROXVN

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form of structural defects and theoretical ideas which failed to prove their merit in actual practice. The Timex-Delfnhic article first announcing the project stated the units designed to house 585 Women would cost about 52.6 million. The university intended to raise a million and a half to supplement a million-dollar loan from the Federal Housing and Home Finance agency. Expectations of a groundbreaking ceremony in 1950 were dampened by a steel shortage resulting from the Korean War. 1VIarch and April of 1952 proved to be vital months for the embryonic buildings for six sealed bids for the construction work were opened before university officials and the bidders. The contract for the general construc- With students gone 'For Christmas holidays, watch- man Ed McKinney became biggest, and only, man on campus tion was awarded to Weitz Co., Inc., Des lV1oines, whose figure of nearly 51.4 million was deemed reasonable. Ground-breaking ceremonies were performed on April. 16, 1952, before a crowd of 100. President Harmon per- petuated the dog-eared custom of ground-breaking, assisted by trustee Ralph Jester, alumnus Arthur Kirk, and the then SFC president Robert Ray. The area in which the dorms were to be located was cleared of Lochroft hall, a permanent type brick building which was destroyed, and Indiana hall, a frame structure of postwar vintage which later rose, Phoenix-like, beside the Heldhouse to serve as a ticket oHice for athletic events. Sidewalk kibitzers were offered an opportunity to View a 20th century reenactment of the Pyramid-building, for l -.. , Eg- ' 1