University of Kansas - Jayhawker Yearbook (Lawrence, KS)

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Nearly doubled in size, the Union building with its million and a half dollar addition will be ready for operation early in the year. The book store moved into its new quarters in the middle of November. Included in the addition are student offices, a bowling alley, an enlarged cafeteria, and a ballroom twice the size of the original one. SINCE THE Chancellor laid the cornerstone in ceremony early this fall, construction on the 2 million dollar science building has proceeded rapidly. Last spring a severe windstorm set work back when a portion of the superstructure was blown over. Now its walls of native Kansas stone are almost complete. The building will house the School of Pharmacy, the basic sciences, and physics and chemistry departments. The center wing has six floors. The School of Pharmacy will occupy floors three, four, and five. The science library will be housed on the sixth floor. The building is a roadmark in the realiza- tion of the dream to provide adequate teaching and research facilities for the physical sciences, Chan- cellor Murphy said at the cornerstone laying. Those participating in the cornerstone laying were Chancellor Murphy, J. Earl Schaefer, Wich- ita, Vice President and General Manager of the Boeing Aircraft Company, and Chairman of the University Research Foundation board; Sen. Wil- frid Cavaness, Chairman of the Ways and Means committee; Drew McLaughlin, Paola, Chairman of the state board of regents; Hubert Brighten, To- peka, Secretary of the board of regents; Dr. Ray- mond Q. Brewster, Chairman of the chemistry de- partment; J. Allen Reese, Dean of the School of Pharmacy; J. D. Stranathan, Chairman of the de- partment of astronomy and physics. Another proposed unit is a business building, which would be a general classroom building. Its site has not yet been selected. Plans also include k I ' - massive fieldhouse, comple- tion date still uncertain, will be one of the largest enclosed athletic arenas in the nation. In the lower picture, beautiful Sellards Hall is a step in the administration ' s plan for more adequate housing.

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now known as the Daisy Field. Addition of another unit to house freshmen women also is under con- sideration. It will be built, along with dormitories housing upperclass women, on North College hill. Although designs are not complete for the music and fine arts building, the site selected for it lies west of the Military Science building and south of Lindley Hall. The building will straddle the old road leading to the Military Science build- ing. Among many conveniences featured in the building will be air-conditioned practice rooms especially designed for both instrumental and vocal music. For dramatic productions the building will include a theater at least as large as the one in Fraser Hall. There also are hopes for providing an outdoor theater. Chances are that this year ' s freshman class will be the first to see a basketball game in the new fieldhouse. However, according to the Chancellor, construction on the fieldhouse is farther along than would appear to the eye. About 35% of the total construction is completed in the finished under- ground work, but until more steel is released, work cannot begin on the superstructure. When completed the fieldhouse will hold about 5,000 more spectators than the municipal auditorium in Kansas City and about 3,000 more than K-State ' s fieldhouse. ROTC classes will use it for drill and both physical education and ath- letic programs will use its movable basketball floor, indoor track, lockers, showers, and storage space. The Science building, dedicated to the advance- ment of all physical sciences, rises on the south slope of Mt. Oread below Robinson gymnasium. IJUt 25

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First completed part of the renovat- ed union is the ultra-modern cafe- teria, a preview of what awaits the student when the rest of the huge building opens. Below, Chancellor Murphy officiates as the corner- stone of the new Science Building is laid. remodeling of the electrical engineering labs, an addition to Watkins Hospital, and an addition to Lindley Hall. As landscaping progresses on Sellards Hall, construction around the three new scholarship dor- mitories on the east side of the campus nears com- pletion. Men students moved into Stephenson and Pearson Halls last spring, but women did not move into Sellards Hall until this fall. The present land- scaping program would turn the whole area sur- rounding the dormitories into a sort of park, with large lawns and many varieties of trees. Sellards and Pearson Halls are the gift of Joseph R. Pearson and his wife, Gertrude Sellards, while Stephenson Hall was built from funds willed by Lyle A. Stephenson. Construction of the new dormitories will be financed by revenue bonds which will be retired with income from them and existing facilities. Further expansion of the student housing program will require appropriated or donated funds as the new buildings cannot be entirely self liquidating if reasonable rates are to be charged. University officials are trying to anticipate the future needs and to have dormitories ready well in advance of the time present facilities will not suffice. This program of expansion has been helped greatly by private gifts and bequests to the KU Endowment Association. They have augmented appropriations of the state legislature for regular operating expenses and have provided additional services to students which could not have been ob- tained in any other way. Studying the needs of the University and making recommendations for meeting them is the special work of a planning commission set up by the Chancellor. Constantly examining enrollment trends and critically analyzing the building and space needs of the University, the commission keeps its eye on the future, helping KU grow into one of the most modern and well-equipped univer- sities in the nation. 27