University of Kansas - Jayhawker Yearbook (Lawrence, KS)

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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

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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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Dr. Norman Plummer removes newly fired samples of firebrick from the State Geological Sur- vey ' s ceramic kiln. ; . SCIENCE IN THE MAKING: KU 52 by Bob Martin E == me 2 , log 942 == 2.9741, B. P. Mg == 1110- these facts are listed page after page, volume after volume, but who determines them? These facts are the result of blood, sweat, and tears in the truest sense, and they are certainly not obtained by the methods employed by the behind-schedule stu- dent ' s dry lab. Starting with the first applica- tions of Bacon ' s methods of scientific investiga- tion, the man of science has toiled incessantly to explain one curious scientific phenomenon after another. He has worked diligently at his task, failing over and over again, then finally succeeding in a moment of triumph. He has done his job well and in the last hundred years has caused the world to advance faster than it has since the beginning of time. 28