La Salle University - Explorer Yearbook (Philadelphia, PA)

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Students stream from the College Hall after their last class. The Twentieth Street entrance to College Hall

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During our first year, we saw heavy trucks hauling materials for Benilde Hall mar the beauty of the campus. Benilde Hall was finished and opened at the start of our Sophomore year. Its nine classrooms helped to relieve the crowded conditions as La Salle reached its all- time peak in student enrollment. We learned that the increased beauty of the campus was the result of careful planning and planting by Brother F. Christopher, associate professor of Biology, as he gradually began re- storing the area around Benilde and Leonard Halls by the planting of trees and shrubbery. 2S

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J - ■ :::.M i. ' ' ' - ' i t k t The center of the quqdmgle is dominated by the status of the Sacred Heart and the plaque which serves as a memorial tor the La Salle men vifho died in the service during the second World War. In appreciation of his work, Student Council voted to give Brother money to construct a grove at the end of the library when work on the restoration of that area begins, after the completion of the library. Equally important are the athletic fields. Mc- Carthy Stadium which was built for the football teams, no longer has college football games but is used by both the soccer and track teams. Be- hind McCarthy Stadium is a newly made dia- mond with bleachers where the baseball team plays its home games. Adjacent to the baseball field, is the practice field where intramural foot- ball is played and the varsity teams practice. In our junior year. Brother G. Paul, president, announced an expansion program to make La Salle better. The program calls for a Library, dormitories, chapel, « and field house and swim- ming pool. In our final year at La Salle, we saw the be- ginning of construction of the library and the moving of the Scholasticate, which is an affiliate of the College to Elkins Park, and the construc- tion of a new building under the west stands of McCarthy Stadium to house the ROTC unit on campus. At our class banquet. Brother Paul announced that the College had purchased the ground dia- gonally across from College Hall and that dor- matories would be constructed as soon as the funds were available. Thus to our every last day at La Salle, we saw the planning to make a better not a bigger La Salle continue. 57