Macalester College - Quid Nunc Yearbook (St Paul, MN)

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orth wall of little T is raised during razing. Little Theater Comes Down, Macalester Street Comes U Four units joined by a-center terrace incorporate the outstanding features planned for the line arts-humanities com- plex. It will house the music, art, foreign language, English and humanities de- partments. Although groundbreaking was planned for March 4, it was delayed because contracting bids were too high. In order to bring bids within the 83,500,000 price range, the roof of the center terrace and equipment such as air conditioning which can be supplied later was forestalled. Ground was broken April 4 with due ceremony. Staff offices, individual practice rooms, classrooms and a 300-seat recital hall with movable walls to improve acoustics will be included in the music wing. Artists are looking forward to the two painting studios, sculpture studios with facilities for welding and baking and a projection room seating 80 to 100. The humanities section will stand ap- proximately where the little T stands now, it is scheduled for completion along with the heating plant by fall of 1964. It will provide increased classroom space and two large language laboratories. One of the most unique developments will be the speech building. The planned theater will be able to present every kind of play including theater-in-the-round. Seats are built to be elevated or turned in any of a number of arrangements. Profs. Owen, Morton, Caponi and Sundheim make up the commission which has been vital in planning the building. Contractor for the complex is I. S. Sweitzer and son. ll

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-B... Architect General Dean explains plans for the new building at a fall meeting. President Rice introduces platform guests at the April 4 ceremony. -0- ,Q ,fi g W 9 H-J Spring rings roundbreaking for Fine Arts Complex Art Ogle, Trustee Chester Tobin and fine arts commission head Mary Gwen Owen break ground. 'IO Overseeing the execution of Macalestefs facelifting is project Mr. Roger Williams.

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President Rice introduces Charles L. Horn, Olin Foundation president, who makes the exciting announcement. DeWitt Wallace leads the convo audience in a cheer for the Olin Foundation. ,, ,, Surprise Convo Reveals Well, it has to be SOME kind of a big grant! Or so went typical comments preceeding the year's mystery convo on November 13. Opinion proved correct in this caseg it was in- deed a big 81,600,000 Olin Foundation grant for the erection of a new science building on our campus. The three-story structure will be built on the south end of Shaw field. The math, astronomy, physics and chemistry departments shall share the new facili- the ties. Mr. DeWitt Wallace has given S500,000 to revitalize the old science building for the biology and geology departments. Exciting features planned for the new building by the faculty commission con- sisting of Profs. Shiilett, Walter, Glock, Hastings and Camp, are almost too nu- merous to mention. Some of the general features will beg a 226-seat auditorium fully equipped with audio-visual aids, a shop for building projects, including provisions for glass blowing, and labora- tories for each faculty member in addi- tion to labs for independent student re- search and the general labs. lin Science Grant Secret Star-gazefs fancies will be amply fulilled in the new build- ing. The telescope from the old observatory will find a more modern home. In addition, a planetarium, which is a dome simulating the heavens onto which any arrangement of stars and planets can be projected, is being planned. An instruments room will harbor all of the expensive and elaborate equipment used. Facts and figures will be nearer at hand with the advent of the central science library in the new building. The Olin Science Building should be ready for classes in the fall of 1964 with groundbreaking occuring this summer, As soon as classes are over, construction will begin on the new athletic fields, hopefully to be ready next fall. The building will house a Foucault pendulum which shows the earthis motion. Pictured i the only other pendulum in the Twin Citie in the Buckbee-Mears building. .1-