Montclair State College - La Campana Yearbook (Upper Montclair, NJ)

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roof to suggest the romantic. As a creative artist, the architect had romantic tendencies but was predominantly influenced by an apparent lack of state funds. The result-a building which suggests a style, but it is shackled by the irrational demand of over-capacity enrollment. As the perspectives from the early 1900 ' s to 1970 have changed, so has Montclair. The influence of World War 11 on higher education through the GI Bill found Montclair bursting with new ex-soldier students. As the U.S. headed into the cold war, the emphasis on science and education exploded. Gone is the need for the romantic, however hampered by state funds. Buildings become totally functional

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comes close to capturing the essence of a past design in form, the experience of recapturing is a totally different experience from the initial creative process. The observer of today may interpret the visual effect of College Hall as an attrocity , yet would the planners of the early part of the century have considered this view as inevitable? With grand dreams of Montclair as the progenitor of the State ' s secondary educators, the ' institution found itself in the romantic setting of Spanish-type buildings, strangely representative of California, with transplanted pines for landscape. In what is an essentially romantic spirit, the desire to escape, our predecessors create a massive administration-classroom building with a red-tile

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and long spans of rectangular classroom space find home in the Mallory-Finley complex. The emphasis was the scientific, the practical, if the professionals of fine arts, housed in the center for industrial arts, mentioned aesthetics , it resulted in the bridge connecting the two buildings. Almost as an afterthought, colorful panels brighten the walls of the science wings but even the panels are uniformly rectangular. Across the mall, plans provided a center for student activities in the Life Hall complex. Understanding the integral part student recreation and activity plays in the educational process, one travels to this center distinctly separated from the academic