Ohio Northern University - Northern Yearbook (Ada, OH)

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QQ CHIO NORTHERN 0F In February the Development Board of the university and the National Alumni Association inaugurated the multi-million dollar development program for Ohio Northern in the local area. The long-range development program, started a year ago, is designed to give the uni- versity additional buildings and endowment. The first stage of the overall program calls for the erection of a Student Union, another girl's dormitory, a science build- ing, and modernization of Lehr auditorium. By special action of the Board of Trustees and voluntary assessment by the student body voted at the first of the year, 3F250,000 of the Iirst 32,500,000 received will be ear- 3 Q S g QQ... 9 Q -l TOMORRCDW . . marked for the erection of a new Student Union. Even- tual plans for development of the university call for the building of an entirely new campus west of the present site, on acreage now owned by the trustees. In the scale drawing on these pages an attempt is made to show the tentative plot plan with the present university buildings and the proposed or suggested sites of eventual structures to be built as the development program materializes. The suggested plan of expansion of the university calls for an extension of the present University and Lehr avenues westward to form a semicircular approach to the new campus. Buildings will then be erected within this 065 ?:' X W Q X! iii: X R 'llfdx X X X Q L txfji u l W

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A DREAM.. .AGOAL. semi-circle and north and south of it, with further exten- sion to the northwest. The following key to the present, tentative and suggested buildings will give an overall conception of the scope of the Development Program. fA5 is the present main campus, facing eastward on South Main Street, including Dukes 119035, Lehr 09145 and Brown 119015 Memorialsg Hill building fl8795, the power plant 119225 and the Law building 419235. To the west of this site QB5 is Presser hall 09295 and the Student Center, which was the home of S. M. johnson, founder of Ada 118755. Within the next year a temporary Student Union is to be built west of the present Center. 0n South Union Street is Taft gymnasium 09295 and the Girl's Dormitory 09495. Northeast of the present Girl's Dormitory, facing south on West Lehr, will be erected the next dormitory to accommodate women students QI5. In the general area west of Taft gym will be erected the new quarter-million dollar Student Union Q25, next in the program. Tenta- tively, west of the Union will be the Science Building Q35, which, together with the modernization of Lehr auditorium, will complete the initial stage of the pro- gram. 5 -- C! Q 10 4:-I c Z - f . 4943 -my g ffl ot Q Hg , QQ 37 South of Taft gym and the Union will be a quadrangle arrangement of girl's dormitories Q45 while further south along or west of South Union Street will be men's dormitories A semicircular Fraternity row f65 could be a possible site for new fraternity chapter houses, following the plan of state universities. Further college buildings for the various col- leges will possibly be erected southwest Q7, 85 of the present campus. An open-air theatre Q95 and structures for music and theatre arts will be embraced in the program. Faculty housing 1105 and housing for married students QII5 will face either side of the extension of VVest University avenue past the semicircle. A football field with running track with a stadium on each side 4125 will be the farthest extension of university development on the proposed site, with practice fields U35 and a Field house 4145 with intramural fields and dressing facilities for non-varsity competition completing the plan.