Oregon State University - Beaver Yearbook (Corvallis, OR)

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First ground broken be the general information desk, student loan offices and check room. Across the hall will be the general headquarters of the Associated Students. A lecture room and general manager’s office occupy the east end of the main floor. Surrounding the first floor concourse on the second floor is a balcony no feet long. This balcony is approached from MEMORIAL UNION two marble stairways at the east and west ends of the building. It ends abruptly at both sides of the dome. Views of the living room, through the arches and the concourse in its full length are obtained from the balcony. Space is provided for 10 offices on the south, five each on either side of the dome. These rooms will be used by lesser student organizations. Across the east end of the second floor is a large club room for the war veterans and still another for a trophy room. Occupying the west end of the second floor is an unassigned room which may be used for art displays and other exhibits. Remaining space on this floor is devoted to the faculty. Folk club and faculty women will enjoy the suite of rooms directly over the women's club rooms on the main floor. This includes a lounge with a Dedication

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dressing rooms. Ample space is provided for fair-sized gatherings as well as minor dramatic productions. Occupying the entire west end of the ground floor are the cafeteria rooms and kitchen. The cafeteria is built to ac-MEMORIAL UNION commodate 350 people but may be expanded to care for 1500. It will be modern and scientific in every detail. Storage rooms for the students’ cooperative book store are found in the east end of the round floor. At the cast end of the mezzanine oor and directly over the storage rooms are the sales room and office of the Co-op. This room is accessible both from the through corridor and an outside entrance. A barber shop, employment bureau and ticket distribution office also occupy a portion of the east end of the mezzanine. The office of the cafeteria, a beauty parlor and women's rest room arc-entered from the through corridor on the west. In one place the corridor forms a bridge overlooking a section of the cafeteria. Across the vestibule on the mezzanine floor, up the grand marble-stairway and through the concourse with its high arched doorways is the living room on the first floor. The memorial fireplace, gift of the class of 1917, will be one of the fireplaces in this huge living room. Hardwood floors, polished hardwood wainscoting and high-beamed ceilings add spaciousness and beauty to the room the heart of the Union. Overlooking the lounge and accessible from the second floor an iron-railed balcony extends along both ends and across one side of the room. Opening off the living room at each end are the club rooms for men and women. Each has a fireplace, paneled walls and access to the loggia facing the men's gymnasium. Six banquet rooms, four of which may be thrown together, occupy the west end of the first floor. One of these rooms is to be used as an alumni luncheon room. On the north side of the concourse to the right of the grand stairway will be the alumni headquarters. On the left will E. C. Allworth Manager of Memorial Union [if]

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Pouring the concrete foundation fireplace and a tea room. Situated in a similar position over the men's club room is the faculty men’s lounge and games room. I he structure will be fireproof throughout, a special vault being placed in the Memorial Union offices. All windows will be of plate glass. High arched windows on the Jefferson street or south elevation carry out the column effect of the north very slightly, but rather repeat the arches of the MEMORIAL UNION windows in the men's gymnasium, thus making for greater harmony with the adjacent campus building. Nine years ago, the Memorial Union idea was conceived by members of Gauntlet and Visor, a self-appointed honor society organized by ex-service men. To commemorate the lives of students and faculty members lost during the World war and to fulfill the need of a social center on the campus, the project developed through the efforts of students, faculty and alumni. Warren Daigh and A. G.“Tony Schille presented the idea in its final form to the student body in the fall of 1910 after investigations had been made of student union buildings on the campuses of more than 50 colleges and universities. A student tax of three dollars a term or nine Partly completed framework im