Southern Polytechnic State University - Log Yearbook (Marietta, GA)

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BUILT ON A STRONG FOUNDATION... 1. Main entrance to the academic building. 2. Front view of the academic building and part of one of the old classroom buildings — still being used today. 3. Computer labs have taken place of the conventional classroom. 4. View of the academic building and the bell tower attached to the new library addition. 5. Back view of the academic building from the second floor of the library. BURRUSS AUDITORIUM COMPLEX David Sosnin 2 David Sosnin David Sosnin 3 8 - Opening

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In order to build a strong structure there must first be a solid foundation. Here at Southern, the foundation has been laid and is ready to be built upon. Most of the present buildings on Southern Tech's campus were built in 1961. However, since then, enrollment increased. One of the buildings added after the 1961 construction was the old li- brary. The building which is now known as the old library (after the construction of the new addition) was constructed in 1968 at a cost of $642,000,000. It was reported in the school’s annual report from 1968 that the library would house 50,000 volumes and will eventually seat 400 to 450 persons. It includes a seminar room, a speaker’s office, a storage room and kitchen, a future com puter room, a library staff lounge and a music room equipped with a stereo- phonic sound system. Opening i

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Hy if (i : i es Ze ik A SR ne RT OR RE | Abd | The classroom buildings at Southern Tech have come a long way from the barracks on the SCT campus at the Atlanta Naval Air Station in Chamb- lee, Georgia. As mentioned earlier, the campus was moved from Chamblee to Marietta in 1960 and eight original buildings were constructed. There were four classroom buildings providing more than adequate space for the growing Southern Tech population. Over the next thirty years, however, the enrollment of SCT increased dramatically and finally in 1983, the administration decided that the construction of a new classroom building was needed. In the spring of 1984, construction of the new academic building began. The architectural firm of Sizemore and Floyd was chosen to design the new classroom building. But due to slow process and other problems, the school decided to change con- tractors. The academic building was completed and opened in September of 1986. David Sosnin David Sosnin Opening ¢ 9