University of Evansville - LinC Yearbook (Evansville, IN)

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McCurdy Alumni Memorial Union We start the week right . . . coffee at the Union . . . ten a. m. meetings may interfere . . . Everyone, be he bookworm or busy- body, goes over to the Union at least once during the day. Perhaps he goes to eat, perhaps to attend a meeting or maybe just to lounge. Since 1951, the three stories of the McCurdy Alumni Memorial Union have housed the color and excitement of the College ' s social life. Most students have certain favorite spots in the Union. TV fans and ping- pong addicts hasten to the ground floor where they may pursue their sports in the informal lounge and the game room, respectively. Here, the Wooden Indian snack bar and grill broadcasts music and chatter. The first floor sets a more formal note with its cafeteria, formal lounge and the Great Hall, where recitals, lectures and concerts are held. Everything from art to atoms may be seen in the exhibits often displayed on this floor. Students find quiet hours and pleasant listening in the browsing and music rooms. Have a club meeting? Belong to a Greek organization? On a committee? Then it ' s up to second floor to the club- room or one of the numerous committee rooms. Nor does Union activity stop when the sun goes down. Dances, formal and in- formal, dinners and parties keep lights burning late. In fact, socially speaking, whatever the time, whatever the event, the Un- ion building ' s the place. It could be a meeting . . . but it could be 8

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pi IP III II Ill Hi The place changes as it grows . . . but the daily routine continues ... First a vacant spot, then workmen and materials arrived on the scene and there was a sound of hammering as the steel skeleton began to grow — and grow — and grow. One day the scaffolding disappeared, the workmen departed, the doors were opened and, at the March 19 dedication, students were formally introduced to the newest building on campus — the Clifford Memorial Library. Entering the building at first-floor level, they found the circulation desk, reference room, a closed area for reserve books and the informal reading room, a pleasant spot housing recent books and magazines. The faculty and staff discovered their own special reading room on this floor, too. Mounting to second floor, explorers saw a reading area interspersed with open book stacks. Opening off this room were two research cubicles where students could get together over their books. Four research rooms — two for social sciences, one for physical sciences and one for the humanities — were located at top level. Descending to ground floor, they came upon another reading area and more book stacks. A closed area hous- ing archives and collections, the book processing room, the audio-visual seminar room and the Kleymeyer Audi- torium were points of interest on the lowest floor. The voyage of discovery ended, Evansville collegians then settled down to study in their quiet — the ceilings are soundproof, light — there is indirect Hghting all through the building, and — oh, cool, summer days — air-conditioned library.

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Tuesday . . . freshman convo fills the auditorium . . . tardy students race through Ad halls . . . The Administration building, built in 1922, was the first permanent structure erected on the Evansville College cam- pus. Now this senior member graciously presides over the more recent additions. Its halls are busy, for it houses such important departments as Public Rela- tions and the Center for Advanced Study. Here the President, the deans, the registrar, the business manager and some of the professors, also, have their offices. In the Ad building, a student may buy books, register for Evening College and — of course — study, for there are classrooms, too. Here he attends the weekly convocations in the auditorium and views plays presented by the stu- dent drama group. WEVC, the FM radio station, broad- casts from the third floor of the tall building. On the same floor is the audio- visual lab, and at the summit — fourth floor — are the food and textile labs. li 1