University of Missouri - Savitar Yearbook (Columbia, MO)

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$33233 A. w a 3 aw 3:: 2K bf T M! 3 m :3 ,, A busy place from early morning until the chimes from the Tower strike closing hours at night, the Student Union provides a central meeting place for the campus

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From Grill Room to Listening Room, the Student Union offers numerous practical advantages to students who make use of its opportunities. But whether it is the cafeteria playing host to President Middlebush, the sun deck umbrellas add- ing color to White Campus, or the calmness of Gothic ar- chitecture on an early winter evening, the Union represents an old dream come true.

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In the Future . . . Missouri Grows! PROPOSED MEMORlAL UNION BUILDING UNIVERSUY OF MISSOURI AMMHM-o t: steam. chmrzcn . st. :OMJ. masque: mum I? The Memorial Student Union Building plan as it would look on completion of the second wing. The $1,250,000 appropriation for Jesse Auditorium provides the first major remodeling of Jesse Hall since it was built between 1893 and 1895 for $250,000. Scheduled for completion by the fall of 1954, the auditorium will seat 2,000 and will be equipped for radio and television. The Uni- versity became the first institution of higher learning to apply for and to get a full-time competitive commercial TV channel on Jan. 15, when the FCC granted a license to KOMU-TV. The station will start this tall, begin- ning operation with 204,000 watts, giving good coverage of 60 miles. The excavation between Crowder Hall and the men's residence halls means a per- manent four-year medical school that will soon be a real- ity. Unsuccessful starts in 1899, in 1920 when Noyes Hospital was built, and in 1930 give added emphasis to this year's accomplishment. The building now under con- struction will be eight stories high, and will include labora- tories, offices and a 220-bed hospital. Dr. Roscoe L. Pullen, newly appointed Dean of the School of Medicine, says the aim of the school is to train 75 doc- tors a year, and to persuade them to work in rural areas 10 Perhaps the improvement most felt by the school as a whole is the Student Union - the building for which it took 30 years to get funds appropri- ated. Well worth the delay, the Union cost $2,213,107, and has added an important unity before lacking in the campus. A lounge, soda foun- tain, ballrooms, meeting rooms, and dining rooms are included. Clarence O. Woolsey, B.L. '36, president of the Law Alumni Association, said after a recent visit to the University, It is difficult for me to con- ceive an addition to the physi- cal plant which would be of greater benefit to students and former students alike. However, the importance of the Union extends beyond that of iust the physical plant. As Paul Christman, former All- American quarterback and Missouri alum, says, Before too long I think this tthe Unioni will become the cen- tral unit in welding the stu- dents into a closely-knit organ- ization which will take pride in it and in their University. . . The proposed Medical School Building and Hospital, to be located south Of MISSOUTI- of the men's dorm groups.