West Chester University - Serpentine Yearbook (West Chester, PA)

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nrrif! W OFFICERS OF THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION John R. Hollinger, President Floyd T. Hart, Vice-President Bertha Foulke Martindale, Secretary Chester County Trust Company, Treasurer BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION Henry W. Scarborough Mary E. Anderson Clarence L. McKelvie PHILIPS MEMORIAL COMMITTEE Robert F. Anderson, Chairman WiLLLAM P. Philips Andrew Thomas Smith Ann Entriken Hollinger Mary Morris Hamilton Albert T. Hanby Walter E. Dengler Willa Way MacDonald Henry W. Scarborough Archifects for the Phihps Memorial Building Walter F. Price William McKee Walton Genera Contractors jor the Philips Memcrial Budding Victor Gondos Company M M 29

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fPJ M w TT 7E, the Class of 1927, dedicate NA ' this section of the Serpentine to the AJumni Association in sincere appreciation of the good it has ren dered our school, and especially in the making possible the building of the ' Philips Vl emorial Ml i%v

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m THE PHILIPS MEMORIAL BUILDING The Meynorial. This building stands on the campus of the West Chester State Normal School in completed form and furnished. It will, no doubt, claim the interest not only of the student body of the school, but, as well, that of the residents of the town and the community at large. Although intended primarily to provide a commodious auditorium which may be used for chapel exercises, lectures, concerts, and theatrical performances, the building nevertheless contains, in addition, music-rooms, society-rooms, recreation-rooms, general offices, and, as its crowning feature, a beautiful library room which will house the autographed books collected by the late Dr. George Morris Philips. A detailed statement concerning this building and its furnishings follows. Description. The style of the building, which is fireproof throughout, is collegiate Gothic adapted from the great English universities and schools. It is built of Fox Croft stone of a fine gray color, which makes no clash with the green stone of the other buildings on the campus. To make a more perfect finish, and at greatly increased cost, all the face stone has been hammer-dressed. This is in accord with all stone buildings of importance in England. The cut stone is of the best Indiana limestone, which is shown on the copings, finials, buttress weatherings, window tracery, heads, belt courses, carved corbels, ribs, and bosses in the vaulted passageway from the street to the campus. Added to these there will be tablets bearing inscrip- tions, and a sun-dial. Other exterior objects of special interest are the wrought-iron hinges and the outside lamps. The Auditorium. The main space in the building is given to the audi- torium, a room nearly 80 feet wide and 38 feet high in the center, which seats about 2,000 people in addition to the 300 to 400 people who may be seated on the stage. The floor is inclined toward the stage. Beneath alternate seats are mushrooms, or openings, which make the heating more evenly distributed and the auditorium better ventilated. The ceiling is pierced with screens of tracery which harmonize with the cut-stone traceries of the windows. These screens will allow the warm air to be drawn down to be finally sucked through the mushrooms, so that the vitiated air will be en- tirely withdrawn. Except for the side brackets, the auditorium is well A| lighted indirectly from a line of lights hidden in front of the gallery, flooding V q ■ » ' the ceiling and filling the whole auditorium with well-distributed light. ' ■ ' Great ribs, colored like the limestone, are features on the ceiling, as well as ( 30 )