Western Kentucky University - Talisman Yearbook (Bowling Green, KY)

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28 Environmental Sciences and Technology Building Spacious classrooms with better housing for labora- tory equipment were welcomed by the agriculture department. Dr. Robert Schneider instructs a lab for Introduction to Agricultural Engineering 170. i al Yai E.S.T.B. ... Suddenly an abbrevia- tion was born. The announcement was made in schedule bulletins, campus telephone directories and sundry other places. E.S.T.B. ... The Environmental Sci- ences and Technology Building, the newest addition to Western’s physical campus, began serving the agriculture, geography and geology and industrial education departments and the envi- ronmental programs of the engineerin technology department in the fall Dr. Marvin Russell, dean of Ogden College, said the new structure houses classrooms, laboratories, offices and a weather station equipped with a con- trol room. Greenhouses were also con- structed behind the building, he said. “The building is more versatile with better facilities oe instruction, research and public service,” Russell said. The multi-level structure was constructed on the corner of Ogden Drive and State Street at a cost of $4.5 million. Light bulbs cased in circular fixtures added a mod- ern touch to the entrance of the newest building on campus. The structure was built on the corner of Ogden Drive and State Street for $4.5 million.

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oa cecemcaslit ship which paid $150 on tuition in both the fall and spring. After that first year, however, she had no scholarship. By the next fall the Beelers had to de- posit $650 for Ginger’s fall semester which was an increase of $86 from Cindy’s first semester. Ginger’s following semester cost ap- proximately $725 and the fall, 1976 se- mester cost the sophomore $800, an in- crease of $150 from her first semester. It was helpful for the family that fall when Warren became employed at Pioneer Hybrid International Incorpo- rated at Smiths Grove and became more self-reliant. Changes in textbook costs were also very noticeable for the girls in particular. “T paid $54.12 for books in my first se- mester,” Cindy said. “This last semester I spent $113.18. “Ginger’s increase from last year isn’t that much but she'll probably really no- tice it by next spring,” she continued. -“In her first semester she paid $69.14 and this fall it was only $73.08.” Mrs. Beeler chuckled when she heard the discussion about her daughters’ books. “I can tell you about one thin that has made a difference,” she ml “Ginger won’t stand in the bookstore lines after registration so when she goes to get books she has to buy new ones.” But talk about textbooks costs was re- placed by talk of increased food costs. “T have really been able to tell a differ- ence in that,” Mrs. Beeler said. “I try to send them a lot of staples from home but still the costs are high.” (A vegetable gar- den is a family project each summer.) “Cindy and her roommate go to the rocery about once every week and one- Pale, and eat most of their meals in the dorm,” the mother continued. “She said she doesn’t eat out very much. Just about once every three weeks.” Mrs. Beeler said, “Ginger has to eat alone most of the time and that makes it more expensive even to cook in the dorm. She and her roommate buy their groceries separately, and she eats a lot of meals at the student center.” Dormitory cost is still another area where the family has faced increase. “The dorm fee has gone up twice since Cindy started,” Mrs. Beeler said. “At first it was $154, then $169 and now $184. It hasn’t been increased since Ginger has been in school.” (The Board of Regents voted to increase the fee $21 at the Janu- ary meeting. The increase will become ibgien in the fall of 1977.) But the family has worked together to make the costs easier, Mrs. Beeler said. “Warren and Cindy have both had jobs to help out with paying for their educa- tion,” she said. “We have paid the initial amount for each of them each semester, but they have paid us back a lot. “We didn’t set down any strict rules about spending when they went to col- lege, but we have told them to watch spending on clothes,” she said. “We don’t want them to feel like they don’t have a penny to spend for anything, and we have encouraged them to go out and do things.” The mother also said the three stu- dents have been very good about han- dling the finances. “They have all been pretty saving. They don’t spend as much as some kids,” she said. “They know that others are coming on and need to be thrifty.” And there is another coming on very quickly. Terri, a senior at Grayson Coun- ty, is scheduled to enroll at Western in he fall of 1977. She has already applied for nursing school. It is possible that the — family may have four in school next fall. The fifth Beeler, Charlie, a high school junior, plans to start in the falf of 1978. Chris, the last of the children, is a little farther beind as a 7th grader at Grayson County Middle erhok “With this many (children) we always wonder where the money will come from,” Mrs. ‘Beeler said. “Sometimes I wonder how we are going to do it, but we have always managed ones the money when the time came.” And when the time comes for the last person in the portraits to graduate from college, the wondering will be over. — DONNA BUCKLES () Left — Cindy and Ginger Béeler Above — Warren Beeler 27 Consumer Report

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A possible construction flaw in the greenhouses built behind the new building is shown to subcontractors by Dr. Ernest Beal, head of the biol- ogy department. The building’s final inspection was approved. Framed by leaf-shedding trees, the Environmental Sciences and Technology Building serves the agri- culture, geography and geology and industrial edu- cation departments, and environmental programs of the engineering technology department. — H. Sinclair 29 Environmental Sciences and Technology Building