SEEK NEW GYM AT K. U.| WOMEN’S ATHLETICS WOULD BE HOUSED IN STRUCTURE. Present Building Would Be Re--| leased Entirely for Men—Ex- pansion Would Permit New Sports. (By The Star’s Own Service.) LAWRENCE, Kas., July 16—A new gymnasium for women is being con- templated on the University of Kan- sas campus. Plans for the new building will be submitted to a spe- cial committee of the Jayhawker athletic board along with claims of need for a field house, more practice fields for the Kansas football team and additional tennis courts for the “campus. Basing his claim for the need of 4 new gymnasium on the number of students at K. U., Dr. F. C. Allen, chairman of the department of physical education, stressed that there are aS many women in the university now as there were | men and women at the time the present Robinson gymnasium was | erected. : “By erection of a woman’s build- | ing,’ Dr. Allen said, ‘the present | gymnasium would be released for the men’s general exercise and physi- cal education program at the uni- | versity.” Miss Ruth Hoover, in charge of | women’s athletic activities, said the objectives of the new building would be to provide more sports than now . ’ Sh & _ x r ; A Limiey fn a r Bia ennat ae 2 fa TS eLere tonere ape. aay ake AN ARCHITECTURAL CONCEPTION OF THE PROPOSED NEW WOMEN’s GYMNASIUM AT THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS. : eae possible, notably archery, bowling r and the like. By additional gymna- sium space, she said, it would be possible for the women to have their intramural indoor games in the aft- ernoon instead of having to divide time with the men and often sched- ule games for late evening hours. Miss Hoover visualizes a gymna- sium with class rooms, corrective rooms, a dance studio with stage; roofs fitted like steamer decks. for badminton, darts, deck tennis, shuf- fleboard and tennis; a lounge with kitchenette to provide study room, and a place for teas, parties, com- mittee and club meetings. Tentative plans call for a central building about 80 by 100 feet, with class rooms, offices, locker rooms and the like on the three floors and basement. At either side of the cen- tral part would be two wings, each 80 by 110 feet, and each containing a gymnasium on its main floor. In the basement of one wing would be a 75-foot swimming pool, and in the other a bowling alley, archery and shooting gallery. The suggested location for the new gymnasium is south of the present Robinson gymnasium, near the pres- ent women’s hockey fields. cs 7 if H uit it po fi aie nl i Bey lat He i iE it Hu ihe ri i ff i te ite A a i EE i it LL Hat ty Hit ais fai ee al yf i 7 4 i je ti ! I At i be ah i tat i! t tie ; Ha ite . i il Hil ti et bai i wae | Hs f nal sf ae Gt i Hint lie a a ga8 BES i fe i a3: sist ® ib a8ias He 7 ELH ital iis : i lit i i (: 8 i: i i iF ii bat | ih gel it a itt in a i ay it a Lie ip : i is i salts ail is i EY He i ee ae i i sy al L | HH hit iB i fr ii]? ni ff une tt ag if bits Hf He it a mat Hil nile till sia i ee eee eee 4 a it wit at ce i Hl aH a id fal) ian Ht an ri fia Hl la iat He pis sli i i i fi fils” Ball ti Hs iv tt ‘i i 3303 uy ap He ry Ins Es idk ibe ii iit Hf this mat it i a i rh if au i iy a57%s Hie ee i 8 Hie Diweotor Varsity Bask oe ie Misia am 3! seks . ¥ ' : ee : | 4 ie eae gee nd a : 4 Ry i: ie nae ht a ais il ned SeEis baal Hy i Hapa, ill ual ant Hel a [at pa paps ee ae dG salt fash plage i 1 f He By uanaeh li Ore Aside from the great need and desire for this Women's Building, the erection of such a building will free the present Robinson Gymnasium for a most complete building for the administrae buildings The pension in the next few years will be : « It is for that reason that I am looking ahead, kn ; full well that it would be I am constantly in touch with the national physical education leaders, and I believe I can pretty thoroughly detect the trend of the times in progressive physical educations Very cordially yours, ‘Director of | Education, FCArAH Varsity Coache aa. oO se + Coe WOMENS ORIOL, RENATO, BOTLOIND : The Women's Building will provide facilities for many activities that Sve ‘nainetitidets bien: Vedi Aiaiapats One of the outstanding features is the 75 foot swimming pool with standard diving boards and equimente The bowling alleys will introduce an entirely new activity to our curriculum, ome which has been very popular in other schools where the equiyment has been available, ‘The rifle range, indoor erehery end golf cages will pormit the introduction of these courses during — the winter months. — 3 ae a : Tho large gymmeiwm will provide ample space for the gymasiun classes and team sports, such as basketball, volley ball and softball. Intramral games will not have to be played at might, but at 4150 in the afternoons On the roof of the two wings as well as on the gymasium floor will be laid out courts for badminton, darts, deck tennis, shuffleboard and tennis. The eT ee ee ee camittee and club meetingse Adequate aizy loser smace, dressing beothe, showrs, totleta, ant hair dryers have been planed. The corrective room will be provided with the latest equiyment for the renedial work of the students. The dance studie on third floor with its many windows will be set up with a stage and lighting effects for dance programs and exhibitions. ne DE ONS Ae hE Ae classes and lecture work. | ee This building, with our emellent outdoor playing faot2ities, will Afford the women of Kansas one of the most oomplete instructional, recreaticaal ot Sone ae te September 20, 1941. aati : an < ri x Gaueation and Recreation, teal Director of Phys Basketbal] Varsity PCA:Ai Poo: Hao fies H ii a Hi i it ik ie te | iH ish; i ; fie “ipl bt an if iil ee Hi i nil 4 i het al it September 20, 1941. i7th in you Reserve, I am list- their ing ite ioc in Isis, The baseman ee We now have an Sem seke eee gett education if Women's Building »ess+ceescesccescs ses 2 $260,000 ener ge This building 18 used enrolinent was are. endeavoring physical past eleven o' 7 ilies el, Ghd Lith [8 th iH ai ud Ge i iH diag i [ ie ae atta f i Hi at it i iii, He Hi ill TEBE ail FL in ii ii age! : ella i i ie ul ii Mi lie ijagll ig me uu il uaa 2 ifs 3 1 ata Hu hi fe ah al it li | i : i! He Hl Repairs on Robinson Gymmasium . «esse eceseeee eee for teacher bie Te ae of i nin ce i th i ‘ it i i tai th ¢ ie eats ie i: it if i all id ul {4 : ie el i th fil Hs ih HH! pa | ii iy i di i if i it if time the Waismith Memorial Committee of 271 Heli of te move. The basketball arena for in this Naiemith Memorial Palestra, and peoples New York, is At the present all ish it a ae HEL, th i i il aie Hp BE fal Vas 22 toot ee ee ee A field brick ae ae aoe eould be loca and should take not built Iowa State College built a $75,000 golf course on their farm. I am sure that certain parties could be interested in a large recreational mural field south of the hill, houses and lots, to keep the public from encroaching upon the University domain. Wo have tallied with J. 0. Nichols, % if gs yuddta. 24 oa gy dy tae Lapis Hitt tn i aa i: ; il ink v : iii ia a eae ie) na eae at CH ane SH ae anh (ei Gill anaes fete i asl 3% ails it ] . He at Hii 1 eal : fe oa ‘ent adj ti es Stag nt if H 4 q phil | Year bell Ge ae Sumer Recreations +esseceseccecsesre sce 2 0 S500 Wie have Lived out of tho jumk yard so long thet we would alt ty tying second-hand etuft To one single fuctor has produced 6s much good wilt for the Universi in a geneenl way as has the sumer Somtnity Sincerely yours, 3 iis lal inane eile ai. POALAR Verwlty ecketbel? ant Sesdtal2 Conse September 20, 1942. ite of tteo and © or or a some Yours, HT | August 12, 1938. Mr Cavin 607 Fifth New York City, NeYs. Dear Mre Hadden: 5 Selilbwes lin dtemeaitone OF the nee Oaks bene ond Oe for women are in the early stages of gymnasium development. Mire Guim Hemry is the Director of Athletics at the Universi. = domine ® - The womnen*s physical education | , of course, is under = = I can to bring that I received several letters from you while I ws Director of Athletics, and I always enjoyed hearing fron youe I assure you as soon as we get along past the promotional stage I will be glad to discuss the situation with you relative to the construction of the wmen's gyummsiume FOAssH Varsity Das Coathe GAVIN HADDEN 3 CIVIL ENGINEER 607 FIFTH AVE.,NEW YORK August 1, 1938 ‘Dr. Forrest C. Allen Athletic Director University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas Dear Dr. Allens Having heard of projects for the construction of new facilities for recreation and athletics at the University of Kansas, including I understand a new gymnasium for women, and a new field house and additional practice fields, ete. I am writing to remind you of the avail- ability of my services to help you and the University on this work. As you may remember from our correspondence in the past, I have for some years been largely engaged in the professional work of design and supervision of con- struction of fields, courts, pools, gymnasia, fieldhouses, ete., and have included among my clients a number of leading universities in various parts of the country. It may be that my services would be particularly helpful to you in co-operation with your local architects and engineers in a consulting capacity. I have so served in numbers of other cases and in this way have brought to my clients the benefit of the wide experience of my office with the numerous ema technical problems involved, and have helped them to secure more efficient and economical results. Such consultation service is usually arranged so that the greater part of it can be rendered in my office by correspondence and the passing back and forthew of sketches of unfinished drawings, etc., and in this way the cost of my service to my clients is materially reduced. I believe I sent you ae copy of a little booklet I brought out last year illustrating the work of my office during the period 1922-1937, but I am enclosing another herewith in case it is no longer at hand. If you should wish to know more about me, I would urge you to write to any of the Institutions in- cluded in the list of clients given in the booklet, as I believe this is the best way of determining beforehand the value of professional services. It is my hope that these clients would tell you that they have found the cost of my services more than repaid in increased effi- ciency or economy, or both. Dr. Forrest C. Allen > —2~ August 1, 19358 I am also anelesine copy of an article pub- lished in the "American School and University" entitled "Indoor Play Facilities for College Women". This will perhaps be particularly helpful to you and to Miss Hoover, your director in charge of women's athletics, as something of a guide in helping to determine what facilities to provide in the proposed new women's building. It is in helping to solve these problems and in helping to determine the most efficient dimen- sions for various combinations of activities that my _— liminary services may be particularly helpful. I should be gled to come out to Lawrence for conference with you and others who are interested at any convenient time. , Assuring you of my deep interest and hoping that I may have the privilege of serving you and your euch ieiicee. I remain Faithfully yours, GH: AK ENCL.2 From the 1934-1935 Edition of THE AMERICAN SCHOOL AND UNIVERSITY Indoor Play Facilities for College Women BY GAVIN HADDEN, ee a what order would you rate the following play facilities, with respect to their usefulness in a women’s gymnasium, disregarding the always present restrictions of cost and space? Basketball Swimming Pool Squash Running Track Indoor Tennis Bowling Fencing - Badminton Volley-ball Calisthenics and Dancing Apparatus Exercises Indoor’ Baseball Jumping, Vaulting, etc. Golf Net “Would you suggest any other play facilities in preference to any of those listed above?” In helping to determine recently the most de- sirable facilities to provide for in the design of a proposed gymnasium at a women’s college, the writer sent out to a number of women’s colleges a questionnaire containing these questions. Other questions were also asked, bringing many useful opinions on matters- of design, involving pri- marily those features in which a women’s gym- nasium differs from a men’s, but the questions set forth above elicited the most-generally inter- esting and useful information of all. It might be an interesting pastime for the reader to stop here and mark with numbers from 1 to 14 each of the activities (or facilities for them) which are included in the above list in his or her order of preference for a women’s college, and then turn for comparison to the list representing the collective opinion as obtained from the questionnaire, which is printed later in this article. The Replies Answers to the questionnaire were received from the following institutions: University of Michigan; Middlebury College; Mt. Holyoke College; New Jersey College for Women; New York University ;. Northwestern University; Pem- broke College; Radcliffe College; University of Rochester; Smith College; Swarthmore College; Vassar College; Westhampton College ie sity of Richmond). Of these, 12 gave answers, in whole or in part, to the question on the rating of the various facilities. The answers were tabulated, each being given a uniformly weighted score for each rating, and then these scores were summed up C.E. for each item. The system used was to score in each case 1 for the item rated No. 1; 2 for the item rated No. 2; etc. Where two or more items had received the same rating, each was given the average score of the group; for ex- ample, if three items were rated No. 1, each of them was scored 2. The lower the score of any one of the facilities, therefore, the higher is its rating by the consensus. The following tabulation gives the combined scores of the 14 different facilities, in the order given them by the 12 votes combined: Combined Rank Facilities Score Le OWATNOIN OS” UE OO ke esha ore cclarc cosas eoe terete const al ee 25 DI BASKET pA SATA os. Gata cha aeaee al ae aos tae Seep oi 44.5 8. Calisthenics and Eos wid ieikeia neo Noses tenis sas 45.5 4: INGOOLS LENNIS:<355suos~ sess wisi soi ew cla etaeoTee a esea ake 70.5 b> Badminton: 55 .te pe ws se aes Sees eee 75 GANGUARe <5 ieee. Geie < Sices et eG inte 6 seams ate 82.5 Me OE NCE ooo ah ec ages Seas bee a g-c HR EN eeT 86.5 Oe BOW ocd s Seige OS iota soe cis Pe ee aie EE 94 C2 Volleyball 2 Se aS eee eee ea Oe Sees 96.5 LOS: mGoor-. baseball 2.0... ccles sia viele tate acto e a 110.5 ADPCM CU neo casas o oid ora ae ac goin ios ican salto veneccloueneee sors 116 12> Apparatus “Exercises: 03... scssad oon: cae es 117.5 13 cuuUmping Vv aUlLbing, “eles =. 5. ae ee ee ee 136.5 ARNIS APTaGle aise ceek acausieicisals.c gts ce reeeareoersceians 162.5 LOCAL BCONE = aa cscsje oud sash eet Gcteromyecet< 1,263.0 (The total score for each 14 ratings should be 105 and 12 X 105 = 1,260; the additional 3 points in the total were caused by giving a score of 15 to each of two items which were definitely ruled out by one answer, instead of scoring them 13 and 14 ; There are a number of points which are of special interest in this tabulation, expressing as it does the combined views of a number of experienced administrators of athletics for women. Before discussing them, however, it is worth while to point out the surprising unanimity of the answers, a fact which cannot be made clear from the tabulation itself. The average difference for all the answers, be- tween the ranking given for each item and the ranking shown by the consensus, was less than 2.2 places; the rankings given in one of the an- swers were so close to agreement with the con- sensus that the average difference was only nine-tenths of one place, with 6 of the 14 rankings coinciding exactly. Such unanimity would seem to indicate that the results may be regarded as unusually reliable for an investigation of this kind. Some Individual Ratings The markedly high place given to Swimming Pool should be particularly noted; seven of the twelve answers ranked this item No. 1, either alone or with one or more other items; the other five ranked it No. 2. Also, the low rankings given to Running Track and to Jumping and Vaulting are worthy of note. These were perhaps to Tur AmERICAN ScHooLt AND UNIVERSITY be expected, but the relatively high place given to Golf Net and the comparatively low place given to Fencing may be considered as indicative of a somewhat unexpected trend. The high rating of Calisthenics and Dancing also deserves comment. These two were com- bined in the question primarily because the same facilities are required for both; but it seems pos- sible that if they had been given as separate items, Dancing alone might have been rated somewhat higher and might have been ranked ahead of Basketball. In one answer the two items were rated separately, Dancing being desig- nated No. 1 and Calisthenics No. 12. In scoring this answer, the lower score (1) was given to the two combined, for it is felt that facilities suit- able for both activities should be given the benefit of whichever ranking was the higher. The second question in the questionnaire, quoted above, asked for other preferred play facilities not listed. Nine of the answers con- tained some suggestions of this kind, as follows, the number given with each item representing the number of answers in which it was recom- mended: Indoor Archery i Deck Tennis 4 Handball 2 Games Room (ping-pong, quoits, shuffle-board, etc.) 2 Rifle Range 1 In addition to these, some of the answers to this question suggested facilities other than those for play (Lounge or Social Room, Corrective Room, etc.) but as these were not intended to be included in this question, and as most of those answering the questionnaire presumably realized this, the number of those making these additional suggestions has no value. Players-per-Corter For those planning the construction of any of the facilities for women listed in this article, it may be useful to make comparisons not only on the basis of “usefulness,” but also on the basis of the relative amount of space required. Some years ago the writer prepared a graphical study of the number of players-per-acre accommodated by various popular outdoor sports, including both men’s and women’s activities. The variation shown by this study extended from less than one player-per-acre for polo to about 29 ee per-acre for lawn tennis. In order to obtain a similar comparison for indoor activities, the writer adopted the “corter” as a new unit of measurement, since the acre is not suitable for measuring indoor floor areas, and there happens to be no other convenient unit available. One “corter” equals 5,000 square feet of floor area— a good round number, convenient to use and easy to remember, and approximating the area of numerous fair-sized gymnasium rooms. This unit has also the advantage of representing just about the area required for one standard full- sized basketball court, which makes it easy to visualize. In the following tabulation, the various differ- ent games and activities are listed in the order of the number of players-per-corter which they accommodate. In calculating the figures for this table, it has been necessary to make a number of reasonable assumptions, not only as to the areas required by the participants, but also as to the number of participants in a single activity. The policy has been, in general, to use the maximum reasonable number of participants and the minimum reasonable areas, and for some of the team games (such as basketball), in which substitutions are frequent, allowance has been made by increasing the number of players taking part. The table follows: Players- Game per-Corter BA Dparauls aGX CLGISGN "sso cusce sais late relp loss bas" 01 5) citer averse 100 Di CRMSUICMICH FEA S sean 8s ais oo 5 sca org a's ohee sTotere 100 SS ee ANCL as aces Skat shaders aha usiogs stetetehe Reads anevete ele mistoes 100 4. sunning ClnGoor Unack) cc's saua tive g calc oie ci wile ete 100 hse WAL SEEETA Dorr gts Sepa teres We ga Mo eS eaten neg a ois! oie oteha ei eral ete 100 GerVolleveballn cy. os catentey. 2 Sie oe ots seh elas s. Wee 67 7. Miscellaneous Games (ping-pong, quoits, shuffle- WORECPOOUG, ) Page iscie tise ee melee ates ee Woe 60 ScsBasketpatlsnt). Want,