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Tuesday, June 22, 1972
University Summer Kansan
Raymond C. Moore, professor emeritus
Moore Hall Construction Progresses
Carl Kuehn, construction supervisor, Gets Bird's-Eye View of Work
Kansan Photos by Linda Schild
Hall Will House Survey
New Walkway Connects Buildings
Bv BOR LITCHFIELD
Construction of Raymond C. Moore Hall, the new Campus West facility for the State Geological Survey, is moving quickly and should meet the completion date in October.
Rod Hardy, State Geological Survey director of information on the county would alleviate crowding and other problems existing in Lindley Hall and also paralleled the study in the research and development to Campus West, the University owned land just west of Iowa.
The building, designed by State Architect William R. Hale and associate architect Thomas, was built in 1910 by the B. B. Anderson Construction Co. of Topeka. Construction of the six-story, $1.3 million building, completed September 1971 and is financed by $550,000 appropriated by the state legislature with the remainder from the University Endowment
THE STATE Geological Survey presently shares space at Lindley University, where geography and meteorology, geology and chemical and biological resources.
The new facility is not geared to academic study, although students will be employed for research projects. Hardy said.
"After the Survey moves to the new location, Lindley Hall can be utilized for classrooms while students and operations will be concentrated at Campus West," Hardy exclaims, benefiting everyone concerned.
"Communications has been a major focus of our research with research having to be coordinated between the U. S. Geological Survey, Campus C
The new Moore Hall contains a number of special construction features including copper roofing, glass water pipes and a steel frame. Equipment includes nine computer terminals, a seismograph, a data processing and Noreleo K-Ray unit, a spectrophotometer for light analysis, which will also include facilities for an electron microscope, Hardy said.
IN ADDITION, there will be a special library containing over 2,000 publications and a nearby station located on the roof.
The Environmental Geology section installed five monitoring devices in the pilings when the building was built, and said. The monitors are at the level of the bedrock on which the building rests, and will show graphically the temperature and of the building at that level.
"This is one of the first experiments of its kind," Hardy said. "Not too much has been built in the structure once it has been built."
One salient feature of the facility is an "umbilical cord," totally enclosed and ther-
mostatically controlled, which connects the USGS building with the administrative level (3rd floor) of Moore Hall.
RAYMUND C. Moore Hall is named in honor of the Summer-field distinguished professor emeritus of geology at the University of Washington, director of the State Geological Survey, who retired in 1962.
Moore, 80, who resides at 1640 Stratford Rd. a state geologist of Kansas from 1918 to 1954, chairman of the geology department for ten years and professor of geology at KU from 1916 until his retirement. Throughout his scientific career he has brought national and worldwide fame to geology and field of geology and paleontology.
He is currently editor of the internationally official "Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology," a work which he began in 1948.
"The Treatise," which contains virtually all that is known about invertebrate fossils, has received more than $500,000 in grants from the National Science Foundation and the Geological Society of America.
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In September of that year rising flood waters on the river caused a dam to fail, and the safety of the party, when they did not appear to take supplies. When a boat wreckage was found, Mr. Moore was taken to Moore's death, but the party later showed up safely at Peach Springs. Boys were escaped by the rising waters and escaped to high ground by climbing up through a crevice in a canyon wall where they were placed to remain for several days.
MOORE's research and activities have earned him numerous recognitions in this field. He has held many official positions in the country's leading geological and paleontological organizations. He is the founder of the Hayden Memorial Geological Award (1956), the Sidney Powers Memorial Medal of the American Association for Geologists (1956), the Paleontological Society Award (1963) and the Wollaston Medal, the Geological Survey of London, awarded in 1968. He has also won recognition from the Geological Society of Italy, Germany and Russia.
DURING THE fall of 1923, Moore was a member of a USGS boating expedition down the Colorado River. The expedition's analysis later proved valuable in understanding the site for Boulder Dam.
Moore was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, is an honorary member of the Society of Paleontologists and Mineralogists, and is a past president of the Society of Systematic Zoology and the Natural History Institute, among others.
He was also the first KU faculty member appointed to a Summerfield professorship.
Steel Fittings Installed