Alumni and students to view New Union addition Saturday
By KENNETH CUMMINS
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IRENE ECONOMOUS Kansan Staff Writers
Homecoming visitors at the University of Kansas this year will be able to view the result of five years of planning and construction in the nearly completed addition to the Kansas Union.
Frank Burge, Kansas Union director, called the $1,100,000 addition, "the capstone to the building."
"We wanted to create a building that would do something to people and for people," Burge said. "I had very high expectations for this project and the results have met my expectations."
Photo by T. L. Simmons
New room adds style The Governors Room, decorated and furnished by the Class of 1967, is a conference room with a seating capacity of 15.
New room adds style
Vince J. Bilotta, field director of the Alumni Association, said the association would conduct tours through the addition during an open house from 10:30 to 12:30 Saturday.
The tour begins in the basement of the Union in the Mount Oread Book Shop, which opened Oct. 27. Orange carpeting leads visitors from the old building to the shop's quarters in the new addition.
The book shop handles best sellers and current books. Stewart Nowlin, manager of the shop, said the shop handles trade books while the Union bookstore handles mostly textbooks and school materials.
Nowlin said three-fourths of the book shop's supply is paperbacks.
A blue-tiled stairway leads from the bookshop entrance to the first floor where the Governors Room, Alumni Association offices and the Council Room are located.
Katherine Giele, Union activities director, said the Union bookstore had been very limited in the number of books it could carry. Mrs. Giele said the bookstore had only carried about 8,000 titles while the book shop has over 20,000 titles.
"The book shop has more of a browsing atmosphere, rather than that rush-through-thing down-stairs." she said.
The Governors Room, adjacent to the Alumni Association Office, is a conference room with a capacity of 15 persons. Vince Bilotta said alumni still give
class gifts and much of the first floor of the new addition was furnished through class gifts. The class of 1967 decorated and furnished the Governors Room
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The Alumni Association Office includes a reception area and staff offices. The class of 1943 furnished the reception area. One office is specifically designated as class headquarters for the freshman, sophomore, junior and senior class officers. The office was furnished by the class of 1944.
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In the northwest corner of the Alumni Office is a glass-walled, sound proof room where the duplicating equipment and key punch machines are kept.
Three vertical, rotating files containing permanent records and biographical data on nearly 100,000 alumni are located in the Alumni Association Office. These files have information, such as news clippings, obtained after the individual's graduation from KU.
ference room. It can be entered from the blue carpeted hallway leading past the Governors Room and the Alumni Association Office, or through the Music Browsing Room in the old part of the Union.
Another file contains a record on any person who ever enrolled at the University.
The Council Room, completed this week, is a 60-member con-
The International Room and Woodruff Auditorium are on the (Continued to page 23)
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