University Daily Kansan, April 19, 1962
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Marvin re-dedicated after $2.8 million renovation
The recently renovated Marvin Hall was re-dedicated Saturday in a ceremony in front of Marvin, and Friday the architectural reading room in Marvin was dedicated to Donald E. and Mary Bole Hatch.
Speakers who appeared at Marvin's re-dedication ceremony were Joanne Hurst, Gov. Carlin's constituent aide; Warren Corman, architect for the Kansas board of Regents; KU Chancellor Gene A. Reed; Max Lucas, dean of the School of Architecture and Urban Design.
The Marvin Hall dedication marked the end of the $2.8 million
renovation project, which began in August 1980.
Until the renovation, Marvin had been the oldest unrenovated building on campus. It was built in 1915.
About 40,000 square feet of space has been remodeled and the building has been made accessible to the handicapped.
The remodeled reading room in Marvin was made possible through a $400,000 bequest from Donald Hatch, an architectural engineering graduate.
"This reading room is the result of an alumnus who cared for his alma
mater," Lucas said during the room's dedication Friday.
He said the full extent of the Hatch bequest could not be overdressed. It not only made the room possible, but it also provided funds for the room's furnishings and upkeep and it established a charmed professorship, Lucas said.
He said the Mary Bole Hatch Distinguished Professorship in architecture, which was a memorial to Hatch's late wife, "would expose students to some of the very best experiences in the field of architecture."
The art works and furniture,
which Hatch also gave to the architecture school, Lucas said, would also expose students "to quality and art on a day 14-day basis".
Ruth Hatch, who also spoke at the dedication ceremony, said her husband would have been extremely pleased of the new reading room.
"He was as fiercely proud of this institution as anything," she said.
During his more than 40 years of professional practice, Hatch designed and executed projects in Hawaii, Texas, and well as in Haiti, Bermuda,
Venezuela and Peru. The projects included office buildings, government and industrial facilities, shopping and commercial centers, medical facilities, hotels, apartments, houses and churches.
In 1853 be founded the Galera Don Hatch in Caracas, Venezuela. It was the first art center of its kind in Venezuela exhibiting contemporary art works by well-known foreign and native artists.
Hatch was the 1976 recipient of the School of Architecture and Urban Design's Distinguished alumni board. He died in 1977 at the age of 63.
on campus
TODAY
THE STUDENTS CONCERNED WITH DISABILITYS will sponsor a discussion group at 4 p.m. in 7-D Lippincott Hall.
THE UNIVERSITY FILM SOCIETY will present "The Magnificent Ambersons" at 7 p.m. in 300 Strong Hall.
TOMORROW
THE INTRAVARSITY CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP will sponsor the lecture, The Essentials of Christian Growth," p.m. in the Park and p.m. in Parlor c of the Kansas Union.
Norm Forer, associate professor of social welfare, will speak at the HILLEL LUNCH at 12:15 p.m. in the Union Cafeteria.
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