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University Daily Kansan Friday, September 17, 1965
Huge McCollum Offers Home Comforts to 900
Dedication ceremonies on Oct. 17, honoring two distinguished 1903 KU graduates, will climax the rise of the largest residence hall on campus, McCollum Hall.
Named in honor of two brothers credited with significant achievements in science, Elmer V. McCollum, discoverer of vitamins A and D, and Burton McCollum, developer of processes for finding underground oil with sound waves, the hall is the largest in the state and one of the biggest in the Midwest.
The T-shaped structure, with space for at least 976 men in its 488 rooms, was built at a cost of $3,480,000, a sum raised from state funds and privately purchased revenue bonds. McCollum Hall completes a five building complex on Engel Road providing housing for 2950 students, or about 75 per cent of all KU students living in University housing.
EQUIPPED WITH heating and air conditioning, the 10-story building offers all the comforts of home on a grand scale. Included in 222,220 square feet of floor space are:
- First floor dining and kitchen facilities for more than 1,000 people. coin-operated washers and dryers, and storage rooms.
- Library and reading areas, 8,640 square feet of lounge and lobby space, music and conference rooms, and the main desk and offices on the second floor. Dormitory and housing offices also have
been moved to this floor from former quarters in Strong Hall.
- Two-man and a few three-man rooms plus lounge areas for study and recreation on floors three through ten.
● Snack bars on floors two and eight and apartments for hall supervisors on floors two, four, six, eight and ten.
Though McCollum is a residence for men, its completion opens up housing for women, too. KU's housing facilities have been juggled to look like this:
LEWIS HALL, AN upperclass women's residence last year, will house 432 freshman women during 1965-66. Ellsworth, a men's hall last year, will house 670 upper-class women this year. Grace Pearson, home of 48 men a year ago, will become a men's scholarship hall. Carruth O'Leary, the home of 200 freshman women last year, has been converted into classrooms and faculty offices once located in old Fraser Hall.
KU now has state-owned dormitories for about 4,200 students. Scholarship halls house an additional 450 men and women.
"This is about 35 per cent of our total enrollment," according to Joseph J. Wilson, director of housing. "Our future planning of new facilities is aimed at keeping us at about that level."
ALREADY PAST THE planning stage and in construction are two residence halls south of Allen
Field House. One, a state-built hall, will house 680 students and is due to open in the fall of 1966.
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The second, Naismith Hall, the first privately-constructed residence hall at KU, is being built by Allen Bros. & O'Hara Incorporated, a firm in Memphis, Tenn. With space planned for 504 men and women, the new hall will feature wall-to-wall carpeting and telephones in each room, private bath in each suite, central heating and air conditioning with temperature controls in each room, and common dining and recreation areas.
A THIRD RESIDENCE hall with spaces for 680 students is now being designed under supervision of James Canole, state architect, Wilson said. The building will also be located south of the Field House.
The hall will be subject to university regulations in the same manner as state-built dormitories.
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