WORLD WAR II MEMENTOES
Temporary buildings behind Strong are gone forever.
Temporary buildings finally meet their doom
After 19 useful years serving the KU campus,the old World War II barracks behind Strong Hall are coming down.
By the time students again climb the hills of Mount Oread to begin the fall semester, the only thing left to remind them of their former classrooms will be the rubble of their foundation.
help of his wife, Helen F., and the Spencer Foundation. Total cost of the project has been set at around $2 million.
The Foundation was one of the first donors of the Centennial Drive by the Council for Progress to raise over $18 million of funds for future KU expansion.
"You name the subject and we can find three books on the subject."
Not many KU students missed attending a Western Civilization discussion group or visiting their English instructor in the buildings, which were too hot in the summer and cold in the winter.
This is a statement frequently heard at KU's Watson Library and one that is generally true.
It features individual study areas and booths equipped with typewriters. Although undergraduates are not allowed to select their own books from the shelves, a large staff of library personnel serve them.
EQUIPPED for study, research, classes, and yes, even sleep, Watson Library is one of the best known libraries in the country.
In fact the library is so big that wings and additions have been added, are planned, and even a completely new building is now being built to keep up with the growth.
A treasure chest of knowledge, the library holds well over 1 million volumes of books and over 9,000 magazines. And it is growing at the rate of 40 to 50,000 every year.
Home of many things
THE SPENCER Research Library is being built in memory of Kenneth A. Spencer, with the
The old, temporary buildings, wil be replaced with a multimillion dollar library donated by the Spencer Foundation of Kansas City.
Students are allowed, though in the extensive reference library housed in Watson. It carries references from Alabama to Zombies.
12 Daily Kansan Thursday, September 15, 1966
EARLY IN JULY a Topeka wrecking firm began razing the six "temporary" wood frame and "Quonset" type buildings to the rear of KU's administration building.
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Not everyone is restricted entrance to the campus. Persons with passes, those with official business on campus, and guests to the campus and visitors, are all allowed.
The stations are manned by officers of the Campus Traffic and Security Office.
The barracks, moved here in 1846 and 1947 were originally constructed during the war as temporary structures to house the wartime draftee.
Open from 7 p.m. to 4:45 p.m. weekdays throughout the school year, the booths' main function is to reduce the amount of traffic allowed on the main campus and control traffic.
KU's five traffic control booths, known as "tug boats" will be in their fifth year of operation this fall.
SPACE FOR THE "evictees" has been created in old Robinson Gymnasium and Oread Hall, another World War II memento moved to this campus. They will again be moved to new Fraser Hall when it opens next winter.
The "temporaries were well camouflaged from general view by trees and shrubs. Through the 1950's they constituted about 15 per cent of KU's classroom and office space.
Cars banned on campus
THE FIRST CHRISTIAN CHURCH (Disciples of Christ) 10th and Kentucky Streets
The Congregation welcomes and invites students.
Church Worship is at 8:30 and 10:45 a.m. each Sunday.
Student Seminar is at 9:30 a.m. each Sunday.
A Special Reception for Students is Sunday, Sept. 18 from 10 to 10:40 a.m. in the church Fellowship Hall.
Benton Roy Hanan, Minister
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