Existence remarkably dull
Haworth served 60 years
By JOHN RABE Kansan staff writer
From the time Haworth Hall was raised in 1909 until it was razed this year, Haworth had a remarkably dull existence.
Haworth was created with $57-500 left over from a $200,000 legislative appropriation which also funded the building of Marvin Hall. From these rude beginnings as the University of Kansas home of geology, mining engineering, and the state department of geology, young Haworth was christened and dedicated in February 1910.
The hall's spiritual father and namesake was Erasmus Haworth, longtime KU professor of geology and state geologist. Haworth, the man, published the first work on the geology and mineral resources of Kansas in 1896.
In 1911, campus geologists realized they had no geology lab in their geology building, so Haworth received $7500 to correct this problem.
From 1911 until 1944, Haworth's only claim to even a modicum of fame was its collection of objects d' rock. Campus warts around 1920
referred to this collection as the Hall of Invertebrate Fossils.
In 1943, the occasion of the incineration of the Anatomy building gave middle-aged Haworth a chance to demonstrate its latent versatility. Geology, mining, and friends moved out to make room for anatomy and physiology. Old geologist Erasmus Haworth turned over in his grave.
To make the change, $84,000 was appropriated for permanent facilities in anatomy. Part of these facilities housed the cadavers that were a famous part of Haworth's history.
For a few seconds in 1944, the ill-fated anatomy department threatened to lose another home. A careless smoker started a fire in Haworth, but the flames were quelled with only $20 damage resulting.
In 1952, a one-story cement block addition to Haworth was completed for a blood-testing laboratory.
In 1963, with the dooming of Haworth already in the works, Keith Lawton, then director of physical plant operations and now
vice-chancellor of operations,
called Haworth a "bum building."
Haworth's heating, plumbing, and electricity were poor. It was occupying valuable campus space, and the need for more classroom space overrode whatever unrecorded public outcry there may have been to keep the aged edifice.
Haworth's inauspicity was carried to its logically absurd extreme last week when an arsonist made an attempt to destroy the already dismantled remains of the building.
KU greenhouse damaged in peculiar auto mishap
A peculiar auto mishap last Friday has caused an estimated $800-900 damage to a University of Kansas greenhouse.
the hill and smashed into the greenhouse.
The car, owned by W. C. Ridge Sr. of Topeka, rolled from a parking lot in back of Flint Hall, proceeded unchauffeured down
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Ridge was not in the auto when the incident happened. There were no other passengers.
Ridge told authorities that he thought he had left the vehicle in parking gear.
Buchholz also estimated the damage to the building.
Harry Buchholz, superintendent of physical plant at KU, said that there was extensive damage to Ridge's car.
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