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When Materials Available, Library, Industrial Arts Buildings to Be Constructed The students and faculty mem bers of East Central college were jubilant on receiving news of the $182,500 building allocation assed July 23 by the Regents of higher education. Dr. Lin scheid, president of East Central for 25 years stated “This building program constitutes the biggest single step forward in the life of the institution.” The allocation provides for a $150,000 Library building and a $32,500 Industrial Arts building, both of which are badly needed. Work cannot be started imme diately because of prevailing war time conditions. College of ficials say the buildings will be constructed in such a manner that additions can be made in the future as need arises and money becomes available. Where They'll Be Built The new library will be located between the science Hall and the administration building. The In dustrial arts building will be on the site of the old frame gym. It will be razed in the near future to make way for the new indus trial arts building. This is the greatest single ap propriation for instructional buil dings in East Central’s history, surpassed only by the $305,009 dormitory program of 1936. It will bring the number of major buildings on the campus to eight. Space now occupied by the li brary and shops in present col lege buildings will be converted into class rooms. The part of the administration buiding now used as a library will probably be converted to studios for the music and art depart ments. Many Buildings Needed for all State Colleges Appropriations for the opera tions and capital items were made to the legislation at its last session. The appropriations were made to the Board of Regents for Higher Education under the constitutional amendments doing away with separate appropria tions. The money is allocated by the board to each institution as the needs appear and the money is available. The board recognized the ur gent need for additional opera tion money and many new build ings. The state had appropriated almost no money for buildings at any of the state colleges for fif tee years, with the result that all of them are in urgent need of additional classroom space, libra ry space and equipment and books and buildings for health education. The allocations made for the institutions the past week are a start on the building pro gram that is expected to continue over a period of ten years.
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Ada Weekly News
Ada, Oklahoma, US
Thu, Aug 02, 1945
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