Math Science Center Bids To Be Received Until June 1

Bids will be received June 1 for construction of a $1.1 million, four-story 
mathematical science center at the University, Dale O. Bowling, University 
business manager, said today.

Bids are to be submitted at the office of the director of construction, Room 6, 
of the University General Services Building until 10 a.m. (CDT) June 1. 

The brick, limestone and glass structure, to be erected on what was formerly 
Rollins Field, between the University swimming pool and the mall on the south 
side of Rollins Street, will be paid for by appropriations granted by the 
General Assembly in 1965 and supplemented by a federal grant. 

Designed primarily as an office building, the center will house the department 
of mathematics, mathematical science, statistics and the computer center. It 
will contain faculty and graduate student offices as well as a library.

The air-conditioned building will be constructed to allow for future expansion 
to the south. It is designed by architects Hellmuth, Obata & Kassabaum Inc., St. 
Louis. Their most recent work here has been the dormitory complexes at College 
Avenue and Rollins Street.

The building will be of modest design, with most of the ground floor exterior 
glass wall recessed to provide an overhang of the upper two floors. Five pillars 
on each side of the 100-foot square building will help support the upper floors.