[cover] University of Missouri Building Dedication Program [seal of the University of Missouri] Saturday, November Twenty-one Nineteen Hundred Thirty-six Columbia, Missouri [page 1] Order of Exercises The Honorable F. M. McDavid, President of the Board of Curators, presiding 1. "The Star-Spangled Banner" - University R.O.T.C. Band 2. Invocation - The Reverend C. E. Lemmon, Christian Church, Columbia, Missouri 3. Address of Welcome by the Presiding Officer 4. Address - The Honorable Guy B. Park, Governor of Missouri 5. Address - The Honorable E. H. Foley, Jr., Director, Legal Division, Federal Emergency Administration of Public Works, Washington, D.C. 6. Address - The Honorable John D. Taylor, Chairman, House Appropriations Committee, 58th General Assembly 7. Address - The Honorable Bennett Champ Clark, Senior United States Senator from Missouri 8. Address - The Honorable Tom K. Smith, President, American Bankers Association 9. Address - The Honorable Sidney Rollins, Chairman, Senate Appropriations Committee, 58th General Assembly 10. Address - The Honorable W. E. Freeland, State Senator 11. Address - Dr. Frederick A. Middlebush, President of the University of Missouri 12. Benediction - The Reverend C. E. Lemmon, Christian Church, Missouri [page 2] The Building Program And Its Effect On The University The complete of the construction program which has been carried on at the University of Missouri in Columbia during the last eighteen months is significant, to some extent, in the size of the increase to the physical plant, but its real significance lies in the fact that this increase will permit the faculty and research staff of the University to carry out more efficiently and more completely the educational program of the University. For many years the faculty of the institution has been hampered in its efforts by the lack of an adequate physical plant. Instruction and research has been carried on in crowded and improper quarters or, in too many instances, the work has not been done. These new buildings will permit the departments using them to work under normal conditions. Other departments not receiving new quarters will continue to be hampered in their work but it is hoped that in time these, too, may be provided with efficient quarters such as are now being dedicated. In addition to the erection of new buildings, considerable work has been done in the repair of some of the service facilities of the University and a number of buildings have been renovated. Major repairs have been made to the electric distribution system, some of the water mains, and other services. Ten major buildings have been renovated. These repairs will tend to improve the educational efficiency of the University. The financing of the construction program, now being completed, has been by means of State appropriations and funds allotted by the Federal Emergency Administration of Public Works because of those State appropriations. the sum expended for the additions to the plant, and the renovation of some of the older buildings will be approximately $1,400,000. [page 3] The Buildings now being dedicated are: - An Addition to the Library Building [photograph of drawing of design for library addition] This addition provides urgently needed, usable, fire-proof, stack space for books, reading rooms, seminar rooms, and other library facilities. This addition will eliminate the use of poorly equipped and poorly ventilated reading room now used by first year students. It will also provide additional library space for students of all classes. The Practice School Building [photograph of drawing of design for practice school building] This building, for the use of the School of Education, replaces tow inadequate, highly combustible temporary structures which have been used as makeshifts for the School of Education, for the first time in its long history, will have modern, properly equipped quarters for its work. [page 4] Student Health Center [photograph of drawing of design for student health building] This hospital clinic building supplies a much needed addition to the University Hospitals and will permit the Student Health Services properly to carry out its important function of taking care of student illnesses and the training of students in the importance of proper care of their health. The Engineering Laboratories [photograph of drawing of design for the engineering laboratories] This addition to the facilities of the College of Engineering will provide for that division of the University much needed fireproof laboratory space for the instructional and research work of that division. [page 5] Conservation Laboratory [photograph of Conservation laboratory] The University, in cooperation with the State and the Federal Governments, by means of this building will provide laboratory facilities where research work may be carried on which should contribute to the development of a systematic program for the care and conservation of wild life in Missouri. Walter Williams Hall [photograph of Walter Williams addition] This addition to the Jay H. Neff Hall, the Journalism Building, is significant in two ways. First in that it provides much needed space for the work of the School of Journalism, and second in that it will stand as a permanent memorial to the late Walter Williams who served the University and the State of Missouri for so many years in a courageous, faithful and illustrious manner. [page 6] The Completion of the Home Economics Building [photograph of the Home Economics Building] For more than fifteen years, the Home Economics Building has stood incomplete. This incomplete part of the building has now been finished and made available for the use of the educational program of the Department of Home Economics.