"Modern Academic Building To Be Ready for Fall Semester' (From Vol. 1 No. 1 (May 31st, 1955))
Julie Ivers
Issue date: 4/2/09 Section: News
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Among its outstanding features can be mentioned the lecture hall with a seating capacity of 200; the library covering a whole half-floor with specially built-in "Compo" stacks to accommodate 50,000 volumes; the psychology laboratory with a viewing room enabling students to witness, unobserved, the reaction of children to clinical tests; and an audio-visual room with a broadcasting studio.
On the main floor will be found offices of the President, the Dean, the Registrar-Bursar, the Public Relations officer, and the Guidance Counsellor as well as reception and faculty rooms.
The top floor will hold chemistry, biology, physics and bacteriology laboratories and six music studios.
There will also be an ultra-modern home economics department, three rooms for secretarial science, two journalism laboratories, two art and craft rooms, and several other classrooms for general use.
A student lounge and canteen on the ground floor and a study nook leading to the sundeck will be available to students for relaxation or study during free periods.
Modern in appearance and function, the four story college covers an area approximately 74,000 square feet.
The building, for which ground was broken March 25, 1954 and the cornerstone laid in a private ceremony February 27, 1955, and was designed by Henry D. Dagit and Sons and is being constructed by F.V. Radomski and Sons, Inc.
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