Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1940 [PAGE 265]

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BOARD OF TRUSTEES

GEOLOGICAL SURVEY

[March 14

Present Space: Square feet Turner House, Annex, and Garage 7 511 Space in Ceramics Building 8 126 Total 15 627 Space to be released (as per Dr. M. M. Leigh ton's letter of January 21, 1939): Turner House 2 180 Turner House Annex I 680 Ceramics Building 1 535 Total 5 315 Space to be retained and t h a t to be available in new building: Garage (West of Turner House and Annex) 3 731 Space in Ceramics Building 6 591 New Natural Resources Building 27 339 Total 37 661 (Small amount of space in Lincoln Hall basement has been omitted.) T h e Deans of the Colleges of Liberal Arts and Sciences and Engineering, and the Director of the Physical Plant Department were consulted concerning the needs of their departments for the space which the Survey Chiefs desire to retain in the Natural History and Ceramics Buildings, and they have advised as follows: 1. Natural History Survey.—The proposed retention of space by this Survey in the Natural History Building appears reasonable and necessary. T h e space to be released will be used by the Departments of Geology, Zoology, and Mathematics for classrooms, laboratories, and faculty offices. 2. Geological Survey.—This division desires to retain over four-fifths of the space now occupied in the Ceramics Building, despite the fact that it would have an increased floor area of over 100 per cent even if all the space in the Ceramics Building were released. T h e enrollment in Ceramics and Ceramic Engineering has increased markedly during recent years. It has more than doubled in the last ten. Members of the Department have been engaged in research important to ceramic industries. T h e existing space has become so crowded that this research program has been handicapped. T h e H e a d of the Department has submitted a detailed report showing the need for the space now occupied by the Geological Survey in the Ceramics Building, with the request that space on the third floor be assigned to the Department for specified usage. T h e Advisory Committee for the Department of Ceramic Engineering representing the ceramic industries is also concerned about this situation. On November 12 it inspected the quarters now used by the Department of Ceramic Engineering and inquired carefully into their use. As a result of the inspection the Committee recommends that all of the floor space in the Ceramics Building now used by the Geological Survey be assigned to the Department of Ceramic Engineering for its exclusive use when the Resources Building is occupied by the Survey. T h e r e are other departments in the College of Engineering which must also be given consideration. T h e most pressing need is for drafting rooms and for offices due to large increases in the registrations in Mechanical Engineering, Metallurgical Engineering, and General Engineering Drawing. In view of these considerations, it is recommended that: 1. T h e request of the Natural History Survey be approved. 2. T h e Geological Survey be required to vacate all space now occupied by it in the Ceramics Building. As indicated above, this division would still have an increased floor area of 100 per cent when it occupies the Natural Resources Building. T h e Survey should also give up the T u r n e r House (this structure should be demolished as soon as possible) which it has already agreed to do. Director H a v e n s presented this matter.