Plant, Changes
The College itself undertook no summer construction spectacular enough to require a grandstand. In the eyes of the alumni offices on the top floor of Parkhurst Hall, however, the remodelling of Crosby Hall into their new and more spacious habitation greatly excelled the Wilder Dam in all respects. The NROTC offices made their move from College Hall to the second and third floors of Crosby about the middle of August—a transfer pushed ahead as rapidly as possible so that the upper floors of Commons might be restored to dormitory space before the opening of college. Last spring the editors of the ALUMNI MAGAZINE were encouraged to think that they might be putting out this October issue from their new headquarters in 101 Crosby, but the November issue will have to be the one to be splattered with a bottle of water from the Connecticut. In company with the Alumni Records Office and the Alumni Fund Office, the MAGAZINE expects to make its move around the first of October. Pictorial proof of the splendor of it all is scheduled to appear next month.
Mr. Gooding's department of buildings and grounds put in its usual busy summer refurbishing the dormitories and recitation halls and keeping the grounds at their immaculate best. In addition to supervising the work on Crosby, the department made use of the summer months to re-line two of the heating-plant boilers, build a small addition to Thayer Hall, providing additional refrigeration and receiving-room space, and install in Freshman Commons a shiny new conveyor belt that runs along the east wall of the big dining room and takes the dirty dishes right to the washers in the kitchen. The possibilities that this conveyor belt has for fun among the young are appalling, but no doubt an adequate police system has already been devised.
Elsewhere in Hanover, the mushroom growth of private homes, held back by the war, resumed all over town; and the Mary itchcock Hospital got its two-milliondollar expansion program under way by starting building operations on a new nurses' home and on additions to the boiler plant, kitchens and dining rooms.
Face-lifting on Main Street was all of the interior variety and was confined pretty much to the drugstores. Putnam's started a chain reaction when it had itself modernized last spring. Allen's allied itself with the Whelan drugstores this summer and underwent a drastic transformation. Now Eastman's is closed for renovations, and the competitive wheel has come full circle.
