Plant Progress

UPON their return to Hanover last month the students found the new dormitory group on Choate Road well along in construction. The latest word is that some of the spaces in the four new units, featured by group suites, social lounges and separate but adjoined faculty residences, might be ready for occupancy next semester. At this stage, well before landscaped completion, the general appearance of the red brick, whitetrimmed dormitories makes one wonder what all the hub-bub was about when plans were announced last year.

Other major construction during the summer involved completion on North Park Street of the second five-family apartment house for faculty and staff, already fully occupied; progress on the sixty prefabricated small-family units being built on Lyme Road, north of the ski jump, as a joint project of the College and the Hitchcock Hospital; completion of the Baker Library addition which gives the cataloguing department more room; and the completion of the loop of new steam pipes from the College heating plant around the campus and back to the heating plant. The first half of the steam-pipe job was done last summer, and again the hard core of year-round residents had to contend with a network of deep trenches cutting across grounds and streets. Buildings and Grounds was busy in scores of other ways, but these were the major plant projects of the summer months.