Good morning everyone. We
may have it quiet now, please. Well, get started years ago.
Okay. To begin this memorable ceremony?
Yeah, colors will come forward to the front of the platform.
Tell them.
Mhm.
Our national anthem.
Yeah, Thank you very much, gee ROTC Color guard. Now I want the
cheerleaders up here for within a let's yell out.
Uh huh. Okay. Yeah, mm.
Show is gonna be close. Okay. Yeah. Okay, let's go now with the day,
everybody. Let's go
today.
All right, the O N E S T A T E. Arizona Arizona found a day.
Yeah.
Now we're met on this field this morning to celebrate another important
step toward providing a living memorial to the colleges. Men and women who
have given their lives in service to our country. Today. We'll break
ground for the college memorial union which will be a campus living room
to convert this college from a house of learning into a home of learning.
It is my great pleasure to bring to you now,
a man whom we all know and love our own Tempe resident. The honorable
Howard Pyle, Governor of Arizona.
Yeah.
Mhm.
Yeah,
thank you very much jimmy.
I don't think anything has happened since it has been my privilege to
serve the state of Arizona and my present capacity that has brought me
greater personal satisfaction than the historic moment in which we now
share. As you know, the problem of developing a student union building for
this campus has been one of considerable consequence for many a day. This
problem has a lot of age on it. And I'm delighted that the present student
body here at Arizona State, many of you at least will have an opportunity
to enjoy the facilities of this new student union building before you will
be leaving the campus. Mhm Money is always the problem in connection with
the project of this kind and those who have done such an outstanding job
from the standpoint of contributing those who have done the work of
conducting the financial campaign that was necessary to the popular
subscription phase of it, the state Legislature and the taxpayers of the
state, the student body for its enthusiasm, the leadership of the college
for its constant patience and continuing effort. All are to be commended
warmly for this great culmination of many, many, many years of planning.
As you know, we went out to raise just over a million dollars. The plan's
ultimately call for a million, 200,000 without I believe the appointments
which will ultimately furnish this new plan, We were able to get 500,000
from the state legislature, I think the subscriptions to date amount to
about 365.
And then there are various other ways in which additional funds are being
made available up to within about $100,000 of what will ultimately be
needed to retire the total cost of this enterprise. This means that many
of our donors and many who have not as yet contributed from the standpoint
of public subscription, we'll still have opportunities to do so before we
finally are able to complete this structure and make it a finished product
for this campus. I know you are all going to remember this day with
tremendous enthusiasm and it is my hope that this war memorial to the
great sacrificial student contribution of this campus in all of the
engagements of the immediate path will stand as a pleasing and comforting
enterprise on this corner for as long as this campus shall remain the home
of learning that it has been follow these many years as the governor of
the state, representing all of the counties, all of the institutions, all
of the taxpayers. It's my privilege to command you, congratulate you and
wish this enterprise the very best of every good thing from this hour on.
Thank you very much character.
All right. Mhm.
Thank you very much Governor pile and I know that you want to meet uh mrs
pile, Lucille pile and alumni of this college. He's right down here at the
left. I wish you'd give her a greeting. Yeah.
Mhm. Mhm.
Yeah. Yeah. It is now my pleasure to introduce one of the colleges most
distinguished alumni. A Graduate of the Class of 1896.
A man who has served his state in the United States Congress Since Arizona
became a state in 1912 and who had many prominent positions before that
time in the political life of Tempe and Maricopa county. He is now the
senior United States senator from Arizona and he served us as our honorary
national chairman for our memorial union fundraising campaign. Here's the
man whose father founded Hayden's Ferry, which is what temple used to be
called in the 18 sixties and the first anglo american born in Tempe.
Senator Carl Hayden, an alumnus. Okay, welcome terms.
Yeah.
Mhm. Mhm. Yeah.
one who graduated from this institution Some 58 years ago. It is good to
come back to what was then and alfalfa pasture at the rear of the old
school house where when I came in in the morning from the ranch, I turned
my horse loose and left the saddle on the rack and when school was over
came out and saddled him up and he'd been well fed all day on this alfalfa
as the great change that I've seen in the, in these years in this
institution and I'm proud to be one who was, He is one of its early
graduates, one who has watched this growth over the succeeding years and
one who I was in a way could help toward the construction of this new
building here. I think in my judgment no step has been taken that will be
of greater cultural benefit, build greater friendships, make those who
come to the college remember it better than the construction of the
student union building and I am here happy to participate in its
dedication and I thank you. Okay. Mhm. Yeah. Mhm. Mhm.
Thank you, Senator Hayden, Now this building belongs to the students, You
helped raise the money for it and you're going to enjoy it. Here is your
student president, Bill Colson.
Uh huh.
Mhm. Okay, thank you. I'm sure that I represent the present student body,
the student body since the time of Ed Carson, under whose uh student
administration the student union drive was begun and the student bodies to
come when I say thank you Mr Stoffer and the taxpayers, the students, the
alumni, the friends of the college and faculty who you represent for
making it last. The construction of this student memorial union, a reality.
We are deeply grateful to you and we'll strive always to use the
facilities of the union in a manner which will make you just as proud of
us as we are grateful to you. Thank you,
mm hmm. Okay,
thank you very much. Bill. Now the faculty and staff of the college also
had a big part in making this building possible. It's going to be there
building too. And here is the faculty chairman of the campus fundraising
drive who did a great job, dr George Bateman, head of the physical
sciences department. Mhm,
Thank you. It certainly has been a great pleasure in working with students
, faculty, alumni and the community in furthering this project here.
Nothing is worthwhile to note that it is a community project in which all
of us have worked together. The faculty has been very generous in the
staff have been very generous in the support of this project and I'm very
glad to announce that provisions, we will be made for a faculty lounge and
the faculty dining room. I thank you. Mhm Yeah, thank
you, doc Redman. Now, as you know, it took a lot of organization to raise
the money and make the plans for this building. The college was extremely
fortunate in a choice of the campaign's executive committee. Now they
couldn't all be here this morning, but I want to read their names. Wesley
W Nor Pope martin Wist. You grew L. M. O best walter, Arbib son, john
Jacobs Sydney be more joseph Lancer senior john B Mills. Now three of them
are with us today and I want you to hear just a word from them first.
Sydney be more a graduate of 1914. Many times alumni president. Now member
of the alumni board, attorney and state director of the United States
brewers Foundation Mr moore.
Uh
huh. I
just say thank you, I'm glad to be here. You don't want to hear from me.
Thanks
another member of our executive committee and Arizona industrialist, Civic
leader, owner of the westward ho and other enterprises, john B mills,
thank you very much. This building is going to furnish such a wonderful
service and much needed service to this great college that I'm very happy
to have made a small contribution to its success. Thank you very much. Mhm.
Yeah, thank
you very much. Mr Mills,
a significant amount of our funds has come from college sources now we're
indebted
for the untiring efforts of the controller of the colleagues. Mr moneybags.
He's an alumnus of the class of 1934.
He won the Alumni Service Award in 1952 for his work on the Student Union.
It's a pleasure to give you Gilbert L. KT campaign Treasurer.
Mhm.
He's counting his money. He's right over there in the corner of the crowd.
Very bashful, but we appreciate all that he has done and is doing
now the gal friday who kept the records and was a dynamo of energy in the
campaign. I wanted to stand and take a good bow marge, McKamey now
campaign director of the Shrine of the Ages Chapel Corporation and
secretary of our campaign.
Now an indispensable man who for at least nine years and he may correct me
on that has been working on the plans for this building. Architect Kemper
Goodwin of Tempe.
Mhm. Thank you. It hasn't been quite nine but it has been since 1948.
This building contains so many different things. The requirements are such.
That has been one of the most interesting jobs we've ever done. I hope
that it has everything in it which you students and those to come. I would
like to have. I'm sure that the space will soon prove too small. But we
have attempted to give you everything possible and as much space as
possible within the funds available. Thanks. Okay,
thank you kemper. Now we're all anxious to know how long will it take to
finish the building? Here's a man who can tell us representative of the T
. G. K. Construction company. Mr George R. Vied.
Yeah.
Well I won't take much of your time because we're going to get this dream
started And get it underway and we should have it completed within 365
days. Thank you. Come on. Mhm. Yeah. Mhm.
Now we're going to have
the band play a selection and we'll continue with the ceremony.
Yeah
mm.
Yeah. Yeah.
Don't go away. We have the most important speaker yet to come and then
we're going to dig this first shovel full of dirt here. I want you to hear
a word from the man who was campus chairman of our entire campus campaign
and who will have a lot to do with the way this building serves the campus
in the future. Are dina students dr Weldon p shop stall.
I do want to sound just one note that I don't believe has been expressed
up until this time. Many people falsely get the idea that a student union
is just a big recreation hall Such as one would find in a big city and of
course it is that it is a place where we come and have fun get together
and it is the heart of the campus. But it is more than that if we do not
uhh failed those people who have spent so much time, energy and money and
making this union possible, we will fail them unless we do make this not
just a recreation hall but a place of education, a place where we learn,
You know that the big industry, big industry has determined without a
doubt that from 85 to 90% of the people who lose jobs after they get out
in life lose it, not because of a lack of ability, not because of a lack
of formal training, but they lose it because of a lack of ability to get
along with other people. That phase of the education on this campus is one
of those aspects of our education to which this union, this building will
contribute more. I enter this next year with great humility as well as
gratitude humility for fear that we will not be able to make the maximum
use of this building do do on this campus, what this building gives us a
chance to do. But I'm sure we will do it with men like Bill Colson and
student leaders such as he, which we'll have in the future and a student
body such as this has turned out here Now. I'm proud to look forward and
I'm sure you are too, thank you all who contributed to this. This is a
great event here today and the future that it means for this institution.
Thank you very much and the angel after all now
we come to the high point of the morning ceremony.
I know you've been waiting to hear from our President Dr. Grady Gammage.
Yeah, okay.
Mr Chairman, members of our executive campaign committee, the students and
faculty.
This is a real red letter day in the history of this college.
It's a day about which we have dreamed and hoped for a long time
to see the beginning of its final culmination and realization and the
building that will be erected at this place is indeed a great moment for
all of us.
As has been suggested. We should all feel very humble.
I especially feel that way because I am personally and officially, on
behalf of the college, indebted to so many people
for the marvelous spirit of cooperation,
the spirit of giving the spirit of helpfulness that has made this moment
possible.
We could not have begun to realize this building. If it had not been for
the good will are people of the state of Arizona. The helpfulness of the
students and faculty
and of the alumni.
We perhaps could take it for granted that students would be helpful that
alumni would be helpful and faculty would be. But we actually had no right
to take it for granted that citizens of the state would respond in the
generous and enthusiastic manner in which they responded.
We're deeply indebted to them. We especially indebted to charlie Stauffer
who headed up the drive to Senator Hayden, who lent the prestige of his
name and end of his influence and was helpful in other ways
to the members of the executive committee
and especially to those who gave from, I think the largest gift was
$25,000
Down to 10 Santa. We are grateful to all of them. We are grateful to mr
males and mr moore who took time out to be with us this morning.
John Mills is one of the busiest men, the United States. We are indeed
honored to have him on our campus. Sydney is one of all our own graduates
and one of us and we expect him to be here, but we have no right to expect
a man like john Mills, Senator Hayden Governor Pie men who are especially
busy at this particular time to more than ever. Uh, we have no right to
expect them to take their time to come out here and we're indebted to them
for that. This union will be the cross currents, the place for the where
we will sense the cross current of students and faculty lives. It will be
a recreational center. It will be an educational center. It will be a
place that will enrich the lives and the experiences of our students from
the time. It is dedicated for the next century, I hope, and I'm sure it
will. So again, I'm grateful to all of you and thank you for coming this
morning and with that feeling of satisfaction that I know we all have, I'm
going to say that in 365 days, if not sooner we expect to dedicate this
building. I hope it will be at least a month sooner than that.
Thank you. President Gammage and now mr Student Union himself, the man who
wore out more shoe leather pounding the pavements of Arizona
getting contributions than most of us were out in many, many years. A man
who was graduated from this college in 1901,
former publisher of the Arizona Republic in phoenix gazette, former alumni
president and member of our alumni board, A man who gave 16 hours a day
for over a year to furthering this cause for you and for us.
I think I've said all I can say, but it isn't enough. Here is the general
campaign chairman Charles a staffer. Yeah.
Mhm.
Mhm, mhm, mm hmm.
I certainly thank you. And that the cheer certainly gave me a thrill. But
even at that it isn't the thrill that I have. I have the greatest ever had
in my life because a dream is coming true. Persistency, we're told half
its reward and certainly the persistency of the president and this
committee and everybody else that worked on this drive for three years
should be rewarded in the greatest reward I can think of is the
satisfaction that we're going to have a real student union building in the
finest college should be university in the southwest.
Yeah. Mm hmm.
I'll
just say that I'm extremely happy that you're going to have an institution
or a project here that will prove one of the richest factors in your
college life that will bring you all together and give you an opportunity
to learn to be citizens and in this day and age of the world, we know that
with people coming in masses instead of a few that you do need greater
cooperation and greater understanding and that's what this is going to
give this school. I'm happy. Very happy indeed that you're going to have
this institution and I'm happy that all the students in the future are
going to have to have it and I'm going to express
and appreciation before the student body of the administration,
the administration and the work of the school. It's a, the respect that
the state of Arizona has for it. I think that you should be happy and I'm
very happy. Do we probably have one of the best college presidents in the
United States and I certainly wish you every, every one of you the
greatest of,
of happiness in this institution. I thank you. Okay. Mm
tonight. Okay. Yeah. And now of course we've had all of the talking, we're
going to have. And uh, from this point on, except I think I failed to
express our appreciation to jimmy here. Now, Jamie was the real spark plug
and enthusiasm that managed the details and kept everything coordinated
and running smoothly and effectively. And we are indebted to him. I think
I failed to say that. Thank you very much. Yeah, that's right. Yeah. All
of my ever have anything to do with another fundraising drive. I just hope
I can have charlie Stauffer and carl Hayden to take the ball. That's what
I hope. Thank you very much. Now, Zad shamel of Arizona sand and rock is
over there with this big shoveland