USD Annual Report 1982/83

Growth in campus facilities . ..

serving as the University's premier setting for conferences and Continuing Education sessions .. . Guadalupe Hall, comple ted early in the year to house San Diego Law Center and NROTC o ffices ... comple ted renovation of biology and chemistry labo rato ries . .. new playing fields fo r spo rts ac tivities . ... These were the headline stories in a year which saw dramatic changes in the face of the USD campus- " the Unive rsity's most ambitious building projec t since it opened 33 years ago," said the San Diego Union edito rial. As a bricks-and-mo rtar expression of USD's increased academic and community responsibility, the new facilities bear out the vision of the University 's founders: that it would become a major center fo r learning in San Diego.

A $4. 5 million grant from the Olin Foundation to construct and equip a new fac ility for the School of Business Administration ; 46,000 square feet of the most advanced educational and computer equipment, classrooms, laboratories, and offices for a professional school whose enrollment has tripled in the past five years . . . groundbreaking fo r the Helen K. andJames S. Copley Library, enabled by grants from the Copley Foundation , USDTrustee Helen K. Copley, and the National Endowment fo r the Humanities ; 38,000 square fee t which will mo re than double the size of the existing library, no longer adequate for a burgeoning student population .. . the Douglas F. Manchester Executive Conference Center, supported by a leadership gift from the USD trustee whose name it bears; 17,000 square fee t

(abol'e) Tbe new Helen K. and James S. Copley library cmd {r:) Douglas F Mane/Jester Executiue Conference Center as they looked in ltlle Septembe1; ICJ83.

latl'rence W'. Milas (I.). president of the Olin Foundation, tours the campus u•ilh President Hugbes on the day USD cmnoimced tin S4. 5 million grant whicb would construct and equip the School of Business Administratio11 building. Olin Hall.

\!rs. Helen K. Copley, cbairman of the capital campaign u•hose successful m 111pletion ll'CIS announced at w oundbreaking f or tbe Ile/en K. and James S. Copley library, wil/J /'residenl Hug/Jes al the Xovembe1: 1982 ceremonies.

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