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Show fit y ft 53 ' . - . . ? I , t -A if t 1 J 4 1 -- H -ill air - - i. - V i .A nil . .. 10B SignOff Tuesday, June 2, 1987 A new addition to the campus, the J. Willard Marriott Allied Health Sciences Building, was dedicated last April. The building was more than three years in construction with a total cost of $5.4 million. Delays plagued the center as the hillside gave way time and time again. Slippage from several abnormally wet water years resulted in construction problems for laying in foundation. Finally, after three completion dates came and went with no celebration, Cannon-Papanikolas Construction was able to finish the building to be dedicated April 6. The Marriott Building is 61,198 square feet with facilities for a clinical lab, emergency care and rescue, medical records technology, nursing, respiratory therapy and several administrative areas. J. Willard Marriott is an alumnus of Weber State. He entered Weber Junior College in 1921 on the encouragement of then president, Aaron W. Tracy. During his time at Weber, Marriott managed the bookstore, edited the newspaper, participated in theater and was studentbody president. At the time of his' graduation, President Tracy said, "You're a good student. You have a good mind. Never give up. You can accomplish anything in this world that you want to accomplish if you just work hard enough." So, Marriott did just that. Before his death in August of 1985, Marriott had an approximate worth of over $3 billion. His estate includes ownership of the Hot Shoppes, Big Boy and Roy Rogers restaurants, various motor-in businesses, industrial and institutional cafeterias, the Sunline cruise ships and, of course, the Marriott convention hotel chain. In the foreward of the book, Marriott by Robert O'Brien, Mark E. Austad, former ambassador to Finland and Norway and personal friend of Marriott's, wrote, "Both gentle and tough; devoutly religious and yet fun loving; demanding yet tolerant; half pessimist and half optimist ... All he wanted of his family and friends was perfection. Though he was a worrier, he knew no fear. He had no use for laziness, dirtiness, social climbing or wasting time." At the dedication, Austad said he had once said to Marriott, "If not for Wet inconceivable that you'd Iw: sheepherders." Marriott contibuted about the building or approximate! building carries his name by Institutional Council. mrmm, "My sorrow," said Austai the man that helped it along Still, Marriott's two sons, his wife, Alice (Allie) were p was presented with a plaque six bricks saved from the ori where Marriott attended Wei "We're all grateful," said |