Show Campus Edifice Soon Will House Theology Classes i A Ip IiI j Nfl L B. B Y U. U SOCIAL RELIGIOUS CENTER CONSTRUCTION PUSHED I Front view of or center showing main entrance with ith I bell to tower er erI lB B. B Y U. U Religious Center C t Nears Completion By Telegram Leased Wire PROVO Work PROVO Work on Brigham Young university university's so social social social so- so cial and religious center was concentrated on the inside here pere this his week with outside operations nearly completed according to Bert Russell of Salt Lake City construction foreman Windows are being set in the 1 white cast stone building and are I exp expected to be this week oak trim is being Installed in the south wing and workers are busy I cleaning up a and ad d waxing the used in the building for the baseboards base base- boards and bottoms of the doors while the doors themselves are being being beins be be- ing ins stained ready for hanging later this week he reported The building which is located south of the un university tennis courts and east cast of the Heber J. J Grant library on the site of the theold theold theold old athletic field on the upper campus will house all aU religious education classes and activities in addition to social events at the school Main portion of the building is taken up with the chapel or auditorium audi audi- seating 1200 while an adjacent ad jac jacent nt amusement hall hail may be opened up producing seats for an another ap- ap other otherS 1000 persons Surrounding the chapel are class classrooms classrooms rooms and faculty offices while one section of the building is given over to to a banquet room and re- re room for university and student organization social Feature of the building striking a note of f ril modernity is the tower rising rising- from the main entrance capped with wah glistening stainless steel Aided by the senior class project project of last year the tower tower- later I will vill be equipped with a carrillon of f bells plans for which are now being drawn up by Fred L L. Markham Markham Mark- Mark ham lam of Provo architect for the building wilding W With th work on the str structure clure progressing pro pro- gressing so rapidly university officials of- of are now engaged in selection selection tion on of furnishings for the religious center enter and hope that it might be C ready for operation at the beginning be- be I be-I ginning of the winter quarter early arly next year The building is being constructed as s one of the major projects of the ic L. L D. D S. S church welfare program program pro- pro gram ram the workers being drawn from rom all over Utah county Stu- Stu debts too have assisted in Its c construction the Associated Men Students Students' organization last year starting a plan under which each male student contributed a full day ay of labor on the building |