Viking_Yearbook_64

The Portland State skyline was being changed again. On February 5, 1964, a new generation of Vikings was treated to the music of the jackhammers as construction began on the first new building since 1961 . Ground-breaking ceremonies for the new quarter-block addition to the College Center were handled by President Branford P. Mil– lar, ASPSC President Larry Large , and Vanguard Editor Georgia Wetteland . To the neighborhood kibitzers, the ac– tivity at Broadway and Harrison was just another construction show, but to the PSC gallery watchers who strung themselves out daily along the bridge between South Park Hall and the Center, the bulldozers meant more studying, eating, working, and playing space. The $1 .3 million addition, reach– ing four stories above and two below ground , will be finished in Spring '65, and will house student and staff offices, and dining rooms as well as an ex– pansion of the cafeteria, lounge-study rooms and a news room and office complex for student publications . The Center addition which is self-liquidat– ing escaped the suspension ax which fell on some classroom construction when the October tax levy failed. I J 83