especially eager to meet with Visiting Committees of the Board of Trustees, University officials, and legislature members in an effort to outline the need for enlarged facilities for the broadening of their professional preparation.

Annual and seasonal departmental programs such as "gym meet," tournaments, and intramural events were curtailed by limitations of space for players and spectators. No dressing areas were available for "dates," which limited the co-recreation program. The "old gymnasium" was literally "bursting at the seams." A far-sighted administration, alert to and in sympathy with progressive ideas of the department led the way in presenting the need of a new facility through the channels of state appropriation.

WOMAN'S PHILOSOPHY

The appropriation finally granted, Chancellor W. C. Jackson assigned Edward B. Loewenstein as architect

for the project. This was perhaps the most vital decision in our realization of a gymnasium for women students designed by women. Mr. Loewenstein's first official act as our architect was to call a meeting of his staff and the staff of the department of Physical Education for the purpose of defining the philosophy of the building. In the first stages of this planning, hours were spent in sharing with the architects and engineers our ideas of a woman's program of physical education as they were reflected in our dreams for facilities.

During the months and years awaiting legislative action on budget requests, the staff had had opportunity to define and formulate ideas of function, beauty, and arrangement of teaching stations. Each staff member had drawn rough floor plans, and these many plans had been consolidated into a basic scheme. We knew what we wanted, and architectural experts were eager to advise us of ways in which sound construction could proceed.

We knew that the Mary Channing Coleman Gymnasium should be a building for women students a functional and modern laboratory for learning, for growth, and for that de velopmental part of general educa tion in higher education which em phasizes and uses the medium of physical activity; that the building should provide abundant opportuni ties for professional laboratory ex periences for undergraduate graduate women professional stu dents; that varied facilities should be

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provided for recreation and for corecreation; that this should be a building for women in which color, harmony, design, femininity, and ease of housekeeping should dominate constructional planning. The architectural staff accepted eagerly the challenge of a woman's philosophy for a woman's building.

Throughout the entire construction project, the architect and project supervisor were alert to our choices in regard to function, design, color, and furnishings. All available reference materials on building, planning, and construction were discussed with the architectural staff. Some visitations were made to other colleges and universities. The architect made available for our study current architectural journals, reference catalogues, and construction plans for other physical education facilities. Popular magazines, such as House Beautiful and House and Garden, were used for ideas.

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The architect's office provided expert consultants on lighting, color, design, and other technical phases of econstruction. Samples of exterior and interior details were furnished for staff decisions on color suitability. No major decision concerning the construction was made dg without consultation with the physiOcal education staff. The complete as understanding and co-operation of the architect and construction superme visor were of great importance to us lans in the realization of our plans.

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MODERN, FUNCTIONAL PLANT

The Mary Channing Coleman Gymnasium combines a modern physical education plant with a functional, contemporary design. Exterior simplicity of detail is gained by face brick, concrete, and limestone. Main exterior features are cantilevered stairs, concrete canopies over windows, and the use of steel rigid frames over the gymnasium. Roughly, the building is the shape of a "T," two stories in height, except for the rear portion which is one story with an open, lighted, terrace (105 ft. x 120 ft.) above. The ground floor houses the following units: corrective laboratory, seminar rooms, exstamining room, first aid room, equipld be ment rooms, camera room, dark room,

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