Slow... steady... sure evolution by Arlene Wilson What started out as a CI, turned into a TUB, and ended upUB? That’s the history of the student Union Building according to Farrell Shepherd, who is currently director of the Union Building and who started with Weber State when the students met in an L-shaped room in the gymnasium on the old campus called the ‘‘College Inn.’’ “We had a rather complete soda fountain and a bookstore. The bookstore was a Set of three, six-foot shelves with books on both sides,’’ he said. Later the college moved an old barracks building onto the southeast corner of the campus. Half of the building was for the fountain and bookstore and the other half was used for drafting. This move doubled the space available for the bookstore, he said. ‘*The College Inn served student activities. Students danced, small clubs met and there were parties and record dances. The grill served meals, banana splits, shakes, that sort of thing. Lola Allred ran the fountain.”’ For a time after the move to the new campus in 1954 one room in Building 1 was utilized. During the day only books were sold, but at noon a folding door was opened and it became a lunch room. Sandwiches were made in the Home Economics department in Building 3 and carried to the lunch room for several years. **It was proposed in-about 1956 that we bring the old Barracks Building from the lower campus up here as a temporary union building. It became the TUB.’’ ‘It cost $15,000 to move the building, and that was a lot of money at the time. Jim Foulger said “there’s nothing as permanent as a temporary building. Plan to be in this 15 years,’ and we were there just slightly over that,”’ said Mr. Shepherd. Student government had an office in the north end of the building. ‘*On a survey we took the bookstore came out No. |. We smiled about that because the bookstore was the student center at that time. Only a counter divided it from the eating area. Lola Allred was the manager, with Ruth Calton in the kitchen and Ester Johnson, Ann Gunderson and Jerry Frost at the fountain. The building became a focal point for both students and faculty when a porch was enclosed and became a faculty seminar room. Faculty members brought sack lunches and rushed as fast as they could to get there. They discussed politics, philosophy and had debates. The room was decorated to resemble a ship with captain’s chairs. ‘*Nothing has ever taken the place of old seminars with the faculty and I still have students come back and say the miss the old TUB,”’ said Mr. Shepherd. One incident that stands out in Mr. Shepherd’s mind about the TUB days was the first banquet served there to about 30 people. “We had worked so hard to make everything very nice and had carefully trained the help. A waitress asked one of the guests if she would like a drink of water. The woman said, ‘Yes, I think I would.’ The girl tipped the pitcher to pour and the handle came right off, spilling water all over the women dressed in her best.” groups if ragtime] Diamont National D’s (Die is Nowe directsth years pi Christ the cam apostles. Such! College floats fe UB. float the to de id went0 for mati Other yellowin 67-Swe display, LK, Farrell Shepherd, director of Union Building looked over plans for new Union Building (had been a long time coming). Olson-A best-dre Honor. Yearbo 68 -Le Homea Under construction