Page 18 - 50th Birthday Booklet

“CONSIDER THEM SACRIFICED TO PROGRESS. Giant tress, which stood in august grandeur on the Albright College campus, Tuesday are sawed from their pedestals and fragmatzed, paving the way for the new Albright College Library.” Reading Eagle/Time photo and capton, Jan 1964 From the Reading Eagle/Times “Estmated cost of the three story concrete, masonry and steel building is $525,000 — not Including plumbing, heatng, electrical work and air conditoning. The library will be located between the administraton building [Masters Hall] and Selwyn Hall. It will be large enough to house 150,000 books and will have administratve ofces on the frst foor.”