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About The daily Nebraskan. ([Lincoln, Neb.) 1901-current | View Entire Issue (March 10, 1977)
thursday, march 10, 1077 chily nsbrssksn TfX "3UA)K BELO0SS TO SMHTaJZS. t ! : ' H : km V is mm I I m t V"- Iin W i' I void Bessey needs updating When Robert Pazderka, NU Capital Construc tion coordinator, told a group of NU administra tors and NU Board of Regents members that Dessey Hall needs to be brought into this cen tury, he apparently was not too far off target. The life science building was built in 1 9 1 6 and has "pretty much stayed like it has through the years," according to Duane Durham, chief design engineer of the NU Physical Plant. Bur ham, said the brick building has had no additions . or renovations in its 6 1 - year history . Gov. J. James Exon's budget recommendations did not include the $350,000 requested by the mm. mm a regents for improvements to Kessey Hail. Bessey Hall was about the 1 6th building on the UNL campus, Durham said. Buildings older than Bessey which still stand include Architec ture, Temple, Richards and Avery Halls and the Former Law Bldg. The building's namesake is former acting NU chancellor Charles Edwin Bessey. He served as acting chancellor from 1889 to 1907. Bessey also was a botany professor and dean of the school of agriculture at NU. J 'jff :.;V - o --All y s t UUittUHr 'n I t I i i f Photographs by Ted KiA A