I was amazed to learn that this building was about to be demolished, but it seems as if they have a legitimate reason for doing so: making room for other buildings that are supposed to be better ones and more suited to the needs of Anderson University these days.

Still, it seems as if it could have been incorporated into the current plans, because it's a very unique structure with a rich history.

I can remember (I wasn't quite ten at the time) when the roof was built first and rested on the ground to wait until it was ready to be raised to begin building the building under it.

Or, was it over to one side and then placed atop the building (once built) as one would put a lid on a skillet or saucepan?

I can't remember. All I know is that I can remember the roof lying on the ground with nothing under it.

I wonder how they will end up taking it apart.

There will be a time in about a week (on October 27) for people to go into it and share old memories of the place. On October 30, demolition will begin in earnest.

One memory I have of the place is going to a friend's graduation back in 1975 or 1976. It seems as if the graduation took place in 1975, but I almost remember a friend attending with me, and I hadn't met him until July of 1975, and the graduation was in early June.

Perhaps, I just think that I remember his being there.

Anyway, Mort Crim was the keynote speaker, and I got a kick out of his story where he was having to deal with someone on the order of a dean while in college there many years before.

I went to a different college but was, also, dealing with a dean who didn't see eye-to-eye with me on some matters.

It was really neat seeing someone up there being the keynote speaker at the same college where he and the dean had one had their messy disagreements, and I could just picture myself, perhaps, ending up being the keynote speaker at my own college one of these days.

Afterwards, it was neat to see people already parked at the campground for the upcoming Church Of God Convention.