{"id":48374,"date":"2017-08-08T09:00:58","date_gmt":"2017-08-08T09:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/?p=48374"},"modified":"2017-08-07T21:15:23","modified_gmt":"2017-08-07T21:15:23","slug":"did-you-know-alumni-behind-the-science-building-introduction-old-science-hall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/2017\/08\/08\/did-you-know-alumni-behind-the-science-building-introduction-old-science-hall\/","title":{"rendered":"Did You Know? Alumni Behind the Science Building"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Introduction: \u201cOld Science\u201d Hall<\/h2>\n<p>One of the current physical centerpieces of the campus, Science Hall, was constructed in 1947-1948 and opened for fall semester classes in 1949. Like the new Hagfors Center, which will realign how the campus is used, this multi-functional building became a hub, not only for science classrooms, laboratories, and lecture halls, but also for campus life.<\/p>\n<p>It was home to administrative office<a href=\"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2017\/08\/OLD-SCIENCE-HALL.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-48376 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2017\/08\/OLD-SCIENCE-HALL-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Black and white photo of Old Science Hall.\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2017\/08\/OLD-SCIENCE-HALL-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2017\/08\/OLD-SCIENCE-HALL.jpg 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>s, faculty offices, the student lounge, student org offices, the home economics department, and a prayer chapel on the fourth floor. Originally a library was envisioned as a part of this capital project, but was built separately years later. The Lisa Odland Observatory, which was constructed on the roof and accessed by an exterior stairway, was added in 1960.\u00a0 The building cost $450,000 and was supported by Lutheran Free Church members, as well as alumni and other friends.\u00a0 It was reported that part way through the fundraising campaign, 350 students gave a total of $3,611, towards their overall goal of $6,000. Alumni who gave financially to make this building an integral part of the Augsburg experience include Luther A. \u201929 and Clarette (Jorenby) \u201929 Arnold, Paul R. \u201942 and Maxine Fridlund, Lisa Odland, Johan N. Sverdrup, and General Leif J. Sverdrup \u201918.<\/p>\n<p>As we eagerly await the grand opening of the Hagfors Center, this series we will pay homage to the important people who made the original science hall a possibly. In &#8220;<em>Did you know? Alumni behind the Science Building&#8221;<\/em>\u00a0we will explore each week specific generous donors of \u201cOld Science\u201d Hall, and highlight the importance of the building to Augsburg College.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Introduction: \u201cOld Science\u201d Hall One of the current physical centerpieces of the campus, Science Hall, was constructed in 1947-1948 and &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":386,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[820],"tags":[32,139,823,43,492,821,822],"class_list":["post-48374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campus-reflections","tag-alumni","tag-auggies","tag-donors","tag-giving","tag-hagfors-center","tag-old-science","tag-science-hall"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/386"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48374"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48378,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48374\/revisions\/48378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}