The school has selected the names for one of two dormitory trios being built in the McLaughlin Cluster.   The three connected buildings will be called Berry Hall, Bildner Hall, and Byrne Hall II according to a press release.

Three families gave about $6 million each for the buildings: John and Shirley Berry, Charles Berry, and Roberta and George Berry ‘66 funded a dormitory to be named for John W. Berry Sr. ‘44; Joan and Allen Bildner ‘47, Tu ‘48 funded Bildner Hall; Dorothy and John “Jack” Byrne Jr. and their sons John Byrne III ‘81, Mark Byrne ‘85, Tu ‘86, and Patrick Byrne ‘85 funded Byrne Hall II.

The school may have made this official earlier, but it has started using the phrase “the Elm Walk” to describe the new collegiate open space between Berry and Maynard Street.  

While still a proposed design, this space was referred to by some as a “second Green” (compare a sketch of the big VSBA proposal to other spaces on campus).   Beginning with the construction of Moore Hall, the school seems to have emphasized the nature of the space as an armature or route rather than as an enclosed volume per se.

One wonders whether the school could drum up donations to give this walk a memorial function like that of Tuck Mall at Dartmouth or McCosh Walk at Princeton.

Nearly two thousand people donated a total of $10.7 million to win a $1 million challenge grant from the Kresge Foundation toward the construction of Kemeny/Haldeman, the school has announced.

For $5 million, you may still name the building’s tower, depicted at right in a rendering of the building.   A special floor plan (1.5mb pdf) designates some of the building’s other nameable features.

The D reports on the renovation of Alumni Gym, which will include the restoration of the gymnasium (i.e. drill hall) space to its original volume by the removal of a recent suspended ceiling.

The logo of the South Block page for the school’s Real Estate Office depicts East South Street and Currier Place not as it is now (visible at the lower right of a current map) but as it would look after redevelopment.   Ramunto’s, Buon Gustaio and their neighbors currently stand on the site of the large building depicted at the left side of the proposal.   That building is considerably larger than suggested in the Downtown Hanover Vision plan but is not out of scale with others on Main Street.

The Town votes at the Town Meeting on May 10 whether to spend $50,000 to build a roundabout (1.5mb pdf map) at the intersection of Lyme Road and Reservoir Road.

Photos from the Math Department depict the construction of the foundation and basement of Kemeny/Haldeman.