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Dear Alums and Friends of the Law School: All of us at the College of Law are extremely pleased to provide you with
this special issue of the Law Forum, devoted exclusively to our wonderful
new JohnJ. Ross-William C. Blakley Law Library and its dedication on
November 5,1993. This magnificent, functional and cost-effective new
library is the culmination of eleven
oftheJohnJ. Ross-William C. Blakley Law Library, which
years of work by many, many people, through whose efforts
completes the law "campus" and provides an absolutely
the Ross-Blakley Law Library became a reality. The making
first-rate set of physical facilities for a first-rate law school,
of this library was truly a cooperative effort, in which the
the College symbolizes its strength and maturity. The new
law school and the community came together in a very
library, which will serve the legal profession and which was
effective partnership. We thank all of you - our friends
lawyers in the community, also
symbolizes the important con­
nections between the law school
and the community.
We hope that the Ross-Blakley
Library, and the law school in
general, will continue to be of
significant service to our
community. We hope to serve
you well and to be deserving of
your continuing support. By
building on our partnership with
the community, we can continue
to move this fine law school to
even greater levels of achieve­
ment and excellence.
Thanks for all of your support
of the College. Please enjoy the
Dean Morgan opens the dedication ceremony. In the background is Regent Andrew D. Hurwitz,
Congressman Sam Coppersmith, Ambassador Harriet C. Babbitt, and President Lattie F. Coor.
pages that follow and the
Ross-Blakley Law Library itself.
If you would like a library tour,
and alums -
for your contributions to this much-needed
please call 965-4871 to arrange it. Best regards.
project.
As I said at the dedication ceremony, it is fitting that the
Very truly yours,
opening of the Ross-Blakley Law Library comes as the law
school enters its second quarter century. With the opening
ofJohn S. Armstrong Hall in 1968, the College symbolized
its potential for the future. During the next twenty-five
years, the College realized that potential, becoming one of
Richard J. Morgan, Dean
the leading law schools in this country. With the opening
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The following article is a transcript of the lecture given by Mack Scogin and Merrill Elam of the Atlanta architectural firm ofScogin Elam and Bray, the design architects for theJohn J. Ross-William C. Blakley Law Library. The lecture, explaining the design process, was given as part of the dedication celebration. 3
Mack Scogin: Thank you for inviting
us to participate in the dedication
festivities. We appreciate the
opportunity to share aspects of the
design process with you.
Merrill Elam: When the project for
the Law Library started, both Mack
and I had visited this area of the
country only casually and not often.
While we were taken by the beauty
and expansiveness of the landscape
and the sky, we had no reason to
reckon with it in architectural tenns.
So we came with east-coast eyes and
attempted to absorb as much as
possible about the natural and man­
made environment. At some point in
the process I found myself thinking
and writing the following:
The Arizona desert landscape provokes
mis-readings. Plants look like animals,
animals look like rocks, rocks look like
animals, plants look like rocks, animals
look like plants ... rye foolers. The sun
bursts over the horizon not bothering with
some filtering effect ofeast coast greenery,
but immediately filling an enormous sky
with incredible light. Textures and colors
vibrate. On the ground plane and along
the horizon, every form takes on a
hyperness, incredibly legible and overyly
important.
The following selection of context
slides begins to illustrate what we were
observing, what touched, concerned,
impressed and fascinated us. The
enonnity of the sky and the intensity
of the light, the importance of even
modest objects on the horizon and in
the ground plane; the successful
efforts of other architects; the great
and powerful shifts in temperature
and weather conditions; the mystery
of the ancients who occupied this land
before us; and finally the difficult,
frayed, parking lot barren, edge
condition site for the proposed
Law Library.
Mack Scogin: If you have walked
around the new building you will have
seen the site conditions that Merrill
mentioned. The site is at the extreme
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east edge of the campus, and like
several other edge sites on the
campus, has an irregular, curving
boundary rather than the rectilinear
sites of the interior of the campus.
Along the McAllister Street curve, to
the east and south, the campus literally
falls open, giving way to parking lots
and distant small scale commercial
structures. To the west is the playing
field and across it, the business school.
To the north is Annstrong Hall,
separating the Law Library from
Orange Man. Our initial response was
the urge to make a building that
addressed these various edge condi­
tions, giving definition to the southeast
edge of the campus, responding
sympathetically to Annstrong Hall and
the playing field, and having some
presence along Orange Mall. The
building became a fairly clear diagram
of these concerns with the west wall of
the tower defining the edge of the
playing field and campus grid and
gesturing toward Orange Mall; the
curvilinear fonn of Technical Services
protecting the McAllister Street edge;
"Magic Mountain" mediating the
Lemon Street axis, the playing field,
and the unbounded southern
expanse.
It occurred to us early on that
relocating the library from Annstrong
Hall to a new building would change
the dynamics of student/ faculty
activity and movement. We were
concerned about nurturing, not
diluting the sense of community that
the rotunda space engenders. It was
also clear that a library constitutes the
soul of a law school and that the
existing library, while a little confining
and difficult in tenns of its function in
a round, windowless space, was placed
at the heart of the school, and very
much a part of the center of the life of
the school. And, in fact, we began to
really appreciate the way Annstrong
Hall is organized. I was saying earlier
that what I like about it is that it has
been somehow de-institutionalized by
its shape and its confusing circulation.
I still don't understand how to get to
Jonathan Rose's office. That may be
an asset ~ it may be an asset. Maybe
it's psychological. I don't know. But
no, there's something about this
building that's quite wonderful and
that we truly began to enjoy. And it
had to do, I think, with this communal
feeling that the school has. It reaHy
works as a definitive community, and
a ,lot of that has to do with the rotunda
and the way it's organized. And so, as
we developed a plan, we kept going
back to this connector. We kept going
back with ways in which we could
visually and physically connect to
Annstrong Ha]J. We put a lot of
emphasis on how to make this open
space between the two buildings a part
of the 'living room of the existing
space of the existing building. I think
one of the nicest things that was
decided along the way, was to take the
student lounge out of the west side of
the building and put into the old
library. It really puts the student
lounge in a nice relationship to that
open space and the new library. It
hopefully extends the life of the
school and the community into the
library building itself.
Merrill Elam: I believe that Mack has
explained almost everything that's safe
to explain without being a library
consultant or expert like George
Grossman, but I will attempt to be a
bit technical. The plan is configured
in three programmatic parts: technical
services, circulation services and core
collection. Beyond technical services
and circulation, the core collection
occupies the first level, the second
level and the tower, with the exception
on the first level of this zone of
computers which is Westlaw and
Lexis, and also an area of government
documents. And then of course this
important area, the reserve reading
room, which looks out onto "Magic
Mountain," is part of the core
Design architects Mack Scogin and Merrill
Elam answer questions about the design
process.
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collection. In the effort to make the
tower work, what we realized was that
in the penect library, according to
George Grossman, we would put every­
thing on one level if we could, if the
site would allow us to do that. We
ended up, I think, with maybe half of
the program or maybe even close to
two-thirds of it on the ground level,
certainly on the ground and
mezzanine level. The mezzanine level
has the Indian law and tax law in this
area, the treatises and periodical
collection with a periodical lounge
here. There is a line of smaH rooms
on the west wall for individual study
and some multi-purpose use. This was
interes~ing to us, because we knew on
the west side that we could only do
very small windows because of the
harsh west light, so these tiny rooms
have tiny windows that correspond to
a single person reading there. Then
of course the upper level of the tower
houses the state collection. One aspect
of the building that is yet to be
realized is on the third level where the
building is structured for a fourth level
for perhaps a special collection
sometime in the future. This zone
spans the full length of the tower and
is about a third to half its width.
In order to let you know something
about the process of drawing that we
went through, this is a series of
elevation drawings and sketches.
Some are co'l or studies. It was
interesting that, as we began to get
color samples back from the
contractor, while the building was
under construction, our idea about the
amount of color that could be used
changed radically. These are later
models where we were beginning to
look at the shape of the "cone" and to
draw it in section. We were also study­
ing the grand stair which we were
caning the feather stair because of its
shape. And then there's the story abollt
this plaster model. We failed to pack
part of that model, so we arrived for
an important meeting with the Design
Review Board with half a model. This
was a terribly embarrassing moment
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for us, but they were very
understanding.
Finally, I want to read a short para­
graph that we wrote several years ago.
I think everything in this piece has
come into play with this building.
Architecture is inextricably lodge
between the phenomenal and the deductive.
Our engagement with architecture
involves more than the manipulation of a
motif or of limited moves within a priori
process. It engages three intensive pursuits:
the physical (hard work, dedication,
discipline, time, stamina), the intellectual
(learning, reasoning, knowledge,
perception) and the intuitive (instinct,
apprehension, insight).
Our physical and intellectual pursuits
are strict, disciplined, difficult acts.
Our intuitive pursuits move from the
realm ofexactness toward an intuitive
rightness.
It is the search for intuitive rightness
that holds our greatest fascination. The
acute awareness ofthis almost inexplicable,
instinctive, ironic consciousness has most
clarified our intent and methods in
architectureo
Now Mack has just a few closing
comments.
Mack Scogin: Dean Morgan in his
introduction mentioned that this
project has taken eleven years, and I
shutter to say how many people have
been involved with it over those
eleven years, people that are far more
important to the project than Merrill
or me and the team that was put
together to do the design and
construction. It just reminded me what
a serious responsibility it is for
architects to take on a challenge like
this building for a group of people
who have committed so much in tenns
of money and emotion over such a
long period of time. To have a very
specific, definitive need to fulfill in the
building ,is a real responsibility and as
architects we take it quite seriously.
We hope that at least in some way
your expectations for the building
have been fulfilled in the work that
we've done. I don't have time to
actually go through and thank all of
the people that I truly should thank in
making the building happen. As Dean
Morgan said in his introduction, we
worked with the Leo A. Daly Company
here in Phoenix from start to finish
on this project. They were, in fact, the
architect of record. They made this
project happen and we owe them
every bit of gratitude that we could
possibly describe. [ willjust mention a
couple of names, Joe Tyndall, who
heads up the Phoenix office here and
especially John Wi\lliams, who I think
has as much stamina as any person
I've ever run across. He is also one of
the kindest persons that I've ever met.
George Grossman we've mentioned a
couple of times while discussing the
design. It's hard to tell you how much
influence a consultant, a specialist like
this, has on your project. There are
horror stories about architects
working with other specialty
consultants. I can tell you this was the
most positive relationship that we've
ever had with a consultant on a
project. He had great knowledge and
wisdom that he added to the process
and he was incredibly flexible in
listening to our ideas about the work.
And, I think more importantly, he was
enthusiastic. Robin E. Parke Associates
were the structural engineers. Patrick
Nickel was their project engineer. The
lighting consultant was Newcomb &
Boyd, a group that we have worked
with in Atlanta for a number of years.
CMX Group Inc. was the construction
management team. (Is Claude Baker
here? Claude or Don Dillon? They're
probably exhausted ... somewhere
relaxing.) I can't tell you, on a project
like this, how important it is to control
the time and cost. It's always an
incredible challenge. Some people
might argue that we did well; some
people would probably argue we were
terrible at it. The fact is that we spent
a lot of time on trying to control the
cost and time. It's one of the great
challenges for an architect. You know,
how do you get the most out of a
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IN
MEMOR . Y
OF WILLIAM C. BLAKLEY
William C. Blakley was born in Chicago, Illinois, in 1946 but moved to
Arizona at a young age and attended grade school and high school
here. He earned his B.A. degree from the University of Arizona in 1968
and his law degree from the Arizona State University College of Law in
1971. After a short time working at the public defender's office in
Phoenix, Mr. Blakley went to work for Mohr, Hackett, Pederson,
Blakley, Randolph & Haga, P.C., where he practiced until his untimely
death in 1987.
JOHNJ. ROSS
Born in 1940 in Benton Harbor, Michigan,JohnJ. Ross moved to
Phoenix in 1964 after receiving an A.B. degree with distinction from
the University of Michigan and an L.L.B. degree from Harvard Law
School. At the time of his death in 1987, Mr. Ross had been a senior
partner in the Phoenix law firm of Brown & Bain, P.A. for over 21
years and headed the firm's commercial practice, specializing in
corporate and banking law, mergers and acquisitions, and real estate.
Mr. Ross served on the boards of directors of numerous institutions in
the financial services industry.
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Sue Ross, L.vn Blakley Grant, President Coor, Regent Hunvitz, Dean Morgan, and Paul Eckstein cut the library building-shaped cake.
of the College included many alums
and other supporters as well as
representatives of the University, the
College faculty, stafl~ and students.
Dean Richard]. Morgan presided
over the dedication ceremony and
noted the contributions of many
individuals, including his predecessors
in the Dean's office, to the planning,
development and completion of the
law library. In addition to those
individuals who spoke at the
dedication ceremony, Dean Morgan
introduced the design architects, Mack
Scogin and Merrill Elam of Scogin
Elam and Bray in Atlanta, and the
architects ofrecord,john WiHiams, joe
Tyndall, and Dean Munkachy of Leo
A. Daly. In addition, the Dean noted
the presence of Professor George
Grossman of the University of
California - Davis Law School who
served as the library building
consultant, members of the CMX
constmction management team ­
Claude Baker, Don Dillon, and J im
Galles, and representatives of Okland
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Constmction, the general contractor ­
Dwight Morris and KeUy Dickerman.
The Dean also singled out Professor
and Law Library Director Rick Brown
and Professor j on Rose for their
outstanding work in the library
planning and constmction process.
Among those speaking at the
dedication were Andrew D. Hurwitz,
member of the Arizona Board of
Regents, and United States
Representative Sam Coppersmith. Both
spoke highly of the College of Law
and of the john]. Ross-William C.
Blakley Law Library, noting the
significant contributions of the College
to the community.
Lyn Blakley Grant and Suzanne R
Ross made a moving presentation of a
portrait of their late husbands to Dean
Morgan. The portrait will hang in the
law library. following the presentation,
Paul F. Eckstein, former President of
the Law Society and a partner with
Brown & Bain where he practiced with
john Ross, gave a warm personal
account of the two distinguished
lawyers for whom the library was
named. (See page 19.)
Arizona State University President
Lattie F. Coor also spoke and took the
opportunity to note the importance of
the College of Law to the University
and to the community. He
commended the College and the
community for the joint effort which
made the 9.5 million dollar law library
a reality.
Ambassador Harriet C. Babbitt,
United States Permanent
Representative to the Organization of
American States, and an alumna of the
college of law, gave the keynote
address at the ceremony. Her remarks
included recollections of her years at
the College, memories ofjohn Ross
and Bill Blakley, and significant
analysis of the North American Free
Trade Act which was then pending
before Congress. (See page 16.)
A reception followed the dedication,
featuring a cake baked in the shape of
the new library. Building tours were
conducted by library staff.
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Ambassador Babbitt, President Coor, and Regent Hurwitz enJoy the dedication reception.
Sue Ross, Dean Morgan, Lyn Blakley Grant, and Paul Eckstein pose for a picture before the ceremony.
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Lyn Blakley Grant, Library Director and Professor Rick Brown, and Sue Ross.
Lyn Blakley Grant, Paul Eckstein, and Sue Ross next to portraits of William C. Blakley andJohnJ. Ross.
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Design architect Mack Scogin andJohn Meunier, Dean, College ofArch. and Environmental Design and Chair, ASU Design &view Bd.
President Lattu F. Coor addresses the dedication crowd. (opposite page) Dean Richard Morgan opens the dedication ceremony. 14
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United States Permanent Representative
to the Organization of American States
Ambassador Harriet C. Babbitt
t is wonderful to return to Arizona and be here,
Dean Pedrick, without fear of being asked to stand
and recite a case or to proofread a law review article.
It's not that the fruits of the labor weren't worth it, but
it was such hard labor. Now, I know you all expected a
different Babbitt to be here with you; Bruce is stuck on
Capitol Hill trying to negotiate an end to the filibuster
on his 1994 budget I know, I know, the greatest de­
liberative body on the globe stuck debating grass. Go
figure. Returning home is always a catalyst for reflec­
tion, usually about change. When I entered ASU Law
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School in 1969, I was new to Phoenix,
the law school was barely two years
old, the Beatles were at the top of the
charts, Ev Mecham had mn for
Governor only six or seven times. We
refer to those as the good old days. In
May of 1969 I was complaining to
Rmce that there was nothing for me
to do in Phoenix. He said that all the
men he knew who didn't know what
else to do went to law school. The
next morning I drove to Tempe , got
an application from Olivia Birchett,
who many of you may remember, took
the ISAT in August and staJ1ed law
school in September.
It was a very lucky choice for me. A
close second to picking a good spouse,
also done fairly randomly in my case,
was my good luck in picking out a
great law school. The education which
was forced on me by Dean Pedrick,
Rill Canby, Ed Cleary, Jon Rose and
others has enabled me to do an
extraordinary number of interesting,
and I hope, productive things. I
couldn't be more grateful to the law
school.
of the women's movement and protest
"The education which was forced on me by Dean Pedrick, Bill Canby, Ed Cleary,jon Rose and others has enabled me to do an extraordinary number of
interesting, and
I hope,
productive
things."
law school. Bmce and John were both
lawyers at Brown & Bain. Bmce spent
his weekends in the office drafting
motions for summary judgement. I
spent my weekends in the conference
rooms at Brown & Bain trying to make
finally got a life outside of the office.
Now, I know there are a lot of people
from Brown & Bain here, I see Randy
sitting demurely in the back of the
audience, but it was really a sweat
shop. It may still be a sweat shop and
John epitomized the worst of that
tradition at Brown & Bain. Sue helped
him to escape from that tradition and
sense of civil procedure. John worked
John's friends were very, very grateful.
] first got to know John Ross during
those grim, anxious study-a-thon days
which characterized the first year of
so hard, that so far as I can tell he
lived at Brown & Bain. In short, I
associated J ohn wi th all that was awful
about law school. Let me say that I
Although Bill and I were at ASU
marches. There were only a handful
of women in my class, and it was light
years before anyone worned about
what was politically correct. I
remember actual discussions in the
Rotunda with a male classmate of
mine who pub1licly and unashamedly
told me that it was a waste of time for
women to go to law school and take
the place of a man who would "use
the degree." FOJ1unately for me, Phil
Robbins and others at Robbins &
Green thought there was a place for a
woman in the practice of law. I n my
nearly twenty years at Robbins &
Green practicing law evolved into
some politics, some experience in
democratization and human rights
and foreign pollicy issues. As the
United States Ambassador to the
Organization of American States, I
can tell you there's no bright line
between drawing on the legal training
that I learned right here, and the
political skills that I learned in various
campaigns.
I'm going to draw on a quote by
Sam Coppersmith, who says he is a
recovering lawyer, and focus a little
more now on the political side of my
life. I'd also like to underscore that
there's no bright line separating
American foreign policy from
domestic policy issues. For America to
be strong at home, it must be strong
abroad. And to be strong abroad, we
must achieve the domestic renewal
Law School together, he was an
our nation needs. We must reject the
voices of isolationism. We must be
upperclassman and our paths really
didn't cross as much. I, of course,
engaged internationally. No issue
more clearly iUustrates the link
also associated John with all that is
good about the practice of law. John
was a brilliant lawyer who knew how
to tell what was ethical from what was
not ethica'l, he knew how to counsel a
remember his outrageous good
humor, but most of what I know about
Bill I learned from John and his tales
between foreign and domestic policy
than the NOJ1h American Free Trade
Agreement. So today, if I may, I'd like
about golf games with his good friend.
All I can say is, that if Bill was the
client about what was right and what
was wrong, he worked bone-wearing
hours to make sure that what he
kind of guy to inspire that kind of
affection from John, he was the kind
of guy that I am proud to be here to
to speak to you a little about NAFTA,
both as a member of the Department
of State and someone from this
community who continues to care
deeply about its future.
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added to a case was the best that could
be done, and it always was. John's
friends were thrilled when he fell
pay tribute to today.
Now, the good old days of ASU Law
(Ambassador Babbitt then went on to
School meant more than books.
speak on the issue of NAfTA which
head-over-heals in love with Sue and
Remember, those were the early days
was subsequently approved.)
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Paul F. Eckstein is the managing partner at Brown & Bain. RE
OF PAUL ECKSTEIN at the dedication ofthe John] Ross-William C. Blakley Law Library ohn and Bill. I know. I know. I know. You really wanted a golf course. But you know better than most of us that life is unfair. You don't always get what
you want when you want it. While you were with us
here, you were both very practical guys. As good stu­
dents and successful practitioners, surely you under­
stand why lawyers need law libraries. John, as the
librarian of the law school where you learned your
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Lyn Blakley Grant, Paul Eckstein and Sue Ross share a laugh during the ceremony.
first lessons in the law said recently:
"Libraries are imponant to lawyers;
it is the rare lawyer who has
memorized the entire Code of Federal
Regulations. "
A very practica'l fellow, that librarian.
You should know that this is the same
librarian who recently found it neces­
sary to post the following 18th Century
warning to users of his 1.6 million
volumes:
determination of Sue and Lyn.
Sue and Lyn helped raise the
money for this magnificent library
that we dedicate in your name today
because they knew:
"For him that stealeth a Book from
Library, let it change to a Serpent
in his hand and rend him."
I guess that kind of thing is
necessary at Harvard.
And Bill, as a graduate of the
Arizona State University College of
Law, you probably heard more times
than you cared to how inferior the old
library was and how ASU's
accreditation was in danger if it did
not get a new library.
Well, the law school is safe - at
least from the forces of accreditation,
• How much both of you enjoyed
the literature of the law.
~his
if not from the Arizona Legislature ­
and the whole community wiU benefit
from the generosity and
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• How much both of you under­
stood that the law still is a learned
profession .
• How much both of you valued
keen legal analysis based on
thorough and careful research.
• How much both of you used your
considerable writing, research
and analytic skills to become
leading practitioners in your
fields,John, you as a corporate
lawyer and Bill, you as a litigator.
Of course, you were so much more
than successful practitioners and this
library captures much of what you
were and enjoyed.
• You were men of great style and
grace - and who can deny that
the lines of this library are stylish
and graceful.
• You appreciated utility and
functionality - and who can
deny that this library - with all
its architectural splendor and
originality - is a very functional
and accessible place.
• You loved the beauty of Arizona­
and who can deny that the vistas
from this library are spectacular.
• You had a wonderful sense of
whimsy - and who can deny
that the rock pile at the southeast
and the slant of the western wall,
not to mention the Jonathan
Rose fire escape at the nonh
end, will make each of us laugh
to ourselves when laughter is
most needed.
It is not a golf course,John and Bill,
but it is the next best thing - a
spacious, functional, stunningly
original library. We hope you are
proud of it. We are. We will use it
often. And each time we do - indeed,
each time we pass by it and each time
we gaze at its graceful lines and
commanding features, we wiU think of
you and be inspired by your contri­
butions to the law and to our lives. •
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The dedication of the John J. Ross-William C. THE OHN J. ROSS-
Blakley Law Library on November 5, 1993 marked
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Written by Professor Richard Brown Director of theJohn J. Ross-William C. Blakley Law Library of many College and University stafl
members and friends of the law
school, spanned nearly a decade. The
result of those efforts is one of the
very finest academic [aw library
facilities in the country.
The new building provides
approximately 46,000 net square feet
of space for library purposes which,
when combined with 14,000 net square
feet of library space in the John S.
Annstrong Han, gives the College of
Law a library of approximately 60,000
total net square feet. The new law
library building provides accessible
shelving for the library'S expanding
collections as well as comfortable
study space at 156 carrels, 31 tables,
and lounge seating located through­
out the building.
The new building has allowed the
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library to dramaticaUy increase its
computer facilities, with a 30-station
student computer lab, as well as two
computer research rooms for LEXIS
and WESTLAW, each containing 10
stations. The new building also has
the capability to allow in the future for
student access to the library's local
area network from any carrel, table, or
study room in the building. Expanded
microfonn facilities and the
government documents collection are
located on the main floor of the new
library to provide improved access to
these important collections. The
reserve reading room, a conference
room, and a classroom, all located on
the main floor, provide much needed
facilities that did not exist in the old
library. The circulation desk, all
library staff offices and work areas,
and the reserve, reference and core
collections are also located on the
main floor.
The bound periodical, treatise, tax
and Indian law collections are housed
on the second floor and state
materials are located on the third
floor. The foreign and international
law collections are housed in the
basement. While the old library had
no small rooms for patron use, the
new Hbrary has 27 meet,i ng and study
rooms, located primarily on the
second and third floors.
The new building provides badly
needed additional space for library
functions. But the building does much
more than that. The building has
created a dramatically better
atmosphere for our students and
other users. In contrast to the
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complete absence of windows in the
old library, the new library is flooded
with natural light. There are very few
spaces in the new building from
which daylight cannot be seen. The
build~ ng is furnished with comfortable
chairs, larger study carrels, and
custom designed work tables.
Restrooms are located on each floor
of the building. And perhaps most
significantly, the attention to exciting
and provocative architecture so
evident in the exterior design of the
building also appears in the
interesting, and sometimes surprising,
interior design.
Although the building dedication
marks the end of the lengthy effort to
provide the College of Law with a first
rate library building, it does not mark
the end of our efforts to improve the
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quality of the law library. A great law
Ilibrary must be considerably more
than simply a library housed in a great
library building. A great law library
must have a great collection, a staff
sufficient to make the infonnation in
that collection readily available to our
users, and, increasingly, the advanced
technologies that are so rapidly
displacing traditional modes of storing
and disseminating infonnation.
The limitations of the old library
facility had for years inhibited the
development of the law library. The
new building, in contrast, provides the
opportunity for improvement of aU
other aspects of the law library.
Because the new library building
attracts attention and pleases library
users, the law library has become a
much busier place than it was in the
old building. Although the new
building is bigger and busier than the
old, however, the library staff has not
grown. The increased use of the
library has put additional pressure on
the library staff, requiring the staff to
look innovatively at ways to provide
first rate service to the growing
numbers of library users. Similarly, the
increased usage of the library has put
additional pressure on our coHection
and our computer facilities. Now that
we have moved into the new library
building, our goals for the law library
include enhanc,i ng the staff in order
to provide new services to faculty,
students, and other library users and
enriching our already strong
collection, so that it can reach the
level of distinction already achieved
by our new building.
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Written by ProfessorJonathan Rose Member of the Library Building Committee Lesson 1: What is the meaning of the following acronyms?
AE, CM, FF&E, RFI, ASI, HID, VAV, DRB, ABOR, P&C, ADA,
SD, E&O, CO, PR, COR, DD, and CD.
Lesson 2: What are the meaning and significance of the
following terms? submittal, mock up, punch list, shop draw­
ing, schenlatic, section, elevation, hard line, as builts, lay in,
cans, astragal, program, detail, general conditions, specifica­
tion, means and methods, scupper, stringer, truss, parapet,
butt glazing, adjacency, mullion, stub out, rough in, store front,
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budget from $6 to $8.5 million, and
ultimately to the final $9.5 million.
The next phase involved the hiring of
the first architect (ADP - firms are also
acronymic) to gain the Board of
Regents' (ABOR) approval, the first of
many, to hire an architect (AE) and
construction manager (CM) for the
actual design. Although again time
consuming and complicated, all the
reveal, and clerestory.
While I will not bore you with the
answers (although they are available
on request), understanding these
acronyms and terms as well as many
others is the first step in functioning
successfully as a user in the design
and construction of a new building, in
panicular a law library at ASU. Along
with Rick Brown and Rhonda Sandler,
this is the role that I played with
regard to the new and magnificent
Ross-Blakley Law Library.
This process is a bit complex to
necessary approvals occulTed by early
1990. Simultaneous with all of this, the
College's private fundraising
campaign, in which Rick and I were
anyone and somewhat mindboggling
to an outsider, and even more compli­
cated at ASU than in the "private
sector." At ASU, the first step is
receiving an allocation of money in a
.long range capital plan. Thus, Rick
Brown and I began working in the
early 80's on this aspect to develop the
College's space and functional needs
(architectspeak = program). One
problem is that the capital allocation
actually precedes the ascenainment of
needs, so that you are always playing
with dollars and formulas to insure
that your needs will be met. After
working off and on for over 5 years,
we obtained the needed internal
approvals and ASU increased the
both active, was ongoing in order to
raise a minimum of $2 million, the
amount designated as the private
ponion of the budget with ~he
remainder coming from hond money.
in early 1990 is when the real work
began. Mter hiring a construction
manager (CMX), an architect
(lADCO) and a design consultant
(SEB), a team composed of individuals
from these three firms Qohn Williams,
Mack Scogin, Menill £lam & Claude
Baker), the three College user
representatives (Rick, Rhonda & me),
and the P&C DPM (E.L. Conez &
Vance Linden - people also become
acronyms) as weB as a few other ASU
personnel began the design of the
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new library. The design phase consists
of three ponions: schematic (SO) ­
defining the program and basic
design concepts, design development
(DO) - detailing and resolving
numerous design issues, and
construction documents (CD) ­
refining the final bid documents.
The design phase is very time
consuming and detail oriented - well
suited for compu'lsive Ilawyers (I still
am not sure whether anal retent,ive
has a hypen). Moreover, it is very
much a collaborative effon with
various members of the team having a
different primary perspective ­
design; cost; code and other legal and
ASU requirements, technical function,
and library function, which was our
primary concern. Each team member
must learn much about the other
members' primary responsibility. For
example, the architects must learn
about how law libraries function, both
with respect to users, books, and staff,
and what is unique about a law library.
Users, like myself, must understand
numerous design, structural, and other
related concepts as well as all the
technical and legal requirements.
Users need to know how to read plans
and specifications and to "think three
dimensionally" -the architectural
analogue to "thinlk ing like a lawyer."
This process took about a year and
involved hundreds of hours and
numerous meetings. It was, however, a
truly educational process, in which we
all learned a great deal. in addition,
The ASU Design Review Board (ORB)
provided valuable assistance and
suppon through the numerous ORB
approvals required in the process.
in February 1991, the final phase,
construction, began and is just ending
in early 1994. In this phase, a new
team was formed with some repeaters
- the architects, College users, a new
CM representative Qim Galles), a P&C
CPM (Dick Miskiel), and the general
contraCtor (OCC) representatives
(Dwight Monis and Kelly Dickerman).
This team met first every week and,
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by Barbara Grant Reprinted from the Fall 1993 issue of ASU Leader "Donor Profile: Dream becomes reality for two women with a cause. "
Sue Ross and Lyn Blakley Grant
wanted something positive to come
from the tragedy they had experienced.
In 19H7, on the way home from a
golfing vacation in Scotland, their
husbands were killed in the crash of
Northwest Airlines Flight 225.
Sue and Lyn wanted to do
something to memorialil.e their
husbands, who had been best friends
and attorneys in different local law
finns. Upon learning that the ASU
College of Law was raising money to
build a new library, they considered
various naming opportunities there ­
perhaps a study carrel or even the
rotunda. But then they set their sights
much higher.
As a result, the John J. Ross-William
c. Blakley Law Library was dedicated
in November, as a memorial to two
men whose lives were tragically cut
short and as a testament to what two
women can accomplish when they
take on such a special mission.
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Bill Blakley was a 1971 graduate of
the ASU College of Law and a partner
at Mohr, Hackett, Pederson, Blakley,
Randolph and Haga.John Ross
earned his law degree at Harvard but
had fallen in love with Arizona while
serving a clerkship at Brown & Bain
one summer. "He was on the first
plane to Arizona after his last class at
Harvard," says Sue. He had been a
senior partner at Brown & Bain for
21 years at the time of his death.
Although he was not an ASU grad,
'John really believed in the school
and had a lot of respect for the
faculty," Sue says.
The two men also had a lot of
friends, relatives and business associ­
ates who thought enough of them to
donate the money to have the law
library named for them. Lyn and Sue
made lead gifts to the campaign and
then made it their personal mission to
raise the remaining funds.
"We didn't think we would be able
to do it, but we were absolutely
overwhelmed by the response we got,"
says Lyn. "We weren't surprised,
though, at how much people loved
our late husbands."
Sue and Lyn also are excited about
the law library for reasons other than
the opportunity to perpetuate the
memory of their loved ones. "I'm
really committed to the state of
Arizona," says Sue. "I feel like as the
educational facilities grow so will the
state. The law school definitely has
been handicapped by its library; we've
had all the other ingredients to have a
top-echelon law school."
Adds Lyn, "The new law library is
going to be a state-of-the-art facility
that ASUcan be totally proud of. It's
like a dream that became a reality. It's
also evidence that if you have a cause
you should go after it because you'll
be amazed how your response to
something will cause other people to
also respond."
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DONORS The College of Law wishes to thank the following
individuals, law firms and organizations for their generous
support of the Law Library Campaign.
Brown & Bain
Fennemore Craig
Jennings, Strouss &
Sa'lmon, P.L.C.
Lewis and Roca
The Motorola Foundation
O'Connor, Cavanagh,
Anderson, Westover,
Killingsworth & Beshears
Phoenix Newspapers, Inc.
Snell & Wilmer
Streich Lang, P.A.
1. Harrison Levy
Joe Sims
ASU Conege of Law
Alumni Association
Burch & Cracchiolo, P.A.
First Interstate Bank of
Arizona
Gallagher & Kennedy
Jennings & Haug
Peter Kiewit Foundation
Meyer, Hendricks, Victor,
Osborn & Maledon, P.A.
Ryley, Carlock &
Applewhite
Arizona Public Service
Company
Begam, Lewis, Marks,
Wolfe & Dasse
Cahill, Sutton & Thomas
The Dial Corp
Jones, Skelton and Hochuli
Mariscal, Weeks, McIntyre
& Friedlander, P.c.
Salt River Project
Scottsdale Insurance
Company
Treon, Strick, Lucia &
Aguirre, P.A.
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US WEST Foundation
Wallace Genetic
Foundation, Inc.
Lois W. Abraham
Timothy Burke
Marriner P. Cardon
Robert M. Cook
Daniel Cracchiolo
Michael]. Donovan
John D. Driggs
Paul and Flo Eckstein
M. Joyce Geyser
Arthur P. Greenfield
1.Jerome Hirsch
Orme Lewis
Victoria S. Lewis
Robert A. McConnell
Keith Alan Moore
Patricia K. Norris
Robert E. Schmitt
Michael P. Shiaras
Todd Stansbury and
Stephen E. Lee
Robert Stephan, J r.
Michael]. Valder
Beus, Gilbert & Morrill
Bonnett, Fairbourn &
Friedman, P.C.
Broening, Oberg &
Woods, P.c.
The Bureau of National
Affairs, Inc.
Del Webb Corporation
Dushoff & McCall
Evans, Kitchel &
Jenckes, P.C.
Gaston & Snow
Harrison, Harper,
Christian & Dichter, P.C.
Post-Newsweek Cable, Inc.
Roberts, Ellsworth &
Rowley Professional
Corporation
Sacks, Tierney & Kasen, P.A.
Shamrock Foods Company
Steptoe &Jobnson
Van O'Steen and Partners
Warner Angle Roper &
Hallam, P.C.
Weyl, Guyer, MacBan &
Olson, P.A.
Roxana C. Bacon
Redfield T. Baum
Dr. Gail McKnight
Beckman
C. Alan Bowman
Jack E. and
Suzanne]. Brown
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A. Thomas Cole
John]. Dawson
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Michael L. and
Barbara Gallagher
Douglas Gerlach
Stephen Gorey
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FACP
Michael M. Grant
Michael D. Hawkins
Ed Hendricks
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Dennis S. KaIjaia
Gary G. Keltner
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Richard]. Morgan
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Milton R Schroeder
Kenneth]. Sherk
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Alexandra St Louis-Siegal
Jimmie D. Smith
Reed C. Tolman
Philip E. von Ammon
David A. Weatherwax
Michael E. Woolf
Fogel and Lamber, PA
The Richard Grand
Foundation
Robbins & Green P.A.
Shimmel, Hi.ll, Bishop &
Gruender, P.C.
Clare H. Abel
Andrew Abraham
James M. Ackerman
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Gloria Aguilar
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Frederick M. Aspey
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David C. Auther
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Franzula M. Bacher
Jim B. Badger
Claude V. Baker
John]. Barcelo III and
Lucy Wood Barcelo
Jane Bayham-Lesselyong
Jane Beach
James]. Belanger
Lenni B. Benson
Helen]. Berch
Michael A. Berch
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Daniel H. Bergin
Victoria J. Bergin
Eve Bermingham
Frederick C. Berry, J r.
Barbara Borden
John]. Bouma
William B. Boyle
Jamie A. Brody
Susan D. Brody
Richard L. and
Lynnda Brown
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F. David Foster
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Shirley H. Frondorf
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Ernest Gellhorn
Sanford]. Gennaine
K. Kirk Getsinger
Mark R Gillett
Victor]. Gold
Gary A. Gotto
Warren]. Granville
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and Family
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C. Douglas Weber
Robert]. Weber
Irwin M. Weinstein
James Weinstein
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Ondre]. Williams
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Charles M. Wilmer
Alan W. Wilson
Donald]. Winder
L'aurence H. Winer
Gerald A. Wolf
RJeffrey Woodburn
Joyce Kline Wright and
Paul M. Wright
Ronald T. L. Young
Russel]. Zarkou
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Daniel I. Ziskin
Antonio R Zuniga
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Delaney & Melkonoff
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Lundmark, P.A.
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judy M. MiIler
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james H. Moore
Barbara]. Muller
Brian]. Murphy
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john j. Nissen
E. G. Noyes,jr.
jack D. Olson
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john H. Westover
Cindra L. White
Lynn K Whyte
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ARCO Foundation
The College of Law wishes to thank the following
individuals and organizations for their generous support
of the john j. Ross-William e. Blakley Memorial Campaign
for the Law Library.
Richard and Lois Abraham
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas E.
Allison
Virginia L. Allison
M. Maureen Anders
janice Arlen
Randy and Lois Bain
joseph L. Baldino
Mr. and Mrs.jack Bartko
Arlene and Giora
Ben-Horin
Gloria L. Blakley
Maxwell M. Blecher
Brown & Bain
jack E. and Suzanne].
Brown
Donald V. Budinger
Daryl R and Christine
Prentice Burton
Michael and lisa Bush
john and Sue Byron
Dr. and Mrs. Daniel T.
Cloud
Michael W. Coffield
Lee M. Cohn
Richard Calvin Cooledge
Cooper Industries
Foundation
The Honorable Robert].
Corcoran
Mr. and Mrs. Daniel
Cracchiolo
judge B. Michael Dann
Scott andjoni Davis
Ronald D. Depew
T. G. Dodenhoff, M.D.
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Dan and Martine Drackett
and Family
Barney Dreyfuss
Dr. and Mrs. Alan Eads
Paul and Flo Eckstein
Ira B. Ehrlich, M.D.
Stanley F. English
Cathleen Fager
jerry, Git,jacob Ross and
Mark Feldman
Barbara and Terry Fenzl
e. Foley Fitzgerald
Glenn and Arlene
Friedman
Mark A. Fuller and julie A.
Kossak-Fuller
The Martin R Galbut
Family
Gammage & Burnham
Grady Gammage,jr.
Carol A. and
Pieter E. Geldhof
Paul E. B. Glad
jane Grady
jolyon Grant
Lyn Blakley Grant
Bobbie and Bud Haas
The Robert C. Hackett
Family
E. V. "Skip" Hancock, II
Mr. and Mrs. E. Patrick
Hennesy, Sr.
james L. Hillman
Basil and johnnie Hodges
john R Hoopes and
Family
Arthur Andersen and
Co. Foundation
Naida B. Axford, P.C.
Leo A Daly Company
Davis & Lowe, P.e.
Ellis, Baker &
Porter, P.e.
Holiday & Associates
Honeywell Foundation
jacobowitz, Hendricks &
Himelrick, P.A.
Killian, Nicholas, Fischer,
Wirken, Cook & Pew,
P.L.C.
Labdon & Morgan, PA.
Leonard and Clancy, P.C.
Myers, Barnes &
Jenkins, P.C.
Robinson & Quintero, P.e.
Security Pacific Foundation
Tektronix Inc.
Del Webb Corporation
Ruth Ann and
Thomas R Hornaday
jim Howard
Patricia A Howard
Ray and Martha Hunter
Samuel Langennan
Robert and
Claire Levenberg
Stanley Levy
Ninfa and Ronald Lowe
Mr. and Mrs. David Lubinski
Rosalyn B. Lyon
Daniel Marks
joseph P. Martori
Ernie and Nancy
Modzelewski
Mohr, Hackett, Pederson,
Blakley, Randolph &
Haga, P.e.
Sally S. Neely
L. Roy Papp
john and Eileen Pappas
joel A. Piser, M.D. and
jing W. Hsieh, M.D.
jonathan H. and
Susan W. Piser
M. Mendel and
Frances M. Piser
Mildred Piser
Ruth Piser
Patricia and joe Porter
john A. Propstra
j. L. Redd
Betsy B. Rich
Dr. Alexander Riesenkampff
Dov and Naomi (Ross)
Ronen
jonathan and Wendy Rose
Harry Rosenzweig, Sr.
Micah S. Ross
Suzanne R Ross
Mr. and Mrs. Paul N. Roth
Robert H. Sanders
William C. Saunders
Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin
Schulman Shennan, Meehan & Curtin, P.e. Maurice Silvennan Dave]. and Scott and Kay B. Sinovic
Society of the Silver Spoons
Samuel Speier
Todd Stansbury and
Stephen Lee
The Steele Foundation
The Stephenson Family
Milton I. Stiefel
Katheleen Campisano
Stooks
Mr. and Mrs. Malcolm
Straus Grace and Walt Switzer Harold Toback Shawn Tobin
Thomas B. Towers
Mr. and Mrs. Alwyn A.
Vittum
Ferdinand von Galen Doug and Ginger Ward Mary and Rob Ward Ronald E. and Retha M. Warnicke Steve and Zoanne Weaver
D. M. Whitley
Barton D. Whitman
Eric Wichtennan
William Wichtennan
The Williams
Companies, Inc.
David R Williams
Vic Zannis
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PROJECT PERSONNEL ARCHITECT OF RECORD
LEO A. DALY COMPANY Joseph A. Tyndall, AlA John Williams, AlA DESIGN ARCHITECT
SCOGIN ELAM and BRAY Mack Scogin, AlA Merrill Elam, AlA PROJECT CONSTRUCTION MANAGER
CMX GROUP, INC. Claude Baker Jim Galles GENERAL CONTRACTOR
OKLAND CONSTRUCTION COMPANY Dwight Morris Kelly Dickerman ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY ADMINISTRATION
Lattie F. Coor Milton D. Glick Jennus Burton LIBRARY PLANNING
Paul Bender Richard L. Brown Ted Cary Elizabeth Chandler Jane Conrow 40
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E. L. Cortez Nancy L. Devine Barbara Horwitz Vance Linden Alan A. Matheson Richard Miskiel Richard]. Morgan Henry Mortarotti Richard M. Nash E. Kathleen Neitzel Lonnie L Ostrom H. Val Peterson Jonathan Rose Diane L. Rowley Rhonda Sandler lAW LIBRARY CAMPAIGN COMMITfEE
Paul Bender
L. Gene Lemon John]. Bouma 1. Harrison Levy Richard L. Brown Alan A. Matheson Marriner P. Cardon Richard]. Morgan Nancy L. Devine E. Kathleen Neitzel
John D. Driggs
Jonathan Rose
Paul F. Eckstein
Kenneth]. Sherk
Ed Hendricks
Martha Taylor Thomas
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CONTINUING EDUCATION (Continued from page 34)
after a while, every two weeks for
about two years. Again, the process
was very detailed, complex, and
time consuming. Not surprisingly,
there were numerous problems,
which at times seemed insurmount­
able; only to be solved and
ARCHITECTIJRAL
LECTIJRE
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budget? And, when I say most, how do
you make the building the most
functional, but also the most in terms
of space and quality? And, in fact,
we'd like to think that we go beyond
just the norm in that area, and it
pushes everybody to the limit and it's
not an easy thing. CMX was just
terrific in working with us and very
patient again through the whole
project. Coe and Vanloo were the civil
engineers; and Don Campbell, with the
Campbell Collaborative, was the
landscape architect. And finally, the
construction team, Okland Construc­
tion Comp~ny, who just did a fantastic
job of putting together a fairly complex
building, again showing great patience
with us as the architects and I think,
also, I can say, with the client and the
user group. But most important, as
several people have said today, you
can do buildings, but you can't do
architecture without a great client
We've been incredible fortunate to
have, I think, one of the best clients
that we've ever had on this project I'd
like to thankJennus Burton for his
support from the University through­
out this project. Planning and
Construction, Vance linden. Talk
about patience, that's a patient man.
And Dick Miskiel who is relocating to
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immediately replaced with new
dilemmas and sagas, all of which were
eventually solved.
The genius of the Ross-Blakley
library is that it combines dramatic
and provocative architecture with
incredible functionality. The process
that I have described and the ultimate
product demonstrate that there is no
basic conflict between design and
function. Achieving these results
requires a team effort of individuals
who are willing to learn and spend
lots of time. Of course, we were
fortunate to have great architects with
-vision, creativity and understanding.
As users, we had faith in our
architects, but persistently pushed for
our functional objectives. And we were
willing to learn - not just the
acronyms and terms I mentioned, but
much more as well. While it was a bit
difficult at times, it was also fun and
very rewarding.
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Memphis. I hope that we didn't com­
pletely wear him out on this project I
was thanking him and I said, "You
know, this was not an easy project."
He said, "Well it was a little like
swimming up Niagara Falls." I said to
him, "Yeah Dick, but you made it up
Niagara Falls. What an accomplish­
ment. You should be very proud of it"
And he should be.
The Design Review Board. I don't
know if Dean Meunier is here, but
one of the things that we were told
shortly after getting the job was that
we were required to work through a
Design Review Board of the University
... words that are frightening to any
architect at times. I can tell you that it
was an incredibly positive relationship
with the Design Review Board. They
were tough on us, but I can tell you
their inputthroughout the project was
very positive. They kept reminding us
about the standards of the campus,
about the environment Many of the
decisions on the project came directly
from that group and we deeply
appreciate it And I certainly want to
say that I think the work that they are
doing for the University as a whole is
incredibly important I hope that,
through the years, the university will
continue to have their strong voice
influencing the way that the university
will be developed.
last, but certainly not least, is the
User Group. They are the people that
we as architects must listen to the most
and have to understand the most.
These are the people who are going to
use the building. There's no way for me
to thank the User Group enough for
their enthusiastic support of our efforts
througho~t the entire project. It was
really incredibly fun, with them chal­
lenging us and us challenging them.
Dean Morgan, thank you very, very
much. I saw Rick Brown today and he
said that the building was received well,
except for a few articles here and there,
and a few passerbys in cars yelling out
obscene things. Other than that, the
building is being received very well and
the most important thing to Merrill
and me is Rick's observation that the
students are enjoying the building. I
sincerely hope so. And, Rick, I hope
you enjoy that posh office of yours
looking out onto Magic Mountain - a
real window. And Rhonda Sandler.
thank you Rhonda very, very much for
sticking in there through this whole
process as well. And then last but not
least, Jonathan Rose, who, for those of
you who don't know Jonathan ... I'm
lost for words to describe him. There
are lots ofthings named for him around
the campus, and by the way, I don't
know what all that means butJonathan
has been the real force on this project.
He has pulled this group together and
truly made it happen. Merrill said to
me that what she says aboutJonathan
is that he is a great client, an exacting
critic, and a good friend and colleague.
Thank you very much.
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