Tradewinds, 1974-04-22

              RADEWIND L 1 VOLUME 3, NUMBER 22 Left to right. President Wilson W. Sorensen, Ben Hutchinson and Bruce Jensen, looking at plans for new Orem campus. Plans for Campus Wear Completion Preliminary master plan ideas and basic considerations for utilities, campus design, and general environmental considerations are now nearing completion for the new Orem UTC Campus. With a project of this size, many important considerations have to be given to county planning groups, Orem City utility lines, traffic patterns, topography as well as solar considerations and prevailing wind patterns. The master plan is currently under the direction of Mr. Bruce Jensen of the State Building Board staff and Mr. Ben Hutchinson acts as his assistant. Mr. Jensen has had extensive planning experience with the building board, having served for the past 13 years as archetectural planner for the University of Utah during their tremendous period of growth. Approved programs for the new Orem campus include: Automotive trades, general construction and metal trades, T7 n r J j business, drafting and design, electrical and automation, refrigeration and air conditioning, electronics, fire protection technology, graphics, health services, home economics, pre-tech training, general education. An advisory committee of student, faculty and staff members has been organized to coordinate input in actual classroom and shop design. Community resources from local government officials, planners, engineers, utility companies and neighborhood representation rounds out the overall planning and resource team. To facilitate on-site planning of the Orem Campus, a planning center has . been established at 946 South 4th West in Orem. Mr. Jensen and Mr. Hutchinson are using this residential facility on the site as a work center where models, architectural schedules, and designs are available for public viewing. UTAH TECHNICAL This is an exciting time in the lives of all connected with Utah Technical College at Provo. We are making progress on the master plan to build a new Utah Tech on our 185 acre site in Orem, Utah. Ground should be broken within a few months, and a dream that we liave all !iad will be a realization. Faculty and lay committees are working on a basic master plan now, and soon a new and even greater Utah Technical College Provo-Orem will rise on the most beautiful colleee site in the West. Many of you as alumni remember the old days when we were located at the old fair grounds, and our name was Central Utah Vocational School. Some of you were crowded into the north wing of the present campus before we added the south wing and the multipurpose wing - even though our facilities were crowded, and sometimes even makeshift, we have always had the highest caliber students attend the school. Our faculty has grown, we now have over a hundred full-time instructors, but the quality you remember is still the paramount factor in selecting faculty members-and now we have an out- We encourage interested persons to stop at the center and review the progress. With the completion of the master plan scheduled for sometime in latter part of April, special groups will be invited to review proposals and provide input. The advisory council for Utah Technical College at Provo is also being reorganized to facilitate community support and program input for the development of this new important educational facility. The college is currently renting 45,000 sq. ft. warehouse for Diesel Mechanics, Auto Body and General Construction areas. The main portion of the business department is housed in 10 rental mobil classrooms. A much improved facility is required as soon as possible, particularly when we predict day school enrollment for 74-75 year to be over 2,000. One of the primary concerns in developing this project is to increase the availability of vocational-technical training, inadequate facilities, and at COLLEGE PROVO CZJCJ standing group of instructors-each maintaining a real individual interest in the student - as always. And some of you recent graduates remember vividly the rental buildings, the trailers, and the other ways that we have tried to take care of the ever-increasing number of students who want to take part in the excellent training programs the college offers. Our purpose in this new publication is to make all alumni aware of the changes, growth, and future plans of i. tab Technical College at Provo. Our most important recruiting device is an active and interested alumni group. From this beginning, we hope to have a very active alumni organization - with community representatives all over the state, and alumni chapters in the more populous areas. You will soon be contacted by our Alumni Director, Roger Honeyman - we sincerely hope that you give of yourself and your time to make this alumni organization a strong factor in the growth and development of Utah Technical College at Provo. May I offer my sincere wishes that you are finding your training here a significant part of a happy and productive life. the same time take into account flexibility of design so that programs can be developed and added as new technology demands new training. Currently, with this idea of flexibility in mind, the proposal and use will include 13 acres of 11 percent for buildings; 39 acres or 39 percent for natural landscaping; 29. acres or 24 percent for developed landscaping, road and parking, 11 acres or 9 percent; for outside yards and storage. It is our objective as wt obtain further funding to have construction underway and commitments on the 8 millioK dollars appropriation so that an additional appropriation can be requested in the 1975 January meeting of the Legislature. Please feel free to contact us at any time on ideas or problems you feel should receive consideration in what we feel will be one of the finest vocational-technical training centers in the country. Presides? Wilson W. of iEtiFttte BASKETBALL April 22 . -Dixie College here; Apr. 22-26 Outdoor Intermurals ! April 27 Mesa College here; April 30 . . . C.E.U. h ere, A Word from the Alumni Director (On page two) MONDAY, APRIL 22, 1974 Sorensen