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Holton To Dedicate
Two New Buildings

By SCOTT TOLLEFSEN

CD/Larry Mann

The New Jordan Medical Education Building Will Be Dedicated On Nov. 10.

Governor Linwood Holton
will participate in ceremonies
Friday to dedicate the Harvey
E. Jordan Medical Education
Building and the Josephine
McLeod Nursing Education
Building.

Both of these facilities play
important roles in the
University's program to
increase production of health
care professionals, according to
a University news release.

Marston To Keynote

Robert Q. Marston,
director of the National
Institute of Health, will deliver
the ceremonies' keynote
address at 10 a.m. in the
McLeod Building auditorium.

Governor Holton will then
formally present the two
buildings to University
President Edgar F. Shannon.
Jr.

Robert A. Good,
president of the Sloan
Kettering Institute in New
York and a noted author in
cancer research, will give the
John F. Anderson Memorial
lecture at 2:30 p.m.

Assistant surgeon general and
Chief Nurse Officer of the
United States Public Health
Service Faye G. Abdellah
will also speak during the
afternoon session.

Enrollments Increase

According to University Vice
President for Health Services
Kenneth R. Crispell, the
new structures are a major
reason for increased
enrollments in the School of
Medicine and the School of
Nursing.

The size of the entering class
of the Medical School has
increased from 76 five years
ago to the present level of 120.

The projected total
enrollment of the Medical
School for this year is 365
students. According to
enrollment projections, this
figure will increase to 460 by
the 1973-74 session if the
required faculty and facilities
are provided. The enrollment
will remain steady at 400 from
1973 through 1980 if these
facilities are not available.

Undergraduate nursing
enrollment has increased from
216 to 372 over the same
period.

This figure represents an
enrollment increase above the
projected 350 of last year. The
Nursing School plans to
increase the number of
students enrolled to 514 by
1980, according to estimates
presented to the future of the
University last Spring.

Graduate Program

This fall, the Nursing School
initiated a graduate program
leading to the masters degree in
nursing, which currently has 23
graduate students enrolled.

The $10.7 million Jordan
Medical Education Building is a
seven-story structure which
houses five basic science
departments and animal
research areas for the medical
school, as well as laboratory
space, lecture halls, and
student activity facilities.

The $2.4 million McLeod
Nursing Education Building is a
five-story structure equipped
with closed circuit classroom
television and facilities for
bedside demonstration of
nursing techniques and
independent study.

In conjunction with the
dedication ceremonies, the
Nursing School will offer
independent study
presentations by recent
graduates and current nursing
students on Saturday, Nov. 11,
and an open house on Sunday,
Nov. 12.