With the massive infusion of state funding of $300 million from 2005 to 2015 to modernize and construct existing and new buildings, CSDR shows both the old and new look throughout the campus.
In particular for this article, I want to talk about a relatively small building known as an academic support unit that functions as a multi-purpose room.
You can see red bricks from the ground up up to three feet in height. The original proposal was to have all red bricks to blend well with other fully red brick buildings. However, Department of General Services, charged with the responsibility for building and maintaining state buildings throughout the state, balked at the potentially high cost of going on red bricks alone. They compromised on the combination of red bricks and stucco for exterior walls.
The older alumni and retirees fondly remember a fine gentleman by the name of Stanley Menson. Stan arrived at CSDR in 1955 and taught chemistry and physics for 37 years until he retired in 1992. He came back to campus for sub-teaching a couple of days a week for maybe another 10 years.
This academic support building is located in front of his old classroom and attached to the metal arcade for the walkway.
The above and below pictures give you an inside look at one multi-purpose room. As can be seen, the room is fully carpeted with whiteboards on the wall along with the smart equipment on the ceiling for overhead and video uses. On one wall is the full-length of storage cabinets.
In case of your human nature overtaking your attention, the folks in the pictures are the board members of the CSDR Alumni Association. In the upper picture where you see the lady in a red top, she is Tyler Bayarsky, ‘03. The tall guy with a cap is Kyle Bayarsky, ‘02.
In the above picture, on the left is Dr Keith Gamache, ‘92, chatting with Davis Nguyen, ‘99.
Before I close this article, we must take a moment to thank in abundance to Director of State Special Schools Ron Kadish for his hard-fought battle with the Department of Finance. He succeeded in convincing the “money people” to rechannel the state funding to upgrade the campus buildings in a sad state of disrepair as well as constructing new buildings.
Thank you, Dr Kadish.
Kevin Struxness, ‘76, MA
Editor, CSDR Old Times
7 December 2024
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