George Morrison '66 says that he spent many happy hours on that campus just visiting and playing around on the quad. I attended Boy Scout functions, 4-H functions, church related functions and dozens of dances there even before I eventually became a student. When he heard what was happening to the barn, he sent us his recollections of time spent on campus and in the barn. He wrote:
I grew up in Hyde Park. My parents met as they attended USAC as did I many years later. My father eventually became a faculty member - Ag Econ in 1947. One neighbor in Hyde Park, Jay Hansen, tended horses in the Horse Barn. One fall evening, Jay brought me and a friend with him on his evening chores. The barn was poorly lit back then and the three of us had to carefully move about trying not to spook the horses and get kicked. I can still smell the grass hay, horse "biscuits" and sweat. USAC became USU while I studied Forestry and I met my wife in the library before remodeling changed the edifice to the Milton R. Merrill Library (a distant cousin). I made many trips through the Art (Horse) Barn during my student years as I worked on the custodial staff. I'm delighted to see the old concrete building finding continued usefulness instead of disappearing to make way for more parking slots.
Mr. Morrison along wife Betty '66 divides his time between Quartzsite, Arizona in the winter and Santaquin, Utah in the spring and summer.
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