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BY AMANDA PALM
The Battalion
^Bourteen Texas A&M archi-
tecture students will present de-
kj signs for a new women and
’ children’s pavilion for Memori
al Hospital in Colorado Springs,
Colo, today.
^■he students visited the hos-
pitai in February to meet with
the medical staff before begin
ning their design projects. The
hospital project is part of a de
sign studio class taught by Dr.
GeO ge J. Mann, holder of the
En Skaggs endowed pro-
feslorship in health facilities
Tldann said he tries to find
/real life projects with actual
clients for his students because
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■The students have been
working in conjunction with
Memorial Hospital staff archi
tect Ann Adanis and FDS Inter
national, an architecture firm in
Dallas. The student designs will
be reviewed by Adams and FDS
International, but the architec
ture firm will use its own design
for the women and children’s
it is a re:., pavilion,
ouncenr l llohn Castorina, who re-
YttdlkiC ceived a master’s degree from
the College of Architecture in
19h4, is president of FDs Inter
national. Castorina has con-
trfbuted financial support to the
$Jp million project.
■Adams said the hospital in
terviewed pediatric patients
and their parents, physicians
and staff to determine the needs
or those who will use the pavil
ion.
■“Most patients and parents
were looking for a place to re
treat,” she said. “The kids who
frequent the hospital wanted a
different place to go to.”
■Jeff Cadell, a senior environ
mental design major, said pa
tient needs were a major part of
hi? design. He said he wanted
to use his design to change the
perception children have of
hospitals so they will be more
comfortable staying in them.
■ “We tried to make the design
appeal to kids so it’s not such a
sclary place,” he said. “We used
allot of geometric shapes and
soft colors. And as for women,
we just kept things subtle and
elegant to reflect women.”
■ Kristy Walvoord, a graduate
student who has conducted re
search in women’s health, was
available to students during the
extent of the project to offer ad-
vijee and answer questions.
I “Most students knew noth
ing about health-care architec
ture,” she said, “and they took
on a 200,000-square-foot pro-
jejet. They have done an amaz
ing job.”
i Adams said this project in
particular gave students a
chance to learn about codes
and about how health care pro
jects differ from commercial ar
chitecture projects.
I Cadell said he is lucky to
have had the opportunity while
still in school. Fie said the pro
ject inspired and encouraged
him to continue in the architec
ture field.
I “Communication is vital and
teamwork, not only between
the students but [also with] the
architects and the hospital was
important in order for the pro
ject to succeed,” he said. “This
was a great learning experience
and a taste of what the archi
tectural profession is all about.”
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Diaries of atheist sold
at auction for $12,000
SAN ANTONIO (AP) — After a
brief auction outside a federal bank
ruptcy courtroom in Austin, the di
aries and personal papers of atheist
Madalyn Murray O’Hair have been
sold for $12,000.
“It’s an investment. I’m not so
much an admirer as an entrepre
neur,” said Jimmy Nassour, 43, an
Austin lawyer who was the high
bidder in the Tliesday afternoon
auction.
Nassour bid $2,000 in January
for an inscribed Bible of O’Hair’s at
a formal auction in nearby
Pflugerville.
“I think the diaries will provide
a real insight into the real Madalyn
Murray O’Hair,” Nassour told the
San Antonio Express-News. “You
have someone who probably did in
credible things for the First Amend
ment, yet was deemed the most hat
ed woman in America.”
Moments after the bidding,
bankruptcy Judge Frank Monroe ap
proved the sale of what was the last
asset in the liquidation of the O’Hair
estate.
Court-appointed trustee Ron In
galls said more than $240,000 in un
paid claims against the O’Hair estate
remain, most of them owed to the
Internal Revenue Service.
Ingalls had Monroe’s approval to
put the diaries on the auction block
in hopes of raising more money. Go
ing into the auction, a pending high
bid of $8,888.88 had come from an
Austin man who asked not to be
identified.
“(Murray) did
incredible things
for the First
Amendment, yet
was deemed the
most hated woman
in America/'
— Jimmy Nassour
Austin lawyer
With Ingalls acting as auctioneer,
Nassour and the second man
moved quickly past $10,000 and
then $11,000. Nassour prevailed at
$12,000 after his competitor called
it quits at $11,888.
Asked the significance, if any, of
the unusual bids, the man said, “I
just like number sequences. They
are meaningful to me.”
He acknowledged some might
read more into it, particularly the
repetition of the number eight,
which some associate with Christ.
“Some might place religious sig
nificance on that. I’d rather not say,”
he said before departing.
For his money, Nassour got the
personal diaries of America’s most
famous atheist.
The diaries cover a stretch of
time from 1953 — six years before
O’Hair filed her lawsuit against
prayer in public schools — to Au
gust 1995, only weeks before she
disappeared.
O’Hair’s case and others led to a
1963 U.S. Supreme Court decision
banning organized prayer in public
schools. O’Hair, her son, Jon Garth
Murray, and granddaughter, Robin
Murray O’Hair, whom she adopted
as her daughter, have been missing
since late September 1995, when
they vanished from San Antonio
along with $500,000 in gold.
Investigators suspect they were
kidnapped and murdered, and two
men who are suspects in the case
are being held on unrelated charges.
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