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(06-17-2021 05:12 PM)doss2 Wrote:  

(06-17-2021 01:27 PM)Captain Bearcat Wrote:  

(06-17-2021 09:14 AM)doss2 Wrote:  

(06-15-2021 10:41 PM)namrag Wrote:  Dieterle is historic, but not as Dieterle and not as a vocal arts center.

The building is 111 years old, and only the last 26 years have been as Dieterle. The first 85 years were as Schmidlapp.

I was Army ROTC 88-93 and Schmidlapp Hall was our building. The entire building.

It originally served as the men’s basketball team’s second home court (their first court was in the basement of the original McMicken Hall- is that the same building as the current McMicken Hall?)

I did a lot of extra stuff for the cadre, and was one of the only scholarship cadets who lived on campus, so they gave me a key to the building. My friends and I spent many weekends and evenings playing basketball there.

I guess I was in the last Army ROTC class to be in Schmidlapp.

It was majorly renovated and reopened as Dieterle in 1995.

SGM Richard Blue told me that the natorium in the basement is what made it a designated historic building.

We used it for waterproof training (rock sharks, Hooah!).

I guess they filled it in with concrete as part of the renovation.

I guess you were not a Mech. Eng. major. I am sure they did not fill it with concrete. One it would cost too much for the concrete and second concrete that thick requires special procedures to cure.

I guess you weren't MechE either. That's a Civil Engineering job.

The simple way to remember the difference: Mechanical engineers build weapons. Civil engineers build targets.

Point accepted. That said I sure as hell know 8 foot of concrete does not get dumped into a swimming pool.