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SERVING THE CAUSE wanted to construct. In their last meeting of the decade (December 1959), recognizing that sizable loans would be necessary to carry out their action, the trustees authorized expenditures of more than $1,000,000 for a new physics building, a major addition to the library, and a new physical education building. Space and equipment needed to teach chemistry and physics as the faculty wanted them taught were overtaxing the existing facilities of Breidenbaugh Hall. At the board meeting in December 1959, the trustees learned, not only that it would not be feasible to use third-floor space in that building, but also that implementation of new state fire-exit regulations would actually reduce usable space on the second floor. They also learned that some prompt action was necessary. Instead of attempting to enlarge Breidenbaugh by adding wings to the west, as was suggested at one point, the trustees decided to construct a new building for the physics department, keeping the cost as low as they could. A site south of Plank Gymnasium was chosen, bids were opened in May 1960, and the department moved into its new quarters in the spring of 1961. The cost was $236,298. The building was dedicated in an informal ceremony on April 6, 1962. On November 2, 1963 it was formally renamed Fred G. Masters Hall.119 In 1966, at a cost of $135,269, the College completed an addition to the north side of Masters Hall for a planetarium and related facilities.120 Three years later, to house a recently purchased telescope, the College built an observatory on the northwest part of the campus. In December 1956 the trustees accepted the General's recommendation and authorized identification of the "present nameless library," as he called it, with the chief founder of the College. During exercises in observance of the 125th anniversary of the College, on April 14, 1957, it became the Samuel Simon Schmucker Library. Giving it a name, however, did not hide the fact that growth in the library collection and in its use made the building more inadequate with each passing year. In 1958 the trustees agreed to give serious attention to this need at an early date. A consultant engaged to assist the architect advised the trustees to build a new library rather than enlarge the old one, but the trustees decided that they could not afford to accept his recommendation. In December 1960 they approved a contract for constructing an addition to the west side of n»Fred G. Masters (1880-1963) of the class of 1904 was a high school science teacher and administrator, as well as a bank director and president, in southwestern Pennsylvania. The building was named in recognition of his bequest, which eventually amounted to more than $220,000. 120Hatter Planetarium was named in recognition of the gift of George G. Hatter (1889-1976) of the class of 1911. Hatter was an official of the Pennsylvania Department of Highways and later president of the Pennsylvania Motor List Company. 84