The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 62, July 1958 - April, 1959 Page: 435
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B Hall of Texas
report on the act of the Board of Regents to repair B Hall and
use it in the future for a classroom and office building.11' The
repairs were to cost around $25,000. It was the Regents' final
decision that there would be no dormitory for men on the Forty
Acres proper.112 The Daily Texan on June 29, 1926, condemned
the closing of B Hall."1 Grady Woodruff was the manager when
the Hall was closed in the summer of 1926.11" Since he was a
plaintiff in the B Hall suit, his pay was discontinued. The last
man who stayed overtime in B Hall was Bob Massingale. He was
"thrown out" at Thanksgiving, 1926."16
Walter Hunnicutt was made president of the group to save
the building since he was an ardent champion of preserving the
Hall as a dormitory rather than converting it into offices and
classrooms. It was most appropriate that Hunnicutt, director of
the University Band for four years and the author of "Texas
Fight," should lead the battle forces to save B Hall as a dormi-
tory. The crux of the court battle was whether B Hall was a
11Splawn, The University of Texas: Its Origin and Growth to 1928 (typescript,
University of Texas Library), 118.
11Ibid.; Minutes of the University of Texas Board of Regents, June 7-July 3,
1926 (MSS., Office of the Board of Regents, University of Texas), F, 467-480.
11.Splawn, The University of Texas: Its Origin and Growth to 1928 (typescript,
University of Texas Library ), 111.
114Brown, B Hall, Texas, ego; Minutes of the University of Texas Board of
Regents, August o30, 1926 (MSS., Office of the Board of Regents, University of
Texas), F, 489.
From all available sources, the writer compiled the following list of B Hall
managers from 189o to 1926:
x89o-1895--H. B. BECK
1895-1898-STUDENTS COMMITTEE
1898-19goo-MRs. M. E. HICKS
1900-1902-JOHN A. LOMAX
190g-1907-ADRIAN POOL
1907-1908-HENRY McKAY (after a few months resigned, succeeded by Quaid)
19o8-1909-JOHN ERSKILL QUAID
lgog-Ig9l-H. B. TICK SEAY-W. A. DARTER, Asst.
1911-1912-MRS. KATHERINE C. SMITrrH
1912-1914-MARK CALLAWAY
1914-1915-ToM GAMBRELL
1915-1916-FRED HANCOCK
196-I19g-Operated at various times under University management for new
Air Force, Navy, and Army
19g19-19g21-TOM GATLIN
1921-1924-ARCHIE D. GRAY
1924-1926-GRADY WOODRUFF
us5Brown, B Hall, Texas, 235.435
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