MEMOIRS BY DR. SAMUEL H. SUTHERLAND PRESIDENT EMERITUS June 20, 1986 Page 6 - Tape 1
and-a-half million dollars." He gulped a couple of times and then Ray began to figure on the paper napkin at the table. Finally he said, "Well, you 're about right, figuring $100,000 a floor, 13 floors, plus the two basements would take us to one-and-a-half million dollars." Then he was very quiet. did not know how the wheels were turning, but finally he came up with an idea. He said, "You know, we can move out of the downtown location, buy ground out somewhere, and we could put up all of the facilities there that we have here for one-and- a-half million dollars!" That brought me right out of my chair and I said, "Do you mean that?" And he said, "Yes!" And I said, "Let's go!" Well, Dr. Talbot was sitting in his seat half asleep. I'm not sure he knew what we were talking about, but at any rate he exclaimed in his Australian drawl, "Yeah, let's go!" That was the beginning of the idea of moving away from the downtown location onto a new campus. I
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