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In May 1954, the University announced that a new residence hall was to be constructed to the meet the increasing demand for student housing. The fourth dormitory, Michael Hall, named for Edward Michael who was a member of the University Council for 50 years, was completed in February 1955. Designated as a men's dorm, Michael Hall became the fourth in the quadrangle of dormitories on South Campus.
The University's second dorm, eleven-storied Tower Hall (now Kimball Tower), was designed to house 440 male students. A telegram wired from President Eisenhower after the completion of the building in 1957 called the dorm "a splendid sign of strength and continuing progress in your community" (as quoted in "A Splendid Sign of Strength," Alumni Bulletin, Fall 1957
With expected freshmen enrollment for the 1960-1961 school year up 300 percent from 500 to 2,000, the Ella Conger Goodyear Hall for Women in Residence was occupied in the fall of 1960, despite a strike which delayed its completion two months. A ten-story hall with eight resident floors, it was designed to house 480-500 students.
UB's seventh dormitory, Carolyn Tripp Clement Hall, was dedicated on October 9, 1964. The nine-story residence hall was designed to house five hundred upper-class women.
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Goodyear Hall publicity, ca. 1961 (pdf file)
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