Utah State University Dedicates Foundation-Funded Facility

Utah State’s Emma Eccles Jones Center for Early Childhood Education and Edith Bowen Laboratory School are dedicating a new $12.5-million, 800,000-square-foot facility funded by the foundation for which the center is named.

 

The public is invited to attend the Oct. 4, 1:30 p.m., event and mingle with board members of the Emma Eccles Jones Foundation, which funded the construction of the new facility, and other guests, including current and past principals, teachers and students of the lab school.

 

The first phase of the two-part construction project — new classrooms for the 300 elementary school-age children attending the lab school — was completed in August of 2003.

 

The second phase was the recent completion of the wing that houses the Emma Eccles Jones Center for Early Childhood Education, a 400-seat auditorium, and classrooms for art, math and science and music education.

 

New facility highlights include:

 

* An interactive sculpture (by Kraig Varner of Lehi, Utah) of a seated Emma Eccles Jones and two children on the southwest corner of the building.

 

* An interactive sculpture (by Cynthia Hailes of Petersboro, Utah) of a teacher and five children playing on linear monkey bars to the north of the building.

 

* The Anne Carroll Moore Library, named for the children’s librarian at the New York City Public Library from 1906-1941

 

* Multi-media kiva and computer lab adjacent to the library.