Construction of Moody Coliseum and the adjacent Gibson Center seen from the air.
The construction of the Royce and Pam Money Student Recreation and Wellness Center is of course not the first time the area of campus north of the central mall has seen a major construction project. In 1968, crews built Moody Coliseum and the Gibson Health and Physical Education Center.
Dr. Kerri Hart — whose father, as we’ve mentioned, was chair of the Exercise Science and Health Department at the time — has provided some photos of the construction Abilene Christian University experienced 43 years ago:
Then-President Don H. Morris reviews an architectural rendering with then-Bursar Lawrence Smith (far left) and then-Vice President (and future president) John C. Stevens (second from right).
The steps and seating supports of Moody Coliseum begin to rise above the seating bowl.
The hole for the Gibson lap pool. Drs. Dwain Hart and Curtis Dickson laid pennies into the dirt before concrete for the pool was laid.