2 - Friday, January 4, 2008 MONDAY: In Other Ivory Towers TUESDAY: Arbor Anecdotes WEDNESDAY: The Extremist A costly blaze THURSDAY:FRIDAY: Explained BeforeYu Were Here EXTRA .94c IIW4l a ta1 E XTRA FLAMES GUT HAVEN HALL;. DAMAGE HITS $3,000,000 pecttoor ~ lp, -, ciwl Building rlinder Firemen ' ( Ttanll ' ul , On June 6, 1950, the fire alarm in Haven Hall rang. And for once, there was actually a fire. The fire, which is rumored to have been started by a disgrun- tled professor, started in the building's central attic, accord- ing to firemen at the time of the fire. In the end, it was estimated that the blaze did more than three million dollars worth of damage, including destroying the 20,000 volume Bureau of Government Library. Although no one was killed in the fire, one firefighter was slightly injured and several stu- dents were treated for smoke inhalation. A crowd of 20,000 surround- ed the building to watch it burn. At times the memorized onlook- ers blocked firefighters. Despite the efforts of police to restrain the crowd, others rushed into the building to sal- vage their research and belong- ings by throwing files from the building's windows. Journalism students were able to save typewriters and an Associated Press Teletype machine. Many University graduate students lost their masters' the- ses and research. History Prof. Dwight Dumond lost 15 years of research on the anti-slavery movement. The building, which at the time stood near the Law Quad, was evacuated at about 4:30 p.m. when several people noticed smoke coming out of the walls. Soon smoke was billowing from the buildings roof. As a precaution, Angell Hall was also evacuated. one student, junior Alvin Kaplan, ran into the journalism department, where students were taking final exams, and said, "I think your building is burning down." Firefighters did not declare the fire under control until 9 p.m. At the time, Haven Hall housed the journalism, sociol- ogy, and history departments, all of which were gutted in the blaze. The fire helped to push for- ward plans to renovate and expand Angell Hall. When the renovations were completed in 1952, a section of the new com- plex was named Haven Hall after the original building. DANIEL STRAUSS The front page of The Michigan Daily the day after a fire destroyed Haven Hall. The blaze, which burned out of control for more than four hours, caused about three million dollars in damage. 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