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A cloudless blue sky and a chilly wind provided a brisk backdrop for a December celebration of progress made in the construction of the new Spangler Center. The "topping out" ceremony, a Viking tradition that pays tribute to the trees sacrificed in building a new structure, marked the halfway point in the construction of the new campus center. "The Spangler Center will literally transform this campus," Dean Kim B. Clark told over one hundred hardy souls who turned out for the event.
C.D. ("Dick") Spangler, Jr. (MBA '56), himself a former construction industry executive, then took the microphone and thanked all of those who had "used their hands and their brains to put this building together perfectly." Spangler, who together with his wife and two daughters made the building possible, praised the new structure's "noble purpose to make HBS a better place for our students." He then accepted a Superman T-shirt from Joe Lavin, one of the many members of Ironworkers Local #7 of Boston whose skills, courage, and talents were being honored.
The building's final beam (of steel, not wood), signed by dozens of people involved in the project and sporting an American flag and a small evergreen tree, was then lifted to the top of the structure. As spectators watched admiringly, a huge crane floated the beam several stories up to the top of the building, where it was gracefully accepted and put into place by two ironworkers in hard hats.
The Spangler Center construction continues apace and is on course to be completed by this fall.
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