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Banerjee, Soumen
Behrana, Fiona
Caveness, Deanna
Chang, Lizhao
Conway, George
Emeharole, Chris
Fong, Robert
Granger, Hadi
Jeanis, Jimmy
Jiang, Guozhang
Kwok, Timothy
Lampert, Wayne
The club will provide
exclusive dining and entertainment services for
its members. Membership is open to full professors, senior administrative staff and alumni.
More benefits may be in
the works; one reason
for Wednesday's open
house was to get sugges-
tions from potential
members, Brantley said.
As the club grows and
gets feedback from
members, changes will
be made, said board
member Jeff Graves.
"I hope the University
Club will take over the
entire (Barron's) restaurant in time," Graves
said.
For years, the original
Faculty Club, which began in the early '50s on
the fourth floor of the
Ezekiel Cullen Building,
provided a place for faculty to meet, talk, drink
and play pool — a val
ued hang-out in the
days when UH was like
a tightly knit smalltown community. But
the club's fortunes and
membership declined
over the years, and a
suspicious fire in the
club December 13,
1973, put it completely
out of commission.
Led by Faculty Senate
members Alex Ignatiev
and William Simon,
those who missed the
facility battled in the
past few years to resurrect and find a new
home for the club.
"We met every day for
the past year and a half
to two years to get this
organized," said Paul
Ballard, chair of the
benefits committee.
But as recent as
March 1988, the club
appeared all but dead.
Talking about difficulties in getting tangible
support, William Simon,
sociology professor and
Faculty Senate club
committee chair, lamented last spring, "If
there is one more defeat,
one more failure, then
we maybe should let it
go."
However, at that time
Simon and the Faculty
Senate committee were
negotiating with Mark
Bookman, then assistant vice president for
Student Auxiliary Services, for space in the
University Center, as
well as with Joseph Cioch, Dean of the College
of Hotel and Restaurant
Management, for space
in the new wing, which
was under construction
"The formal arrange
ment between Presideni
(Richard) Van Horn anc
Dean Joseph Cioch anc
the University Club Advisory Committee came
about in mid-July,'
Brantley said.
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