An indoor athletic and recreation complex, the building was completed in 1964 and named in 1965 for Samuel W. Beyer, who was an 1889 graduate of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland and joined the Iowa State faculty in 1891. He served as Acting Dean of Engineering while Anson Marston was on active duty with the United States Military during 1917-1918 and was Dean of Industrial Science (today’s College of Sciences and Humanities) from 1919 to 1931. Samuel Beyer has been called “a father of Iowa State athletics” by historian Earle D. Ross. Beyer House in Welch Hall is also named in his honor. (Samuel W. Beyer was initiated as a member of Tau Beta Pi by Iowa Alpha on April 21, 1909)
Tau Beta Pi: Iowa Alpha Chapter
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