Just Desserts: 1965
With a cake this large, it’s a wonder King Husky didn’t jump out.
There was, as you might imagine, a major event behind this mammoth pastry. A coveted addition to the Carl S. Ell Student Center had just been completed. At the building’s dedication, the student body got to sample a tasty replica, which Sandra DeVellis, LA’66 (left), and Virginia DiFranza, Ed’66, MEd’67, AGS’72—members of the student committee for the addition—are here poised to slice into.
The cake weighed 400 pounds. If that seems like a lot of dough, consider this: The addition itself cost $3.6 million.
The building, just one ingredient of Northeastern’s Diamond Anniversary Plan, was no trifle to the campus. Students were so keen to have it they even agreed to help pay for it through student fees.
When it opened, the swank structure contained 10,000 square feet of red-carpeted lounge, a ballroom for three hundred, a game room with seven Ping-Pong and five billiard tables, and twenty-five meeting rooms.
A student building this sweet? It was icing on the cake.
Magdalena Hernandez, MBA’02