(Just stood up and recovered the dustgathering model from the top of my bookshelf and tried to take a photograph of it, see right

Al listened patiently to my proposal and even carried it to Sellers, who disapproved it on the basis that it would require an elevatorshaft for an elevator large enough for handicapped persons, which would be prohibitive in cost.
So back to the old idea of a concrete pad.
I then turned my attention to the old barn near Lancaster House and proposed that that might be converted.
In addition to the required classroom and 12 office, it would contain a core of two large laboratories, one for Oceanography and the other for Engineering Geology. This was more up Seller's alley, since he had "his own crew" that could do the job.
Al allowed me to give my new presentation to the Committee of Chairs of the School of Science and Mathematics, and in the process, I suggested that we should emphasize the two labs (President Caputo was known to be in favor of Engineering Geology) so that we could ask for outside support from any foundation; to get such support for just a concrete slab would be impossible. I also mentioned that Charles Scharnberger and I would be happy to help put together the proposal. Although the Committee more or less turned down the idea, the Chair of Math told me later that this was the first time he had heard about going for outside funding in the context of expansion.
Sellers sent me some secret message promising to get me the conversion I had proposed for the barn. I did not hear anything more from Al nor from Paul Nichols, our Chair, with whom I had an argument at that time about funding oceanography. Eventually, this dispute contributed to his resigning the Chairmanship in favor of Russ de Souza, our sympathetic senior meteorologist.