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East Halls was home and part of the Penn State experience for thousands of young men and women, as seen in this dorm room view from 1962. When the last of the 15 units comprising the East Halls complex was opened at University Park in 1964, that group of residence halls was billed as one the largest of its kind on any of the nation’s campuses. Built on what had been University farm land, East Halls was the farthest removed from central campus of any of Penn State’s residence hall complexes, a fact likely remembered all too well by one-time residents of Tener, Stuart, Geary, Curtin, and the other units (all named for Pennsylvania governors.) Freshmen in particular were likely to be assigned to rooms in East. The trek to and from class became especially memorable during the winter, when icy blasts chilled students who took a short cut across the wide open vastness of Parking Lot 80, across Bigler Road from East.
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