Debora Seiter’s husband John is a speech communications professor whose office was in the Art Barn before the upper floors of the building were condemned. The Art Barn is a special place for her and her family as well as for her husband. Her uncle is a World War II veteran who had attended USU through the GI Bill. She and her husband brought him up to visit the campus again, and “he just really honed in on the barn,” which, along with Old Main, is one of the few landmarks remaining from over 60 years ago. It “thoroughly delighted him that it was still there.”
She also recalls when professors started leaving the Art Barn for offices elsewhere on campus:
“I remember feeling like, well gosh, this isn't going to be the same, and honestly it hasn't. People have kind of branched out and made new connections and networking. . . But as far as recreating as a group and being able to bounce from office to office, still in your chair rolling around, or being able to have a snake, or whatever, those times were over.”
Luckily, memories of the barn will continue to be preserved as it takes on its new role as a museum and welcome center.
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