Groundbreaking Friday for Recreation Fields

GROUNDBREAKING FRIDAY FOR RECREATION AND INTRAMURAL SPORTS FIELDS

     COLUMBUS -- Groundbreaking ceremonies for a $3.2 million
recreational and intramural sports field at The Ohio State
University will be held Friday (5/2) at 12:30 p.m. at the
northwest corner of Pressey Hall, 1070 Carmack Rd.

     Holly Smith and Mark Berkman, student members of The Ohio
State University Board of Trustees, will discuss the project
overview, followed immediately by breaking of ground by President
E. Gordon Gee and David Williams, vice president for student
affairs, and other members of the Board of Trustees.  A barbecue
will follow at the Jesse Owens West Recreational Center, 1031
Carmack Rd.

     The park, located on the southwest corner of Lane Avenue and
Kenny Road, encompasses some 40 acres.  The land, which slopes 40
feet from one edge to the other, will become a three-tiered park
with three lakes.  It will be home to 20 recreational activities.

     Work has already begun on the fields, with a completion date
of mid-December.  The park will open to public use in the spring
of 1999 to allow a summer growing period for the grass.