SAB steelwork on November 3.

In keeping with a ritual observed by steelworkers across the country, bolting on the last piece of structural steel in the North and South Academic Buildings was an occasion for celebration and feasting--the latter in the form of 40 pizzas served to construction crew, construction managers, and representatives of Williams College. Below, Michael F. Brown, Co-chair of the Building Committee, adds his signature to many already penned on a girder ready to be hoisted aloft with an American flag and an evergreen tree.

Up it goes on an unusually sunny day in November. The First Congregational Church of Williamstown visible in background.

It arrives . . .

But there's plenty of work left to be done on the South Academic Building. To the right, Sawyer Library; in the center distance, the new Paresky Student Center.