A few tennis courts were laid out in the back corner of the parking lot, near the woods. English instructor Jim Hughes directed the campus's first theatre production in an Allyn Hall lobby. Mask and Quill, the student dramatic society, presented Marty by Paddy Chaevsky and Edward Albee's The Sandbox. The plays were reviewed in the first issue of the Guardian, the student newspaper. A riding club was headquartered in a house and stable where the Nutter Center now stands, allowing students to take advantage of the trails in the woods.
New universities are chaotic places.
As the second fall began, faculty desks were set up in the fourth-floor halls until office space could somehow be contrived. Some English instructors were finally shipped down Colonel Glenn to the Warner House, the Dayton Campus's original Command Central and now buried under the I-675 spur to Area A of the Base. The clinic, the mailroom, and the music room, complained the student, never seem to stay in one place very long. Still, the student concluded, Wright State was an experience not to be missed. It would not surprise those who came to Dayton in 1964 to build a university to learn that today Wright State stands third in the state in sponsored research or that the theatre program is nationally recognized.