Housing

Bullen Hall (1870-1966)

Named for Herschel Bullen, Jr., Bullen Hall was constructed for men studying at Utah State University in 1958.

Herschel was born November 13, 1870 in Richmond, Utah. In 1890, he graduated from the University of Deseret (now University of Utah) with a teaching degree. From 1891-1892 Herschel worked as a teacher in the common schools of Cache Valley. On April 11, 1894 he married Mary Hendricks and later had five children. In 1894, a few months after Herschel’s marriage, he was called to serve for two years as a missionary in England for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Upon his return to Utah in 1896, Herschel became highly involved with the Brigham Young College in Logan, Utah, teaching religion, bookkeeping, commercial law and serving as the secretary and treasurer of the Board of Trustees of the Brigham Young College until 1909.

Helen Lundstrom Student Center (1921-1990)

Helen Lundstrom received a bachelor’s from Utah State University and an MBA from Denver University.

Helen taught in the Department of Business Education at USU, and was secretary and president of Phi Kappa Phi, a faculty association. She was secretary of the professional relations committee of the faculty senate, a member of the board of directors of Logan Hospital and was acting department chairman of business education prior to her appointment as dean of women in June 1966. That title was changed to assistant vice president for special affairs in 1977.

Helen was the first director of USU Women’s Center and was instrumental in its organization. She received the Business and Professional Women’s Woman of the Year Award in 1979.

Jones Hall (1898-1991)

Emma Eccles Jones was Logan’s first kindergarten teacher. With warmth, humor and intelligence, she brought joy to the lives of children from 1926 to 1936. Under Edith Bowen’s mentorship, “Aunt Em” drew upon a world-class education from Radcliffe, University of California Berkeley and Columbia University Teachers College - to help establish Utah State University’s program of quality teacher preparation. The far-reaching effects of her work remind everyone that each day offers a gift: an opportunity to transform lives for the better. The Emma Eccles Jones College of Education and Human Services, named to honor Emma’s legacy, is dedicated to the highest levels of excellence in teaching, research and human service.

Merrill Hall (1876-1963)

Laura Rees Merrill exemplified the value of compassion to others. After having only formal education to the eighth grade available to her, Laura R. Merrill studied and passed the teacher’s exam and taught primary school. When requirements were raised, she attended Utah State Agricultural College, becoming one of the first women to attend.

Laura spent many years serving as a librarian at Logan High School and later at the Topaz Japanese Internment Camp in central Utah. She is remembered for her outreach to international students on campus, as well as writing letters to families who had lost loved ones in a tragic World War II plane accident in the mountains of Logan Canyon. Merrill Hall stands as a tribute to Laura’s life and a reminder to be a little kinder to all we meet.

Richards Hall (1886-1983)

LeGrand Richards was born in Farmington, Utah, on February, 6 1886. His youth was spent on the family farm in Tooele, Utah, where he and his brothers worked with their father, simultaneously hoeing in the fields and carrying on lively gospel discussions. After graduation from high school, young LeGrand completed an eighteen-month business college course in twelve months in Salt Lake City; then, at nineteen, he accepted a call to the Netherlands Mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, in what would become the first of his four missions.

Home again, LeGrand obtained, among other work, employment auditing reports in the Presiding Bishop’s office. On May 19, 1909 he married Ina Jane Ashton in the Salt Lake Temple. She died in 1977.

Following his mission and marriage, LeGrand held several jobs and opened his own real estate business in Salt Lake City.

At the age of twenty-seven, LeGrand was called to preside over the Netherlands Mission, where he had served as a missionary just a few years earlier. Later he was to serve again as a missionary in the Eastern States Mission and then as president of the Southern States Mission. As a mission president, LeGrand became concerned with problems confronting missionaries in their approach to people of other faiths. Based on his own testimony and experience, LeGrand prepared a written guide for missionaries. The guide was later expanded to book form and was published as A Marvelous Work and a Wonder, still one of the most widely read books in the LDS Church.

LeGrand devoted his life to enthusiastic church service. He served as the bishop of three wards, as a branch president, on two stake high councils and as a stake president. After serving fourteen years as presiding bishop, he became a member of the Quorum of the Twelve in 1952.