When Mark Werth moved into the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Ogg Hall dormitory as a freshman in 1965, everything was new: the beds, the closets, the fluorescent lighting and the rotary phone in each room.
A large sculpture has been installed in the common area in front of the new Ogg Hall dormitory at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
University of Wisconsin-Madison student Kelly Eickert (left) talks with her roommate, Jessica Zahn, in their new Ogg Hall dorm room. The rooms in the new dormitory complex are wider and deeper than the rooms in the old, 13-story Ogg Hall, which is undergoing demolition.
Werth helped build Ogg’s raucous reputation from scratch, pulling fire alarms and lobbing water balloons.