This information about Carrier Hall and the Carrier family is provided in the dedication program:
Carrier Hall Administration Building:
"Situated near the center of the campus as it expands to the Northeast, the Carrier Hall Administration Building will be the heart and nerve center of Clarion State College. In a prime campus location at the corner of Ninth and main streets, it will afford easy access for visitors to the campus and a central location for students and others requiring the various administrative services which it will house. Built at a cost of $925, 804 and containing 19, 716 square feet of space, the three-story facility is of reinforced concrete frame with buff brick facing, concrete block foundation, masonry walls and partitions, aluminum windows and a built-up roof. Contained in the structure will be general business offices, storage areas, file rooms, data processing rooms and offices for the President, assistants to the president, record offices, and deans of Academic Affairs, Professional Studies, Liberal Arts, associate deans and secretarial personnel. A bituminous driveway, parking area, curbs and concrete stairs complete the facility. It is scheduled for completion in December, 1971."
The Carrier Family:
That Clarion State College should dedicate its new administration building as Carrier Hall is appropriately in accord with the institution's traditional association with Carrier Seminary and the Carrier name. Carrier Seminary, as every Clarion alumnus knows, was the school which became successively Clarion State Normal, Clarion State Teachers College, and now Clarion State College. Seminary Hall, the venerable brick structure which until 1967 stood on the site of the five story addition to Carlson Library, was the home of Carrier Seminary, though the Seminary itself had enrolled its first students in 1867. Carrier Seminary of Western Pennsylvania was established under the aegis of the Erie Conference of the Methodist Church, but it was actually made possible through the generosity of public spirited local citizens who contributed an organizing fund of $30,000. The new seminary was named in honor of its most generous contributors, the Carrier Family. Though no actual record of contributors and amounts exists, it is said that Darius Carrier, a prominent citizen and business man of nearby Summerville, contributed a sum of perhaps $10,000 and lumber for the new building. His brothers Euphrastus, Nathan, and Hiram also made donations, and there may have been others. It is a matter of record that both Hiram Carrier and Nathan Carrier, Jr., were two of the fifteen citizens on the board of trustees of the new institution. It is also known that Elizabeth Carrier, daughter of Darius, attended the Seminary, later recalling for her descendants a summer term breakfast menu of "bread and thickened cooked elderberries." In this era when change is rapid and pervasive, it is pleasant and reassuring to know that the Carrier name continues at the college. And it seems so right in the scheme of things that Carriers have continued to come to Clarion over the years. No fewer than 21 alumni bear the Carrier name and Deborah Susan Carrier, daughter of alumnus Edward W. Carrier and his wife Emma Lou, is now on her way to a degree at the college which began as Carrier Seminary."
