Early in the fall of 1954, the new student center opened a music lounge—named in honor of the granddaughter of Carolyn P. Brown, who was adopted by benefactor John Scruggs Brown. Barton died in 1947.
In 1968 an expanded music lounge opened, which continued to be named for Barton. Three music-listening booths allowed students to listen to the center’s collection of more than three hundred records. A card catalog of the records was made, and students could check the records out. A floor model phonograph was also located in the lounge for group listening, as was a Kimball grand piano that was selected and inscribed by H. H. Kimball, president of the company that bore his name. The piano was a gift of Mrs. Frederick Ault, in honor of Captain Adolph Raines Vatter (UT, ’41), who was killed in action in the Pacific Theatre in January 1944.