n 1972, the Assumption School of Business (ASB) that had been going on for three years was fully
recognized as a institution of higher learning by the Ministry of Education, under the new name of
Assumption Business Administration College (ABAC). But the new college had to be independent and
move away from the ACC Campus. The St. Gabriel Foundation, owners of ABAC, had already a 14-rai plot
in the middle of padd-fields, with no trees, no plants and a dirt road to reach it, at the end of Soi Moo
Ban Seri. The transfer of ownership was promptly made in order to put up a first five-storey building.
Twenty-one meter long ploes were supposed to support the whole structure, but when the first one
disappeared in the ground after a few strokes, the engineer had to stop the piling. The soil was so soft
that it required twenty-four meter long poles...Out of necessity, it was a multipurpose building with the finance
department cum bookstore, the registrar's office and the office of the President occupying the ground floor
in that order. The actual registrar's office was added much later...
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