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The Hay Fund
In addition to the gift of the Skytherm House in Atascadero, California,
donors Mr. Harold Hay and his wife Evelyn have provided funds
for Cal Poly student and faculty projects to support further study in
the areas of passive solar architecture, water in architecture and innovative
building systems. A program for intercampus
faculty and student research was also created in 1999 that builds on
and extends similar goals for pushing innovation in the development of water,
solar energy, and conservation in building design. Plans for a visiting
professorship related to these concentrations are also underway.
 HAROLD R.
HAY
 Harold R. Hay was born in Spokane, Washington March 30, 1909. He graduated
with a B.S. in Chemistry from the University of Wisconsin at Madison. He
was employed by Monsanto Chemical Company at St. Louis, MO where he developed
a formula for a new wood preservative which was marketed world-wide. He
subsequently worked with a wide range of firms and agencies including the
Celotex Corp., the USDA Agriculture Research Station in Peoria, IL, the
Philadelphia Quartz Company, Aktiebolaget Defibrator (Sweden), Housing and
Home Finance Agency (Washington, DC), Armour Research Corp. (Caracas, Venezuela),
and the United Nations Special Fund (Bogota, Columbia). Harold Hay was involved
in academic and professional research through his own consultancy and through
scholarly institutions including the Smithsonian Institution, US Dept of
Housing and Urban Development, Cal Poly-San Luis Obispo, University of Miami,
International Solar Energy Society, and the American Solar Energy Society,
Harold Hay was married to Evelyn Lenore Joss of St. Louis, MO for 48 years
who was a partner with Harold in their beliefs about zero-population growth
and international service. Evelyn Hay sacrificed her career to assist her
husband through his endeavors until her death at 72 years of age due to
cancer.
SKYTHERM
HOUSE
 The Atascadero, California house that once earned distinction as the
"most energy efficient house in America" is part of a $1 million
dollar gift from the Evelyn and Harold Hay Fund to the College of Architecture
and Environmental Design (CAED). The donor, Harold R. Hay, is a Los Angeles-area
scientist, inventor and building materials expert.
Known as the Skytherm House, the three-bedroom, two-bath structure was
built in 1973. The house received international acclaim for its simple and
affordable solar heating and cooling system, which consists of a series
of "roof pond" water elements and insulation panels. In the early
1970s, a HUD grant funded a research program to develop solar energy and
construct the house in Atascadero. The house received the only recognition
in the categories of environmental and solar energy during the nation's
Bicentennial in 1976, including a citation from President Ford and a commendation
from the American Revolution Bicentennial Commission as an example of American
housing for the next 100 years.
Hay donated the solar-heated and passively cooled house to CAED at Cal
Poly, San Luis Obispo Ð the first house in America using Hay's patented
skytherm principle Ð to further the study of alternative energy systems
at Cal Poly.
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