sentences:  Ultimately costing more than $2.7 million, the new facility was dedicated on September 9, 1950.For over 50 years, the auditorium routinely hosted graduations, concerts, and sporting events, including the Sioux City Symphony Orchestra and (since 1972) the Sioux City Musketeers ice hockey team.Until 1982 it served as the home arena for the Briar Cliff College Chargers.