Earlham College - Sargasso Yearbook (Richmond, IN)

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And The New Entrance to Earlham 1 . lf! .vs UONQFQI hhlfl G Carpenter Hall Parry Annex Music Hall This year saw many more changes at Earlham such as Parry Annex. the new home of the music department, being moved to a new position be- hind Bundy Hall and fondly dubbed by students as 4'Holvik Hall. The new laundry and shop were finished and put into operation. Students watched tl1e walls of Parry come down to make way for the new menls dormitory. Barrett Hall. made possible by the success of the challenge. The old shop and laundry and smoke stack were also torn down. However. through all the construction of the new, Earlham continues to build lives, as well, for the future. Five

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E HISTORY OF EARLHAM The Quaker settlers ,who migrated from North Carolina to this section of Indiana in the early part of the nineteenth century were sensitive to the need for real educational opportunities for their children, and were concerned with providing such education in a religiously oriented atmosphere. Those that came to the Richmond area established a Monthly Meeting School,7' which soon began to attract students from other areas, and which necessitated living accommodations for studentsvmore convenient than those to be found in the town. In 1832 Whitewater Monthly Meeting sent to the Quarterly and Yearly Meetings a suggestion that a boarding school be established. A large tract of land was purchased on the west side of Richmond, and by 1847 the new Friends Board- ing School had officially opened in the building now known as Earlham Hall. By 1855 this building was completed and student enrollment was averaging approximately sixty per school year. The school was growing to such an extent that the Yearly Meeting de- cided to reorganize the Boarding School into a college. Thus, in 1859, Earlham College was adopted as the official name of the school, in honor of Joseph John Gurney, a prom- inent English Friend whose family home was known as Earlham Hall. A Earlham's present literary societies, Phoenix and Ionian, were organized during the Boarding School period of Earlham's history. Both societies inaugurated the practice of donating books or funds for books to the school library, a practice which had been con- tinued 'to the present time. ' The College had been rapidly expanding the first years of its formal existence, and was beginning to feel the need for an enlarged physical plant. The College Observa- tory, built in 1861, was the first to be built in the state and has been in continuous use since that date. Earlham Hall had been performing yoeman service as a dormitory for both men and women students, dining hall, classroom building and adininistrative office building. To relieve some of the resultant congestion, Parry Hall was built in 1887 to house the Chemistry and Physics Departments, and Lindley Hall was finished in 1888 and used as a classroom and administration building. Lindley Hall also contained the embryonic Earlham Library, a valuable museum collection made chiefly by Joseph Moore, fine arts facilities and an auditorium. Student gymnastic activities had been confined to a shed-like structure at the east wing of Earlham Hall. Interested students inaugurated a fund-raising campaign for a new gym building and succeeded in obtaining enough funds to finance a wooden gym, which was finished and ready for use in, 1390. During this early period of growth, Earlham scored two significant firsts. One was the publication by the Alumni Association of the first issue of The Earlhamite in 1873, believed to be the first alumni magazine published in the'United States. The other 'first was the staging in 1875 of the first Old English May Day Celebration at Earlham, the first such celebration ever staged in this country. 7 The overcrowding in Earlham Hall during the first part of the twentieth century made necessary the construction of a new men's dormitory, so Bundy Hall was built in 1907. Also badly needed was a new library building to house the increasing number of volumes in the Lindley Hall Library Room. The new Library, constructed in part with