Elizabethtown College - Conestogan / Etonian Yearbook (Elizabethtown, PA)

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The big snow of the winter on March 17 partially covered the foun- dation ready for delayed steel. The new Church of the Brethren stands almost completed just beyond the edge of the campus. The photographer on April 4 caught the crone swinging the first shipment of steel into place on the foundation. Dimly outlined in the background ore the faculty houses on Mount Joy Street. S Steel, concrete, wires, and brick blend in the new design, committees continue to plan atiead on kitchen equipment, dining hall organization, and dormitOF) ' furnishings. Located on West Campus overlooking the dell to the north and the new Church of the Brethren to the south, the two hundred-foot H-shaped red brick colonial building will house 130 women students. The central dining hall for all boarding students will be located on the first floor to the right of the main entrance. A large lounge and two smaller living rooms are located on the first floor, left. An infir- mary, student rooms, and a faculty suite comprise the east wing, first floor. A suite for the head of residence, a lounge with kitchenette, and rooms for two comprise the second floor. Layout for the third floor is similar to that for the second. By September 1957, rooms will become homes and the residence hall will have a name of its own.

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Miss Ethel M. B. Wenger, board member, assists in the groundbreaking ceremonies on Friday afternoon, July 15, 1955, after the contract for the residence hall for women hod been awarded to Sovostio Construction, Inc. Watching the proceed- ings are, left to right: J. W. Kettering, chairmen of the board; Chester H. Royer, Norman K. Musser, members of the board; Alfred Hamme, architect; Presi- dent A. C. Baugher, and Robert Young, administrative assistant. The Residence Hall in Construction By the middle of October the outline of the consruction project was well defined. The fH-shaped foundation was being readied for steel. if ' ' - ■ii-

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A »- ' - ■ • The present-day auditorium-gymnasium changed into a chapel-auditorium in this architect ' s sketch ot the future building will adequately seat the entire student body. The Drawing Board I HE COLLEGE ATHLETIC program runs ahead of the facihties. Careful planning insured maximum use of the present plant. Physical education classes, wrestling and basket- ball practices, a monthly student assembly, occa- sional professional conferences, and rehearsals filled the weekday schedule in the gymnasium. During the winter months the gymnasium was in use six evenings a week for practices, intercollegiate games, commu- nity program series features, and intramural sports. The commuting third 6f the student body filled the additional parking spaces on the gymnasium drive and rainy day latecomers found themselves parked nearer to the lake than to Alpha Hall. And so the cycle continues — planning, expand- ing, increased enrollment, further planning and ex- panding, larger enrollments. The architect ' s sketch of the Health and Physical Education Building for men and women to be constructed as part of the expansion progrom. y v 10