Greensboro College - Echo Yearbook (Greensboro, NC)

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James Wandell takes a drink as Donnie Noel Chambers and Mark DeJoumette love Jim Quigley a k a as Pee Wee Hermdn. Vernon gets lai-ed to dance Opening 13

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CLOSER TO HOME In the dorms at Greens- boro College, there is al- ways something going on. Greensboro Dorm was the first of the dorms to be built. It was built in 1956. It was built to house women, but this year it became GC ' s first co-ed, honor dorm. Men ' s Dorm was built in 1961, seven years after the college became co-ed. Men ' s was renamed West Dorm in 1983. New Women ' s Dorm was built in 1969 to accommodate more women. The Dorm was renamed in 1983 as East Dorm. Ann Harriss toasts the new school year. 12 Opemng

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IN THE END Odell Memorial Auditorium, built in 1922, was a gift given to Greensboro Female Col- lege by Mr. James A. Odell in memory of his wife, an honor- ary member of the Greens- boro Female College Alum- nae Association. Mr. Odell was a staunch supporter of GC beginning over 80 years ago. When the college was threatened to be sold in 1882 Mr. Odell assumed financial responsibility; in 1904 he helped Miss Nannie Lee Smith, the Joan D ' Arc of Greensboro College, start an endowment fund. Finally on April 15, 1919, Mr. Odell gave the college $100,000 to be used in the construction of an auditorium and conservatory building. Odell Memorial Auditorium has been used in the past for the Opening and Closing Aca- demic Convocations, and presently for senior recitals. Commencement, Cap Gown, the Womanless Beauty Pageant, and all the music classes. Our Student Service Building has not always been the home of the Dean of Student Affairs, Job Location 8c Devel- opment, Job Planning 8c Placement, Secretary to the Dean, and the office of Miss Sellers; in fact it has not al- ways been called Student Services. This building, erect- ed in 1939, was called the Aurelia Bowman Gray Student Hospital. She was a student here in 1863 when the college was destroyed by fire. The Odell Memorial Auditorium — built 1922 hospital was built so there could be a separate building housed with a permanent registered nurse. In the sum- mer of 1975 Dean Donald Gunn moved the Dean of Stu- dents Office to this building and renamed it the Student Services Building. Dean Fran- ces Efird is the Dean now and she will be moving to Main Building to make room for the Athletic Field. Goodbye Stu- dent Services, it won ' t be the same without you!!. Student Services Building — built 1939 Hey. its the Big Spender: