Guilford College - Quaker Yearbook (Greensboro, NC)

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By that time the institution which had begun in 1834 as New Garden Boarding Scliool had become Guilford College. But in 1885 it was still Friend ' s School in North Carolina and faced the task of replacing what had been one of the only two school build- ings. The response was ambitious; they carried the bricks from the first King Hall down the lull towards the front of campus and shaped them into a new building. Later officially named Archdale. they first called it Phoenix Hall because it had arisen from the ashes. Another King Hall was built to serve dual duty as a library and classroom building only to he again demolished by fire m 1 08. Of the several fires that Guilford has endured those that erupt- ed this year were the most difficult to fathom. The fire m Mary Hobbs attic was the first and most damaging of six arsonist ' s blazes discovered in the early winter of 1976. But Mary Hobbs Hall had already, that year faced and overconn another danger which would have ended the tradition begun in Shack Row. College officials feared that Hobb ' s would have to go the way of Archdale-to be condemned as living quarters and converted to office space, turned out to the academic pasture of faculty office buildings. They decided instead that the spirit ol ' co-operation that Hohbs embodies should be preserved in a re- novated form. A new roof was installed early this summer. The dorm win- dows are gone now. What remains, fortunately is the spirit of in- dividual effort and communal enterprise that began nearly a 100 years ago when two Guilford students carried an abandoned porch roof down the hill to a stand of wliite oaks.

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