Lebanon Valley College - Quittapahilla Yearbook (Annville, PA)

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Our Gym HE opening of college this past September was looked forward to with more J than ordinary interest. Through the farsightedness and generosity of the Alumni old L. V. was capable of many things unheard of in the history of the school. These students of former years dreamed of the time when the athletic privileges offered at Lebanon Valley would be on a par with those at sister colleges. They in their student days planned vaguely how a Football team could be put on the field which would battle successfully against rivals. In pipe dreams, visions came to them of the time when their Basket-ball squad could practice without being put to such great disadvantage, and when every branch of true college athletics could be taken up with vigor. The one thing needed was a Gymnasium. This, the Alumni saw and combining their energies they gave to old Alma Mater that which would tend to establish athletics and do more than anything else to put Lebanon Valley on the map. Space which had never been utilized, although well heated and lighted, was put into use. Thus the basement of the Administration building was transformed into Locker rooms, apparatus rooms, bath rooms, and rooms suitable for the playing of various athletic games. The floor of two class rooms occupying the south end of building was torn away, thus allowing space sufficient for the playing of basket-ball and for gymnasium exercises in general. Over seven thousand square feet of floor space is occupied by departments of the gymnasium, less than two thousand of which had never been in use for a?iy purpose. The space occupied includes eight rooms and a hall. THE GYMNASIUM ROOM includes basket-ball floor and balcony track. The ceiling is twenty-two feet above the floor, the floor is of the best hard maple laid on a sub-floor of softer wood which is laid on three by four hemlock studs set in solid concrete. The wood floors are separated from the concrete by a moisture proof prepara- tion. The floor has been worked and oiled with great care so as to make it durable and suitable for fast work in Basket-ball. The walls for five feet above the floor have been wainscoated with yellow pine finished and varnished in the natural color. The walls above have been painted white. The balcony track is eleven feet above the basket-ball floor and is five feet wide covered with a special quality of cork linoleum. The walls above the track are covered with green burlap to the chair board above which they are white. The balcony is surrounded by a heavy iron railing and will accom- modate about three hundred spectators during games. Besides the gallery benches for spectators there are portable bleachers on the main floor under the ends of the gallery, which will accommodate about one hundred persons.