Soochow University - Annual Yearbook (Taipei, Taiwan)

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families among the faculty and administrative staff. p 'A third major building program -was initiaied in the spring of 1964, which was just ten years after the school's regsitration with the Ministry of Education. This represented the resumption of work for the completion of the Student Center, after an interruption of five years, and the culmination of the peans for an appropriate memorial to the late Bishop Ralph A. Ward. Tl1e Student Center, which with equal reason could be called Alumni Hall , was designed at first so that the second floor could serve both as auditorium and gymnasium. Thendining room, and kitchen occupied the ground floor. ,In 1931 the expanding needs for space necessitated the removal- of the library collection from the main classroom building to the auditorium-where the space was shared for more than two years. This in turn brought to an end the former practice of using the place for gymnastics, iivhich thereeafter were assigned to the athletics field. It was doubly welcome, therefore, when Dr. Stone announced in the spring of 1931 that' the Hong Kong alumni had contributed money enough to complete the Student Center, which had been left unfinished since 1959. Q 4 The addition of the wings , as planned originally, has made possible several new offices, the dressing rooms off-stage, the postoffice and proje:-tionbooth, a sizeable conference room, the remodeling of the kitchen, the enlargement of the dining room, and the provision of a wide stairway leading up from the main entrance to the auditorium. ' U Several years prior to this time, Bishop Ward had passed away rather suddenly in Hong Kong, December 11, 1958. This unexpected news was met by a spontaneous contribution of funds friends in America, for a memorial to his missionary career in,China. This was to be a part of the University, since his latter years were dovoted so tirelessly and with such vision to the transplanted institution which was evolving hopefully in its new island home. Later it was agreed to build a chapel, since there was no me111-Jrialii111o1'e fitting as tribute to Bishop 'Ward,s life than a place of worship on a collegecampus. ln the end Ward Hall was designed as a dual-purpose structure, with one part as a temporary library the symbol of the educated mind- - and the orher part, a chapel- the symbol of the aspiring spiririt, - the brilding being so located that all who came into the ,Wai Shu.ang',Hsi Valley could see and recognize the tower and cross, as the symbolic representation of the nature and centrality ii :' iamin 'Y whirl A Qs- A ji 1, ' 1 ,T 4 ' M1215 ' - he i H, ' ,. ga . 1 .eneizizz ,iw .. 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'Werner all of the buildin0's were included in a p 3 ca dedication to Christian education, and the main structures were offially named: ' ' were Hall qcrapei and Libraryp ge gp Academic Building if-D Student Center Cejeiigffjflefcgj 'With the interior sections bearing the names related to the principal donors: Auditorium C525 ,qiejjgj East 'W ing 1 'West Wing Diningroom Soochow University has been fortunate in Hsien ch'en T'ing Yu T'-ang T'ing Citi Xi QED .Kong Yu T'ing Cie CE? Ji jjgy T 1i Yu T'inf1' 'A' o obtaining the services of leading scholars to teach all branches and comparative law, and such other subjects as economics, political science, accounting, Chinese language and literature, and foreign languages and literarure. ln laying plans for the future of the institution.,-in the Board of Trnstees of the University, and the Board of Missions of the Methodist Church in New York, jointly conducted a survey of the University in its entirety as a basis for an evaluation of the resorces ,of the institution in relation to the scope and direction of its development. The Survey Team was made up of three distinguished educators, two from the United States,a Chinese professor and an American educational administrator and one Chinese professor from Taiwan. A large part of the month of July, 1962, was spent on the campus for an intimate look at Qtfie school with its varous functions, and with its legitimate needs. 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