Washington College - Pegasus Yearbook (Chestertown, MD)

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FOXWELL DORMITORY Tfie stages set .. . During the last two years, two new buildings have been erected on the college campus. The first building to be completed was Foxwell Dormitory. Half of the money for this $40,000 building was left to the college bock In 1939 by the will of arrett Foxwell, prominent Kent County political, agricultural, and civic leader, th additional money the one-story block-brick veneer edifice was constructed on CarrWis Avenue. The dormitory has facilities for housing forty-three male students. It wos mpleted in the fall of 1949 and was occupied last year, serving mainly as a freshmai Plans for ffl ons+ruction of another men ' s dormitory on the triangle north of the tennis courts weN nnounced by Dr. Mead in October of 1945. It was hoped that the building would b MJycompleted by 1950. With the offer of $50,000 from the Hodson Trust, Dr. Mead sea) Lesti motes of building costs at various times, and in the summer of 1948 he appeale hi te Hodson Trustees for funds. Conse- quently, at the fall meeting in October, 1948, ffi i f Visitors and Governors formally accepted the tender of $100,000 from the trustes J|£ Hodson trust, under the conditions specified for the construction of Somerset Hous memorial. The three story brick dormitory holds forty-five boys with a suite, bedr adjoining study room for each three students. It was completed in February, I ' at a cost of $200,000 and was occupied the following fall.

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