Wheaton College - Nike Yearbook (Norton, MA)

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Hf ili Hf i I HH} f H j H) Hi if f iL STUDENT ALUMNAE BUILDING BALFOUR- HOOD CENTER (1940): Built with funds raised by alumnae and students beginning in 1928, this building was the first of truly modern design on campus. Plimpton Hall, one wing of SAB, was the gift of Herbert M. Plimpton, of the Plimpton Press in Norwood Ma. and a trustee for 28 years, in memory of his mother, Priscilla Guild Lewis Plimpton WI835. SAB was altered in 1968- 69. A Sesquicentennial project to modernize and expand this building filled in the courtyard with an atrium, and joined SAB to the Admis- sions Center and the Loft. Plimpton Hall was turned into office space for various student activities and the balcony end became the Me- dia Center. The Trustees named it the Balfour- Hood Center on 30 May 1986 in honor of Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Balfour and the Gilbert Hood family (Trustee and alumnae wife and daugh- ter) as a result of two major donations to the project from the Balfour Foundation and Emily Hood WI953. The Balfour-Hood Center was dedicated on 8 Nov. 1986 on Mothers’ Weekend.

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THE CAGE THE LOFT (1935): low- er level addition to the Doll’s House, originally built as a gym. It became a snack bar in 1963. Remodelled in the summer of 1980 and now called “The Lol POTATOE CELLAR (ca. 1936): constructed to store large quan- tities of potatoes raised on col- lege land in the mid 1930s.

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PEACOCK POND BRIDGE (1957): De- signed by Howard L. Rich, Rich Tucker Assoc., this cement and brick bridge re- placed the wooden bridge built in the 1930s. The location was shifted north from its original location closer to the rocks. U.S. POST OFFICE (1957): Built of Wheaton land with Wheaton funds, and leased to the U. S. Postal Service. Until this time, the town’s post office had been in Pratt’s Store. The building was doubled in size in 1968-69.