William Jewell College - Tatler Yearbook (Liberty, MO)

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? f gf, 1' f 1 lrt of fight- thusi- zaring melong l ever built zlowj, stood ith of red in l very e. New E61 Retaining the honored name of Ely from its predecessor, New Ely was built as a boys' dormi- tory in IQII to afford more adequate accommo- dations for the students of William Iewell, who were, at that time, all boys. It was a place to call home during the school year, where the boys spent much of their time, sleeping, eating, studying, and making friends. Rivalry among the residents of the different Hoors, bull sessions,', big parties, loud masculine voices down the halls, were all a part of the year that each boy remembered after- ward with a pang of regret that he was no longer a part of it. In December, I942, however, the occupants of New Ely were asked to leave the dormitory and find rooms in town in order that the Naval cadets might have living quarters. So New Ely became a ship,' and on its decks', uniformed men walked and talked, slept and studied. Changes, neverthe- less, no matter how large, can never quite remove from a building its history, its recollections of by- gone days and so it is with New Ely, especially because her recollections are not all that is left to her, there is the certain knowledge that her boys will return again to pursue their liberal education, that the uniforms will be replaced by individual- istic civilian dress, that longer years of service to Iewell,s sons lie ahead of her than behind. With this assurance, the dormitory accepts the adopted sons of the campus, welcomes them because they remind her of her own, for whose homecoming she is waiting and preparing. 5 NX an 4 11,1-,dj ,pchlfpgf 5071611711017 ff 015 4011111101012 A.. I I --gr--r 'f ...lg- -L -1?-4.5 G -1'-ix Fifteen

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Old En The second building. to be erected on William Iewellls campus, Old Ely served faithfull y as a boys' dormitory from 1881 until New Ely was built, capable of housing the entire student body. When the boys moved from Old Ely, she became the forgotten ladyv of the Hill. Many of the rooms were used for storage space, and downstairs the Public Relations Office was located, but her old place of ' importance had been taken from her. She lived almost alone with her memories of the ast ' p until the Naval school came to the Wil- liam Iewell campus in 1 943, when she underwent a rejuvenation process and also became a ushipn with her sister dormitories, occupied by regimented, unif ormed cadets of the Navy V r -5 p ogram. At the present a tailoring establishment and sick bay Sixteen are located on the first floor of Qld Ely and the two upper stories are empty again since the num- b f er 0 cadets has been reduced, but she has proved that her time of usefulness has not passed, that h . s e is capable of serving the school of which she is one of the oldest parts. From the time of her construction in 188 1 until 1890, Old Ely was able to provide lodging for all the students of the college who required it, but in that year three frame cottages were erected to the east of the college to house the overflow of student . I s n 1911 when New Ely was built, Old Ely ceased to serve as a dormit ory and until recently had been neglected. Standing there now, however, across the walk from the library, Old Ely, with her advanced age and honored history arouses the respect and love of all the student bodies, past and present. JM D4 rose camp ditior liam Q men, part i Opene educa first 1 ment for tl home built helpei ditior respo. '52, Y ' -W f Af-fr 'T ,if . if KW 1- l 5 , , 5 T i ,, -,714 ilf 1, ja, i' 3 .. V .l ' X2 iq'