Cedarville Magazine, Summer 2014

32 | Cedarville Magazine 2014 CEDARVILLE SCHOLARSHIP GOLF OPEN Presented by The Golf Open was a huge success, raising more than $75,000 for scholarships! Golf Sponsors Advanced International Marketing Applied Mechanical Systems Dynamix Engineering Ltd. Paul J. Ford and Company Tournament Sponsors Pioneer Food Service Lou Vision, Vice President-Investments Raymond James & Associates Inc. Corporate Team Sponsors Danis Greene Memorial Hospital Soin Medical Center Heapy Engineering Highland Consulting McAfee Heating and Air Conditioning Prairie Farms Dairy Urbancrest Baptist Church Voss Toyota/Scion Cedarville is grateful for Fifth Third and our many community partners who support our students: So Long, Collins Hall Collins Hall, the fourth oldest building on Cedarville’s campus, was demolished on June 9. The building was constructed in 1923 to be a science hall. It was last renovated in 1975 and has since housed faculty offices for education, business, psychology, social sciences, and communications (including the WSRN student radio station). Most recently it was home to the Department of History and Government. There are currently no plans to build a new facility on that site. A number of complications led to the Board of Trustees voting to raze the split-level building rather than proceed with a costly renovation. According to Rod Johnson, Associate Vice President for Operations, all building codes would have had to be updated, including fire suppression systems and Americans with Disabilities Act-compliant requirements. “By the time all of this work would have been done, it would have cost nearly as much as a new facility,” Johnson said, “and we would still have a building with a 90-year-old infrastructure, nothing original on the exterior, and a layout that is not conducive to active use due to the large staircase that effectively split the building in two. For all of these reasons, the Board of Trustees made the decision to raze the building rather than attempt to renovate it again.” The building was named in 1975 for Andrew and Mary Collins, lifetime Cedarville residents. All eight of the Collins children graduated fromCedarville College between 1916 and 1931, and they provided the funds to renovate the building. The University contacted the Collins family about razing the building and gave them the marble stone engraved with the family name. The University also saved the limestone centerpiece with the word “SCIENCE” on it and will incorporate it into this summer’s renovation of the Service Center into the science center, which will house student labs. Facebook photos of the demolition sparked both fond memories and sadness for the loss of this piece of Cedarville history. Tom Leightenheimer ’97 “From the top of Collins Hall, to the bottom of your dial. We are the light of Cedarville College. AM 530, WSRN.” Stacy (Muller) Tupps ’91 My very first class at Cedarville was in that building. Speech 101 with Diane Merchant! 9 a.m., Fall Quarter 1987! Diane Merchant My first office was in that building ... I will miss the view of the magnolia blossoms in the spring outside my window. Dustin Martin ’96 I can remember many a mad dash from chapel to Collins because the cast list for a play was to be posted at that time. Jill (Swayze) McClain ’87 The cheapest pop machine was located in the basement of Collins for years. Great business/ accounting classes in that building! Nancy (Hall) DeValve ’81 So many classes in that building … Kevin Sims ’74 The night of the Xenia Tornado, they brought us in from the dorms, and we spent the night there. Sixteen years later, I came back as a faculty member. The office I slept in that night became my office. Tim Moore ’80 Jimmy Mac’s office, Jim Grier’s office, Murray Murdock’s office. Jacob Layer ’13 So will end a legend. Now about that new History and Government building … Penni (Fulkerson) Litwiller ’97 So sad! But hopefully the history department can get out of the basement now! Jon Collins ’05 This Collins is sad to see it go.