The Ohio Independent Baptist, March 1963

ap,dly Increasing Enrollment Requiring Broad Expan ion Of Facilities At Cedarville College \ t1,, lf-111i lli, 11 llollnrs 11.\, l1~c1l I 'Ill 11 t ll' \' l t1 il~i i11g, i11 tl,c l.1,l .., 11 , c, r .it rt lr,,illc olltg .. l1c1 c. • t igt1ri11g i11 llll' ~1111, 1,t "' ,,1111lclctl g\ ,,, ~ 11.i, l Il l . 1\ tl (lthcr ~,t1111atcll l1~1lt -1111ll - 1, n 11 .,~ l ct11 ,pc11l c..111 cnlargi11g i1rc\ c11 l ,t r l l ' lllrl'' ' btt) i 11g 11 far 111 ;1r1c..l t,, t h l l t11c~• •\ ~ "' ('f\.ttng l~) r . Ja111c, J erc- 111i,1h I re tlic11t . H~ c pla11ll:ll the bt11ltlang J)fOJC t\ ,, crt~ ne c,,ar) t e atl~t: l t tl1e in– ~rca~111g tt1J nt nr lln1ent. ince 19 .. J. enr lln1ent has lea1) d fro111 4 ~ 1 ~ tt1denl" to 455 in ept.. 19(12. Dt1r111g th1 pert J three llorn1i t rie ,, ~re httil t to hott"e 224 tt1dent ·. and a "'On1bination, g) n1. banltLtet hall. re~r atior1 ro m . snack bar and book t0re 1, near on1pletion. ectt n · f the latter building are in t1 c. The ba ketball floor ha. been t i. cd b) che \ ar it~· squad and g n1 cla se f r appr i n1a tel)' i week , ,, hile another room i being u ed for a la roon1 . The g}' 111 i bt1i lt to ac– con1n1odate _,000 per on , although all of the fold-away eat have not been in ' talled. When the en tire tructure i .. fin- 1 hed, the book tore lounge and nack bar will be moved into it from thetr pre ent location in Willian1 Patter on Men dormitory, which "'a con1pleted in 1959. Thi move will enable the college co hou e more men in the dormitory and al o e t up an infirmary for the rudent body. Pre ent plan cal l for an addition to the William Patter on dorn11tor,·. Dr . Jeremiah tated. ~ In order the facilitate the expan- ion. the board of tru tee authorized the purchase of the Roy Waddle farm c.:,f 8 n r --s. I 1ca tc i r1ext to the ca,11- l'tt, I ·o l\\ rc\ tllcntial h n1c~ , 're f"ltrcl1a,cll for re 1,lcncc t1all\ an t a lllll~l ~ uepa rt111cnt . I r1 tl1cr ta~k~ ltndcrtake al by the l1 ard in the la ·t ~c en vear , the .. afet ri <l and Milner c l1apcl have bec11 enlargcd1 while the a<lmi11i tra tio n bttilding. Old Main. ha been reno– va ted . An tl1er addi tion i planned for the af t ria. Auditorium-chapel An ir1tere ·ting tory n the 75-year– old can1pL1 i ' the conversion of Al – fo rd Memorial ymna ium into a chapel . The liberal art chool has not had a chapel large enough to hold it tudent body, except on the old g)' rn floor . Thi required putting up chair and a tage and then removing them for phy ical education. With the completion of the gym, the older building will become the Alford Memorial Auditorium-Chapel with permanent eating and tage. Milner Chapel will be remodeled for cla room . The old gym building erected in 1853 was pre ented to the college trustee in 1902 by W. J. Alford to be u ed a a gymnasium. Formerly it was the Reformed Pre byterian Church and i the olde t building on campu . Another new fea ture of the col – lege i it FM radio tation (WCDR), operated on a frequency of 81.1 megacycles for educational purpo e by tudent . In addi tion to this the college ha program on three or four o ther radio tation . "I he 1,re. cnl ~,r cas f co11ccr r1 for c ll lcge t t ic1ul!-t are tl1c cafctcria anc1 lihrary. Ace rdir1g l the prcsillcnt, ~tudcnl e11ro l1111cn t has alrl!ady t tt – gro\.vn the e11l argcd cafe teria a11d • tud– ent are eating i 11 ,haft'i. Bt1t the planned addition I c peeled to solve thi problem . "fhe library, a gift of Antlrew arnegae permanently helve 17 000 volume 239 periodical and refer– ence work . By an arrangemen t with reene County Library, the faculty and tudents al o have acces to abou t J 00,000 volume in Xenia and branch librarie . The e book are ent to Cedarville by r eque t. Additional book are being added dail y to the library, but official want to increa e the number of book many time . Endowment Fund One of the college's goal i mem– bership in North Central A sociation of Secondary Schools and College , but the main road to it i blocked by Jack of a $500,000 endowment fund. The pre ident explained that the college had to buiJd dormitories and other buildings needed repair. These things had to be done before saving for an endowment fund, although the latter i progres ing. The chool i approved by the General Association of Regular Bapti t Churches, which supplie the large t amount of work– ing capital, but the school is actually a private organization. Outside o f the Bapti t Church donation , the college depends on individual giving. Although the choo1 i not a North Central member, tudents can transfer • • • Eighty acres in which to expand Page 10, MARCH, 1963 THE OHIO INDEPENDENT BAPTIST