1926 Cedrus Yearbook

1gEDRus •.1926 The Alford Memorial Gymnasium In 1902 Mr. W.J. Alford, Sr., presented to Cedarville College the church build- ing of the Reformed Presbyterian congregation (General Synod), which was occu- pied by that congregation from 1853 to 1901. This building was given by the donor as a memorial to his parents—the late Reverend John Alford, D.D., and Mrs. Mary B. Alford. Last November Mr. W.J. Alford, Sr., gave the College twenty thousand dolla rs to remodel and expand the building. Additions will be made on the north and south side, and the building will be extended on the east end. The old vestibule partition will be taken down; exits will be made on the north and south sides in addition to the one in the front. A new front will be erected for entrance and ticket room. The playing floor for basketball will be seventy-five by forty-two feet. A stage will be erected in the east end of the building; in the northeast cor- ner dressing rooms for home and visiting teams of the girls, and shower baths, will be put in; in the southeast corner of the building a kitchen will be put in; and in the basement dressing rooms for home and visiting teams of the boys; and the furnace room. The seating arrangements for games will be on the north and south sides, and will accommodate about eight hundred persons; and, when the building is used for commencement occasions, the basketball floor will give an additional seating capacity of two or three hundred. The building will be stuccoed on the outside, and a new lighting and water system will be installed throughout. It will be one of the most beautiful and capacious buildings of its kind in this part of Ohio. Page Seventy-six — _ — \ .. \