Lycoming College - Lycoming College Campus - Past and Present

Aerial view of the Lycoming College campus in the mid-1950s. The large building, front left, behind the trees, is Old Main. To its right is Bradley Hall. The Clarke Building and Chapel is behind Old Main and Bradley Hall. To the left of Clarke Chapel and behind Old Main is Hilltop Gymnasium. Behind the gymnasium is Rich Hall, the building with the columns. Rich Hall was a womens dormitory. The white buildings in the center back of the photo are the president's house (smaller building) and the Fine Arts Building. Across the Quad from Rich Hall is the John W. Long Library, and Wesley Hall is to its left if you are facing the library. A parking lot is beside the library , and the odd-shaped building across the parking lot and in front of Bradley Hall by the railroad tracks is the Old Science Building, part of the former Flock Brewery.

View looking south across The Quad from Washington Boulevard toward Clarke Chapel, Hilltop Gymnasium and Old Main. On back: 'Dickinson Junior College Buildings from Washington Boulevard. Published Oct 13 1946.'

Campus view looking south, peering through the columns of the veranda of Old Fine Arts Center building. Across The Quad, the Clarke Building and Chapel is on the left, and the building with the cupola is Old Main.

Ceremonial ground breaking for the Heim Building held on April 22nd, 1988. Pictured L to R- R. Shangraw, Dr. D. Franz, M. Walters, E. Schuster, M. Griese, Dr. R. Angstadt, C. Hayes, President F. Blumer, Dr. W. G. McKenney.

View of the entrance to the Clarke Chapel looking from between Old Main and Bradley Hall. The fire escapes from Old Main are at the left. The Clarke Building was built in 1939. From the Bulletin of Williamsport Dickinson Seminary and Junior College, Vol. XXII, No. 5, November 1939: 'Historical Statement: Miss Martha B. Clarke and her three brothers were students in Williamsport Dickinson Seminary. Upon the death of her brother, Hopewell Clarke, Miss Clarke received a large part of his estate. It was his intention to erect in Williamsport a building to be known as the Clarke Memorial in memory of his parents. [Miss Clarke] made provision in her will for a Memorial building, giving a large part of her estate to Williamsport Dickinson Seminary for thie purpose. This building, the corner stone of which is laid today, is the Clarke Memorial …'

Groups of students dine at round tables in Clarke Chapel's dining hall, which was located where music classrooms are now. Diners, dressed in sports jackets and ties, or dresses, were served by student waiters. Crumbies, women students with brushes and trays, scraped the tablecloths after the meal. This information is from remarks by John Hollenback on the 25th anniversary of the Wertz Student Center, which was built in 1969. Its dining halls replaced the cafeteria in the Clarke Building.

Clarke Chapel interior looking toward the stage. Rows of pews have attached racks for humnals. Lights hang from the ceiling. Dark maroon drapes frame the arched stage area.

Attached to this photograph is the following typed paragraph: Williamsport Dickinson is proud of the fact that it is owned and operated by the Central Pennsylvania Conference of the Methodist Church. The Methodists purchased the school in 1848, twenty-one years before the Central Pennsylvania Conference was established. Bishop Edwin Holt Hughes (picture) delivered the Michael Bond Rich lectures in Clarke Chapel as shown above.

Aerial view of the construction site of Person Field as construction is just beginning.

A close-up view of the platform at the Hilltop Gym Cornerstone Ceremony. Pictured are Dr. Long and two other gentlemen. The one man appears to be setting the cornerstone in place.

Samuel H. Evert from Lycoming College Board of Trustees, W. Gibbs McKenney the Chairman Emeritus of the Board of Trustees of Lycoming College, and Dr. Frederick E. Blumer the President of Lycoming College are pictured laying the cornerstone for the Lamade Gymnasium.

A male student sits at the top of the concrete stairway leading to Crever Hall. The residence hall for women was completed in 1962. The dormitory was named in honor of Dr. Benjamin Crever, who was responsible for the development of the Williamsport Academy, the predecessor of Williamsport Dickinson Seminary. Dr. Crever's wife and daughter were members of the first Seminary faculty. The Seminary later became Williamsport Dickinson Seminary and Junior College, and became a four-year institution, Lycoming College, in 1948.