Lycoming College - Lycoming College Campus - Past and Present

View of the back of Asbury Hall on the Lycoming College campus. Asbury, an H-shaped building on Franklin Street, was built in 1962 to house 154 male students, plus a resident advisor, or in the absence of a resident advisor, for chapel speakers and other guests of the college. In 1968, it was made a male, freshmen residence hall, with a dean available on the first floor. Due to an overflow of women students in 1971, a section of the building was used for housing women, although the building was not co-ed. Asbury Hall was named in honor of Bishop Francis Asbury, the father of The United Methodist Church in America. He was a bishop in the Susquehanna Valley in 1912, when the Williamsport Academy, the institution from which Lycoming College got its roots, was formed.

View of East Hall Fraternity Residence. The residence is divided into five sections, each housing one of the national fraternities on campus. The ground floor is a large social area, shared by the Greek organizations. Each unit has rooms for twenty-four residents, a lounge, and chapter room. The exterior is Georgian Colonial design. Entrances to fraternity units are from archways located in the front and back of the building.

Print of a John De Pol wood engraving of Old Main. This print is from a limited edition collection of six prints commissioned by Lycoming College. The West Wing of Old Main was built in 1839, the East Wing in 1850. The center section was added in 1855, and became six stories of faculty and administrative offices. Old Main functioned as residence hall, classrooms, administrative building and chapel combined. It was demolished in 1968. The former site is occupied by Lamade Gymnasium.

Print of a John De Pol wood engraving of John Wesley. This print is from a limited edition collection of six prints commissioned by Lycoming College. Wesley Hall, a residence hall on the Lycoming College campus, is named in his honor. John Wesley was originally a priest of the Church of England and a member of the group know as the Oxford Methodists. The group was organized for study and communion, and later became a philanthropic and evangelical group. He traveled to North America to do missionary work, settling in Georgia for a time, and then returning to England. He was affirmed as head of all Methodist congregations in 1744, and was a circuit preacher mostly in northern England and Ireland, and a prolific writer of histories, and biblical commentaries, as well as compiling an English dictionary and, with his brother, publishing twenty-three collections of hymns. As a preacher, he attracted large congregations of people, even when in his late seventies. He presided over the annual conferences at which the preachers were selected, and began 'ordaining' preachers to work in America. He is considered the father of American Methodism. 'John Wesley.' Historic World Leaders. Gale Research, 1994. Reproduced in Biography Resource Center. Farmington Hills, Mich.: Thomson Gale. 2006. http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/BioRC.