Lycoming College - Lycoming College Campus - Past and Present

Lycoming College President D. Frederick Wertz addresses the crowd at the groundbreaking ceremony for the Academic Center. Rich Hall, a women's dormitory names in honor of the Rich family, is in the background. The Academic Center was part of the Lycoming College Project. Four buildings were planned for the land acquired from the Williamsport Redevelopment Authority. The description description that follows is based on a Williamsport Sun-Gazette article dated March 14, 1965. The four buildings in the project would be connected and face Ross Street, with entrances on all sides. The facility would have a theater, laboratories, faculty offices, and library. Wagner and Hartman Associates, the architects, designed all units to be constructed of glass and architectural concrete, which was different from the colonial style buildings on the rest of the campus. Parking lots were planned for the area of Little League Boulevard and Mulberry Street.

Fred A. Pennington takes his turn in the groundbreaking ceremony for the Academic Center. Pennington Lounge in the Academic Center bears his name, honoring him and his wife, Betty. A native of Millville, Pa., Mr. Pennington was a 1932 graduate of the college, and a member of the College's Board of Trustees for thirty-nine years. He served as chairman from 1964-76. Many of the College's buildings were constructed during this time, and the Academic Center was planned and built.

Architect's scale model of the Lycoming College Campus in 1968, most likely before the construction of the Academic Center. The top of this photograph is the south. At the top right of the layout is the Academic Center, which faces the parking lot on the south. To the left, across the street, is Hilltop Gymnasium. Across from the gym is Old Main. Left of Old Main is Bradley Hall. To its southeast is the Old Science Building. To the left of the gym is the Clarke Building and Chapel. Between Bradley Hall and the Chapel is Memorial Hall. Behind Memorial Hall is a dormitory, Skeath Hall. Another dormitory, Asbury Hall, is across from Skeath at the left of the photo. In front of Crever Hall is Long Hall, the buiding with the white clock tower. Long Hall faces the Quad, the large, open area. Next to it is Wesley Hall, a dormitory. On the corner next to Wertz is East Hall dormitory. West of East Hall on the corner are the Fine Arts Building and the President's house. Across from the President's House is a dormitory, Williams Hall. Next to Williams Hall is another dormitory, Crever Hall. Across the street from Williams Hall and Crever Hall is Wertz Student Center. Next to Wertz, the building with the white cupola, is Rich Hall, another dormitory.

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 the the athletic field and bleachers c.1920, with male and female athletes on the field. It looks like a baseball game may be in progress. Males are dressed in casual clothing; one male is wearing shorts. The females are wearing white blouses and long, dark skirts. The backs of the Barn, Old Main and Bradley Hall can be seen behind the fleld. Duplicate of 784BNG and 803BNG .

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.'

Children assist in the groundbreaking ceremony for the Academic Center at Lycoming College, as R. Andrew Lady, Assistant to the President, looks on. Rich Hall, a residence hall, is in the background.

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.

Four views of students' rooms in Old Main, showing period furniture, draperies, and the students' decorative touches. Three photos show female students studying and writing.

Lycoming College student Barry Goldman writes while lying on his bed in his East Hall dormitory room.