Grace To Dedicate Indiana Hall This Weekend
July 28, 2016 at 4:25 p.m.
WINONA LAKE - Saturday will be a busy day as Grace College hosts homecoming activities for alumni, family and friends.
Festivities will start early Saturday, at 8:45 a.m., with a presidential breakfast in Alpha Dining Hall. The distinguished alumni of the year award will be presented at the breakfast.
One of the highlights of the day will be the official dedication of Grace's newest building on campus, Indiana Hall, at 10:15 a.m.
Indiana Hall, a 41,000-square-foot office building and dormitory, took almost a year and more than $3.7 million to build. It was completed in August and houses offices for student life, academic counseling, career services, financial aid, registrar and business.
Wings on both ends provide housing for approximately 100 students - men on one side and women on the other.
The building, said John R. Boal, chief advancement officer for Grace College and Seminary, was mostly financed with a grant from Lilly Endowment Inc. "The purpose of the grant was to see Indiana students graduate from Indiana colleges, and get them to stay in Indiana after they graduate," Boal said.
With that goal in mind, the dormitories in Indiana Hall will house incoming freshmen from Indiana, he said.
The offices that moved into the building were previously located in other areas of the campus, he said.
"To visit those offices you had to go to four or five buildings," he said.
Saturday's dedication will feature a ribbon-cutting by Jim Swanson, dean of students, and Ron Manahan, president of Grace.
After the Indiana Hall dedication, athletic events will take place throughout the day. Alumni will take on the Lancers in basketball at 10:45 a.m. and in baseball at 11 a.m.
The women's soccer team will play Trinity Christian at 1 p.m.; the baseball team will play the Mariners at 1:30 p.m.; and the Lancer baseball team will hold a youth outreach program at Miller Field Saturday starting at 7:30 a.m.
For more information on the athletic programs, contact the Grace Athletic Office at 372-5100, Ext. 6166.
At 5 p.m. in Westminster Hall the classes of 1955, 1960, 1965, 1970, 1975, 1980, 1985, 1990 and 1995 will hold class reunions. Following the reunions will be a praise service, "Celebrating Grace, at 7:30 p.m. in Rodeheaver Auditorium.
The alumni drama production this year will be "The Man Who Came To Dinner," which is scheduled for Philathea Little Theatre tonight and Friday at 7:30 p.m., Saturday at 1 and 4:30 p.m. and Sunday at 2 p.m. Tickets are available at the Grace Campus Store in McClain Hall.
A complete schedule for homecoming can be found on the Grace Web site at www.grace.edu or from the Grace Alumni Office at 372-5100, Ext. 6122. [[In-content Ad]]
WINONA LAKE - Saturday will be a busy day as Grace College hosts homecoming activities for alumni, family and friends.
Festivities will start early Saturday, at 8:45 a.m., with a presidential breakfast in Alpha Dining Hall. The distinguished alumni of the year award will be presented at the breakfast.
One of the highlights of the day will be the official dedication of Grace's newest building on campus, Indiana Hall, at 10:15 a.m.
Indiana Hall, a 41,000-square-foot office building and dormitory, took almost a year and more than $3.7 million to build. It was completed in August and houses offices for student life, academic counseling, career services, financial aid, registrar and business.
Wings on both ends provide housing for approximately 100 students - men on one side and women on the other.
The building, said John R. Boal, chief advancement officer for Grace College and Seminary, was mostly financed with a grant from Lilly Endowment Inc. "The purpose of the grant was to see Indiana students graduate from Indiana colleges, and get them to stay in Indiana after they graduate," Boal said.
With that goal in mind, the dormitories in Indiana Hall will house incoming freshmen from Indiana, he said.
The offices that moved into the building were previously located in other areas of the campus, he said.
"To visit those offices you had to go to four or five buildings," he said.
Saturday's dedication will feature a ribbon-cutting by Jim Swanson, dean of students, and Ron Manahan, president of Grace.
After the Indiana Hall dedication, athletic events will take place throughout the day. Alumni will take on the Lancers in basketball at 10:45 a.m. and in baseball at 11 a.m.
The women's soccer team will play Trinity Christian at 1 p.m.; the baseball team will play the Mariners at 1:30 p.m.; and the Lancer baseball team will hold a youth outreach program at Miller Field Saturday starting at 7:30 a.m.
For more information on the athletic programs, contact the Grace Athletic Office at 372-5100, Ext. 6166.
At 5 p.m. in Westminster Hall the classes of 1955, 1960, 1965, 1970, 1975, 1980, 1985, 1990 and 1995 will hold class reunions. Following the reunions will be a praise service, "Celebrating Grace, at 7:30 p.m. in Rodeheaver Auditorium.
The alumni drama production this year will be "The Man Who Came To Dinner," which is scheduled for Philathea Little Theatre tonight and Friday at 7:30 p.m., Saturday at 1 and 4:30 p.m. and Sunday at 2 p.m. Tickets are available at the Grace Campus Store in McClain Hall.
A complete schedule for homecoming can be found on the Grace Web site at www.grace.edu or from the Grace Alumni Office at 372-5100, Ext. 6122. [[In-content Ad]]