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REPORT OF PROGRESS TO FRIENDS OF EDUCATION
Vol. III Sioux Falls, S. D. Fall, 1957 No. 2
FEDERAL LOAN FOR COMMONS BUILDING
Approval of a loan in the amount of half a million dollars
to Augustana for a Commons Building was announced early in
August by the Community Facilities Administration of the Fed-eral
Housing and Home Finance Agency. The loan was granted
on the terms of a forty-year amortization period with interest at
2 3/4 percent. A number of preliminary details remain to be worked
out before building plans are completed and approved and con-struction
can begin.
The College must raise about $200,000.00 in addition to this loan
in order to erect and furnish a structure adequate for the services
such a building should provide.
The largest area will be used for dining facilities. Besides the
cafeteria, there will be a number of dining rooms where table
service can be had, altogether with seating for six hundred. An
additional snack bar accommodating one hundred will be in-cluded.
Other space will be used for the bookstore, post office, re-ligious
and social activity committee rooms, editorial rooms for
the staffs of the Mirror and Edda, studios for radio and TV, rec-reational
facilities, and parlors where students can meet and visit.
The completion of this building will indeed help to make the
College environment seem to the student to be a home away
from home.
STUDENT HOUSING A REAL NEED
Like the proverbial woman in the shoe, colleges throughout
the country find they have "so many children they don't know
what to do." Augustana is no exception. This year over 600 of our
students are living on campus. Of this number approximately 375
are women—an all-time high.
To accommodate this number we have been forced to house
three girls in rooms designed for two in Tuve Hall, have filled
East Hall to maximum capacity and have converted a barracks
building into a residence for forty Junior girls. This is the situ-ation
at a time when the number of graduating high school seniors
is at the lowest point in twenty years.
Statistics show that the college age group is going to increase
substantially each year from now on. How are we going to care for
the increasing number of young women who will wish to enroll at
Augustana? Certainly, scattering them throughout the city is not
the answer!
We sincerely believe that much of the educational value of an
institution such as ours lies in providing adequate dormitories where
students can live and work in close association with fellow Chris-tians.
The building of dormitories is, therefore, urgent if we are to
Object Description
| Title | Augustana Today - 1957 Fall |
| Subject (LC) | Augustana College (Sioux Falls, S.D.)--Periodicals |
| Date | 1957-09 |
| Coverage | v. 3, no. 2 |
| Publishing Agency | Augustana College |
| Rights | This image may not be reproduced without the express written consent of Augustana University, Sioux Fals, South Dakota, USA. |
| Type | Magazine |
| Medium | text |
| Format-Digital | |
| Language | English |
| Collection | Augustana Alumni Publications |
| Contributing Institution | Mikkelsen Library, Augustana University |
Description
| Title | Page 1 |
| Date | 1957-09 |
| Text | REPORT OF PROGRESS TO FRIENDS OF EDUCATION Vol. III Sioux Falls, S. D. Fall, 1957 No. 2 FEDERAL LOAN FOR COMMONS BUILDING Approval of a loan in the amount of half a million dollars to Augustana for a Commons Building was announced early in August by the Community Facilities Administration of the Fed-eral Housing and Home Finance Agency. The loan was granted on the terms of a forty-year amortization period with interest at 2 3/4 percent. A number of preliminary details remain to be worked out before building plans are completed and approved and con-struction can begin. The College must raise about $200,000.00 in addition to this loan in order to erect and furnish a structure adequate for the services such a building should provide. The largest area will be used for dining facilities. Besides the cafeteria, there will be a number of dining rooms where table service can be had, altogether with seating for six hundred. An additional snack bar accommodating one hundred will be in-cluded. Other space will be used for the bookstore, post office, re-ligious and social activity committee rooms, editorial rooms for the staffs of the Mirror and Edda, studios for radio and TV, rec-reational facilities, and parlors where students can meet and visit. The completion of this building will indeed help to make the College environment seem to the student to be a home away from home. STUDENT HOUSING A REAL NEED Like the proverbial woman in the shoe, colleges throughout the country find they have "so many children they don't know what to do." Augustana is no exception. This year over 600 of our students are living on campus. Of this number approximately 375 are women—an all-time high. To accommodate this number we have been forced to house three girls in rooms designed for two in Tuve Hall, have filled East Hall to maximum capacity and have converted a barracks building into a residence for forty Junior girls. This is the situ-ation at a time when the number of graduating high school seniors is at the lowest point in twenty years. Statistics show that the college age group is going to increase substantially each year from now on. How are we going to care for the increasing number of young women who will wish to enroll at Augustana? Certainly, scattering them throughout the city is not the answer! We sincerely believe that much of the educational value of an institution such as ours lies in providing adequate dormitories where students can live and work in close association with fellow Chris-tians. The building of dormitories is, therefore, urgent if we are to |
| Contributing Institution | Mikkelsen Library, Augustana University |
