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Kansas
Wesleyan family celebrates launch CONTACT:
Leslie Eikleberry, Director of Public Relations, 785-827-5541
ext. 1127 The crowd packed into Muir Gymnasium witnessed history February 18. Kansas Wesleyan University students, employees, alumni, trustees, and friends gathered to celebrate the unveiling of plans for a new Student Activities Center, the first new building on campus in more than 20 years. During the celebration, university officials also announced that more than $4.2 million of the $6 million needed for the new facility has been raised, including a $1.2 million challenge grant from the J.E. and L.E. Mabee Foundation of Tulsa, Oklahoma. In order to receive the Mabee grant, Kansas Wesleyan must raise the remaining $1.8 million by January 2006. “I am confident that through the generosity of our alumni and friends, we will be able to realize our dream of building a new Student Activities Center,” KWU President Philip P. Kerstetter said. The more than 50,000-square-foot facility will be built onto the existing Muir Gymnasium on the northeast corner of the Kansas Wesleyan campus. A variety of amenities make the new Student Activities Center a place to build community, whether it be campus, alumni, church, or Salina related. Plans for the facility include student-related offices, meeting rooms, the campus bookstore, a snack bar, a game room, and email centers. The athletic component of the facility will include a weight room, offices for coaches, locker rooms, and a performance gymnasium. Design elements will unite the new facility with Pioneer Hall, which for years housed the Coyote Den, the center of student activity on campus. The façade of the new building will encompass the exposed areas of the existing Muir Gymnasium, creating a harmonious look for the entire complex. For more information
about the new Student Activities Center, please visit the
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