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Zerbe Health Center provides outpatient health care by physicians who make weekday
visits and by staff nurses. Beds are available for non-overnight, in-patient care of students
with minor ailments.
Carnegie Alumni Center, originally constructed as a library for the College and community
by its benefactor Andrew Carnegie, houses offices for the alumni, institutional
advancement, and communications departments.
Physical Education Facilities
The Physical Learning Center features an arena, two intramural rooms, two swimming
pools, and an eight lane bowling alley, the gift of B.C. Hopeman, a former trustee of the
College. The main offices for the Department of Physical Education and Athletics are located
at the south end of the building, as is the Career Services Office, which contains staff
offices, a library, and interviewing rooms for job placement. The Arena, which has a seating
capacity of 1,800, is used for intercollegiate and intramural basketball, volleyball, club
sports, recreation, and special events. The intramural rooms are equipped with four indoor
tennis courts, four volleyball courts, four basketball courts, four badminton courts, a conditioning
track, and two pits for pole vault and triple and long jump. These rooms also provide
an ideal location for dances and other social events. Specific areas for various activities
include the Hall of Fame room, Heritage Hall, the Exercise Science Lab, audio-visual
aid room; fitness center equipped with aerobic, Cybex and free-weight equipment; two aerobic/dance
studios; six racquetball and handball courts. The building also houses an athletic
training room, athletic laundry room and five men’s and women’s locker rooms.
The College has three outdoor playing-field areas. On the Lower Campus, an allweather
eight-lane 400-meter track, complete with a steeple chase water pit, surrounds
Robert E. Thorn football field. The football field forms a natural amphitheater bounded on
the northwest by a brick and concrete stadium featuring artificial turf, lights and a seating
capacity of 1,800. Adjacent to Thorn Field are the jumping and throwing facilities for triple
and long jump, pole vault, high jump, shot put, discus, and javelin. The Phillips Field House
provides locker, training, and coach’s rooms for the Robert E. Thorn Field. Ten all-weather
tennis courts adjoin this facility. Also on the Lower Campus is a women’s softball field,
which is located on Pine Street. On the Upper Campus, there are three playing fields for
varsity soccer and varsity baseball. Seven touch-football fields, four softball fields for intramural
sports, three multi-purpose intramural fields, and the marching band practice area are
located across the street on Madison Avenue behind the Physical Learning Center.
THE CENTER FOR VISION AND VALUES
The Center for Vision & Values is a Grove City College think tank that focuses on public
policy and social issues from the perspectives of Christian faith and individual freedom. The
Center generates faculty research, opinion editorials and media interviews and holds at least
one major conference each year for which students can register and earn academic credit.
ENDOWMENTS
The endowment resources of the College have been made possible by the generous
gifts of individuals and foundations. Endowments benefiting the College include the following
special funds:
Samuel P. Harbison Fund. The Harbison estate and the Board of Christian Education
established an endowment for the Department of Religion as a memorial to Samuel Pollock
Harbison, an early member of the Board of Trustees.