2009-2010 Undergraduate Catalog - Westminster College

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THE COLLEGE
Walker Recreation Center, including the latest in fitness equipment, was completed
in 2003. Prior to 1951-52, the building was the site of varsity basketball games.
The final intercollegiate game on this court was the 77th consecutive home victory
for the Titans. From this record, Old 77 takes its name.
MEMORIAL FIELD HOUSE AND NATATORIUM, a memorial to Westminster
men who served and died in World Wars I and II, is the College’s main physical
education building. Originally completed in 1952, it was extensively remodeled
and expanded in 1975. The expanded facilities include the varsity gymnasium
(named for former coach Charles “Buzz” Ridl ’42) with a capacity of 2,300
spectators, a natatorium (containing a collegiate-size swimming pool), faculty
offices, classrooms, locker rooms for men and women, a trainer’s complex, four
basketball courts for recreational and intramural use, and two racquetball courts.
Two of the basketball courts have a synthetic floor suitable for tennis, volleyball,
badminton, and indoor track practice. In 1994, a new fitness center was added
to the Field House, providing students, faculty and staff expanded opportunities
for strength and fitness training. The center includes areas of free weights and
machines for strength training, as well as an area with aerobic exercise equipment
for cardiovascular training. The Thomas V. Mansell Education Wing was added in
1999 and the James F. Edwards Wing was completed in 2001.
HOYT SCIENCE RESOURCES CENTER, a facility conceived and designed
as the base for the total science program at Westminster, is named in honor of
Alex Crawford Hoyt. The first section of the center was dedicated in 1974 and
the second section opened in 1985. The center contains the J.S. Mack Science
Library, information systems division (of academic affairs), Phillips Lecture Hall,
a planetarium, observatory, electron microscope suite, and preschool facility, as
well as classrooms, laboratories, offices, and research and supporting facilities for
the departments of biology, chemistry, mathematics and computer science, physics,
and psychology.
ACADEMIC SUPPORT RESOURCES
Library support is offered by the two campus libraries, RALPH McGILL
MEMORIAL LIBRARY and J.S. MACK SCIENCE LIBRARY. Together they
house a collection of more than 283,070 volumes and 850 periodicals and
newspapers. The library also maintains a video collection housed in the Department
of Audio-Visual Services, as well as collections of scores, CDs and records in the
Music Library, located in Patterson Hall.
Some of the regular facilities and functions located within the library are interlibrary
loan, the Curriculum Library, the College archives, and group study spaces.
To provide the best service possible, the library works cooperatively with other
libraries both regionally and nationally. On a regional basis, the library belongs to
Lyrasis. Nationally, the library is affiliated with the OCLC, which serves libraries
around the world. The objective of this organization is to make available far more
material to each cooperating library than any one of these libraries has in its own
collection.