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Celebrate Campaign Completion! |
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A celebration dinner in May of 2005 marked the end of the largest campaign in the college’s history. Surpassing the $18 million dollar goal, the donors to this campaign have been generous and faithful in their giving.
“The Lord has completed a mighty work through you, our generous donors, attested by the continual transformation in the lives of our students. Please continue to offer up prayers of blessing and thanksgiving as we rejoice in the provisions of the Lord and look forward with fresh excitement toward the future He has for us,” said Lloyd Ganton, campaign chairman.
Campaign Accomplishments:
White Environmental Center
Located on the Ayers Field Station, 140 acres 3.8 miles north of campus, the Glenn and Ruth White Environmental Educational Center is a two-level log structure currently being built through the labor of Greenville College faculty, students, staff and alums. The White Environmental Center houses two labs on the upper level. Accessible by a spiral staircase, the lower level will house the bird and mammal study skin collection and work space. The laboratories will also serve as all-purpose spaces with the east room featuring a set of French doors that overlook the hillside and pond and the west room featuring a fireplace.
The center will be used to teach science courses as well as hosting area grade school science classes for state mandatory environmental days. “The goal has been to develop a facility out there, that not only could we used for some of our upper division environmental biology classes, but that we can host middle school and high school teachers with our summer sciences teacher institutes,” said Dr. Ahern, Biology department head.
The building will include such features as composting toilets and geothermal heating and cooling systems. “We are trying to make the building as green as we can, as environmentally friendly as we can,” said Dr. Ahern. These ecologically friendly features are also cost effective. The toilet systems will use six ounces of water per flush rather than 1.8 gallons and the energy system provides four units of heating/cooling for every one unit of energy spent, compared to traditional electricity, which is a one to one ratio.
The college hopes to complete construction this school year and host their first elementary school visitors later in the spring semester.
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