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By CHARLOT M. DENMON
Staff Correspondent
Penn State’s Wilkes-Barre
Campus will have funds for a new
gymnasium by early 1986.
Dr. James H. Ryan, executive
director of the local campus,
announced last week that the State
will release $3.5 million for the
gymnasium project early in 1986.
The project was approved in 1982,
but because of other priorities,
funds for the gymnasium have not
been released until now. According
to Dr. Ryan, he received word from
Secretary of the Budget Robert A.
Bittenbender that the $3.5 million
project is due to be released. After
that the first step will be to select
tional classrooms and an annex to
the Student Commons building,
which includes a cafeteria, book-
store, student lounge and offices of
student affairs staff, added during
the past two years and costing over
$1 million. They were built with
University funds.
The gymnasium is the second step
and the third step is a Center of
Technology building necessary for
the university’s engineering and
technology programs, now being
held in rooms in Hayfield House due
to lack of adequate space.
The Center of Technology, accord-
ing to Dr. Ryan, will allow the local
campus to offer a bachelor’s degree
in technology. In the near future,
community campaign to raise funds
for the Center of Technology, Dr.
Ryan said.
He emphasized that people not
confuse the gym project with the
third step. Dr, Ryan said the admin-
istration is enthusiastic because, as
one student said to him, ‘who ever
heard of a college campus without a
gym?” Dr. Ryan said that today the
need for the gym is greater than
ever because enrollment is at an all-
time high. Student housing is adja-
cent to the campus this year for the
first time in campus history and is
attracting new students.
Gym planned
The main entrance to Penn State Wilkes-Barre Campus, above, is located along Old Route 115,
the same road along which the new $3.5 million gym will be constructed by the Spring of 1988.
the Advisory Board of Penn State
Wilkes-Barre Campus will conduct a
an architect and decide on the
building design, which is expected
to take about a year.
After the gymnasium project is
; designed, it will be bid by the state
which will then award contracts and
| construction will be expected to
i take about 12 months. Ryan said the
facility which will probably be built
on the west end of Wilkes-Barre
Penn State Campus by old Route 115
should be completed sometime. in
the spring of 1988.
The local campus is currently
using the athletic facilities of Lake-
Lehman School District, which has
been the case since the campus
moved to the Lehman area campus
from Wilkes-Barre in 1968.
Dr. Ryan said that the adminis-
tration is appreciative of the school
district’s cooperation but they (the
administration) will be glad to have
a full service physical education
facility and a gymnasium on the
campus so the kind of sports pro-
gram people expect can be run on
the campus. He also added that
Penn State will work with Lake-
Lehman, Dallas and other area
school districts, and with College
Misericordia and community groups
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Although a design committee has
not yet been organized, Dr. Ryan
said he anticipated that the gymna-
sium would include a basketball
court, fitness room, racquetball
courts, weight room and multi-pur-
pose room for large group use and
for commencement.
The gymnasium project is the
second step in a three-phase build-
ing program to complete the
campus. The first step was addi-
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