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2GUILFORDIAN
GREENSBORO, NC
Renovations planned for Mary Hobbs
♦Plumbing and electrical systems set to be repaired while students gone for summer
By Andrea Dodson
STAFF WRITER
Mary Hobbs hall is one of the
oldest buildings on this campus.
If you ask many residents about
it, they will say that it looks like
it, too.
However, this summer be
gins the start of renovations that
will take two years to complete.
On Sunday night, a meeting
was held between the residents
of Hobbs, Elgina Manuel of Resi
dential Life, Thomas Yang, Direc
tor of Facilities, and Tom Moreau,
the architect in charge of some of
the renovations.
Elgina Manuel began by tell
ing the residents of a new pro
gram to increase community
within the cooperative hall.
Since the closing of the
Hobbs cafeteria in the summer of
1997, members of the hall have
felt the loss of togetherness be
tween residents.
The new program would en
tail a Sunday brunch, in which
members of Hobbs would be able
to bring food items from the caf
eteria to the dining area in the
basement of the building. This
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Mary Hobbs hall, built in 1909, needs to have its plumbing repaired and peeling paint and wallpaper fixed
idea is under consideration by
members of Hobbs and Residen
tial Life.
Thomas Yang then began to
describe the renovations of the
building scheduled to be started
this summer and completed the
following summer.
The first repairs and addi
tions will be to install an air con
ditioning and heating system to
fit in with the rest of the dorms.
Along with that will be the hook
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Our Town performed for
packed houses last week
From Staff
Reports
The Guilford
College Theatre
Department's pro
duction last week
end of Thorton
Wilder's classic
play Our Town
played each night
of its four-day run
to a full house.
Actors are al
ways appreciative
of a full house, but
this time they
were enthusiastic
for another reason
as well. The pro
duction was a ben
efit for the
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ing up of an exhaust system for
the bathroom facilities.
The next will be to add a new
boiler system to the building so
that there will be adequate and
environmentally sound heating of
the dorm.
"We want to give you a com
fortable place to live," said Yang
at the beginning of the meeting.
The cafeteria renovations
were discussed and at this time
there is no answer as to whether
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raised $550.
"The theatre dept was really
happy with the
turnout," said
Marjorie Hall,
who managed
the box office.
The benefit
follows last
year's produc
tion of a series of
one-act plays
that dealt with
AIDS issues, Pieces of the Quilt.
That production was produced
with and benefited Triad Health
Project.
The benefits are a tradition
that the Theatre Department chair
and director of Our Town, Jack
Zerbe, would like to see continue.
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or not the area will be brought up
to code during the summer re
pairs.
"I can't say right now, yay
or nay. What you really want is
an answer and these people
probably can't help you," said
Manuel.
The structural plumbing is
also an important issue that was
discussed. Plumbing in Hobbs
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"I would like to see the theatre de
partment designating one of its
productions every year as a ben-
"[Theatre] touches people
both intellectually and
emotionally and gets
them worked up to go out
and change things."
—Jack Zerbe
nected to the life of the community
in which it lives."
Commenting on the value of
theatre as a forum for exploring is
sues important to a community,
Zerbe said, "There's a reason why
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efit," he said.
"And the rea
son for that is
because, as far
as the way I
think about
this beast
called theatre,
it should be
something
deeply con-