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20-Oct-95

95375     NEW BUILDING AT ZEPHYR POINT NEARS COMPLETION 
 
                          by Eva Stimson 
             (with information from Charles E. Link) 
 
ZEPHYR POINT, Nev.--December 26 is the date set for the grand opening of a 
new multipurpose facility that will dramatically expand the accommodations 
offered at Zephyr Point, a Presbyterian conference center here on the south 
shore of Lake Tahoe. 
 
     The Tahoe Center, a modern lakefront facility offering  43 guest rooms 
with private baths, will supplement the 70-year-old conference center's 
current,  more spartan guest accommodations -- two rustic lodges and a 
cluster of cabins.  The $5.5 million facility also features a wheelchair 
lift,  spacious dining hall and kitchen, and state-of-the-art meeting 
rooms. 
 
     Construction of the new facility is being funded by private donations 
and a commercial loan, according to Zephyr Point director Dorman Leader. 
 
     The Rev. Jean Anne Swope and the Rev. James L. Mechem,  a retired 
Presbyterian clergy couple from Lake Clear, N.Y., are working at the 
conference center as mission volunteers and donating their carpentry skills 
to the construction project. 
 
     The scenic property occupied by Zephyr Point was purchased for $6,000 
by the former Synod of California in 1925. Now it is owned by the Synod of 
the Pacific and the Synod of Southern California and Hawaii.  The 
conference center is managed by a commission of Sacramento Presbytery, 
which launched the drive to build the new Tahoe Center facility. 
 
     Commission members are convinced that the alpine lake setting and 
modern facilities will make Zephyr Point a popular destination for 
Presbyterians across the country.   "If they come here once, they will come 
again," says commission chair Frankie Laney. "That is our observation." 

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