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21-May-1997 
97211 
 
                           College News 
 
                         by Julian Shipp 
 
MONMOUTH, Ill.--Monmouth College will begin a yearlong $3.5 million 
renovation of McMichael Residence Hall this summer, modernizing the 
college's oldest and stateliest residence hall. Construction, which began 
May 11, is expected to last until June 1998. As a result, McMichael will be 
closed for student use during the 1997-98 academic year. Planning and 
construction costs are expected to be about $2.7 million. New furnishings, 
roof work and additional fees will total about $800,000. McMichael 
Residence Hall is named after T.H. McMichael, fourth president of Monmouth 
College, who headed the original fund-raising and construction effort to 
build the hall for women. 
 
OMAHA, Neb.--Nationally renowned University of Nebraska football coach Dr. 
Tom Osborne, along with Bud Polk, vice president of Hastings College 
Foundation, announced recently a national two-year, $15 million 
fund-raising effort for the development of a new Hastings College stadium, 
sports arena and scholarship program. The campaign, titled the "Osborne 
Legacy Project," is a tribute to the Osborne family's long-standing history 
and involvement with Hastings College. The fund-raising campaign will 
solicit donations for college alumni and Nebraskans, individual supporters 
and corporations throughout the nation who wish to recognize the Osborne 
family and the needs of liberal arts colleges like Hastings. 
 
CONCORD, N.C.--The Rev. William A. Stewart Jr. has been elected chairperson 
of the board of trustees of Barber-Scotia College. He replaces Dr. Sarah 
Cordery, a Barber-Scotia graduate, who's time had expired. The board made 
its decision at its spring meeting April 5. Born and raised in Gastonia, 
N.C., Stewart was educated in the Gastonia Public Schools, attended Belmont 
Abbey College for a year, received an A.B. degree from Southwestern at 
Memphis (Rhodes College), and a B.D. degree from Union Theological Seminary 
in Richmond, Va. He is a graduate of The Executive Program of Professional 
Management Education of the School of Business Administration of the 
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Additional special study in 
institutional decision making was completed under the faculty of the 
Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary and he studied adult education 
at Virginia Commonwealth University. 
 
BRISTOL, Tenn.--King College has announced that southwest Virginia native 
Pamela Hall has joined the college staff as director of admissions. Hall 
will work with individual applicants and oversee operations that support 
the admissions process. A native of Castlewood, Va., Hall is a graduate of 
Lincoln Memorial University. She received her master's degree from 
Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Forth Worth, Texas. Hall 
served as an admissions counselor for Virginia Intermont College from 1985 
to 1987 and as associate director of undergraduate admissions at 
Carson-Newman College from 1987 to 1992. Prior to coming to King, she 
served in the office of the dean of theology at Southwestern Baptist 
Theological Seminary. 

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