The Link, Volume 29, Number 2 Fall 1981 Page: 1 of 18
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HOWARD PAYNE UNIVERSITY
FALL 1981
cConstruction
begins on
Bible buildingConstruction on the long awaited
Institute of Christianity complex at
Howard Payne University, in the talking
stages for approximately ten years,
began May 7.
This was evidenced by the presence of
heavy equipment on the main campus.
To be built between Mims Auditorium
and Winebrenner Science Hall on Center
Avenue, the teaching chapel and class-
room-office building will be red brick, col-
onial style architecture with columns and
a spire.
"It will be the focal point of the new
campus plan being prepared by recently
hired landscape architect Robert H.
Rucker," said University President Dr.
Ralph A. Phelps, Jr.
Final approval of the plans and specifi-
cations for the building, prepared by the
architectural firm McSween & Parker of
Dallas, was given by the HPU Board of
Trustees when they met in quarterly ses-sion Tuesday, May 5, he said.
"Since we are going to build the struc-
ture ourselves on a pay-as-you-go basis, it
was not necessary to advertise for and
take bids," Phelps said.
Last September, after another
quarterly meeting of the board, Phelps
had said that the trustees approved
starting the building with the money in
hand and continuing on a pay-as-you-go
basis until the money ran out.
"We have slightly over a half million
dollars in hand and have faith enough to
believe that the work will not stop until
the building is completed," he said.
"We have several pressing building
needs," Phelps later said. "The most
urgent is to build the Institute of Chris-
tianity complex.
"Some people do not understand the
need for the Institute of Christianity
buildings. They think that since we have
Mims Chapel we do not need the com-plex. While I might agree that the chapel
is not the worst needed part of the com-
plex, we desperately need better facili-
ties for training those preparing for voca-
tional Christian service.
"Over half of the ministerial students
who come to Howard Payne, and we have
approximately 200 each year, never go to
seminary. The training they get in our
school is their terminal education.
"If they are going to 'practice' on
church congregations the rest of their
lives, they certainly need as much train-
ing as we can give them, and that's why
the buildings for the School of Chris-
tianity are so necessary," he said.
Original plans called for a multi-
building complex. The building currently
under construction will combine the func-
tion of some of those buildings.
Approximately 15,000 square feet, the
(See Bible Building, page 2)li -
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