These days the "other side of Main Street" is known as East Campus - two new dorms since our day (Louis and Marx) and one less (Chapin), but that's evolving once more.
A combination of factors: an old wooden dorm with no fire sprinkler system, a slightly larger student body, a desitre to house all faculty "on-campus" is leading to some changes across the street. Claudia Lyons and David Dickinson (she of French and Admission, he of Visual Arts and Faculty Band (aka The Punkadelics)) are moving - to their same house which will be placed on a new foundation at the edge of Chapin Field (pics one and two). The rest of Chapin Field will house a modular temporary dorm (to be called Chapin I think) until the new dorm is built on the site of the moved home...and the soon to be demolished Ashley House (pic 3).Ashley House served the school well and was home to some of us in 1979-80 and a few proctors in '82-'83 (Cruikshank and ???). I'll send demo pics when it happens but if you have any archival images of Ashley scan them and email to me or mail them and I will do it and add to DA Archives. (PO 306...01342)
Cheers from Albany Road...
Claudia and Dave's House
Chapin Field
Ashley House
