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College meets Walton
challenge, then raises $2 million more
The College of Wooster has met The Walton Family Foundation’s
challenge, raising more than $8 million to claim the full
match for the renovation of Kauke Hall. James T. Clarke,
chair of the Independent Minds campaign, made the announcement
at a dinner for the college’s board of trustees here
Friday night. He then stunned the group by announcing a pair
of million dollar gifts, one from the Timken Foundation of
Canton, Ohio, the other from Stanley C. and Flo K. Gault
of Wooster, to complete funding of the Kauke project. More...
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| Faculty
Office (66) |
| Small
Classroom (4) |
| Small
Seminar Room (3) |
| Small
Flexible Conference Room (3) |
| Large
Flexible Conference Room (3) |
| Tiered
Classroom (1) |
| Archaeology
Lab (1) |
| Computer
Room (3) |
| Large
Classroom (1) |
| Kauke
Tower Room (1) |
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total of 20 classroom spaces and 66 faculty offices
are available. |
For more than a century, every Wooster student has had at
least one class in Kauke Hall. Built after the great fire
of 1901 with a challenge grant from Andrew Carnegie and the
support of dozens of townspeople, Kauke is at the very heart
of each student’s experiences. Wooster graduates associate
it not only with memorable teachers and classes, but with
rites of passage — from the day they walk through the
arch with their classmates to be welcomed as first-years,
to their final march through at Commencement.
Kauke was last renovated more than 40 years ago, in the
functional but drab style of the 1960s. Dropped ceilings
conceal original woodwork and obscure windows. Classrooms
show the wear and tear of more than a century of constant
use. Offices have been carved out of storage rooms. There
are no public spaces where students and faculty can gather
before and after class.
With the help of Independent Minds: The Campaign for Wooster,
Kauke’s interior will be restored and renewed. New
functional, flexible classrooms in varying sizes will be
created, each wired for computers and other teaching technology.
A ground floor café and other social spaces will be
created to foster the student-faculty interactions that are
so crucial to Wooster’s educational style. Woodwork
will be restored, windows uncovered. The entire building
will be brought into compliance with ADA regulations.
Kauke will once more be the beautiful and grand building
it should be, inside as well as out, befitting its status
as the intellectual heart of the campus.
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