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Show President McKay to Dedicate New Hawaiian College The new multi-million dollar Church College of Hawaii at Laie will be dedicated Wednesday, Dec. 17, by David O. McKay, 85-year-old president and prophet of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Twenty gleaming new buildings build-ings of modern design comprise the campus, located on a 100-acre 100-acre site near the famed Mormon Mor-mon Temple at Laie. Three years i in construction, the college is the ( product of unique "labor mis-t mis-t sionary" plan of the church. I The dedication is expected to I 1 t attract a large delegation of Territory, civic and education leaders, in addition to church leaders from Salt Lake City and church members from all parts of Hawaii. Dedication events include a motor processoin, the dedicatory services, campus tours, a colorful color-ful Polynesian pageants, and a Christmas concert. The campus, one of the finest in western America and the Pacific Pa-cific Islands, overlooks the sea, with the Kcaolau Mountains be-( be-( Continued on Page 8) President McKay to Dedicate New Hawaiian College Salt Lake City has supervised the project. He is chairman of the church building committee and Pacific Board of Education. Joseph E. Wilson is supervisor of construction. A faculty of 23 conducts training train-ing in business and vocations, and offers the first two years of academic training in science, fine arts, education, engineering and other fields. The school is the fulfillment of an idea conceived 37 years ago when David O. McKay, then a members of the Council of the Twelve Apostles, saw a Mormon missionary teaching a small group of island children. ' The beloved Church leader has travelled more than 50,000 miles in the past 13 months. He has dedicated church buildings in Florida, a $7 million college and temple project in New Zealand, and the new London Temple. (Continued from Page 1) hind. An oval drive encloses the central unit of 10 buildings, plus cafeteria and library. Circling the drive are parking areas, athletic ath-letic fields, gymnasiums and out dor swimming pool, four tennis courts, men's and women's dormitories, dor-mitories, housekeeping apartments apart-ments and technology building. Architects Harold W. Burton and Douglas W. Burton have integrated in-tegrated a large auditorium and stage, offices, classroooms and laboratories into the central unit which has 64,000 square feet of space in its 122 rooms. The central unit and dormitories dormi-tories are two stories high, with central open patios. Dormitories can accommodate 350 students. More than 300 students have been enrolled in classwork, conducted con-ducted in temporary buildings since construction began in 1955. Present facilities can accommodate accommo-date 1,000 students with provision provi-sion for future expansion. Most labor for the project was provided by skilled supervisors and laborers from western America Amer-ica and Hawaii who have devot-- devot-- ed their full time work to the .project. Members of the church in the islands contribute to the sustenance susten-ance of the "labor missionaries." A total of 530,038 hours of work with an estimated cash value of $944,360 has been contributed to the school. Wendell B. Mendenhall of |