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Show Volume XIX - Number 6 January 17, 1986 Dixie College, St. George, Utah 84770 Dixie Center is Well Under Way For those of you who feel St. George is getting boring and something new and exciting needs to be added to Dixie, the time is coming. The new Dixie Center, which is scheduled to open sometime in the fall of next year, will provide Dixie College with opportunities never seen before at this institution. The Dixie Center is the first major construction work for the college since the Nursing Center was added to the Home Economics Bldg, last October. The Dixie Center will provide four basic needs to the community of St. George, and will add to the beauty and diversi- ty of Dixie. Four major seat 1,250 auditorium, a 5,000 seat arena, a 12,000 square foot multi buildings'a purpose area, as well as an indoor-outdo- or than cover pool will more Dixies present needs. The center will also provide more economic opportunities for students, a larger area to view athletic events, and much needed state revenue for Washington County. The idea for the Dixie Center was thought up a few years ago, and the propisition was voted on by all residents of Washington County on November 15, 1983, and eventually passed. Residents will have to pay 3.5 million dollars of the 1 1 million required to build the center. This means that property taxes will slightly increase over the next few years. If the residents come up with the entire 3.5 million, the state of Utah has agreed to put up 4 million of its own money, while the remaining 3.5 million will come through private donors. The Dixie Center is half the size of Dixie Colleges current instructional campus, and the four buildings will cover 140,000 square feet. The gymnasium will be twice the size of the one now in Dixie, the auditorium will be acoustically designed much like Symphony Hall and the swim- ming pool will operate on a d basis. The project is in constuction at the present time, and will hopefully be finished by Oc- tober of 1986. This means that students attending the 1986-8- 7 season will have full use of all the time facilities by fall quarter rolls around. BF year-roun- i I V jL ? Progress is being made at the Dixie Center sight Dixie Receives One Million Dollars From Browning A Learning Resource Center at Dixie College will be built thanks to a one million dollar donation by Val A. Browning of Ogden, Utah. Plans for the center include a 200 seat tiered lecture hall, instructional classrooms, faculty offices, secretarial reception area, faculty lounge and conference rooms, seminar rooms, audio visual workroom, computer room, and a museum lobby. A firearms display, from the Browning Arms Collection, will be housed in the museum Val A. Browning , donator of one million lobby. College director of Program Development, Dr. George O. Rampton said, This outstanding commitment to Dixie College is deeply satisfying as it indicates the Browning Foundation is pleased with our past performance and confident of our future success. Mr. Browning, born in Browning. Not only is it a Ogden, Utah, graduated from significant contribution to DixOgden High School in 1913. He ie College, but the entire entered Cornell University studentbody on campus will before World War 1. He benefit from this new physical became second lieutenant in the facility, not only now, but for U.S. Army and was sent to France where he served as a machine gun instructor and trouble shooter. He also made reports concerning the perfor-man- e of Browning arms in war conditions. Later he helped his father develop and manufacture firearms. Mr. Browning went on to become president of Browning Arms Company. He also was awarded a Doctorate Degree from Weber State College. President Alton Wade, following the announcement of the new building said, We deeply appreciate this extremely generous donation by Val A. many generations to come. DM Preference Dance The preference committee is hard at work to make this years preference the best one yet. The girls on the committee are as follows: Chairman-Nannett- e Murcer, Nygren, Program-Lis- a Music-Andre- a Decorations-Michell- e Nygren, Perry and Kayla Harmon, Pictures-De- e Dee Lovell, Dinner-Taun- a Freuner, Refreshments and Tickets-Janell- e Hafen. Preference will be on .Jan 25th in the institute. There will be a dinner in the sunroom before the dance for all couples who wish to attend. |
