By JENNIFER MERKSAMER
Staff Writer
 

The building, which is composed of various sized classrooms and the resources for student lab research, will cost 18.5 million dollars including the cost of maintaining the building.

Funding was provided through a six million dollar bond from the Kresse Foundation and 12 million dollars from 130 individual donors.

The principle behind the building originated from the concept of uniting departments with common bonds whose offices and classrooms are currently scattered around campus, including anthropology, history, political science, education, psychology, economics, sociology, classical and medieval studies, women's studies, African American Studies and American Cultural Studies.

State of the art classrooms will be provided which include outlets for laptop computers and the ability for flexible tele-conferences. There also is a kaleidoscope lecture hall which can seat 125 people.

On each floor, lounges for faculty-student conferences, faculty offices, student research centers, and 25 and 60 person classrooms will be provided.

Space was allotted for an anthropology laboratory on the ground floor, three psychology labs on the third floor and an education workroom on the third floor as well. The three story atrium may be used as a gathering place, as well as for small events.

Fund-raising was accomplished by the Trustees, through the Development Office, and is almost complete. $1.8 million is still needed.

Ursula Pettengill donated a wing with a contribution of $2.3 million in memory of her husband Frederick B. Pettengill `31 because she wanted to do something for the school. Ralph Perry provided the funding to build the atrium in his wife's name, Joan Holmes Perry `51.