06-03-94 Human Ecology Breaks Ground at Campball Hall

COLLEGE OF HUMAN ECOLOGY BREAKS GROUND ON CAMPBELL HALL ADDITION

     COLUMBUS -- Leaders and supporters of The Ohio State
University College of Human Ecology have moved one step closer in
their effort to construct an expanded home for the College and
its Historic Costume and Textiles Collection.

     College of Human Ecology Dean Jerelyn Schultz, Ohio State
President E. Gordon Gee, and others lifted shovels Friday (6/3)
afternoon at a groundbreaking ceremony for a new addition to 78-
year-old Campbell Hall, the College's location.

     The event caps off the college's three-year "New Ventures,
New Visions" fundraising campaign, which raised over $1.62
million in private gifts and pledges to help fund the building
addition.  Corporate support was received from a number of
Central Ohio businesses, including the Columbia Gas Foundation.
State funds will cover the rest of the approximately $3 million
cost of the project.

     "We are grateful to the many alumni, friends, foundations,
and corporate supporters who have made this vision a reality,"
Schultz said.  "The new addition and renovation will provide the
space needed to support excellent programs and research in our
college and allow us greater options for sharing them with others
in the university and the community at large."

     The addition, which will add 19,000 square feet to Campbell
Hall, will include a student and alumni center, faculty meeting
lounge, student lounge, classrooms, lecture hall with an audio-
visual room, faculty offices, reception areas, and a courtyard.
The space is currently used as a delivery area.

     The centerpiece of the addition will be the Geraldine
Schottenstein Wing of the Historic Costume and Textiles
Collection.  Funded by a $500,000 pledge from the El-An
Foundation in honor of Schottenstein, the 8,000-square-foot area
will include a temperature-, light-, and humidity-controlled
vault to house the $3 million, 7,000-piece collection; an
exhibition gallery; space to prepare exhibits; and a restoration
laboratory.

     Faculty and students use the collection for teaching and
research in costume history, textiles, construction, tailoring,
merchandising and design, as well as museum curation.  Pieces
date back to the 1760s and include garments worn by Marilyn
Monroe, Lauren Bacall and many other famous individuals.

     Recently, faculty and graduate students developed
conservation techniques to preserve clothing recovered from the
S. S. Central America shipwreck.  The ship sank off the Atlantic
coast in 1857 and was recently discovered by a group of
scientists based in Columbus.  Trunks of clothing were among the
items retrieved from the site.

     The collection is outgrowing its current quarters in the
basement of Campbell Hall.  In addition, the basement flooded in
1987 and many items were destroyed.  The wing will provide
greater protection, as well as access to the collection for both
educational purposes and public viewing.

     Present for the groundbreaking were leaders, donors, and
volunteers of the "New Ventures, New Visions" campaign.  Chaired
by Connie Cahill of Dublin, a 1970 graduate of the college, the
statewide campaign involved more than 400 alumni volunteers.

      "The support we received from alumni and friends for the
'New Ventures, New Visions' campaign was overwhelming," Cahill
said.  "Their commitment was vital to the successful completion
of this project, so it is very gratifying to see this dream
unfold today with so many of these individuals present."

     Also participating were Dean Emeritus Lena Bailey, who
retired in 1992 following the conclusion of the campaign, and
Charlotte Immke, vice president of Len Immke Buick Inc., who
served as honorary chair of the campaign committee.

     "Ohio State's College of Human Ecology already enjoys an
excellent reputation in its field," Gee said. "Now, thanks to an
outstanding effort by our alumni, faculty, staff, students, and
community friends, these state-of-the-art facilities will allow
the college not only to maintain that level of excellence, but to
expand on it."

     Architects for the project are Kellam and Associates of
Columbus and Thomas T. K. Zung of Cleveland.  Building completion
is projected for 1996.

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Contact:  Karen Wheel, director of development,
          College of Human Ecology, (614) 292-6761.

Written by Kassy Mosier, (614) 292-8646.


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