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·Bid Awarded For Building Projects At East Central ' At their regular quarterly walkway, and two small dining · ~~ing ·9n· frtd.ay, ;oecember . areas.. Th~ ~tr.ia.nce will b~ . t the Board. of Trustees at East lowered, to bette.f serve the Central Junior College ac- handicapped. The two ad– cepted a bid of $343 100 from ditional dining areas include a Tatum Concrete Co~pany of room seating seventy-five to ·Newton for the demolition of eighty people and a room ac– the Old Home Economics comodating twelve people. building and the renovation of Each room will be heated and the Mabry Memorial Cafeteria. cooled seperately so that they Architects for the project are can be used for smaller groups. Charles P. Mclf ullan and The nurses Station which is Associates of Jackson. now in the Home Economics The Home Economics building will be moved to the building will be torn down to upper level of the Student building. After a number of yeai;~. the science and chemutry departments were moved to larger quarters, and the area which it had occupied was converted into a home economics department. The upstairs area which originally housed the commerce depart– ment later housed the art department with the commerce department located in another larger building. Architects were Krouse and Brasfield of Meridian. ' this building was originally constructe~ in 1950. Prior , to that time, the dining area had been on the bottom floor of the girls dormitory.

A small outdated kitchen had been built in the early years of the college and served until the building was constructed in 1964. The total gross area of the cafeteria is 10,033 square feet. According to Dr. Charles V. Wright, ECJC President, the majority of the funds are from State Appropriations and local matching funds. ,· ·while · under construction students will use the rear entrance of the cafeteria across from the Fine Arts Building. The west en– trance of Jackson Hall and the Gordon Room will undergo minor changes.

make way for the enlargement Center building. All others of the cafeteria. Completion of previously located in the this project is expected to be in building have been moved to early fall of 1979. other facilities. · The renovation which will get The Home Economics underway immediately in- building was constructed in eludes a new entrance, 1930 by L. L. Hancock as a . restrooms, an enclosed covered Science and Commerce

The building was built in 1930 for an estimated cost of $33,505.00. The building has never undergone complete renovation although it has been painted and necessary repairs made over the years. The Mabry Memorial Cafeteria was designed by Charles P. McMullan and Associates of Jackson and built by Thompson and Yeager of the Raleigh in 1964, for the amount of $106,746.00 The dining area of