Over $14 Million in ECC Projects, 1966-1967
This article describes the construction projects planned for 1966 and 1967. This and other articles may be found in the records of the Chancellor's Office, Record Group CH1050, Series 1, Scrapbook File, 1914-1978 in the University Archives.
Citation for this article is: “Over $14 Million In ECC Projects,” The Daily Reflector, Greenville, N.C., November 25, 1965.
Big Construction Year Lies Ahead
Over $14 Million in ECC Projects
Construction projects to cost over $14 million are either under way now or are scheduled to begin at East Carolina College.
In a report prepared by the ECC News Bureau this month, a list of building projects completed in 1965, projects currently in progress, and some scheduled to begin in 1966 was compiled.
Currently under construction on ECC's ever-expanding campus are a three-story music building, a ten-story girl's dormitory, a four-story men's dormitory, and a Century Club building at Ficklen Stadium.
Another project, a health and education building with a seating capacity of 6,500 and an AAU-approved Olympic swimming pool, is expected to be begun soon.
Total approximate cost of the current projects is $6,078,000.
On the calendar for 1966 are eight building projects, including three dormitories, a Biology-Physics classroom building, a Home-Economics-Nursing classroom building, an auxiliary heating plant, and addition to Joyner Library, and a field house adjacent to Ficklen Stadium.
Excluding the fieldhouse, which is to be paid for by donations and private funds and expected to cost approximately $100,000, the 1966 projects will cost a total of $8,385,252.
The total expected cost of the current and 1966 projects is $14,463,252 to be paid via state and federal funds, self-liquidating loans, and some private funds.
Completed at a cost of $2,141,000 in 1965 were a three-story Education-Psychology building, a two-story addition to Joyner Library, a three-story addition to Wright Building, and a one-story addition to Jones Cafeteria.
The report further makes note of "the granting authority by the 1965 General Assembly to the Board of Trustees of the college to establish a two-year school of medicine at East Carolina, subject to the approval of the State Board of Higher Education after January 1, 1967."
The progress review states: "A further potential capital investment is a total of $5.5 million consisting of a state appropriation of $1.5 million which is contingent on an additional $4 million raised by the college from non-state sources to construct a plan for a two-year medical school."
A capital improvements request to include at least 12 major items expected to cost more than $10 million is in preparation for presentation to the 1967 General Assembly."
Other developments "of a so-called 'milestone' nature" indicated in the report include the establishment of the first program of graduate work beyond the master’s degree level; the beginning of a series of conference, workshops, and seminars by the Institute for Regional Research and Development to continue and im0prove education of professional groups in the east; and the expansion of ECC’s Extension Division, which will include a two-year, fully-accredited residence credit center.
