Evening star., 1947-02-12
|Dr. Marvin Outlines
Expansion ofG. W. U.
To Cost 80 Million

An expansion program which
eventually win cost $50. .00O,000 is
planned for George Washington
University.
Details Of the plan were disclosed
yesterday by Or. Cloyd Heck Marvin,
university president, after the gen.
eral report meeting OF the George
Washington Hospitals Equipment
Fund Campaign at the Mayflower
Hotel.
At the luncheon Maj. Gen. q. s..
Grant III, campaign chairman, an
nounced that SAC. .o84 has been re-
ceived or pledged. The campaign,
which started early last month, has
a goal Of $925. 900. The new hos
pital Is now under construction at
Washington Circle.
Hospital Is First Unit.
In q talk to campaign workers,
DR.. Marvin urged the hospital be
viewed as the FIRST unit Of a greater
project we have In mind that will
reach into $50, 600, ,000."
Shortly after conclusion Of the
hospital drive, DIR. Marvin told
newsmen, the school will open q
campaign for q new law school. He
said that In the future new dormi-
tories and new buildings for the
medical school and engineering
school also would be needed.
Included in the expansion plan,
the official declared, Is purchase OF
land for a large campus.
He said that according to pres
ent plans the campus will be In an
area that extends from Nineteenth
and r streets NV. north to Penn
sylvania avenue, west to Washing
ton Circle, south on New Hampshire
avenue to II street, west to the
Potomac River parkway, along the
parkway to F street, and then east
on F street to Nineteenth.
He said the area between r and
G streets and Nineteenth street and
the Potomac River are expected to|
be used for dormitories. The rest
Of the area would be for educational
and research buildings, he said.
Three Departments to Open.
He added that the dormitory
structures will be in Colonial style
and that the university proper will
be in modern design.
Along more immediate expansion
lines, he said three new departments
will be opened at the school this
fall. They will be departments Of
geography, geology and religious in
struction, he told reporters. DR..
Marvin said that under present ex-
pansion plans the school will have
an enrolment Of 10000 ten years
from now. At present, he said,
$1,000 students are enrolled, which
he noted Is $500 above normal esti-
mates.
Terming the university zone of
the larger businesses of Washing
ton,' DR.. Marvin said the school had
a budget last year Of more than
So, 100000. Tuition and fees alone
from students this year will bring
in more than $2,500, 900, he said.
The principal speaker at the re-
port meeting was DR.. Vane M. Hoge,
chief of the United States Public
Health Services Division of Hos
pital Facilities. DR.. Hoge outlined
Federal activities and responsible
ties in disqualification.
Won't Affect American U.
The proposed expansion will have
no effect on the plans Of American
University which owns property in
the general area, according to DR..
Paul r. Douglass, American presi-
dent. ~. ST..
American at present owns build
ings from 1901 to 1911 F. street NV.
and, DR.. Douglass said, has an op-
ton to buy property at 1925 r
street NV. Mainly, they are used
for administrative offices.
We'll be there q long time," DR..
Douglass said.