Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1954-01-29

clOuS duulClOn 10 SL. JOIln bulleT-
an Church rapidly is nearing COM
pletion and some of its first floor
Sunday School rooms will be in
use early next month.
General contractors Jennings
and Churella, New London, are
completing interior work on the
three-story building. Complete
with furnishings, the new st. John
Parish Hall will cost $245, 900,
which amount has been pledged
by the rapidly growing congrega-
ton.
After the regular workmen COM
plete their tasks each day, large
corps of parishioners takes over.
These men build cabinets, paint or
do carpenter work in program
designed to cut down expenses as
the Thousand Man Hour" project
is a volunteer one. a4
Stensen Segaard is in charge of
the volunteer carpenters, Albert
Fall directs the cabinet workers,
Carl Waggoner is refinishing all
doors, and Julius Jensen is in
charge of the painters. Bob Krei-
lick has been general chairman of
the building committee.
OF brick and stone construction
the parish hall is one of the city's
most attractive buildings. 1t is
connected to the church via a COW
cred causeway at the front and ad-
joins the church at the rear. In be-
tween the two edifices is a court
yard, designed so that the parish
hall will not block off light from
the church's superb stained glass
windows.
First floor of the new structure
has two very large classrooms for
Sunday School departments, these
to be divided into smaller units
after formal openings each Sun
day via folding doors; several 9th
er small class rooms, women's
powder room and lavatories, jani-
tors storage room, furnace room
and the church office.
One of the large first floor
rooms will be used as nursery
each Sunday, but during the week
it will be used as lounge for
women's groups. Special furnish
ings, flooring and decorations will
be used in this room.
In the large Sunday School
rooms, affairs will be built and pi-
amos will be placed in each de-
partment.
Sunday School enrolment at st.
John is now nearing 800 with at
tendance each Sunday almost per-
feet. During the past few years,
some of the classes have met each
week in City Hall, the parsonage
or in the small annex building
which has been sold to Catawba's
Union Chapel These classes will
now meet in the new Parish Hall
with few to remain in church
basement.
On the second floor is the spa
cious banquet hall, largest in the
city. It will seat 700 people for
movies, lectures, plays or church
sessions while $50 can be seated
for banquets.
Huge 1aminated arches from the
floor to the peak of the hall. In
the balcony are space for more
classrooms and the movie projec-
ton booth. At the front of the
hall is large stage, also being
constructed by volunteer parish
toner's, a dressing room, and stor-
age room.
To the left Of the stage is the
modern kitchen, which will have
stainless steel equipment, includ-
ing automatic dishwashers.
Descending microphones have
been installed for the stage and
there are eight outlets in the hall
for, the loud-speaker system.
A special hardwood maple floor.
ing is being installed in the BAN
quet hall. This floor gives
springy effect, due to its expansion
possibilities. It was selected so
that roller skating, volley ball and
other sports can be played in the
hall.
Once month the entire Sun
day School will meet in the ban
quet hall for special religious mo-
vies. There will also be a diversi-
fled program of activities planned
for the banquet hall, with potluck
parish dinners, volleyball league,
plays and other dramatic events
included At times tha huge hall