00:09 - So pcn is here at Lycoming college could you tell us where is it located

00:13 - yes so for all of your watchers across the state of Pennsylvania we are in

00:18 - williamsport Pennsylvania which is

00:20 - north central Pennsylvania here Lycoming county.

00:24 - For

00:24 - those who know Pennsylvania or even

00:27 - the

00:27 - history of this place while it is also home of the little league world series that's

00:31 - often what puts williamsport on the map

00:34 - and there's a lot of history here what did this land look like

00:37 - before the college was here

00:39 - this literally was like the outskirts of the city so like so many places in

00:43 - williamsport towns cities built up along the river

00:46 - so the susquehanna river is just below our campus

00:49 - and literally if you go back to the history and you read about when the structure was

00:54 - built here this was considered Dutch hill

00:56 - it was north of the floodplain so this was a safe place to build

01:00 - but all of the city and how it had grown was all near the water

01:04 - so if you were to stand right here

01:06 - back in the early eighteen hundreds you would have looked north

01:09 - and just seen green forest and woods this was it

01:14 - and now our campus continues to expand well north of here

01:18 - and our athletic facilities going three four

01:20 - blocks north of campus

01:22 - sounds like you have a lot of history

01:24 - Indeed we do.

01:40 - So when you're outside this

01:42 - building and

01:42 - this was built in 2019 but

01:44 - before that there were some historic buildings here

01:46 - what were they

01:47 - yes this in fact is a site of many buildings over the years in this is the oldest

01:53 - part of Lycoming college's campus

01:55 - so

01:56 - the Krapf gateway center was built in 2019 but prior to that

02:00 - there was the old brewery first the bottling plant that was here we used to

02:04 - have a science building that ultimately took that space

02:07 - we also had just over my shoulder here

02:10 - soldiers and sailors memorial hall

02:13 - so over two hundred years

02:14 - there have been

02:16 - three different buildings that have sat on this very same site

02:20 - and when we built the Krapf gateway center and opened up in 2019

02:24 - it was meant to hearken back to our earliest years as an institution

02:28 - where the front of this building faces the city

02:30 - looks outward upon the williamsport community

02:33 - and continues to strengthen the ties between

02:36 - the college

02:37 - and

02:37 - the city of williamsport

02:39 - so we call this our Krapf gateway center it really is

02:42 - where we welcome

02:44 - guests

02:44 - families

02:45 - community members

02:47 - and the like

02:48 - to be part of our academic community.

03:03 - We're now walking along Lycoming college's upper quad which is a

03:07 - some of the

03:07 - oldest traditions and history of the college date back right to this space here

03:12 - and this is our founders Plaza that helps to recognize some of that history

03:17 - and Pennsylvania has a lot of colleges and universities that have rich history

03:21 - what about

03:21 - Lycoming college.

03:23 - Lycoming dates all the way back to eighteen twelve

03:26 - and Pennsylvania had this very interesting

03:27 - phenomenon across the state of establishing academies

03:31 - this was before schools were compulsory and Lycoming college

03:35 - in its earliest stages was the williamsport academy and that's what we were for many

03:41 - years until we evolved most recently to a four year institution

03:45 - in nineteen forty seven

03:47 - and here our founders Plaza acknowledges many of those who have supported and

03:50 - and

03:51 - helped Lycoming evolve and transition into a national four yeur liberal arts college

03:57 - we also right on this space is literally where old main used to sit it was a very

04:01 - large structure three component pieces

04:04 - that were built throughout the eighteen hundreds

04:06 - on unfortunately the building fell into

04:08 - disrepair the entire structure had to be razed

04:12 - in

04:12 - nineteen sixty eight

04:14 - and now we have

04:15 - reactivated this upper quad into both founders

04:18 - Plaza and an area where many of our students

04:21 - come to study interact in fact

04:23 - this is even an outdoor classroom

04:25 - so when it's a little warmer you'll find lots

04:27 - of students out here with their faculty learning

04:29 - here on our upper quad.

04:51 - Fine Arts

04:52 - building behind us here used to be a gymnasium

04:54 - what is some of the history behind the athletics here at Lycoming college

04:58 - Lycoming college has a very rich history of athletics in fact dating all the

05:02 - way back to the mid eighteen hundreds

05:05 - and so as you mention

05:06 - this was built in nineteen twenty three this was called the hilltop gymnasium

05:11 - and it housed our basketball programs and many other.

05:16 - Athletic teams

05:17 - we had a swimming pool down in the basement it is now

05:20 - been converted

05:21 - into a wonderful fine arts building that is so

05:23 - very open as you can imagine lots of natural light

05:26 - three very large studio spaces and we do sculpting and

05:30 - iron work and all kinds of things down the basement

05:32 - where the pool used to be

05:34 - but Lycoming college continues to have a very rich athletic program

05:38 - we are an NCAA division three program we have twenty athletic teams.

05:43 - We

05:44 - also have athletic facilities that now expand all beyond

05:47 - campus

05:48 - just up

05:49 - ahead of us here is our

05:52 - athletic facility which is where basketball now competes it's where our pool is.

05:57 - It's a

05:58 - it's where all of our indoor sort of activities and recreation center and in addition

06:02 - to our athletic facilities right here on the upper quad we also have a beautiful new

06:06 - baseball field that was just completed two years ago

06:09 - a partnership with the city of williamsport and Brandon park

06:12 - and then a couple of farther

06:14 - a couple of

06:14 - blocks farther north

06:16 - we also have our

06:17 - football stadium

06:18 - our soccer lacrosse and field hockey stadium and also our softball field

06:22 - all of which contribute to our twenty

06:25 - varsity athletic programs and plus a huge range of both club

06:29 - and intramural athletic programs

06:31 - very active campus with our students.

06:45 - Just outside the chapel which holds a lot of history

06:48 - but surrounding the chapel theres other bits of

06:51 - history that you were telling me about could you share that with audience

06:54 - yes absolutely

06:56 - so Clark chapel was built in nineteen thirty nine and it was from ms Clark

07:00 - who gave

07:01 - money from her estate completely fund this building

07:04 - and it started purely as a place of worship for the campus community but has

07:09 - continued to evolve in terms of its use

07:12 - one of the most beautiful traditions that continues to take place in clark chapel

07:17 - is our Christmas candle light service which

07:19 - is a traditional service of lessons and Carols

07:21 - that takes place every December

07:24 - and so Mark your calendars for.

07:26 - The second Sunday in December if you'd like to

07:29 - come to Lycoming college we'd love to have you

07:31 - but also around Clark chapel is where some of the most

07:34 - meaningful activity takes place and that is commencement.

07:45 - For

07:46 - over one hundred years

07:48 - students have been

07:49 - graduating and launching into their lives

07:52 - right here next to Clark chapel on our main quad

07:55 - the full quad here on campus and that continues to be a vibrant place

07:59 - there's also an old historic bell that is a reproduction of the Liberty bell

08:04 - where students go and touch

08:06 - that bell

08:06 - to make sure

08:07 - they

08:08 - perform as well as they can on their tests we'll

08:10 - take advantage of every little tradition that we can

08:14 - but indeed this is a place where students gather and continue to

08:17 - engage

08:18 - in all things related to

08:21 - Lycoming college

08:22 - music making and community building

08:24 - that's it for our tour of Lycoming college i hope

08:27 - you enjoyed learning a little bit more about its history

08:29 - with president Chip Edmonds thank you so much for watching.