This club took a field trip in the Fall. We visited Wisconsin Lutheran Seminary in the morning and Northwestern College, then the pre-seminary college of the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod (WELS), in the evening. In between we visited a small college in suburban Milwaukee (Wauwatosa to be more accurate). This small, young college had just purchased a group of buildings from a Catholic order. Rumor had it that one wing served as a home for unwed mothers. The cubicles were indeed tiny.
The college was so small, students pretty much prepared their own food. The third floor was used at that time as a haunted house for the Hallowe'en season. The college itself was only four years old (previously it used space from Wisconsin Lutheran High School).
Fast forward to 1982 and the Summer. I, along with 11 other young people pursuing full-time ministry work as pastors or teachers, had volunteered for Inner City VBS in Milwaukee. We were housed at Wisconsin Lutheran College's dorms. The opposite wing had the library (two stories). But before we left, the third story would become part of the library. Why? The college had just won the bidding for the defunct Milton College library. The new acquisitions needed room. Remember those small cubicles? Yours truly helped rip them down one night to proceed with the renovation of the area for library shelves. The marble baseboards proved the most troublesome to remove. The following school year I visited a friend who was a student. In an old Milton College book I found a library card from Milton with the name "Dave Kreig" scribbled on it. (Dave Kreig was an NFL quarterback for many years, most with the Seattle Seahawks.)
While the 12 of us were there we often met in the student lounge on the first floor. While the facility had a pool, it contained no water during our stay. We often met for meditation in the chapel. One gentleman had a guitar and he would play while we sang hymns and spiritual songs. We even set the letter to the Philippians to music! The acoustics in that chapel were outstanding. There was also a gymnasium, if you could call it that. The ceiling was so low that any attempt to shoot a basketball with an arc would find the ball hit the ceiling and land on the floor.
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