The OrangeLine Online, Vol. 3 Issue 4
August 22 , 2006
An electronic newsletter for alumni and friends of West Virginia Wesleyan College
www.wvwc.edu

Last month’s questions were:
1. What former President of the United States spoke in Wesley Chapel in 1985?
2. Which of the three residence halls first opened in the Quad?

Correct Answers
1. Jimmy Carter
2. Fleming Hall (1952)

Alumni Answers
1. Jimmy Carter
2. Fleming Front
-- Neil Roth ‘88

1.  Jimmy Carter
2.  Fleming
--Nancy Schroeder ‘80

Not actually familiar with the term "the Quad,” but think the answer must be Fleming Hall.  It was the only one of them that had been built when we were students at Wesleyan.
-- Mary Sue Fraser ‘60

1. Jimmy Carter. I was a Mason Crickard scholar -- we had an "audience" with President Carter in Nellie Wilson Lounge before his presentation at the Chapel....
2. I am going to take a stab at saying McCuskey was first residence hall opened in the quad.
-- Mike Shaw '87

1. Jimmy Carter
-- Alice J. Leigh ‘88

Hello from Minnesota.  How ironic that I have a link to both of this month's trivia questions. President Jimmy Carter spoke in Wesley Chapel as a part of the Mason Crickard Scholar program which I was honored to be a part of.  He also received the Wesleyan Peace Award presented by Dr. Reg Olson, professor of sociology.  I often spent part of my holidays with the Olson family and a picture of Reg and President Carter in their home is a reminder of this historic event.

Fleming Hall is the oldest of the three halls in the Quad. I think Doney was build last. In my five years at Wesleyan, I lived in Doney as a freshman, then again my sophomore year as an RA.  My junior year I was the Hall Director of Fleming (the first time they'd hired a junior for the position; thanks Barb Forinash!); Shelly Morningstar was my assistant and we still stay in touch with holidays and birthdays.  I rounded out my "Quad experience" by living in McCuskey my fifth year, which was the year after I graduated and worked as the Residence Life Coordinator before going to graduate school for my masters in college student personnel/higher ed administration.
Thanks for the trip down memory lane!
-- T. Todd Masman ‘87

Fleming Hall was the first to open. I think it opened for the school year 1955-56 the year before I arrived on campus. McCuskey opened 1957-58. We watched it being built my freshman year & I lived in it the first year it was opened.
-- Melvin Orr ‘60

1. Jimmy Carter
-- Jim Welshonce

1. Jimmy Carter
2. McClusky was first
-- Jay Parker, '80

1.  Jimmy Carter
2. Holloway Hall  
-- Ginny Bernard Sharpless '88

Fleming Hall was the first of the residence halls to be occupied, this occurred at the beginning of the 1952-53 school year.
-- Leonard Davis ‘55

2. Fleming Hall
-- Don Carroll ‘60 

Responding to your trivia question, McCuskey was the first dorm to open in the quad.  It was opened prior to my arriving on campus in the Fall of 1955.
-- John R. Campbell '59

Fleming Hall was the first to open.  I also was also among the first students to occupy McCluskey Hall which would have been the second to open.
-- Ken Maberry ‘60