Office of Public Relations
Missouri Baptist University
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Saint Louis, Missouri 63141-8698
314.392.2307 / fax 314.392.2265
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For Immediate Release

RE: Chapel/Fine Arts

Chapel/Fine Arts

July 1, 1999

Missouri Baptist College will hold a formal ground-breaking ceremony, August 26, 1999, to begin construction on a new 55,000 square foot Chapel/Fine Arts building. The $7.4 Million building is part of the Spirit of Excellence Campaign, an effort to raise $10,000,000 for capital improvements and endowment for the College.

The facility will house the departments of Music and Communication Arts as well as executive offices. Key features of the building are an 1100 seat auditorium, a 250 seat lecture room, and a "great hall" for formal receptions. The communication and music labs will house studio, video and audio control rooms, classroom space, and faculty offices. With the addition of these resources, students will continue to gain valuable experience as they prepare for rewarding careers or graduate study. The surrounding communities will also benefit from a dynamic performing arts facility of this magnitude, the only of its kind in West County.

Missouri Baptist College has successfully matched the challenge issued by the J. E. and L. E. Mabee Foundation, Inc, and will now receive a grant of $1,000,000 to be used toward the C/FA building. including a $2,000,000 challenge grant from the Edwin & Harriett Pillsbury and the William Pillsbury foundations.

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Missouri Baptist University is a premier Christian university in Saint Louis, offering graduate and undergraduate studies in over thirty specialized fields and nine degrees. MBU's education and fine arts programs are nationally known in addition to business, religion, administration of justice, and more. MBU is one of the fastest growing higher education institutions in Missouri with an enrollment of over 4,500 students at five locations in the bi-state region — West County, Lincoln County, Jefferson County, Franklin County and the new Illinois extension at Lewis and Clark Community College.

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