Hesston College - Catalog 2005-07 - General Information - Educational Facilities
Catalog 2005-07
Educational Facilities
Campus
      The college is located on a 50-acre campus in the town of Hesston, Kansas. Major campus facilities include the following:

Alliman Administration Center
administrative offices.
Bontrager Student Center
dining hall, meeting rooms, student post office, Food Service offices.
Erb Hall
housing for 280 students, offices for counseling, Vice President for Student Life, Campus Pastor. Art Department located on the lower level of Erb Hall West.
J.D. Charles Hall of Science and Arts
classrooms and laboratories for instruction in chemistry, biology, and physics; Lemons Center (part of Charles Hall)—Nursing Department.
Kauffman Court
housing for 140 students.
Kropf Center
Bible and Ministry Center, Business Department, Career Services, faculty offices, computer classroom, Computer Information Technology laboratory, classrooms.
Laban Peachey Center
Early Childhood Education laboratory and Campus Facilities Department offices.
Northlawn
all musical activities, additional classrooms, and faculty offices.
Smith Center and Mary Miller Library
more than 25,000 volumes, subscriptions to 225 periodicals and newspapers, and access to multiple online databases. Academic Center for College Excellence and Student Success. Classrooms and archives on the lower level.
Yost Center, Campus Activities Center, Oswald Field, and Soccer Stadium
physical education facilities (walking track and equipment and playing space for baseball, basketball, soccer, volleyball, tennis, and racquetball).
Hesston Mennonite Church
space for chapel and other large campus gatherings.

 

Nursing Facilities
      Nursing students use the following hospital affiliations in their education: Hutchinson Hospital, Hutchinson; Memorial Hospital, McPherson; Newton Medical Center and Prairie View Mental Health Center, Newton; Schowalter Villa, Hesston; Via Christi Regional Medical Center and Wesley Medical Center, Wichita.

 

Aviation Facilities
      Home base for Hesston’s Aviation program is the Newton City-County Airport, a low-density traffic area. Training aircraft include Cessna 172s, a Cessna 172RG, and a Piper Twin Comanche. Training equipment includes the Aviation Simulation Technology 201-Hawk Single-Multi engine FTD and two PC Aircraft Training Devices.
      Students fly to a variety of nearby airports for practice. Fifteen airports lie within 35 miles of Newton, ranging from 1,500-foot sod strips to controlled airports such as Wichita Mid-Continent for advanced training, instrument approach, radar, and VORTAC services.

 

Stutzman Retreat Center
      Stutzman Retreat Center is located about six miles from Hesston. The park-like 17-acre setting includes a small lake, a rustic-style log cabin, several picnic areas, and walking paths around the lake.

 

Dyck Arboretum of the Plains
      Dyck Arboretum of the Plains is a setting for educational opportunities for the community and a place where visitors may come to enjoy nature or sit in quiet reflection. It consists of 25 acres and is located one block south of campus. Dyck Arboretum’s Visitor and Education Center houses arboretum offices and an education hall for arboretum and community programs. The arboretum is designed to create an awareness of the natural beauty of Kansas with emphasis on trees, shrubs, flowers, and grasses native to Kansas and/or characteristic of the prairie. In addition to dense plantings, open areas are part of the design, reminding the visitor of the vastness of the plains.