Oh no, nothing like that existed in my time. I wonder what Buchi's motivation for putting it in was. More window treatment?
yup. window treatment.
what peer group were you in/ what years did you attend?
belive it or not, HLA got very luxurious for a period.
they built 3 new dorms, each with the capacity for around 70 kids. you might have seen the first one, which was a few hundred feet past the academic building. the girl's dorm was pretty luxurious. HUGE common room with twin-story windows and skylights, three floors, and to be honest it beats any college dorm i have ever seen in most categories. one of your old dorms were turned into a counselor building, and the bottom floor of the old academic building which once housed kids was renovated for classrooms. of course, that whole building along with the Admin building burned down, leaving the new academic building which was also a nice facility. they also added a section to the lodge at some point. I dont know how old the gym is, you might have been there for it, was a pretty nice facility compared to the older buildings. it also used to have a rug floor, they replaced that with polished concrete. they also added a bathroom to lower left, and two new dorms at ridge creek. they also built horse stables.
they also built a small townhouse-style development with around 20 housing units where staff lived a few hundred yards down the road. a funny observation: despite being within very easy walking distance from campus, the staff who lived there would still drive their cars to school and park in the parking lot by the gym. wouldn't even carpool.
they accomplished that because for a while HLA had up to 200 students at a time + up to a hundred at ridge creek. even with an almost 1:1 staff/student ratio they were amassing huge amounts of capital. they idiotically dumped all that capital into making the school look nice and handle more students. unfortunately for them they didnt realize that first of all, the land itself cant handle that many people. every summer the water would dry up, we only got to shower once every few days for a timed amount sometimes, and only flush the toilet when we #2. the septic system would overflow even with a hundred or so students, and spill over into the lake. on some days you could smell the septic overflow all over campus, particularly in the mornings. that and the way they were running the school, the type of school it is, doesn't work with that many people. you cant have therapy, immaculate supervision and accountability with that many people no matter how many staff you hire.
alas, STILL no chapel.
