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BOB JONES UNIVERSITY Bob Jones University is a Christian institution, evangelical, evangelistic, and inter-denominational. it stands without apology for the old-time religion and the absolute authority of the Bible. Bob Jonoes University matriculates almost three thousand students each year. They represent every state in the Union and more than twenty-five foreign countries. It is estimated that these students travel a total distance of 5,000,000 moles to come to Bob Jones University. Over a thousand young men are studying for the ministry and over five hundred young people annually are in preparation for the mission field or some other form of Christian service. These groups represent about a hundred different denominations. We did not apply the term "World's Most Unusual University" to this institution. The name is the spontaneous reaction of educational leaders, of preachers and laymen, of Christians and non-Christians alike—a tribute to the combination of evangelism, culture, high academic standards, and Christian discipline. These things are not found in exactly the same combination anywhere else, and Bob Jones University has proved that blended together in the crucible of a student's character they produce a dynamic life for Christian service. The total assets, including buildings and equipment, are valued at more the $12,000,000. The first unit of seventeen buildings was constructed between September, 1946, and October, 1947. The completion of this project during a brief thirteen months in the critical post-war period when material were scarce, priorities imposed, and government restrictions manifold, is one of the miracles of modern times and a tribute to the power and the faithfulness of Almighty God. To the original plant have since been added the UNUSUAL FILMS studies, radio station WMUU, the art gallery and museum building, science laboratory building, hospital, home economics and academy classroom buildings, a third men's dormitory, the maintenance shop and storage buildings, laundry and print shop, and additional faculty residences. In January, 1955, the Board of Trustees authorized a four-year building program to include another girls' dormitory, a fine arts building, a gymnasium, and faculty apartments. RADIO STATION WMUU University owned and operated, this commercial station has disproved the contention of those who said it was impossible to operate a radio station successfully on a commercial basis without "swing," hill-billy music, and cheap entertainment. WMUU's round-the-clock schedule of commercial and sustaining programs includes only high-type classical, semi-classical, and sacred music, hourly newscasts, dramatization of great books, children's and women's features, religious programs, etc. Manned by students and alumni, WMUU affords students in the Department of Radio wide opportunity for practical experience. Two transcribed programs, one dramatic and one musical, MIRACLES and HYMN HISTORY, are produced by WMUU for weekly broadcast over fifty stations around the world. UNUSUAL FILMS No other University in America is better equipped for the teaching of cinema. As a matter of fact, the facilities of Bob Jones University for the production of motion pictures are among the finest in the county and unexcelled from New York to Hollywood. Fims produced here since the opening of the studios in October, 1950, have been shown thousands of times in all parts of the world. It is impossible to estimate the number who have found Christ as a result of these evangelistic films. The technically minded will be interested to know that UNUSUAL FILMS uses the latest models of both the Matter and the Mitchell 16mm cameras, a Raby Head, a custom-made camera crane, and Stancil-Hoffman magnetic sound equipment. RODEHEAVER AUDITORIUM Seating approximately three thousand people, this building embodies many unusual features. The stage is 165 feet from wall to wall and 75 feet from the stage floor to the grid. The proscenium opening is 35 feet high by 45 feet side. These dimensions make possible the setting up on each side of the stage of a full scene, which can be wheeled into place without scene waits. A scene dock and loading area, 40 square feet, provides additional area on the stage left. The stage is equipped with the world's largest screw-type lifts. Originally designed for the Center Theater in New York and purchased by the University when that theater was razed in 1954, each lift handles a section of stage floor nine feet deep and the entire width of the proscenium opening. These sections can be lowered to the level of the basement floor or raised to a height of twelve feet above the stage level. A turntable 27 feet in diameter interlocks with the lifts. The fore-stage also may be lowered to provide an orchestra pit. Tow motor driven contour curtains are capable of almost limitless adjustments of the stage opening. The side stages, with concealed openings through the folds of the wall, provide opportunities for many special effects involving the handling of crowds and choruses. The switchboard controlling all the lights is located in the projection booth in the rear of the balcony but is in constant communication with the stage manager through inter-communication and telephone connections. The same sound system connects all dressing rooms with the stage. A flexible system of removable house lights strips makes possible the location of special spots almost anywhere in the ceiling. The main battery of front spots is, however, located i a special ceiling bridge five stories above the stage and also in the folds of the side walls of the auditorium. Scene shop, storage docks, etc., are located under stage. The property rooms, armory, and furniture storage are also on the ground floor, together with large rehearsal halls. The wardrobe, containing thousands of items of theatrical wear, is certainly one of the two or three most extensive non-commercial wardrobes in America. These costumes, together with the armor and jewelry, are worth approximately $200,000. Included in the University collection are items of historical interest once the property of such famous actors in the classical repertoire as Walter Hampden, Jane Cowl, and Cir Herbert Beerbohm Tree. UNIVERSITY ART GALLERY AND MUSEUM The University collection of Old Masters is by far the finest in the state of South Carolina and one of the best in the Southeast. Among the great masters represented in the University Collection of Sacred Art are Rubens, Van Dyck, Rosa, Signorelli, Sodoma, Murillo, Ribera, Zurbaran, Botticelli, Tintoretto, Veronese, Titian, Sebastiano del Piombo, Lucas van Leyden, Cranach, Mostaert, Gerard David, Benson, etc. The Bowen collection of Biblical antiquities and illustrative material contains a number of items from the collection of the late Sir Flinders Petrie, the English archaeologist, as well as models, Biblical costumes, etc. ...welcome to BOB JONES UNIVERSITY GREENVILLE, SOUTH CAROLINA the "world's most unusual university"
