CELEBRATING HOBART

More than 150 friends and alumni/ae celebrated the rededication of Hobart Hall October 6. A three-year, $3 million renovation of ABSW’s main campus building was completed last spring. The project involved a structural retrofit to protect the 80-year-old building against earthquakes. In addition, the building was made handicap accessible and equipped with new technology. Four special rooms were dedicated: Drexler Student Commons, in honor of Frederick I. Drexler, D.D., founder of California Baptist Theological Seminary, one of the forerunners of ABSW; the Lucille "Billie" Poole Seminar Room, in honor of the school’s longtime executive assistant; the Eldon Ernst Faculty Commons, in honor of ABSW’s professor emeritus of American religious history; and the J. Alfred Smith Sr. Assembly Room, in honor of the seminary’s professor of preaching.