Anatomy and radiology are core to the WSCC curriculum, and we hope these disciplines will soon have a new home on the WSCC campus. Hampton Hall, WSCC’s state-of-the art lecture facility, was the first step in implementing the WSCC Campus Master Plan. Hampton Hall is now the heart of the campus and has enhanced WSCC’s educational offerings. The second building identified in the Campus Master Plan, developed through a campus committee in 1996 with guidance from Zimmer, Gunsel, Frasca architectural firm, is a new anatomy lab. Clearly, the time has come for construction of this important facility.

We value the WSCC anatomy experience and the instructors who have long ensured the excellence of the WSCC anatomy program. Paul Shervey, Ph.D., has been teaching anatomy at WSCC for 29 years; Jan Harris, Ph.D., Chairperson for Basic Sciences, has been teaching anatomy for 25 years. Jim Carollo, M.S., has been on the anatomy faculty for 24 years, and the “newcomer,” Bill Borman, Ph.D., has been teaching anatomy at WSCC for ten years. The anatomists’ dedication is reflected in students’ and graduates’ appreciation for the WSCC anatomy experience. A primary goal of the WSCC curriculum is to give students a three-dimensional understanding of the human body, and dissection and radiology are key components in achieving that goal.

The Department of Radiology, chaired by Dr. Beverly Harger, has a long history at WSCC and a key professor at its core. Dr. Appa Anderson, a 1953 WSCC graduate, was the fifteenth person to receive diplomate status from the American Board of Chiropractic Roentgenologists and the only female chiropractic radiologist until 1980. Although Dr. Anderson retired from full-time teaching in 1989, she has remained a presence at the college and has attended over 130 WSCC graduation ceremonies. At the Centennial Banquet on June 5, 2004, Dr. Anderson received a Lifetime Achievement award from the College. In honor of Dr. Anderson’s many achievements, the radiology section of the new building will be designated the “Appa Anderson Research and Diagnostic Imaging Center.”

Plans for the new anatomy lab/imaging center call for a freestanding building abutting the west side of the gym. The building’s daylight basement will provide a much-needed space for radiology. With radiology in a new facility, additional space will be made available in the library.

Funding for the anatomy lab will be the College’s greatest challenge. We hope that half of the $2.1 million project can be funded through grants, particularly a large grant from a charitable trust. The College has received support from charitable trusts in the past; the J. D. Murdock Charitable Trust has made three generous grants to the College, with the most recent being $247,000 for technology in all campus classrooms. The challenge of raising over $1 million to begin construction is overwhelming, but the challenge must be met.

Our Centennial Year is the year of the new anatomy/radiology building—for future students, for the WSCC anatomists, and for the future of the chiropractic profession. We hope generous donors will consider naming opportunities for rooms within the building and for the building itself. Contributions can be designated to the “Anatomy/Radiology Building Fund” and sent to WSCC’s Office of Institutional Advancement at the address at the bottom of the page.

You may also contact the WSCC Development Office at 503-251-5721 or call us toll-free at 800-618-4533. Another donation possibility is the Commemorative Paving Stones. Your tax-deductible contribution* will help build WSCC's future.

*Please note that the Development Office will mail you a donation-acknowledgement letter, which will serve as a receipt for tax purposes