Harry Eggink met with the dean of a college that didn’t yet exist 50 years ago. The College of Architecture and Planning was opening its doors in the fall, and Dean Charles Sappenfield convinced Eggink to attend Ball State with promises of a great new college on campus.
Eggink took a chance and enrolled, not knowing what the college would even look like.
“We came here with a lot of students and three faculty members to take us on,” Eggink said.
Eggink still remains at Ball State today as a professor, teaching classes in the architecture and urban design programs.
Since 1965, CAP has changed a lot about its buildings and the technology that it uses. When the college first opened, it was housed in a converted reserve naval armory building on campus. In 1972, the college moved to inhabit what is commonly known as the “tower” portion of the CAP building today. The class size grew, and so did the building, with the addition added in 1980.
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