The Stockdale Center on the campus of Monmouth College is anticipated to reopen for dining services by the first of February, shares Associate Vice President of Communication and Marketing Duane Bonifer:
“Barring any unforeseen circumstances, we will be reopening the Stockdale Center for meals to students around February 1st. The rest of the Stockdale Center still needs a lot of work and quite frankly, the dining center is still going to need a lot of work; ceiling tiles won’t be in, it will be sort of a post-apocalyptic I guess you could say in terms of the design, but students at least will be able to come back and have their meals in the Dining Hall of the Stockdale Center around the first of February. There will be a different entrance; students will come in the north side on the back over by Poling Hall. We will begin going through a makeover for the inside of the Stockdale Center. The whole place has been gutted because of smoke and all of that rehabilitation will be taking place during the spring semester.”
Mellinger Commons in the Center for Science and Business has been temporarily serving as the dining hall for Monmouth College students since the fire inside the Stockdale Center back in October.
