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...trips, however, presented something of a security risk. So when he designed a brand-new $6 million jail for Roanoke, Architect John Marfleet included a baptistry. "We conferred many, many times with the councilmen and the jail study committee to see what religious purposes should be incorporated," says Marfleet, who believes that contemporary jails should try to anticipate every human need...
Sheriff Alvin Hudson agrees with Marfleet that the baptistry is a good idea and points out that "it's not a fancy one." There is no carved marble, just stainless steel, but the baptistry is large enough to accommodate total-immersion christenings, and it cost the taxpayers a mere $1,200. Says Hudson: "Nobody has complained. Some think it's funny, though...
Professor W. B. Munro A.M. '99, Chairman of the Division of History, Government, and Economics, has been appointed by the Governors of the University of Toronto to deliver the Marfleet Foundation Lectures at Toronto in the academic year...
...Marfleet Foundation provides for a series of three lectures to be given triennially "on some topic relating to the history or government of the United States or Canada." Professor Munro could not be reached last night, but it is understood that he will speak on subjects dealing with relations between the two countries...
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