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Photography by Lionel Delevingne
Text by Kennan Daniel

Student tour guides drop off their backpacks and congregate in the lobby of the new
Shuman Admission Center before
heading outdoors to meet prospective students.

Prospective students and parents chat with one another
in the Cahners/Rabb Reception Area while waiting
to meet with admission officers upstairs.

Dressed in matching blue jerseys,
the admission office shows off its school spirit
(and its new sign) on Andover Blue Day.

Staff members enjoy their spacious new work area;
in all, the Shuman Center has 8,000 square feet.

Everything about the Shuman Admission Center feels like home—the comfy couches and Oriental rugs, the smiling faces, the smell of coffee brewing. The building walls are new, but the hospitality is still intact.

In early September, the admission office moved out of its temporary home in Cooley House to its rightful place on Salem Street to welcome the season's first wave of prospective students and parents to campus.

"We have had another increase in on-campus visitors this year, so the building came along at just the right time," says Senior Associate Dean of Admission Debby Murphy ’86.

The lead gift from Stanley S. Shuman ’52 for construction of the new 8,000-square-foot admission center was announced in November 1999. The project was completed last summer.

Admission officers, who conduct more than 1,800 on-campus interviews a year, say the added space in the reception area is much more accommodating.

Current PA students are especially pleased. The new center has a large gathering space with cubicles and benches specifically for student tour guides. "We didn't have any space to ourselves last year," says Mimi Butler ’03. "I really like this."