Newberry Hall

Top Ten Reasons to Live in Newberry Hall

1. Our strong community!

2. We’re close to Hamilton, so you don’t have to walk far to eat.

Women play a board game

3. Newberry smells good.

4. We’re close to the academic buildings and other residence halls—so when it’s cold, you don’t have to be!

5. Newberry is a great place for studying!

6. You can always find someone who shares your interests.

7. We’re clean!

8. Newberry has a really comfortable lobby to study or watch TV.

9. We’re the home of The Almanian and the Scot!

10. Our staff works hard to make Newberry a great community!

Women in residence hall

A Little History...

Newberry is wired for online computer access and has in-room cable television.

We also have a lobby, study lounge, computer lab and laundry facilities. Newberry is staffed by student resident assistants and a postgraduate hall director.

That beach volleyball court outside of Newberry? We call it Newberry Beach, and you’d better believe there’s always a game going when it warms up in the spring.

We’re named in honor of Helen Newberry Joy, who made several gifts to Alma College during her lifetime. Newberry was constructed after her death in 1961.

 

Thirty-four percent of Alma students participate in intercollegiate athletics. Alma College competes at the NCAA Division III level as a member of the Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association, the oldest existing athletic conference in the nation. Alma offers 22 varsity sports—11 for the women and 11 for the men—including four sports that debuted in 2011–12: women’s lacrosse and bowling and men’s lacrosse and wrestling.

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Director of Campus Life Profile

David Blandford

David Blandford

Dave Blandford strives to make Alma’s students feel comfortable when they walk in the doors and make the experience for the other members on the Student Life staff a fun one.
“I love my job,” says Blandford. “It’s different every day and I enjoy watching the students evolve over their four years here.”

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