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Location, location, location.
Slocum Hall is a co-ed 1st year residence hall. The capacity of this building is 44 beds with a support staff of 3 RA’s. Singles and doubles are offered as housing options. Some Slocum residents take part in our Learning Communities program. They not only live together, but also take common classes. The faculty from those classes become an integral part of academic and dorm life. you might remember Slocum as the "no name" dorm because it remained unnamed for several years after being acquired by Wilkes College in 1968. The building was finally named to honor Frances Slocum, a Wilkes-Barre native who was kidnapped by Native Americans at the age of five, and lived with them until her death. Another Wilkes building, which stood at 115 South Franklin Street, had been named for Ms. Slocum until it was demolished in the mid-1970s. The current Slocum Hall, located midway between South and Ross Streets, was built circa 1890, as a double house. The home underwent major alterations in the early 1900s, including the addition of an extension to the back of the home. According to the 1933 Atlas of Wilkes-Barre, the building was renovated to create apartments.
If you were at Wilkes in the late '60s or early '70s...
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