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Noggle CMC is almost always bustling with students, faculty, and guests-that's why its comfortable lobby area is so appreciated. With scattered soft seating and a large, beautiful area rug, the lobby area provides an inviting place for people to relax between classes, discuss with professors, or just visit with friends. The most eye-catching feature in Noggle's main lobby is a 22' x 8' mural hanging above the south entrance. Over a three-year span, the canvas of Revelation was stretched, hung, and painted in its current location by IWU's artist-in-residence Rod Crossman. Dedicated to his mother, Victoria Crossman, the mural depicts spiritual battles taking place in the heavenly realms. Revelation was painted to encourage others to become aware of such things. "We are both a physical and spiritual being," explains the artist, "but often our spiritual eyes are shut, making it impossible to see the invisible yet eternal things around us." Another feature in the Noggle lobby is a collection of photographs. Lining the walls and the adjacent hallways are portraits of ministers, missionaries, and laymen who make up IWU's own "Heroes of the Faith." Established when Noggle was dedicated, the Hall of the Heroes of the Faith was created to encourage students by displaying men and women of influence in the Wesleyan (Wesleyan Methodist) and Pilgrim Holiness Churches. It exists in the spirit of the book of Hebrews (11:39; 12:1-2): "These were all commended for their faith.. Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles, and let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us. Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfector of our faith." At the CMC dedication service on October 5, 1984, thirty men and women were inducted into the Hall and had their portraits hung in Noggle.

They were:

John Basham F.R.
Birch Milo & Ursula Bowsman
Charles W. & Leora DeVol
Wm. L. Economan F.R.
Eddy Paul
F. Elliott, Jr.
R. G. Flexon
Warren S. & Pearl Freeborn,
Sr. Lester Hart
Robert L. Kenworthy
Harry G. Lamb
Ralph McCrory
Roy S. Nicholson
Howard T. Noggle
George I. Norman
Wm. Olson
Thomas E. Phillippe,
Sr. Wm. Phillippe, Jr.
H. K. Sheets
Melvin Snyder
J. R. Swauger
P. W. Thomas
W. L. Thompson
O. G. Wilson

To date, forty-one more "Heroes" have been inducted into the Hall. They are:

Russell S. & Bertella T. Baldwin
Ted & Elva Beckman
Walter C. & Erma Brannon
Wayne E. & Joan Caldwell
William Dean & Mattie Lee Correll
Bruce & Dorothy Cox
Leo Cox
C. C. Fields
Harold & Laverne Geyer
Lee M. & Maxine L. Haines
Walter Franklin & Mary Bell Hall
Clifford A. & Juanita Hoover
Leonard & Ruth Fessenden Knapp
Leonard D. Mills
Clyde A. Parker
Donald H. & Ruth Anne Polston
William, Sr. & Oney Phillippe
Emory J. Pitts
Arthur T. & Lillian Reisdorph Henry & Ella Scholberg
Mary Greene
Seekins J. F. & Lovenah Simpson
Harry E. & Lina Stanley
R. Duane Thompson