<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/pre-go-live-resources/_migration/2026-07-21/magazine/summer-1996/fitness-center-taking-shape.html" dsn="news"><pubDate/><title>Fitness Center Taking Shape</title><excerpt>Before the end of the fall semester, students will work out in the new E. L. Wiegand Fitness Center in the Murchison Gymnasium complex. Thanks to a grant from the E. L. Wiegand Foun-dation of Reno, Nevada, and successful fund-raising by the Westmont Parents Council, the college began construction on the new facility in August. Westmont needed $129,000 to match the $100,000 grant, and parents exceeded that goal by giving a total of $137,078.</excerpt><author/><image>
            
            
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