Dr. Goldie Crocker Wellness Center
This beautiful $2 million facility includes a weight room, cardiovascular exercise room along with a spectacular wood gymnasium floor featuring six baskets and a full length college size basketball court. The building also houses 22,000 square feet of floor space, athletic training area, locker rooms and that are used for intramural and recreational activities. The building also features two floors of offices, lobby space, and meeting rooms. Ample parking is available adjacent to or near the building.
Intramural and recreational activities include:
- Aerobics
- Basketball
- Flag Football
- Indoor Soccer
- Volleyball
- Yoga
- Pilates
- TiaChi
- ...and other activities
Mission Statement
The Dr.Goldie Crocker Wellness Center is a primary congregate site on the campus of NHTI, Concord's Community College. We provide a positive, friendly environment that fosters the opportunity for members of the campus community to participate in activities and programs that promote emotional, intellectual, occupational, physical, social and spiritual development. In conjunction with NHTI’s Mission, the Dr. Goldie Crocker Wellness Center is dedicated to empower students, faculty, staff, and alumni to make choices toward a more proactive, responsible and healthy existence. We commit our efforts toward promoting an environment which includes the following:
- Promoting a user friendly, non-threatening and comfortable environment
- Fostering a spirit of community
- Enhancing mental, physical and emotional equilibrium
- Responding to needs of recruitment and retention of a diverse population
- Providing leisure education to enhance personal development
Wellness…The Dr. Goldie Crocker Wellness Center provides a venue that can be utilized by those intent on enhancing their personal wellness in any of the above areas.
…is a way to organize and balance human growth and development. The wellness concept, by its nature moves us toward a more proactive, responsible, and healthier existence. The concept includes the following components:Emotional
Awareness and acceptance of a wide range of feelings in oneself and others. Emotional wellness is marked by the ability to understand, express, and manage the many different feelings that go with the human experience.Intellectual
Continuous acquisition, development, creative application, and articulation of critical thinking and skills. Combines the theoretical with the practical/clinical.Occupational
Developing personal satisfaction and professional enrichment through work. Making career goals and experiences integral parts of the total lifestyle.Physical
Understanding and enhancing the relationship between sound body functions and mental/bodily health.Social
Willingness to participate actively and contribute to efforts which promote positive interpersonal relationships and harmony within the community.Spiritual
Awareness and appreciation of values, beliefs, and structures to live by and to utilize in decision making.
Activities
The Crocker Center enables NHTI to host
intercollegiate athletic events in basketball
and volleyball. The Center can also be used as an indoor practice facility for other varsity sports. The building is a center for intramural athletics of all sorts, as well as for exercise classes, fitness and weight training, various aerobics classes, yoga and walking programs.
The facilities are available for instructional purposes for professors involved in any of NHTI’s 29 degree or numerous certificate programs.
The Crocker Center has already served as a site for events such as political conventions, health fairs, group functions, and various college events involving admissions and placement. A special floor covering can help transform the gymnasium into a multipurpose facility capable of hosting anything from concerts to dramatic presentations.
Athletics
NHTI is a member of the Yankee Small College Conference (YSCC) and the united States Collegiate Athletic Association (USCAA). NHTI features intercollegiate athletic programs in baseball and softball as well as in men's and women's basketball, soccer, cross country, volleyball and co-ed golf. Intramural activities include basketball, flag football, indoor soccer, golf, skiing, floor hockey, bowling and volleyball, among others.
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Location
The Dr. Goldie Crocker Wellness Center is located at 4 Institute Drive on the campus of NHTI, Concord's Community College in Concord, adjacent to Sweeney Hall and the Christa McAuliffe Planetarium. NHTI is easily accessible off of 1-93 Exit 15E or 1-393 Exit 1. Just follow the signs!
Dr. Goldie Crocker History
The Dr. Goldie Crocker Wellness Center is named after the founder of the nursing degree program at NHTI, Concord's Community College.
NHTI began acquiring funds for the building in April 1985, with the establishment of the Sprole-Crocker Trust Fund. Memorial contributions were received from friends and family of the late Eleanor C. Sprole to build an indoor physical fitness facility. Miss Sprole was a 1979 graduate of the nursing program at NHTI. Upon her death in 1982, her family established a memorial fund which was the catalyst for the Wellness Center. Those funds were enhanced by the generosity of the Crocker family, who pledged
financial support in Dr. Crocker’s memory upon her passing in 1984. Dr. Crocker came to NHTI in 1969 to develop the nursing degree program. Her first class graduated in 1972, and since then over 2000 NHTI Nursing alumni have gone on to help shape our region’s health care landscape. Dr. Crocker’s legacy lies with the many NHTI alumni who have provided immeasurable assistance to those in need of care throughout New Hampshire and beyond. As long as her former students continue to serve those in need, Dr. Crocker will always remain with us.
The contributions on behalf of both of these women, as well as a significant number of other donations from alumni and friends of the Institute, were given in love, care and hope of a dream to be realized: to help finance a fitness facility at NHTI. We are forever indebted to their vision, generosity and support.