Coming Soon to Campus!


Te Boys and Girls Club of the Capital City


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N A FEW SHORT MONTHS, the new Frank and Billie Railton Center will open its doors to the children of the Capital City Boys and Girls Club. Stephanie Johnson,


Executive Director of the club, beams with pride when she talks about the club’s successful capital campaign. The goal was set at $2.2 million for an 18,000- square foot facility to be located between  university’s new wellness center on Lafayette Street. The group surpassed its goal and reached $2.5 million.


In 2012, the Boys and Girls Club


realized that the new Lafayette Street exits from Highway 50 would run right through the group’s playground. They worked with the Missouri Department of Transportation (MODOT) for about two  work, but ultimately, the club vacated their site in 2014. “Dr. Rome found space for  says Johnson. As the group organized its capital campaign, the club re-organized and began serving its members in schools, as well as the teen center owned by the Jefferson City Housing Authority. Johnson says that one day shortly after


his arrival in Jefferson City, Dr. Rome walked over to the Boys and Girls Club and introduced himself to the staff. When  a note telling her to call Dr. Rome. They arranged a meeting. Rome had heard the club was about to be displaced and inquired about where they might relocate. “The kids who need us most need for us 


18 LINCOLN UNIVERSITY ALUMNI LINE Winter 2016


Above: Conceptual renderings of


the Capital City Boys and Girls Club courtesy of Architects Alliance Inc.


Artwork courtesy of


The Boys and Girls Club of the Capital City


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