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Student Vestrymen: Front, Charles Mahan, Jeb Brown, Peter Floyd, Lewis Foster: rear, Peter Grover, Frank Johnson, Chris :\1cLendon, Bill Pully, Rhae Adams.
From The World Within The Message Was 'Hope'
Within the chapel's bare, white walls, students and faculty came together to more traditional sounds. No voices were raised there in protest. The noise of war and shrieking electronics were some place beyond the quiet. Men ascended the pulpit: "Grant us patience under our afflictions. Give us grace to he just and upright ... quiet and peaceable; full of compassion; and ready to do good to all men." Student vestrymen took turns at sitting in the lay reader's chair. Opposite each other, cla~ses of yotmg men sat and knelt. At the center of the nave, above the alter, the wooden cross in three- dimension. A stately fugue in G Minor; "Cantate No. 140" of Bach; and an orderly procession moved out ...
Throughout the day, boys gathered in small groups, in classes, at meals, in friends' rooms, to exchange opinions on a topic, a policy, an event. Young men came to know each other well. Together they weighed, evaluated, pondered.
In a year, an interim year, there wa~ concern for the future. There wa~ a sense of basis from the past. There was challenge, and in that - there was hope.
Out of fa~t-moving, mind-expanding times, boys and faculty go each day into quiet focus on the traditional.
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