From: Phil deHaan (dehp@calvin.edu)
Date: Fri Sep 06 2002 - 09:53:20 EDT
September 6, 2002 == FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Calvin College will open its 127th school year officially on Monday, September
9 with Convocation. The event begins at 9:45 a.m. in the Calvin Fieldhouse and
will see faculty, staff and students gather together. Former Calvin dean of the
chapel Cornelius Plantinga, now president of Calvin Theological Seminary, will
deliver the convocation address on "The Habit of Reflection." After
Convocation, from 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., there will be a cook-out on the Commons
Green (in the middle of campus).
Also, the new Calvin College Department of Nursing will celebrate its
beginnings as a stand-alone program (it used to be a combined program with Hope
College) with a Convocation ceremony from 11 a.m. to 12 p.m. on Monday,
September 9 in the Calvin Chapel Undercroft (fancy word for basement!).
Finally, Calvin will remember the events of September 11, 2001 with a special
Chapel service at 4 p.m. on Wednesday, September 11, 2002. The service will be
called "A Service of Remembrance and Hope in Solidarity with a Suffering World"
and will address three areas: 1) remembrance of evil and brokenness; 2)
solidarity with a suffering world; and 3) the hope of God over darkness.
Calvin will join with Calvin Theological Seminary and the Christian Reformed
Church in North America to host the service. Herm Keizer, a former military
chaplain who now works for the CRC, will deliver a meditation based on Psalm 46,
including reflections about what it was like to be at the Pentagon on September
11. Keizer was working in Washington at the time. On September 11 he walked from
the State Department to the Pentagon after the attack.
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