Chapel View Magazine | Spring 2015

Chapel ViEW Spring 2015

“To build your house well is, ironically, to be nudged beyond its doors.�

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Advisory Board President Charlie Berardesco T ’80

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Vice PresidenT C.B. Richardson T ’92 PAST PresidenT Gina Harrison

A Chapel Without Walls

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From the President’s Desk Sharing Stories Charlie Berardesco T ’80

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From the Dean’s Desk Christ, the Cornerstone Luke A. Powery

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Ethics In a Chapel Without Walls Interview with Adam Hollowell T ’04 Adrienne Koch D ’11

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Outside the Walls Meghan Benson D ’02

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Chapel Restoration and Renewal James Todd T ’98

ADVISORY BOARD Zoila Airall, PhD Nancy L. Jirtle, PhD Anna R. Jones Arlie Petters, PhD Amanda Wright Smoot WC ’63 T. Walker Robinson, MD, T ’00, G ’01, M ’09 Jonathan York T ’15 Emeritus member William E. King, PhD, T ’61, G ’63, G ’70

CHAPEL STAFF Dean of duke chapel Luke A. Powery STUDENT MINISTRY Christy Lohr Sapp, Associate Dean for Religious Life Adam Hollowell, Director of Student Ministry Bruce Puckett, Director of Community Ministry Joshua Lazard, C. Eric Lincoln Minister for Student Engagement Gerly Ace, Staff Assistant for Student Ministry

PathWays: Missions to the World David Putnam D ’17

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The Face of a Friend Beth Gettys Sturkey

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Messiah Audience Around the World James Todd

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Building Bridges with Each Breath Bruce Puckett D ’09

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Bridging Cultures with Hallelujahs Rodney Wynkoop

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Staff Updates Taylor Knight T ’14 Andrew Klumpp D ’14

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50 Years Behind the Bells Alex Griffith, Duke Chronicle reprint

MUSIC Rodney Wynkoop, Director of Chapel Music Robert Parkins, University Organist Christopher Jacobson, Chapel Organist Brian Schmidt, Assistant Conductor & Administrative Coordinator of Chapel Music J. Samuel Hammond, University Carillonneur John Santoianni, Curator of Organs & Harpsichords Michael Lyle, Staff Assistant to Chapel Music

25 Years of Music at Duke Chapel Interview with Rodney Wynkoop Mike Lyle

WORSHIP & EVENTS Meghan Benson, Director of Worship Sara Blaine Clark, Event & Wedding Coordinator Taylor Knight, Visitor Relations Specialist COMMUNICATIONS Adrienne Koch, Communications Specialist James Todd, Multimedia Manager DEVELOPMENT Beth Gettys Sturkey, Director of Development Lucy Hart Peaden Taylor, Staff Assistant for Development ADMINISTRATION Joni Harris, Assistant to the Dean Lisa Moore, Accounting Specialist & Office Coordinator University Housekeeping Oscar Dantzler, Chapel Housekeeper Beverly Jordan, Chapel Housekeeper

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Duke Schools Abbreviation Key T (Trinity College of Arts & Sciences) D (Divinity School) G (Graduate School) E (Pratt School of Engineering) WC (Women’s College) MD (School of Medicine)

Sharing Stories President of the Duke Chapel Advisory Board, Charlie Berardesco T ‘80

In the last two issues of Chapel View magazine, I shared what Duke Chapel means to me and then invited you to submit your story about how Duke Chapel has affected you. Thanks to all who have submitted their stories, especially to those whose snippets are included below. The Chapel is excited to hear more from Chapel View readers, and to publish your stories as part of our renovation preparation, which will require closure of the nave for about a year. Please continue to submit and share your stories with chapeldevelopment@duke.edu so that all of us may cherish the ways in which the Chapel is a special part of our lives. Read the full stories online: chapel.duke.edu/contact/friends/stories.

Gabriel Chen, T ’05 I recall the day I first navigated the tight and long stairway to the Chapel’s sprawling basement.

Like a scene out of a Peter Jackson movie, I was thrilled to find that this imposing cavernous structure would open up to a secret catacomb with dimly lit corridors. I was here to join the Wesley Fellowship’s lunch gathering for the freshman cohort.

Being thousands of miles away from my home in Singapore, I had hoped to find a church to fuel my spiritual growth and a community that I could call my second home. …

As I got down the stairs, I saw a confident-sounding Albert Mosley articulate his personal views on faith and

leadership to Divinity School students. This was my introduction to theological ethos and practices beyond Sunday School and feel-good hymns. I would soon learn to enjoy the thought-provoking sermons of Will Willimon as he dissected complicated Christian topics and became my mental picture of what it means to be a powerful preacher. …

The Chapel as an institution, as I would imagine for many of you, holds tremendously pleasant memories for me. But it is the Chapel people, the conversations, and the shared experiences during the best and more forgettable parts of my student years, which continue to be the icing on my cake.

Emily Jennings White, WC ’50 It was the Fall of 1946.

My freshman year at Duke. World War II veterans would swell all classes. I had already been accepted as a member of the Chapel choir before my Elizabeth City Methodist preacher’s letter of recommendation reached Director Foster Barnes. My local church choir had received good training.

We sang many of the same anthems at Duke.

The Women’s Glee Club met in East Duke on Tuesday night. It was primarily a sectional rehearsal. On Wednesday nights we would board a bus behind the East Campus Union for a ride to the Chapel. The men would be practicing when we walked down the aisle to the chancel. What SINGING

we would hear. I remember so well the tenors practicing their lines for “How Lovely Is Thy Dwelling Place.”

At the end we would ride back to East campus singing popular songs in free harmony. You should have heard us before the holidays singing “White Christmas.” On two occasions Perry Como did his radio show live with the choir. Each choir member received the vinyl recordings. I still have mine.

The Sunday morning service was attended by well-dressed students, faculty, and townspeople. We practiced in the basement. But upstairs the angels took over. It was an entirely different and sacred sound. My four years as a choir member are my most cherished memories of attending Duke.

John K. Herpel, MD ’72 When I matriculated at Duke Med in 1968, Duke Chapel immediately became central to my life when I joined the Duke Chapel Choir, and when I started making eyes at a certain alto across the chancel and she (Stella) started making eyes at me. Our relationship was deepened by the inspired musical direction of the great J. Benjamin Smith, choir director, through our Duke years— he introduced us and the whole Duke choir to the outstanding religious choral masterpieces with colossal talent and the passion of total commitment, performed in one of the world’s greatest cathedral spaces. …

My wife Stella Jones, VMD, is the Rev. Dr. Barney Jones’ daughter. He was Duke Chaplain for a few years and classes-

always-over-subscribed Professor of Religion for many; and his wife, Marjorie, was Duke Chapel Hostess for twenty years. Her eternal post was the old hostess desk now sitting in the Chapel narthex.

Stella and I made many long-lasting friendships through Duke Chapel. ... Our marriage (we were married in Duke Chapel Oct. 3, 1976, by the Rev. James T. Cleland, with Ben Smith at the Aeolian) will always remain for me the everenduring, ever-vital monument Duke Chapel is in my life.

Thank you for your invitation to share my Duke Chapel story. Duke Chapel will be closed briefly for maintenance many times, now and in the future, but these closures will ensure the Chapel’s physical and spiritual immortality.

From the President’s Desk

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CHRIST, THE CORNERSTONE From the Dean’s Desk, the Rev. Dr. Luke A. Powery

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n my academic research on the cultural heritage of African American preaching traditions and the Spirituals, I came across what James Weldon Johnson calls “the narcotic doctrine.”

That doctrine is summarized in the spiritual, “You may have all this world, but give me Jesus.” Some may critique these lyrics as being highly disconnected from the real world but any study of the historical context of the spirituals will reveal how connected the enslaved were to their circumstances.

How could they not be as they endured inhumane and brutal treatment in the world? But despite having their backs up against a wall on many levels, they nurtured a deep faith in Jesus, particularly a suffering Jesus, who they believed represented their own suffering. This focus on Jesus, this “narcotic doctrine,” continues today when one hears some black preachers climax in their sermons by “taking it to the cross.”

I point to this history because I see the convergence of the Christocentrism of the early beginnings of the so-called Black Church, and the outward architecture and inward vibrant religious practice of Duke Chapel. Both are cruciform, shaped by the life and ministry of Jesus Christ. In other words, to borrow from Canadian theologian Harold Wells, Duke Chapel has a “Christic Center,” meaning that Jesus Christ is the center of our theology and practice, making Duke Chapel a Christian church in a university setting while also having other roles at Duke. To be “Christ-ian” means to have Jesus Christ as the firm foundation of our mission and ministry in and through Duke Chapel. As we state in our Strategic Plan, we strive to stand “as a beacon of Christian hope that bridges faith (religio) and learning (eruditio).” In today’s Twitter parlance, #JesusMatters.

He matters not only in my own life as a Christian and Baptist minister of the gospel, but in the lives of the entire Chapel staff, which reflect many different denominations.

Jesus matters for the work of Duke Chapel in the past, present, and future. The Strategic Plan also states that “Duke Chapel holds a Christian confessional identity.” Though we may have other roles in this educational environment, as a Christian church, deep in our heart and life is the cruciform love of God in Jesus Christ. Our mission and ministry flow out of this Christocentric ethos, including the notion of being “a church without walls.”

This phrase, “a church without walls,” again, found in the Chapel’s Strategic Plan, doesn’t mean that there are no longer physical limestone walls of Duke Chapel. But it does sug2

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gest that we aim to live into the distinct mission of Christ, of which the letter to the Ephesians speaks: But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ. For he is our peace; in his flesh he has made both groups into one and has broken down the dividing wall, that is, the hostility between us…that he might create in himself one new humanity in place of the two, thus making peace, and might reconcile both groups to God in one body through the cross, thus putting to death that hostility through it. So he came and proclaimed peace to you who were far off and peace to those who were near; for through him both of us have access to one Spirit to the Father. So then you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are citizens with the saints and also members of the household of God, built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus himself as the cornerstone. (Ephesians 2:13-20)

CHAPEL BRIDGE PANEL

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he Rev. Dr. Luke Powery moderates a conversation on sacred space as part of the Chapel’s Bridge Panels series that seeks to connect people from various walks of life to discuss issues of shared concern.

In his introduction, Dean Powery gives a sketch of his own understanding of sacred space as a Christian scholar and pastor. He affirms the role of the Chapel as a space for Christian worship, as well as how the Chapel’s multiple roles are interpreted as ‘sacred’ in different ways by different people.

—The conversation is available on the Chapel YouTube page: youtube.com/user/DukeChapel

“When Christ is the cornerstone, there should be no walls of division between different human groups… as Christians we should live into the ministry of Christ by bridging relationships with others in the world as a sign of Christ’s peace.”

Christ is the cornerstone of a people “without walls” who are, themselves, his living temple. When Christ is the cornerstone, there should be no walls of division between different human groups (such as the Jews and Gentiles in Ephesians), thus, as Christians we should live into the ministry of Christ by bridging relationships with others in the world as a sign of Christ’s peace.

Jesus destroys hate and hostility with his love and peace in order to establish a unified membership within the household of God. Thus, to be a chapel “without walls” means to work toward tearing down any divisions that may exist between God’s people across any established boundaries with the hope of reconciliation. This means, we cannot only ‘live’ within the walls of Duke Chapel but, to be fully “Christ-ian”, we must follow Christ into the world with his ministry of reconciling peace and love. To be a chapel “without walls” means to be the body of Christ, the church, as fully as possible, in word and deed, in “works of piety” and “works of mercy” (John Wesley), engaging in ministry with people from all walks of life.

To become a better and stronger university Chapel rooted in the Christian tradition, our worship, student ministry, community connection, interfaith engagement, and the arts, must engage beyond the university to the community, nation, and world, because Christ is the Lord of all creation.

Thus his work is not confined to a beautiful building but flourishes in the entire created order. The Chapel building may close for renovation in the upcoming academic year but the ministry of Jesus offered through the body of Christ at Duke Chapel will go on. The upcoming academic year will help us consider in a greater way what Richard Rohr writes, “To build your house well is, ironically, to be nudged beyond its doors.” Christ will ‘nudge’ us beyond our comfort zones to the outermost parts of the campus, the city, and the world.

To follow Jesus means we should start praying with our feet (Abraham Heschel) that the whole world might experience the peace of Christ, thus being reconciled to God. In this way, when you hear someone talk about being “without walls,” it doesn’t solely refer to a closed building, but to Jesus Christ, the chief cornerstone of the living stones of Duke Chapel.

From the Dean’s Desk

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Ethics in a Chapel Without Walls Communications Specialist Adrienne Koch interviewed Duke Chapel’s Director of Student Ministry, Dr. Adam Hollowell, who has a new book out on Christian ethicist and theologian Paul Ramsey. Published

by Eerdmans, it’s titled “Power and Purpose: Paul Ramsey and Contemporary Christian Political Theology.” This semester Hollowell is teaching a course through the Sanford School of Public Policy titled “Ethics in an Unjust World.”

Adrienne: Who is Paul Ramsey and why is his voice so important?

Adam: Paul Ramsey was a professor in the Department of Religion at Princeton University for nearly forty years, from 1944-1982. His writings on war and nuclear power had a significant impact on Christian theological debates about just-war theory and pacifism. His writings on medicine and reproduction hugely influenced what we now call bioethics. Lamentably, he wrote very little about the movements for women’s rights and civil rights that were so important during the middle of the 20th century. Given his prominence in twentiethcentury Christian ethics, it’s important to remember both his contributions to the field and the ways in which he was slow to heed the significance of those movements for Christians. Perhaps it is also worth mentioning that in addition to his academic work, Ramsey was a committed Methodist, proud husband, father, and grandfather, and a regular Sunday school teacher in his local congregation.

Adrienne: The description of your book on Eerdmans’ website states that this work “will appeal to a wide swath of scholars and students in Christian ethics and political theology.” In what way does the content of this book show up in the class on ethics that you teach at Duke?

Adam: Ramsey took very seriously the responsibility that persons in power have to those who are powerless. This is why he was so concerned to help Christian doctors, soldiers, and politicians think carefully about the significance of their faith for their public work. But he also tended to overlook the ways in which communities that do not have traditional forms of 4

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power can still push for important political and social goods. (Indeed, this is precisely what he would have learned from the feminist and civil rights movements if he had given them more attention in his writings.) So my course in Public Policy does focus on the ethics of those who hold power — we call this “working for.” Most students who enter the course are training to be doctors, lawyers, or social servants, so they are familiar with these powerful roles. But I also ask students to reflect on the ways in which a community that lacks traditional forms of power — say, a community without significant wealth or property — can nonetheless be powerful agents of their own. I ask the students to think about what it means to try “working with” or “being with” the poor, even if it means laying down their own positions of power. Those who remember former Chapel Dean Sam Wells will recognize that I inherited these concepts — working for, working with, and being with — from his teaching of this course for four years.

Adrienne: Can you tell us more about the outline of the course, and how it facilitates students’ learning?

Adam: The course asks the question “How can we fix poverty?” This, of course, begs three additional questions: What is poverty? What does it mean to fix something? And who are we? So the first three weeks we explore metaphors of poverty: e.g., poverty as disease, poverty as trap, etc. This helps students begin to examine their own thoughts and assumptions about people and communities who are poor. Then we look at

eight different ways of thinking about ethics: e.g., utilitarianism, virtue ethics, etc. This is mostly infuriating for students, because they just want me to tell them which one is best. (I don’t.) Instead of teaching ethics as a way of being right, I teach ethics as a way of talking to people. So the reason they learn different forms of ethics is so that they know how to talk to people who think differently from them and employ different reasoning from them. Lastly, we look at several examples of practice under the heading of working for, working with, and being with. This is where the class really gets exciting. We take several trips to Durham organizations for what I call “being-servedlearning.” I also bring in alumni whose careers fit into the working for, working with, and being with categories to discuss their understanding of service. This year we have a public defender from Atlanta, GA, an education non-profit director from Washington, DC, and a pediatric palliative care chaplain from UNC hospital speaking to the class.

The students benefit greatly from hearing practitioners from a variety of sectors discuss their lives and their work.

Adrienne: Can you say more about “being-served-learning”?

Adam: There are many wonderful “servicelearning” courses at Duke, and I am serving this year as a Fellow in the Service Learning Program at Duke. But I call the trips into Durham for this course “being-served-learning.” With each visit, students are experiencing a service being performed for their benefit, rather than serving others. It is a change from their normal interactions with Durham through student clubs and service organizations. For instance, students go to Urban Ministries of Durham, where they stand in line, receive a meal, and eat alongside new companions, instead of serving food from behind the counter. They also attend Durham City Council meetings, where decisions are made that will affect their university and their city. I remember one year a business that was relocating to Durham was allowed to speak without limit as they announced job creation numbers and requested tax breaks from the city. Then city residents were allowed to speak and they were confined to two minutes. We had a wonderful discussion about power and speech after that meeting.

Adrienne: How has the course changed since you’ve been at the Chapel?

Adam: Of course I inherited Ethics in an Unjust World from former Chapel Dean Sam Wells. The structure of the course and its core themes are still his. But I have made it my own over the last three years, and I’m happy to say that the students have responded well to my teaching. This year we have 77 students enrolled, which is almost double last year’s number. The first day of class there was a palpable buzz in the room that was unlike anything I’ve ever heard in one of my own courses.

It’s wonderful that the students bring such energy and enthusiasm to the course.

I am serving this year as a Fellow in the Service Learning Program at Duke. But I call the trips into Durham for this course “beingserved-learning.”

Adrienne: The Chapel’s mission is to be a “church without walls.” How do you see this idea intersecting with your work in theology and ethics?

Adam: Some students find their way to Duke Chapel, and some do not. So we try to find our way to them, whether it’s in the classroom, on campus, or beyond. In that way, my teaching Ethics in an Unjust World in Public Policy is no different than our meetings with students over coffee at Joe Van Gogh, our “Porch Conversations” at the PathWays house, or our mission trip to Costa Rica each spring. We do these things not because students desperately need us, but because God is at work in their lives and in ours. We do these things because we believe that when we go into the world, God meets us there, in one another.

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or years one of my colleagues had an email signature that read, “Duke Chapel: More than just a building!” I always loved this reminder that Duke Chapel wasn’t just about soaring ceilings, stained-glass, and mighty organs.

I know this building as a church where people gather regularly for small group study, potlucks, mission trips, service projects, mourning, and celebration. Being on staff has only deepened my appreciation of all the beautiful people who compose this corner of God’s kingdom.

And yet, as we inch closer to the Chapel’s nave closing, I look around on Sunday mornings and my heart could burst from all the love I’ve developed for the actual building, with its limestone, window colors, and architectural grandeur, all of which has come to signify “church home” to me. While I very clearly know that Duke Chapel is more than just a building, I also know that for many of us, the building is at least part of what sets the tone for our encounter with Christ—it is sacred, and holy, and safe space. I lament that we have to have a temporary parting with this building that has embraced us as its people and also led us to more fully embrace God. However, sometimes a change of location is a real gift. I have a friend who says “when God wants to teach you something, He sends you on a trip!” A change of scenery can teach you new things about yourself and new things about God. In fact, two of my favorite services each year take place outside the Chapel’s walls—the Stations of the Cross procession and the Easter Sunrise service.

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More than just a building

The procession of Stations of the Cross involves a solemn parade across the Chapel quad on Good Friday.

Purple banners mark each station, with responsive prayers spoken as a small group enacts a vivid tableau.

The service picks up participants as it goes along. Observers see the gathering and come close to learn more. The public component of the story draws them. I love seeing the crowd grow as we journey together around the quad and into the Chapel building. It’s easy to dwell in the safety of the Chapel walls and to forget we have a story to tell outside its walls, and that the story has power. The Good Friday service reminds me that when we tell God’s story, others are drawn into it.

The Easter Sunrise service reminds me that all creation proclaims the victory of resurrection. The women first encountered the risen Jesus in a garden, and we too celebrate the risen Lord in Duke Gardens with new life bursting as flowers bloom, birds chirp, and the dew on the grass glistens as a testimony that God’s mercies are new each morning.

While it will be difficult to be away from Duke Chapel’s building, the move to new locations throughout the year is an opportunity for the Chapel community to learn more about who we are and who God is in a new way.

It will be an opportunity to remember our ancestors who also spent time in a land that wasn’t “home.” For some, this may feel like a season of wilderness, and for others, a season of possibility. I find myself somewhere in between, wondering what God might teach us on this journey. What gifts might we discover in the year to come?

— Meghan Benson, Director of Worship

HOUSE COURSE

Missions to the World House courses compose an integral part of the educational experience at Duke University. They are courses of study led by undergraduate students with an interest in subjects for which there are no courses offered.

Duke Chapel has been hosting and assisting a house course for several years, which focuses on the study of Christian mission work and the traditional process in which this work is carried out. The students in the course also delve into the changing world of mission work in the twenty-first century and its effect on those who are involved.

Alexis MacDermott, a student and co-leader of the house course this year, explains that she enjoys how the students in the course are, “challenging strict missionary work and delving into the ethics” behind the mission work.

The students are studying and discussing “what parts of missionary work are worth continuing and what parts have become old and jaded.”

The course is not meant to serve as an apology for the continuing necessity of missions, but rather as a critical study of how students can more effectively perform mission work.

One challenge the students in the course have faced thus far lies in under-

standing how their mission work will serve as beneficial to the receiving community. Specifically, how will the receiving community benefit from their visit as opposed to benefiting from resources that could be sent if the students simply collected money and stayed home? Fortunately, the group of students in this particular house course will have the opportunity to answer this question through direct experience.

Duke Chapel has worked with the group of students currently enrolled in the course to coordinate a mission trip to Costa Rica during the University’s spring break. In Costa Rica, the students’ goal will be to assist with construction projects and “develop meaningful relationships” with the community, with the hope of “going back year after year.”

MacDermott relates the “lasting effects” of the trip to their ability to sustain partnership in the future, as opposed to a form of missions work where students “come in for a week, leave, and then forget about it.”

As students have been discussing the lasting effects of mission trips during this semester, the mutuality of benefits between the giver and receiver of mission work has become a recurrent theme in the course. MacDermott explains that in many ways, the roles of ‘giver’ and ‘receiver,’ as the students often imagine them, are sometimes exchanged. The students are no longer, “just thinking of it in

terms of ‘we’re helping them’ but also ‘they’re helping us.’” She hopes that, “the relationships that we will be forming will help build the relationship between all of us and God.” Duke Chapel has had the opportunity to assist in coordinating the mission trip for the course over the past few years. The hope is that this partnership will continue to grow and serve individuals in Costa Rica as well as students at Duke. The Chapel plays a substantial role in financing and coordinating the mission trip in addition to assisting the instruction of the course itself. The involvement of the Chapel in the house course allows the students to focus more acutely on their study of missions.

As the students in this course continue to develop their understanding of missions, they are able to study, discuss, and explore new frontiers for ministry beyond the walls of the Church building itself. Although the Chapel remains a physical symbol of the gathering place for worshippers of Christ, the ministry of those within its walls extends to the world through the students in this house course. If the logic of this house course is true, then perhaps the Chapel’s ministry of missions that extends beyond its walls also, in turn, ministers to those within its walls — right here, in Durham and at Duke.

— David Putnam, Chapel Communications Aide, Duke Divinity Student Outside the Walls | Missions to the World

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Updated Schedule of Events and Services During Restoration of Duke Chapel Locations during the restoration year for events and services normally held in the Chapel are: University worship services, 11 a.m. Sundays Baldwin Auditorium on East Campus during the summer of 2015 and then Page Auditorium in the Flowers Building during the 2015-2016 academic year Choral Vespers worship services, 5:15 p.m. Thursdays when classes are in session Goodson Chapel, Duke Divinity School Midweek Prayer services, noon Wednesdays when classes are in session Chapel basement Catholic Mass, 9 p.m. Sundays Goodson Chapel, Duke Divinity School Catholic Mass, noon Mondays and Wednesdays Chapel conference room Christmas Eve worship services, Dec. 24, 2015 Cameron Indoor Stadium Maundy Thursday service, March 24, 2016 Goodson Chapel, Duke Divinity School Good Friday services, March 25, 2016 Page Auditorium, Flowers Building Easter Day worship services, March 27, 2016 Sunrise service in Duke Gardens (rain location is Page Auditorium) and 11 a.m. service in Cameron Indoor Stadium The Chapel carillon will continue to be played at most of its customary times: 5 p.m. on weekdays and on Sundays before and after the 11 a.m. worship service Meetings of various Religious Life groups in the Chapel basement offices, lounge and kitchen will continue on their regular schedules.

Some events normally held in the Chapel will not occur during the restoration period, including Chapel organ recitals and Tuesday evening communion services.

Updates on events, services, and the restoration project will be available on the Chapel website at chapel.duke.edu/contact/restoration.

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“I am reminded by this restoration project that we are caretakers of a grand, sacred building that will continue as a place of reflection, worship, prayer, and celebration long after we leave. We are grateful to our colleagues across campus who are so hospitably offering the use of their spaces throughout the coming year. Closing the doors of the building for a time also gives the Chapel an opportunity to live as ‘a church without walls’.

Just as Jesus broke down the dividing wall between humankind and God, the Chapel’s ministry will continue beyond these walls to bridge God’s reconciling love and the people of Duke and Durham.”

—The Rev. Dr. Luke A. Powery, Dean of Duke Chapel

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The Face of a Friend Beginning with the current issue, this space will profile a Friend of Duke Chapel, providing opportunities for Friends to tell their Chapel stories.

Thanks to our first, Kristen Blackman, for her steadfast Chapel support and dedication.

Kristen Blackman T’03 Q: What brought you to the Chapel?

A: I’ve sung in church choirs since the age of six. Worship and music have always been important to me, so when I came to Duke in the fall of 1999, I joined the Chapel Choir. I soon realized that the choir’s high musical standards and intensity of expression went far beyond “your average church choir.” In addition, the theological depth of the sermons, the liturgy, and the sense of community at the Chapel exceeded my expectations. I have been part of the Chapel Choir and community since the first week of my freshman year.

Q: Why do you stay involved?

A: The biggest reason is the people. I’ve formed significant friendships through the Choir and the Congregation, sharing not only worship and music, but also lunches and choir trips, Bible studies and service projects. I feel incredibly blessed by the many ways that the Chapel has enriched my life.

Q: What is your hope for the future?

A: I’ve seen such a cultural shift in America. Going to church is not necessarily as high of a priority. My hope is that the Chapel can grow and flourish by finding ways to let young people know how meaningful and life-giving participation in a worshipping community can be. I trust that the renovation year ahead will remind us that we are a Christian community even when we are outside of our beautiful gothic home.

— Beth Gettys Sturkey, Director of Development

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Years of Music at Duke Chapel Mike: What made you decide to make Duke, and the Chapel, your professional home?

Rodney: Before I visited Duke in 1981 to see firsthand the acoustical treatment of the Chapel walls, to consider doing the same thing to Rockefeller Chapel at the University of Chicago, I couldn’t even have told you that Duke was in North Carolina. I was impressed with the size of the choir and the level of the preaching that I saw in the Sunday worship service. When I was asked to apply for the position of Director of the Duke Chorale in 1984, I had the chance to work with the students in rehearsal and get to know them a bit. What I saw was a lot of potential and a willingness to work hard on making really good music. By 1989, when Will Willimon, then Dean of the Chapel, asked me to serve as Director of Chapel Music, I had already had a chance to rehearse and perform with the Chapel Choir during the interim year after the passing of former Director of Chapel Music J. Benjamin Smith.

That experience had already starting forging bonds with the singers and sensing their excitement about the possibilities for further musical development. Add to that Dean Willimon’s commitment to strong support of the music program on the part of the Chapel, and the decision to lead the music program here was in some sense an easy one to make.

Rodney: The fact that I continue to be gratified by the work here is largely due to the many wonderful people who comprise the Chapel Choir, the staff, and the worshipping community. We experience changes and surprises all the time in our work at the Chapel, but the strong sense of being in a loving and supportive community has never diminished.

Mike: What has led you to stay at Duke Chapel for so many years?

Rodney: There are so many that come to mind! The Chapel Choir’s trips and tours all carry memories that no amount of time will extinguish, but I have written about these elsewhere, so I’ll skip them here. Among the most memorable aspects of my time here has been those times when the Chapel and the choir have responded to tragedies, both local and international. The memorial concert for those who died in the September 11 attacks in the fall of 2001, as well as the 10th anniversary memorial concert in 2011, were both planned in response to an overwhelming need on the part of our community to come together to mourn and to remember. The feeling in the Chapel on those two occasions was unlike any other I can remember, and it felt both appropriate and healing to share music in such troubling circumstances. The Chapel has turned to choral music in our worship services to provide a measure of healing for several other tragedies, including Mike: After 25 years of service at the Chapel, what memories stand out to you?

Hurricane Katrina and the Newtown massacre. More locally, the Chapel Choir created a special concert in 2009 for Congregation member Mike Arneson and his family, in order to offer music and prayers of healing for him and to raise money to assist with the huge medical bills that resulted from Mike’s terrible bicycle accident.

I will also mention the installation services for Deans Sam Wells and Luke Powery, both of which seemed so strongly to embody the leadership styles of these men.

There are so many other strong memories of the past 25 years that come to mind, and I think that in great part the reason for this is that so much of what we do at the Chapel is deeply meaningful and makes a difference in people’s lives.

Chapel Music Administrator, Mike Lyle, interviews Rodney Wynkoop, Director of Chapel Music, and Conductor of the Duke Chapel Choir, regarding his more than 25 years of musical leadership at Duke Chapel.

Rodney: When I think about worship at Duke Chapel, I think especially about our glorious Easter services, with all the brass and the organs and the singing by choir and congregation. Whether it is a service that includes the overwhelming sounds of Mahler’s Resurrection Symphony, David Arcus’s “Song of Triumph,” or other Easter choral music, there are few worship experiences more triumphant and uplifting than Easter at Duke Chapel. And probably no service music has touched the hearts of more worshippers here than the closing choir benediction, John Rutter’s “God Be in My Head.”

The singing of this lovely piece is closely identified with worship at Duke Chapel, and has been for 25 years.

Mike: When you think about worship at Duke Chapel, what comes to mind?

Mike: What’s your most memorable concert performance?

Rodney: There are so many concert performances that seem particularly memorable to me. Every year’s Messiah is a revelation, I think, bringing an incomparable depth of meaning to the Advent and Christmas season. Among the many spring oratorio works that the Chapel Choir has performed, I recall with a particular sense of gratitude David Fanshawe’s African Sanctus in 2001, Bach’s St. Matthew Passion in 2003, Verdi’s Requiem in 2005, the Brahms Requiem in 2013, and the American premiere of James MacMillan’s St. Luke Passion last spring. Whether because a work stretched the abilities or musical perspectives of the choir, or whether an already brilliant performance was dramatically enhanced by the sound of hail striking the Chapel roof or wind banging the transept doors open and shut, or whether the performers all just seemed to capture the very essence of the music, these performances have taken on a life and a resonance of their own in my heart and in the collective memory of the Chapel Choir.

All the concerts, together with so many shared worship experiences here, have made for a unbelievably meaningful, incredibly rewarding 25 years at the Chapel, for which I am so deeply grateful.

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Media Partnership Expands Messiah Audience Around the World

For 81 years

Duke Chapel has put on a concert of Handel’s Messiah. The Chapel Choir’s performances of the eighteenth-century oratorio this past December fell into this long tradition with a 25-piece orchestra and four soloists with national reputations.

New this year, however, in addition to a combined threeday audience of about 3,000 in the Chapel, there was also a global audience of listeners who tuned in online and via radio stations on four continents. The international broadcast was thanks to a collaboration with Trans World Radio (TWR), a Christian media organization that broadcasts biblically based programs in numerous languages and dialects.

The partnership came about through a relationship between Beth Gettys Sturkey, the Chapel’s Director of Development, and Barbara and Steven Shantz, Friends of Duke Chapel who both work for TWR. The concert coincided with TWR’s 60th anniversary, which prompted the Shantzes to come up with the idea for the broadcast.

“We saw an opportunity for TWR to do something special for our listeners by offering this global celebration of Christ’s birth by broadcasting a choral work believed to be known worldwide,” said Barbara Shantz.

With audio engineering by Durham’s VoChor digital recording services, the live sound from the Messiah performances on Dec. 5 and 6 was sent around the world.

A listener in Malawi wrote to say, “It feels like angels singing, [ I ] am inspired.” Another person listening to the broadcast posted to Twitter: “I close my eyes, and I’m there in the midst of those stone walls, hearing those glorious Gospel words!”

The broadcasts also included commentary and interviews by David Hartman, the original host of ABC’s 12

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“Good Morning America” and current host of North Carolina Symphony radio broadcasts.

“Good morning, good afternoon, good evening to all of you, wherever you are in the world,” Hartman said to begin the broadcast. “We’re coming to you from the beautiful, Neo-Gothic Chapel at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, United States.”

Hartman followed his opening remarks with an interview with Dr. Rodney Wynkoop, Director of Chapel Music and Conductor of the Chapel Choir. The pre-recorded exchanges between the two, before the performance and during the intermission, provided listeners with context for the live music. Much of the interview involved describing different sections of the music and offering insights as to how they bring the story of Messiah to life.

For example, Wynkoop explained how the words “and the glory of the Lord” are treated musically by Handel. “On the first statement of it, the choir leaps up to the word ‘glory,’ representing perhaps the fact that glory is coming from above,” said Wynkoop. “And, on the second statement of the word ‘glory,’ the chorus sings through that word and on to the word ‘Lord,’ suggesting that it’s through His glory that we can reach the Lord above.”

A listener in Johannesburg, South Africa, appreciated the background information given in the interviews, writing, “A great insight into what goes into a masterpiece of each section of this [music].”

In total, nearly a thousand people in 25 countries tuned in to the audio webcast of the two live broadcasts. That is in addition to many thousands more who listened to the broadcasts on TWR partner radio stations in the Philippines, Spain, Uruguay, and South Africa.

While it is hard to know many details about this global audience, comments from listeners seem to indicate a mix of people familiar with, as well as new to, the Chapel’s Messiah concerts. For example, one person posted on Twitter: “Soaking in Duke Chapel Choir singing the Messiah — live online! And all flesh shall hear it together! Thx Rodney & choir!” Another person in Africa wrote, “What a beautiful ‘piece’ of music: what a beautiful message and what a delightful presentation, such depth and colour.”

One common reaction to the broadcast was that of inspiration. As one listener commented on Twitter, “What a finale! ‘Blessing, honor, glory, and power be unto Him, forever and ever! Amen!’

—James Todd, Multimedia Manager

Building Bridges with Each Breath

moving beyond the Chapel walls

The Christian life is a lot like breathing: it’s filled with inhaling and exhaling, being inspired by the Spirit, and expiring in faithful response.

Breathe in; breathe out. The Biblical author Paul uses the metaphor of the body to talk about the Church.

Christ’s Church inhales and exhales.

It is filled with the Spirit, and by the Spirit, it breathes out. Move in; move out. The movement in and out of Sunday morning worship is a similar kind of breathy movement.

The church building is filled with people offering worship to God and being graced by the Spirit’s presence: breathe in. The church building clears as people leave to worship God in the world: breathe out.

As a Chapel, we strive to be a church “without walls,” which is to say, a church that breathes out. Of course, we give considerable attention to our weekly worship in all of its forms, but to focus solely on the worship that happens within the walls of the Chapel would be akin to taking a deep breath and never letting it out. Try it. Take a deep breath, and see if you can keep it in. How did it go? Hopefully before passing out, you realized this kind of one-way breathing can’t sustain your life. One-way Christianity can’t sustain the Christian life either.

The Chapel exhales when it practices being a church “without walls.”

The Chapel prioritizes this exhaling in student ministry through PathWays Summer Internships, PathWays Fellowships, mission trips, and Durham engagement opportunities. Each of these provides students and former students opportunities to learn, serve, and have their hearts and minds transformed. The Chapel emphasizes exhaling when partnering with

Humanitarian Service Award: Presented to those committed to service and simplicity in Durham.

To focus solely on the worship that happens within the walls of the Chapel would be akin to taking a deep breath and never letting it out. organizations throughout Durham to support their work. The Chapel’s partnerships come in the form of financial support as well as the physical presence of Chapel worshipers in acts of service, hospitality, and prayer.

When I think of the ways the Chapel embodies being a church “without walls,” I think of the Chapel’s relationship with the Religious Coalition for a Non-violent Durham (RCND).

Among other things, RCND’s work involves prayer vigils at the sites of homicides in Durham, as well as convening community roundtable meetings, and faith teams for exoffenders. The Chapel’s faith team has partnered with at least six sisters and brothers returning from prison over the last seven years. Chapel worshipers offer the gift of presence and prayer to families suffering from the violent loss of a loved one by attending vigils. Faithful presence at, and

participation in, the vigils are Spiritfilled exhalations. Breathing out with RCND continues at community roundtable meetings. These meetings give community members opportunities for connection with people of faith who are passionate about addressing the needs of the Durham community.

Those who attend the roundtable meetings regularly learn of new ways to move beyond the walls of the church.

This is but one partnership, one organization with which the Chapel partners to breathe out in Durham.

There are others, too many to share in this article. Yet learning about the partnerships of the Chapel is one vital way to learn to breathe out. The Chapel communicates information about its partnerships through bulletin announcements, magazine articles, the engagement opportunities emails, and the Community Connection blog.

Each form of communication offers a unique way of learning about the work in Durham in which the Chapel participates. Visit these places to learn ways you can join other Chapel worshipers in breathing out; in moving beyond the Chapel walls.

— Bruce Puckett, Director of Community Ministry

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Bridging Cultures with Hallelujahs Would you like to travel around and see the world? Would you like to do that with 100 or more of your favorite people? That’s what the Chapel Choir has done on numerous occasions in the last 20 years or so. Imagine seven buses full of singers and family members, driving around China in 1997. What’s more, imagine 7 buses unloading all 215 passengers at a restaurant. Excuse me, sir, do you have a table for 215?

The China tour was the brainchild of Keith and Brenda Brodie not long after the end of his tenure as President of Duke University. The Brodies paid for the Chapel Choir and the Duke Chorale to visit and perform in four major Chinese cities—Nanjing, Shanghai, and Hangzhou—where for the most part they sang to large and enthusiastic audiences in major con-

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cert halls. We were awed by the sight of the Great Wall, and then cavorted all over it. We visited places that most of them could scarcely ever imagine seeing: the Forbidden City, Tiananmen Square, the Temple of Heaven, and so many others.

One of the most touching moments of the entire China tour, however, wasn’t about seeing sights but about

connecting with people. We were in a large room in a department store, sharing a rehearsal with a Chinese choir when, after singing many songs for one another, the choirs yearned for something they could sing together.

Upon learning that the Duke choirs knew Handel’s Hallelujah Chorus from Messiah, the Chinese singers called out gleefully “Know Hallelujah!” and the choirs intermingled on the risers to try singing it together. What followed was a revelation—when the Chinese singers discovered to their delight that the Duke singers were singing from actual printed music, and the Duke singers saw to their shock that the Chinese singers were reading from crude hand-written charts—followed by some of the most joyful music that anyone in the room had ever heard or could imagine. The joy of discovering a commonality with singers from the other choir, in the form of music that everyone truly loved, created a palpable thrill that made the music soar far beyond the scope of that department store. Ask anyone who was there, and they will still get goosebumps at the memory of it.

And it is so often the human connections that most fundamentally define the concert tours of the Chapel Choir. On the 1993 trip by the Chapel Choir and the Chorale to Poland and the Czech Republic, also a gift of the Brodies, two things probably touched choir members more than anything else on the trip. The first occurred during a worship service in Rzeszów inside a bitterly cold church on New Year’s Day, when the aged, stony, and expressionless faces of the Polish congregation suddenly were warmed by streaming tears as the sounds of an old Polish lullaby carol were heard coming

from the Duke choirs. The second took place on a visit to Auschwitz, when, after seeing the horrifying collections of eye glasses and shoes of the condemned Jewish victims, the choirs were shown a pole where prisoners were sometimes forced to stand for hours or even days, even in winter, and often in tattered, skimpy clothes. On this bitterly cold day, we shivered inside our goosedown coats and shook our heads, unable to comprehend the horror of what our fellow human beings endured.

It is experiences like these, when we recognize the humanity that makes up other people, that give choir trips their deepest meaning and purpose. The Chapel Choir has seen some truly remarkable places around the world and has had some incredible experiences—singing Handel’s Messiah in 1995 with an English orchestra in St. Martin-in-the-Fields in London, seeing the Alhambra and the Seville Cathedral in 2006, seeing St. Stephen’s Cathedral and all the other landmarks in Vienna, and following the footsteps of the apostle Paul in Athens, Corinth, Philippi, and Thessaloniki during the 2011 trip to Greece and Turkey—but what shapes us most and leaves the most long-lasting impression on us is those moments—often completely unexpected—when we find ourselves most closely connected with our fellow human beings—and through them to God. One can only imagine what might happen during the choir trip to Germany at the end of this coming December and early January that will most define the trip. Perhaps it will be singing Messiah in one of Bach’s churches in Leipzig. More likely, it will be a chance experience with other people, in which we recognize common humanity in others we meet in a place far away from home.

— Rodney Wynkoop, Director of Chapel Music

STAFF UPDATES Welcome • Taylor Knight, Visitor Relations Specialist Taylor is a 2014 graduate of Duke University with a Bachelor of Science in Economics. While his undergraduate experience was great in its own right, Taylor’s connection with the Chapel truly made his experience a special one. As an undergraduate, he worked closely with the Chapel PathWays program. Two of his favorite PathWays memories include volunteering in Costa Rica and reading scripture in the Chapel on Sundays.

As a native Virginian, Taylor is accustomed to the South’s inconsistent weather; however, the Triangle area has served as his home away from home. In his free time, he enjoys cheering on Duke’s basketball and football teams, eating at various restaurants in Durham and, most importantly, listening to his grandmother overanalyze her favorite soap operas.

Taylor will remain Visitor Relations Specialist until the Chapel restoration begins this coming May. Thank You • Andrew Klumpp, former Visitor Relations Specialist Andrew Klumpp received a full-time faculty appointment at his alma mater, Northwestern College, where he is currently teaching Christian history for the spring semester.

Andrew will return to Durham to curate an event highlighting the history of Duke Chapel in the spring of 2016. Duke Chapel will partner with Duke University Archives and the Duke University Library Systems to display an exhibit titled, “A Great Towering Church.” This exhibit will feature photographs, artifacts, music, articles, and original research from throughout the 80 years since the Chapel’s dedication in 1935.

It will highlight events ranging from the first female preacher (Georgia Harkness in 1939) to the storied traditions associated with the annual performance of Handel’s Messiah.

This exhibit highlights the many roles Duke Chapel plays throughout Duke University, Durham, and the American Southeast. Photos of both the building and the men and women who gave life to this grandiose Chapel over the past eight decades will appear alongside artifacts such as the original cross and candlesticks used during the Chapel’s dedication in 1935, as well as choir robes, and decades of bulletins and programs. Through interactive features, it will provide opportunities to experience the thrilling sounds of Duke Chapel’s organs, choirs, and carillon, as well as the voices of some of the Chapel’s most beloved and renowned preachers, such as Desmond Tutu, Peter Storey, Barbara Brown Taylor, James Forbes, and Billy Graham.

Collectively, this exhibit invites Duke University, Durham, and the broad community of Duke Chapel to encounter the stories of the men and women who have called this place home, have participated in its vibrant life through sermons, music, and hospitality, and have helped to cultivate the legacy of James Buchanan Duke’s ‘Great Towering Church.’

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50 years behind the bells

The Chapel Carillonneur J. Samuel Hammond

When the sun is shining just right, you can usually see the bells in the steeple of the Chapel.

But the set of bells, known as a “carillon,” aren’t the only thing in the top of Duke’s most iconic building. Right below them sits a small office with sheet music, the bell ringing apparatus and J. Samuel Hammond, who plays the carillon every weekday at 5 p.m.

“It was something I thought I would do for the rest of my undergraduate years, but I just never left,” said Hammond, who began playing under the mentorship of a graduate student when he arrived as a first-year student at Duke in 1964.

Hammond received an undergrad– uate degree in history from Trinity College of Arts and Sciences in 1968 and a Masters degree in theological studies from the Duke Divinity School in 1996.

Though he initially intended to study the organ while a student, Hammond quickly fell in love with the carillon, which he says is unlike any other instrument.

“The carillon is so entirely different from any other keyboard or other type of instrument that the technique of playing the organ or piano is in and of itself not of much use,” Hammond said.

Though the carillon is controlled by giant wooden keys, it is more like a percussion instrument in the way it functions. When hit with closed fists, the wooden keys pull metal cables which run through the ceiling of the carillon room to the bells themselves, where iron clappers are pulled to ring the bell.

“It’s completely mechanical,” Hammond said. “We’ve got electric lights, but there’s nothing about the instrument that is electric at all. Both the playing and the generation of the sound is mechanical and quite natural. It is, in design, a very primitive instrument, which is one of the things that makes it a pleasure to play because there’s not much between the player and the actual maker of the sound.”

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bells were cast in England by the John Taylor Bellfounders, who have been [casting bells] since the 14th century.

In 1992, the carillon mechanism was deconstructed and renovated to ensure the continued functionality of the bells.

“The bells are exactly the same as were put in in 1932, but the playing mechanism was replaced,” Hammond said. “The first few weeks of playing it after the restoration was musically a high point, because it was a quantum leap in the way it played and sounded.”

Everyday, Hammond pulls several pieces of music from the Chapel’s carillon repertoire, which fills a bookcase and a file cabinet in Hammond’s office.

The office also contains a smaller practice bell set. The style of music varies throughout the year, Hammond noted.

“I try as best I can to follow the church year, but if there are other occasions for which there is some musical way to take note of them — say Valentine’s Day or the Fourth of July — and if I’ve got the wit to know of a piece of music which would be suitable, I’ll try to include that,” Hammond said.

In addition to the Duke Chapel’s carillon, Hammond has played carillons throughout the country. He also plays a recital at the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee most summers.

“Every instrument is different, even if it’s made by the same foundry in the same year,” Hammond said. “It’s an enriching and sometimes challenging experience [to play other carillons] because there’s no standard size for a carillon, so you have to know and be able to adjust what you’re going to do.”

Fortunately, the upcoming renovations to the Chapel will not affect the playing schedule of the carillon, he says.

“The restoration work is all taking place in the [nave] of the Chapel, and, as far as I know, there’s no work planned on the tower,” Hammond said. “I’ve been told that I’ll still have access because the building will [close] to everybody, but they were willing to make an exception so that we can pretend that everything is normal.”

— Alex Griffith, Duke Chronicle

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