Ocotber 8

Dedication

By wisdom a house is built, and through understanding it is established;
through knowledge its rooms are filled with rare and beautiful treasures.
Proverbs 24:3-4    

 

Staging Area

staging area      

The crowd gathers on a beautiful fall afternoon

crowd gathers    

Roger Espy delivers opening greetings

service of dedication      

Distinguished Guests of Honor

guests

Mary Jo Boman, benefactor, recieves her honorary award

Mary Jo Bomen

Joy Heebink, faculty representative - Heather Nelson, student president -
Jim Kapoun, library director all recieve keys to the library

receiving keys

Statue 'Transformation' Dedicated

transformation

THE PROGRAM

Prelude…………...………………………………..………….…Ambassador Brass
                                                                         Dr. Thomas Hunt
                                                  Director of Instrumental Music

Beauty and Truth                                                Pierre Passerea
La Rejouissance                                      Georg Friederich Handel
My Spirit Be Joyful                                    Johann Sebastian Bach
The Heavens Declare the Glory of God             Benedetto Marcello
All arrangements by Douglas Smith

Welcome……....................................................Mr. Roger Espe ’62
                                                     Board of Regents Chairperson

Musical Offering………“L'isle joyeux”  Claude Debussy (1862-1918) 
                                                                     Kristín Jónína Taylor
                                                        Assistant Professor of Piano

Invocation…………..……………… …...…….Campus Pastor Charlene Cox

PASTOR: And the one who was seated on the throne said,
ASSEMBLY: See, I am making all things new; I am the Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end.
PASTOR: Lord, we praise you for this glorious day, a new day of promise and opportunity, a new day for learning and exploration, a new day of light and life and hope.
ASSEMBLY: Lord, you make all things new!
PASTOR: Lord, this is a day in which we give thanks for Waldorf College, for the faithful service of our servant Luise V. Hanson and for the generations that have gone before us. For all who quest for knowledge and truth has brought us to this day, for all who will lead us forward into the new day of your future, we give you thanks.
ASSEMBLY: Lord, you make all things new!
PASTOR: Lord, with boldness and anticipation, we look forward to that future—not just any future, but the future you have promised, where peace and justice will reign and be proclaimed and lived. Lord, empower us by your spirit that we may bodily claim the new day of your future.
ASSEMBLY: Lord, you make all things new!

Prayer……….........………………………………...…………………..…….Pastor Cox

Musical response:                                                                       “ Rare and Beautiful Treasures"                                        commissioned for the  dedication and composed by Nancy Farndale
                                                                    Cantor Blair Buffington                                 
Sung by the St Christopher Chorale
                                                                             Blair Blair Buffington                                                          Director of Choral Activities

Donor Recognition…………………….....….….President Richard Hanson
Naming of the Building

Ceremonial Passing of the Keys..………..…….….....President Hanson
                                          Mary Jo Boman ’57-Board of Regents
                            Heather Nelson ’07 Student Senate President
                                                    Joy Heebink, Faculty President
                                                        Jim Kapoun, Library Director

Transformation…...…...………………………...……..………President Hanson
                                                                        Mary Jo Boman ‘5
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Musical response:   “And the Glory of the Lord”
            From “The Messiah” George Frideric Handel ( 1685-1759) 
Sung by the St Christopher Chorale                            
                                                                              Blair Buffington
                                                  Accompanied by Nancy Farndale
                                                                            

Doxology, Prayer and Benediction…..............................Pastor Cox

Postlude……………………………....…………..………..……..Ambassador Brass
                                                                            Dr. Thomas Hunt
Prelude Te Deum                                      Marc Antoine Charpentier
Fanfares                                                            Jan Joseph Mouret
All arrangements by Douglas Smith

 

Luise V. Hanson Library 
Waldorf College
106 South 6th Street
Forest City, Iowa 50436
641-585-8110
October 11, 2005


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