[Magdalen] Student Ministry News.

[Grace Cangialosi]

Oh, David, I sincerely hope the building is nothing like the National Shrine....

> On Mar 3, 2017, at 10:36 AM, Cantor03--- via Magdalen <magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:
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> I noted in the USA monthly, "Diapason" magazine, a picture
> of authorities at the UW-Madison RC Saint Paul's Chapel
> signing a contract with Boody & Taylor for a new 41 stop
> organ for the new Saint Paul's Chapel.  The whole Chapel
> project is $46 million, and is being built with private,
> apparently non-diocesan funds.
> 
> I am happy to see such an instrument which will hopefully
> minimize the use of guitars, banjos, and ukuleles.  They
> can't go wrong with Boody & Taylor out of Stanton, VA.
> 
> The architect's drawing shows the new Chapel design to
> be of a traditional vocabulary, and vaguely reminiscent of
> the USA National RC Shrine in Washington, DC.
> 
> The new construction, to be done this autumn, replaces the
> 50 year old poured concrete "bunker" Chapel that most resembled
> to me an installation of the French Maginot Line which I toured
> some years ago.
> 
> That 50 year old bunker replaced a neogothic Chapel which 
> had served the University Catholic Community for an earlier
> half century.  
> 
> Meanwhile, TEC UW Saint Francis Center Tudor and Romanesque
> revival buildings were moved to the edge of their property in
> order to build a 6 story apartment building which will apparently
> defray the student center costs.  UM-Minnesota did much the
> same manuever.
> 
> David Strang - In the Pennsylvania Poconos.
>