A Decommissioning Service is planned for June 7th, 2008 at 10:00am.
Service activities will include a Historical Tribute to Hogue Hall, first-hand testimonials, music from the Alumni Choir, group prayer and a final bell toll.
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We have a wonderful article in our local newspaper (Decatur, IL) today (July 7)about this project. It is even on the front page, with a photo of Dr. Jordahl standing in front of Hogue Hall. The web page for our paper is
http://www.herald-review.com
My first memories of Greenville College are of Hogue Hall when visiting as a high school student and attending the “youth advance.” Memories were made and compounded from classrooms and faculty offices and even the studios of WGRN. The creak of the floors and even the distinct old-building-smell all remain. For this alumnus, who was taught, challenged, befriended, and initiated into the life of Christian scholarship in that venerable building, Hogue Hall will always be sacred space….a thin place where I experienced a wonder. “Still abides the memory ever” . . . indeed. It is a sad thought to think of GC without Hogue Hall, but, as Newman said, “to live is to change” and now we hold the memories and build space for new ones. Well done, first builders…well done, GC!
A grateful alumnus,
Rev. Steven Peay, Ph.D. (’76)
Wauwatosa, Wisconsin
This is so sad. I remember being so impressed by this historic building and all the huge old oak trees when I first came to visit and then later became a student. The hundreds of times I walked up those brick steps and up to the third floor to cross the catwalk to the practice rooms of 4th LaDue. Many times I sat on the sides of those steps and wrote in my journal as I watched the squirrels play under the trees. Finally filing through Hogue Hall for the ivy cutting ceremony when it was finally time to graduate. Hogue Hall holds a lot of memories for many people. I’m sure it will live on with all of us.
I have hesitated to make this comment as it is a bit humorous about an experience my wife and I had in Hogue Hall during the 1963-64 school year before we were married. She was a freshman that year and I was a sophomore living in Joy Hall. One Sunday after attending the FM Church and having lunch in the cafeteria, we were standing alone on the lower floor near the mailboxes sharing a few kisses when we heard some fellow students approach. I decided that we should duck into the nearby janitor’s closest until they left. In what seemed an eternity, we were in that janitor’s closet for several minutes afraid to step out and be “caught.” When the coast was finally clear, we emerged from the closet and that was the last time we pulled that stunt. We have often laughed about that time and we even reminisced about it while attending the decommissioning service back in June. Now that we have been happily married for 43 years, I guess our “secret closet” experience can be shared with our fellow GC alums.
David Altopp
Class of 1966
It was the photo of Hogue Hall that clinched my decision to attend Greenville College in 1986. Such a historic building epitomized the image of what a college should look like.
Many memories of walking those steps to see my advisor Dr Jordahl on the third floor, visiting with Dr Jensen, and also I remember my chats with Dr. Mac, poet in residence.
To me, it seems like sacrilege to let such a wonderful historic building be demolished. Yes, it had problems, but that was because of years of neglect by the college (when a problem existed, a bandage was put over it instead of actually fixing the problem!)Just look at the “new” library; this summer it already had problems that needed fixing! At least the college fixed this one instead of putting a bandage on it.
To understand sacrilege, here is a short definition:
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Sacrilege is the violation or injurious treatment of a sacred object. In a less proper sense, any transgression against the virtue of religion would be a sacrilege. It can come in the form of irreverence to sacred persons, places, and things. When the sacrilegious offense is verbal, it is called blasphemy. The term originates from the Latin sacer, sacred, and legere, to steal, as in Roman times it referred to the plundering of temples and graves. By the time of Cicero, sacrilege had adopted a more expansive meaning, including verbal offenses against religion and undignified treatment of sacred objects.
Most ancient religions have a concept analogous to sacrilege, often considered as a type of taboo. The basic idea is that sacred objects are not to be treated in the same way as other objects.
With the advent of Christianity as the official Roman religion, the Emperor Theodosius criminalized sacrilege in an even more expansive sense, including heresy and schism, and offenses against the emperor, including tax evasion.
By the Middle Ages, the concept of sacrilege was again restricted to physical acts against sacred objects, and this forms the basis of all later Catholic teaching on the subject.
In post-Reformation England, sacrilege was a criminal offense for centuries, though its statutory definition varied considerably. Most English dictionaries of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries appealed to the primary sense of stealing objects from a church.
Most modern nations have abandoned laws against sacrilege out of respect for freedom of expression, save in cases where there is an injury to persons or property. In the United States, the Supreme Court case Burstyn v. Wilson (1952) struck down a statute against sacrilege, ruling that the term could not be narrowly defined in a way that would safeguard against the establishment of one church over another, and that such statutes infringed upon the free exercise of religion and freedom of expression.
Despite their decriminalization, sacrilegious acts are still often regarded with public opprobrium, even by non-adherents of the offended religion, especially when these acts are perceived as manifestations of hatred toward a particular sect or creed.
Will the replacement building last over 150 years? I hope so, but rather doubt it.
Hey Donald,
are you from torrington ct lived on east main street if so get in touch with me bud.leave a post here and i will get back to you.
scott
Yes I am! Write me at my email address. By the way, are you a student at GC? Or what was your interest to bring you to this site?
docgalenadams@gmail.com