Approx 5:00 a.m.
St. Lawrence Safety
& Security personnel
discover flames erupting
from top of chapel bell
tower and spire.
October 6,
2013
October 7,
2013
December 11,
2013
5:07 a.m.
Call placed to Canton
Fire Department.
5:11 a.m.
First firefighters arrive.
5:27 a.m.
Weakened spire,
still smoldering,
falls in high winds;
restoration planning
has already begun.
Candlelight Service
takes place in Leithead
Field House, its first
time not in chapel in
88 years.
Construction completed in less than seven months.
March
1926
May
1926
Bacheller Memorial Chime
installed after being displayed
in front of chapel. First chime
concert scheduled for May
26, 1926, but postponed until
June 7 to permit broadcast
arrangements so donor and
novelist Irving Bacheller, Class
of 1882, can hear the first notes
at home over radio relay.
Commencement moves to the chapel from Town Hall
on Main Street.
June
1926
Candlelight Service,
inaugurated in
1921 in Fisher Hall
(Theological School
building on the site of
today’s ODY Library),
moves to Gunnison.
December
1926
Spring
1927
Moving-Up Day moves from
Fisher Hall to Gunnison.
June
1927
Chapel dedicated.
Spring
1950
Spire and stained-glass
windows damaged by storm.
1968
“Jazz at the Chapel” brings
notable performers such as
the Billy Taylor Trio.
Installation of a new set of stained-
glass windows begins; series
completed in 1981.
1972
1987
Former chimer John Boudiette ’42 establishes the
Boudiette Chime Fund to assist in maintenance of
equipment and compensation of chimers.
Spring
1994
New parts and adjustments make bells easier to play,
but displease traditionalist ringers. One technician
remarks that “now girls can play the bells.” Three of
the five ringers at the time are women.
February
2001
First 100th Night observance.
September
2002
Gloria Steinem speaks as part of
Laurentian Leadership Weekend.
Fall
2011
First-Year Convocation inaugurated.
February
2004
First “Got Spirit?” Gospel
Workshop, which becomes
an annual event.
Cornerstone of Gunnison laid (same day as cornerstone
of Hepburn Hall). The chapel is built of stone quarried
less than 10 miles from campus, at a cost of $250,000,
which generates complaints of excessive spending.
August
1925
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Photo: Tom Evelyn
Photo: Maddy Young '16
Photo: David Pynchon '13
Compiled by Neal Burdick
’72, with assistance
from Archives & Special
Collections Technician Paul
Haggett, Christopher Kenney
’96, Chaplain Kathleen
Buckley and Associate
Chaplain ShaunWhitehead.
