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The
History of the Sheil Catholic Center
The
First 50 Years
When the Sheil
Catholic Center celebrated its Golden Jubilee in 1989, a group
of talented and dedicated associates researched and wrote
a history of the first 50 years. We are reprinting that history
here.
Not Just For
Students Anymore
Under Sheil's flexible
and less-structured system, a "free market" of activities
competed for space, time, funds and talents. Out of it emerged
some singular successes, not least of them a program of liturgical
music that fostered the composition of original music that
was then performed along with traditional music by a series
of talented choirs and directors.
The center's looser
formal structure also made it possible for many non-students
and non-faculty or staff members to become fully integrated
and valued members of the Sheil community.
Since the mid-'60s
a number of Catholics and their families from the surrounding
parishes had been coming to the old third-floor chapel to
join the students in their lively liturgies. As more of them
flocked to Mass at the new chapel, the early response was
to remind them that Sheil was primarily for the students and
that they should not compete for pew space at the more popular
Mass times.
But that response
soon changed to one of welcome along with an invitation to
assist in Sheil activities in any way they could.
Within less than
two decades, these associates, as they formally became known,
grew to about 450 strong. Giving generously of their varied
talents and resources, they have in many different ways enriched
the life of Sheil.
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