"Bikin cikar Cocin 'yan'uwa shekara 300 a shekara ta 2008"
(Jan. 22, 2008) — Jami’an Kwalejin Juniata za su girmama dangantakar kwalejin da daɗaɗɗen dangantaka da Cocin ’yan’uwa ta hanyar yin hidimar tunawa da abin da asalin ɗakin karatu na kwalejin (yanzu ofishin magatakarda) a Hall Founders da ƙarfe 4:30 na yamma. Alhamis, Jan. 24. Juniata College is located in Huntingdon, Pa.
Sabis ɗin a buɗe yake ga al'umma. Za a kafa kujeru a cikin tsohon ɗakin sujada. Sabis ɗin zai amince da bashin al'adu da ɗabi'a da kwalejin ke bin membobin Cocin 'yan'uwa waɗanda suka kafa kwalejin a 1876.
Zauren Kafa, wanda aka gina shekaru uku bayan an kafa kwalejin, ya haɗa da ɗakin sujada da zai zama gida ga ikilisiyar Huntingdon Brothers na shekaru 31 daga 1879-1910. A wannan shekara, za a fara gini a kan gyare-gyaren Zauren Founders. Babban yanki na gyare-gyaren zai kawar da reshen arewa na ginin, wanda ya haɗa da tsohon ɗakin sujada, kuma ya maye gurbin reshe da wani babban reshe wanda ya haɗa da sababbin lif, matakan hawa, da dakunan wanka.
David Witkovsky, limamin Kolejin Juniata, da Dale da Christy Dowdy, limaman Cocin Stone Church of the Brothers a Huntingdon ne za su jagoranci hidimar bikin. Robert Neff, shugaban Juniata daga 1987-98, zai yi magana a wurin bikin kan mahimmancin alakar da ke tsakanin Juniata da Cocin Brothers. Neff ya yi aiki a matsayin babban sakatare na Cocin of the Brother General Board daga 1977-87. A baya can, shi farfesa ne na addini a Bethany Theological Seminary daga 1965-77.
Shugaban Juniata Thomas R. Kepple zai halarci bikin, tare da sauran masu kula da Juniata da yawa na yanzu da na baya. David Steele, ministan zartarwa na gunduma na Gundumar Pennsylvania ta Tsakiya, membobin Majalisar Hulɗar Coci-College, da kuma amintattun cocin za su halarci. Za a sami tarin hotunan tarihi a baje kolin.
An sadaukar da Hall din Founders a ranar 17 ga Afrilu, 1879, a cikin ɗakin sujada. Shugaba James Quinter ya yi wa'azi kuma an nakalto Jacob Zuck, jami'in koyarwa na farko na Juniata yana cewa, "Ranar nasara tana fitowa." Kafin a gina Cocin Stone a cikin 1910, kwalejin ta yi amfani da ɗakin sujada a matsayin majami'ar ikilisiya ga 'yan'uwa coci daga Huntingdon. Bugu da kari, a cikin 1892, kwalejin ta girka wani tafkin baftisma a kusurwar kudu maso gabas na Ladies Hall (yanzu an ruguje, wanda ke tsakanin masu kafa da Cibiyar Kimiyya ta von Liebig). An yi baftisma a baya a cikin kogin Juniata. Cocin Dutse, wanda ke da wurin yin baftisma, an yi amfani da shi bayan 1910.
Majami'ar, wani fili mai faffadan fili a zauren Founders wanda zai iya daukar mutane 500, an gina shi ba tare da amfanar wani ginshikan tallafi ba ta yadda babu wani mutum da ya samu katsewa. Wannan dalla-dalla na musamman na gine-gine ya buƙaci magina su yi amfani da sabon tsarin gini wanda ya rataye kowane bene na ginin daga manyan tarkace a saman ginin. A tsawon lokaci, rawar jiki da damuwa daga amfani da yau da kullun ya haifar da bangon reshe na arewa don sunkuyar da waje, wanda ya haifar da fashewar fage a benaye biyu na sama na Hall Founders. An rufe benaye biyu na sama a cikin 1979.
Tuntuɓi John Wall a wallj@juniata.edu ko 814-641-3132 don ƙarin bayani.
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