Chapel services are a staple of Olivet life as an undergraduate student. Thousands of students gather together in Hawkins Centennial Chapel every week to hear inspiring, motivating, or challenging messages from influential speakers from around the world, but chapel services didn’t look or feel the way they do now. Before Centennial Chapel, there was Chalfant Hall. Students went there for their chapel services, but not everyone could attend synchronously. To solve this issue, the Olivet administration undertook the initiative to erect a new chapel. Here is how chapel made its transition from Chalfant Hall to Hawkins Centennial Chapel.
A space for all students: the construction of Centennial Chapel
So Many Students. Not Enough Space. “Were you at chapel yesterday?” is arguably a cliché phrase exclusive to Olivet Nazarene University. Current students think nothing of it, but to students before 2010, this inquiry probably sounded a little different. As mentioned in another article about chapel services in Chalfant Hall, there were more than just…
About this project:
This project was created by Justin Hilliard, Thaliya Martinez, Aaron Sanders, and Sydnie Wilson as a part of a final project for the multimedia storytelling class of Olivet Nazarene University.
