CALENDAR OF EVENTS:

Spring Quarter 2008

Monday, March 31   6:00 p.m.   Dinner
    7:00 p.m.   House Meeting

 
Monday, April 7   5:30 p.m.   Chapel: Ryan Singleton, Disciples Divinity House Scholar and M.Div. student
    6:00 p.m.   Dinner
    7:00 p.m.   Spencer Dew, DDH Scholar and Ph.D. student in Religion and Literature, reading from his collection of short stories, Songs of Insurgency (Vagabond Press, 2008).

 
Monday, April 14   6:00 p.m.   Dinner
    7:00 p.m.   Disciples History and Thought: W. Clark Gilpin, Margaret E. Burton Professor of the History of Christianity and Theology, Divinity School, University of Chicago

 
Monday, April 21   6:00 p.m.   Dinner
    7:00 p.m.   Senior Ministry Presentation: Ryan Gilbert, Disciples Divinity House Scholar, "In Search of Wholeness: Autobiography as a Pastoral Practice," a panel discussion with Chicago-area ministers.

 
Friday, April 25   4:00 p.m.   Panel on Religion and Literature: Larry Bouchard, Associate Professor of Religious Studies, University of Virginia, Frank Burch Brown, Alexander Campbell Visiting Professor, Divinity School, University of Chicago, Jennifer Jesse, Associate Professor of Religion and Philosophy, Truman State University, Stephanie Paulsell, Houghton Professor of the Practice of Ministry, Harvard Divinity School, Richard Rosengarten, Dean, Divinity School, University of Chicago.
Reception following.

 
Friday, April 25 - Saturday, April 26       Alumni/ae Council and Board of Trustees Meetings

 
Monday, April 28       NO DINNER

 
Monday, May 5   5:30 p.m.   Chapel: Casey Karbowski, Ecumenical resident and M.Div. student
    6:00 p.m.   Dinner
    7:00 p.m.   Forum: Alumnus George Shields, Professor of Philosophy, Kentucky State University, speaking about process philosophy and theology.

 
Monday, May 12   6:00 p.m.   Dinner
    7:00 p.m.   Disciples History and Thought: W. Clark Gilpin

 
Monday, May 19   6:00 p.m.   Dinner
    7:00 p.m.   Workshop on Domestic Violence: Ayanna Johnson, Minister in Residence, and Qiyamah Rahman, Field Site Developer, Meadville Lombard Theological School and former DDH Resident.

 
Monday, May 26       Memorial Day picnic

 
Monday, June 2   5:30 p.m.   Chapel: Ayanna Johnson, Minister in Residence
    6:00 p.m.   Dinner

 
Thursday, June 12   5:30 p.m.   Convocation Service: Ana Gobledale, Common Global Ministries Board, Australia

Upcoming Events

DESKTOPS AND SCREENSAVERS FOR YOUR COMPUTER

You can download images of Disciples House to your computer for use as a desktop.

Instructions for Macintosh Users (for System 8.0 or higher):

  1. Select the screen size of the photo that fits your computer screen and click on it. This will display a full size picture of the one you selected.
  2. Click on the picture in your browser and hold until a window pops up. Select "Save this Image as" and save the picture to your computer.
  3. In the Control Panel of the Apple Menu window, there will be an option for desktop pictures. Choose this option. This will allow you to select the photo.

Instructions for Windows Users:

  1. Select the screen size of the photo that fits your computer screen and click on it. This will display a full size picture of the one you selected.
  2. When the photograph appears on the screen, select it with the mouse and then hold down the right mouse key.
  3. Select the "Set as Wallpaper" option.
  4. In certain Windows systems, this will automatically transfer the photograph to wallpaper. On others, you will need to go into the Control Panel and use the Screen control to select the photograph as wallpaper.


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TRIVIA QUIZ

Test your knowledge of the finer--or quirkier--points of Disciples House life and legend. Click on the answers until the correct one is revealed.

1.  Prior to 1900, full tuition for a year’s course of study at the Divinity School of the University of Chicago was

2.  An early architectural plan for Disciples Divinity House, prepared by Holsman and Hunt, Architects, included

3.  What was the first year that a woman was awarded a fellowship by the trustees?

4.  In 1961, what Dean climbed the two-hundred and seventy-six steps that lead to the keyboard room of the Rockefeller carillon, counting them along the way in order to verify University records?

5.  What gift did Hazel Atherton Quinney, who was House organist for 30 years, and spouse give to Dean E. S. and Mabel Ames for Christmas in 1930?

6.  In 1896, the trustees purchased the corner lot at 57th St. and Lexington (now University) on which to build DDH. From whom did they purchase it?

7.  Which of the following characters from the Arthurian saga is not depicted in the stained glass window in the Chapel of the Holy Grail?

8. “O God We Praise Thy Holy Name,”  sung for generations as grace before Monday  (and Thursday) night dinners was sung to the tune of

9.  The following were all visionaries whose financial support undergirded the House.  Of them, who also regularly hosted students in her/his nearby mansion?

10.  Who has not stayed  in the guest room?

11.  Disciples Divinity House was founded in 1894. When was the building constructed?

12.  Dean W. Barnett Blakemore was invited to be an observer of which of the following?

13.  Which of the following persons was not ordained in the Chapel of the Holy Grail:

14.  In the current House community, what is the rule that can be invoked at any time to halt theological discussion?

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