FareWells - May 6, 2012

"Fare Thee Wells"
A Goodbye for Samuel Wells, Dean of Duke University Chapel
May 6, 2012
Bulletin: http://bit.ly/FareWells

Program:
0:34 - Greeting and Welcome - Dean Richard Hays, Duke Divinity School
2:47 - "He's Not That Attractive" Video
8:32 - Hannah Ward - PathWays Chapel Scholar, Trinity '14
14:44 - Karen Witzleben - President, Congregation at Duke Chapel
21:33 - "A Visit to Cranford Abbey" - Axe of the Apostles comedy team, Duke Divinity School
29:15 - Marcia Owen - Director, Religious Coalition for a Nonviolent Durham
35:34 - "A Humorous Take on the Dean" - Axe of the Apostles
44:40 - Stanley Hauerwas - Gilbert T. Rowe Professor of Theological Ethics, Duke Divinity School
50:15 - Rodney Wynkoop - Director of Chapel Music
59:30 - Chapel Choir Tribute Medley
1:04:57 - Richard H. Brodhead - President, Duke University
1:15:14 - Samuel Wells
1:20:03 - Closing Congregation Song
1:21:47 - Closing Words and Benediction - Richard Hays


Choir Tribute to Sam Wells: A Medley (with apologies to Hubert Parry, Joseph Haydn, Johannes Brahms and René Clausen)

I was sad,
sad when the Wells said to me:
"We will go, we will go
into the land of the Queen!"

Archbishop Williams is telling
our Dean to be a Vicar,
This thought has us all feeling
sicker and sicker!
St. Martin-in-the-Fields
is taking him away.
Duke Chapel is your home;
We're begging you to stay!

How lovely is thy dwelling-place
in Durham on Buchanan Street.
Thy dwelling-place, O Sam
should be here with us!

Softly and tenderly
Durham is calling,
calling for you and for Jo.
Softly and tenderly
Durham is calling,
calling, O Samuel, stay home!
Stay home,
stay home,
don't go to London, stay home!
Softly and tenderly
Durham is calling,
calling, O Samuel, stay home!


Closing Congregational Song:

God save our gracious Dean,
Oh what a joy it's been,
With him as Dean!
He leaves victorious,
Pity on sorry us!
Tears reigning o'er us
Without our Dean!

When you take Jo with you,
Stephie and Laurence too,
We'll miss you all.
We'd love another year
With you among us here,
But still we loudly cheer,
"Long live Sam Wells!"

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