Remembered by Lynda Dawkins, former WCS Faculty Member and Middle School Head
Chapels date back to the earliest days of Collegiate. Students gathered in the basement of the Rounds Fine Arts Building on Friday morning, seated by class, and dressed appropriately which for the boys included coat and tie for the younger students and blazers for seventh through twelfth grades. Ties were always available from Mr. Storms' office for anyone unfortunate enough to have forgotten to wear one that day. However, the ties available were not ones that would have been a student's choice, so those were always a last resort. Programs for chapel involved music, often hymns sung by the entire student body and led by Harold Kruger, but there were also special treats of performances by individual students and on occasion, the faculty members formed a group and sang. The remainder of the program was left to individual classes and included outside and in-house speakers, as well as skits and plays students wrote themselves based on Bible stories or a particular book that had a meaningful message. As the student body grew and it was impossible for everyone to fit in the chapel, each division had a separate time. Chapels continued as part of Collegiate's tradition into the mid to late eighties.
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