Dean Powery to the Duke Community: 'Don't Hesitate to Celebrate'
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Students dance in front of Duke Chapel.
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Students dance in front of Duke Chapel.
“As we begin a new academic year, I offer a humble challenge to the Duke community to find ways to celebrate,” Chapel Dean Luke Powery writes in his first (Duke) Chronicle column of the semester.
“Celebration is not naïve," he says. "Celebration in moments of great suffering is not a disconnection from reality or an escape, but a connection to something so real that you can’t help but laugh, sing and smile.”
“Celebrate with one another and celebrate one another,” he writes in conclusion. “Laugh, sing, dance and shout. You are here. You are alive. Let’s celebrate that and so much more!”