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HEINZ CHAPEL
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Hknry John Hbinz A STONE'S throw from the urban drabness of Fifth Avenue and Forbes Street on the complacent greenness of the Cathedral lawn rests Pitt’s diminutive Heinz Chapel. As the massive red oak doors of the Chapel entrance close behind the visitor, he escapes from a world of busy noises and changing climates into the almost ethereal Gothic atmosphere of medieval France—an atmosphere of time-reversing calm, of lofty idealistic inspiration, of soaring serenity. The Heinz Chapel, dedicated Sunday, November 20, is a gift to the University from Henry John Heinz and his children. Originally Henry John Heinz willed a bequest to the University to erect a building in honor of his mother, Anna Margaretta Heinz. However, before this plan was carried through, his children, Howard Heinz, Irene E. Given, and Clifford S. Heinz, decided to add to the bequest and to build this chapel in memory of both their father and their grandmother. The Heinz Memorial Chapel now stands completed—a permanent symbol of spiritual growth. No longer is the building merely a novelty or an item in the sight-seers guide book; it has THE HEINZ CHAPEL become a real chapel on the University campus. It goes hand in hand with all education on that campus, being a vital part of that education. The student and the teacher retire there after classes to find rest, to absorb the beauty of the surroundings inspired by soft organ music. In the hustle and bustle of a big urban university we arc apt to overlook the meaning of such things as kindness, faith, spirituality, and response to beauty. The text of the Bencdicite window 0 all ye works of the Lord, Bless ye the Lord, Praise Him, and Magnify Him Forever makes us understand the purpose of the chapel —a realization of these non-material values. The medieval French Gothic architecture of the tiny chapel lends itself toward the lifting of the skill, the intellect, the imagination, and the aspirations of man to a unity of purpose and effect. High pitched vaults, pointed arches, attenuated stone buttresses suggest vertieality. Traccricd lancets extending above the spring of the vaults give illusion of great height. The flcche, the spire pointing upward into space, dramatizing the crossing of nave and transept within and without the Chapel makes the whole building appear light, dynamic, soaring. At every point a close architectural relationship emphasizes a unity, complex yet simple. In the renowned windows of Heinz Chapel lie its glory and splendor. Through their translucent glass the sun pours, emerging within a misty spray of colored light. The symphony of light produced by stained glass of the great windows stirs the worshipers to planes of deep emotion and intense feeling that even the lyric pens of Shelley and Keats could not justly express. All this is Heinz Chapel—an architectural triumph dedicated to a life of good will, of tolerance, of spiritual growth, and of education. 14
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