At the opening reception at the beginning of the start of each summer term it is customary for the director to give a ‘solemn charge.’ This summer, as the new director, it was my duty to do so. What follows is the text from that charge.

At Theopolis we have two fellows programs: the music program, titled magnificently “The Te Deum Program” and our flagship program, the -erm- normal fellows program. On Sunday you we will welcome in our glad company the Te Deum students, and you will find yourselves referred to by myself, the faculty, the liturgist, our kitchen team affectionately as the “Normie fellows” or simply as “normies.”