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57th ICU Festival and 2016 Homecoming Event Held

Update: October 28, 2016

From October 22 (Sat.) to October 23 (Sun.), the 57th ICU Festival was held. In addition to performances by student organizations, campus tours, and sessions to introduce ICU focusing on the three themes of career options, study abroad opportunities and entrance exam, special lectures were held on physics, economics and religious studies. The campus bustled with more than 13 thousand visitors and activity over the two days.

Also on October 23, co-hosted by the university and alumni association, the 2016 Homecoming Event "Get together with ICU Peace Bell Scholars" was held. This year's homecoming event was held with past and current scholars and donors of the ICU Peace Bell* Scholarship, a scholarship benefit program funded mainly by donations from alumni. An active exchange took place among the 53 participants including visitors to the ICU Festival and Homecoming Event.

The first half of the event was a round-table discussion, where three (current and graduated) scholars and two donors took the stage. The scholars looked back on how they spent their life on campus and after graduation thinking how they could fulfill their responsibility of having been chosen as a scholarship recipient. The donors, on the other hand, blessed the scholars with warm words of encouragement, citing an episode dating back to right after the war, "...when I went to a provincial city, I happened to meet a person who had donated for the founding of ICU. Talking to this man, I keenly felt people's deep longing for lasting peace."

The latter half of the event was a casual gathering, where participants freely exchanged views and information on each other's current lives.

Please refer to ICU Website on details for making donations.

http://subsites.icu.ac.jp/fundraising/peacebell.html

*The ICU Peace Bell was presented to the university to celebrate the school's 50th Anniversary. The bell hangs in the ICU Chapel tower, commemorating Hisato lchimada, head of the Bank of Japan who supported the fund-raising efforts to establish ICU. The bell chimes on campus each day before the start of class and mass, and in the evening. Taking its name from this bell, the ICU Peace Bell Scholarship program provides highly promising ICU students with scholarship of one million yen per person per year over all four years of their study at ICU. Each year, recipients are selected from newly enrolling students on the basis of the quality of their scholarship application materials, entrance exam results and financial needs.