Drew University Installations
Windows in honor of Dean Pain, Graduate Commons, Bowne Hall, Drew University, Madison, New Jersey.
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Dean Pain, gentleman and scholar to the core.
The project to create a significant honor to Dean James Pain was a goal of the Committee for the Retirement of James Pain chaired by Dr. William Rogers who worked alongside the Dean for more than a decade. Dr. Steven Racine, a student of both was selected to create the windows that fill the oriel window in the Graduate Commons in Bowne Hall at Drew University.
The subject area of J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis are vital symbols of Dean Pain's teaching as he offered classes and tutorials focused on their work. Dean Pain knew both of these men as a student at Oxford. Beyond the scholarship and deeper meanings of their work that he helped his students discover were added great anecdotes of these men and their comrades the Inklings. For me the honor of designing, fabricating, and installing these windows is but a small thanks for what Dean Pain brought to so many at Drew University over a six decade career.
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Location of windows in honor of Dean Pain mostly covered by trees on the right.
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Dean William Rogers Discussing the windows in honor of Dean Pain at dedication ceremony, Dean Pain seated.
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Sarah Racine helping to install windows in Honor of Dean Pain, Drew University, Madison, New Jersey
Inserts for Dean James Pain Window
Drew University
in progress
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Dean Pain's favorite Drew seal.
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Seal of Keble College, Oxford,
Dean Pain's alma mater.
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