DWU plans to renovate two oldest dorms

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THE Divine Word University recently organised a fundraising dinner to fund the renovation of the men’s dormitories at its Madang campus.
The Feehan and Brothers halls were built more than 50 years ago for the then Divine Word High School.
East Sepik Governor Sir Michael Somare told guests that as humans, “we can’t help but to look back and that gives us the reason to move forward”.
Sir Michael said the Society of Divine Word Missionaries had a very long history in Papua New Guinea and helped transform the country’s foundation and Divine Word University was one of its success stories.
University council chairman Archbishop Douglas Young thanked the university’s alumni for facilitating the fundraiser.
He said the council wanted “our alumni to gradually take ownership of our university”.
“I’d like to think that when the updated history is written, this occasion is one of the occasions when the alumni began to take full ownership of the university and from there it went on from strength to strength,”  Young said.
More than 200 people attended.