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Drawing of the former UCC campus at King and Simcoe streets Statue at UCC of its founder, John Colborne, 1st Baron Seaton. UCC was founded in 1829 by Major-General Sir John Colborne (later the 1st Baron Seaton), then Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada, in the hopes that it would serve as a feeder school to the newly established King's College (now known as the University of Toronto).
The observatory is now used for science outreach activities at University College Cork and guided tours of the observatory are available during Cork Heritage week. [5] The observatory's instruments are also still used as part of the education program at UCC, with an editorial in the Irish Examiner noting the " remarkable state of preservation ...
1979 was UCC's sesquicentennial year, marked by a two-day visit from Prince Philip. The Duke undertook a tour of the campus—during which he reportedly wandered off, on his own, into the classroom of English teacher Mr Pearce, who was conducting a lesson on the jazz artist Miles Davis—followed by a formal reception and banquet at Exhibition ...
The United Church of Christ (UCC) is a socially liberal mainline Protestant Christian denomination based in the United States, with historical and confessional roots in the Congregational, Restorationist, Continental Reformed, and Lutheran traditions, and with approximately 4,600 churches and 712,000 members.
To this day, the official registry of ONA congregations is managed by the Coalition (since renamed the Open and Affirming Coalition), a voluntary non-profit organization independent from the church's national office, although it works in close partnership with the UCC's national ministries. The Coalition publishes a wide range of resources to ...
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Umstead Park UCC was the first UCC church in the Eastern NC Association of the UCC Southern Conference to be established as an Open and Affirming (ONA) congregation. Other existing UCC congregations had adopted ONA covenants prior to this, but because a new congregation must be accepted by the local association, there was reluctance on the part ...
The Mardyke, also referred as the Mardyke Sports Ground, is the main [n 1] sports campus of University College Cork (UCC), located at the western end of the Mardyke area near Cork city centre. The grounds and fitness facilities used by sports team representing, the general student body, and members of the public.