Fr. Crouse relaxing at the home of a friend ~ anthonyjburton photo

Each year, beginning in 2016, The Robert Crouse Memorial Lecture has been held in his honour. This year, on Sunday, January 14, 2024, the Rev’d Dr Thom Curran gave the annual Robert Crouse Memorial Lecture in the Chapel at King’s, entitled Bologna • Paris • Pisa • Wittenberg • Berlin: The Legacy of the Medieval European University. The lecture was preceded by a Choral Evensong at 6:30 p.m. and followed by a reception in the President’s Lodge.

This year’s lecture took place in conjunction with a series of related activities both at King’s and elsewhere in Halifax to formally launch what Fr. Ranall Ingalls of the King’s Chapel called a “remarkable publication project, The Works of Robert Crouse. Two volumes are already in print…together with a study guide for Images of Pilgrimage by Rhea Bright… Fr Crouse once described the vocation of the University as concerned with the renewal of memory and hope. He elsewhere wrote of hope ‘which does not disappoint’. In this lecture and book launch, the opportunity lies before us to begin the New Year engaged together in this great work of renewal on behalf of all.”