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The 1963 - 1964 Annual Report of the State Department of Mental Health provides details of the extensive chaplaincy operations and the announcement of the chapel building.

Chaplain James Obert Kempson counsels a patient in the Kempson Center inside the Academy for Pastoral Education.

Palmetto Variety newsletter article about Church Volunteer Services. This story predates the building of the chapel and shows the religious connection between the city and the hospital.

A news story about the Good Neighbor Program where churches from throughout Columbia adopted wards at the South Carolina State Hospital.

A news story from the State Newspaper about the cornerstone laying ceremony for the Chapel of Hope with projected costs.

Superintendent Williams S. Hall, far left, stands with students of the Academy for Pastoral Education

Chaplain Henry J. Fox Chaplain Annual Report from Oct. 31, 1875 shows the strain on chaplain services and the chaplain staff.

An excerpt from the June 30, 1958 Annual Report of the South Carolina State Hospital. showing the growth of a building fund and the growth of the chaplaincy mission.

A report from the Superintendent C.F. Williams that mentions the first donations to the chapel fund coming from the patients and the Columbia community.

Chaplain J. Obert Kempson (left) and Dr. Williams S. Hall, State Commissioner of Mental Health and Superintendent of State Hospitals participate in a cornerstone ceremony for the Chapel of Hope.