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...bypass the Committee on Student Activities in getting permission to allow full Radcliffe membership. John G. Pittenger '51, alumni secretary of PBH, said that Dean Watson's unofficial opinion was that approval of the proposal by the PBH Committee and PBH Association would be sufficient. Rev. George A. Buttrick heads both groups...
Willard Sperry, Buttrick's predecessor as University Preacher. was appointed in 1928 and served concurrently as Dean of the Divinity School. Because of his responsibilities at the School which was very near collapse, Sperry was forced to neglect his duties at Memorial Church. He resigned both posts...
...Committee's search for a qualified clergymen and scholar able to hold his own with the other members of the faculty on the basis of his academic achievements, continued through 1954, and culminated in the appointment of Buttrick at the end of the year...
...Buttrick's responsibilities as Chairman of the Board of Preachers continue to be exacting, to say the least of it. He usually preaches at Memorial Church two Sundays out of three, is present at morning chapel and--as one of the nation's most widely-known preachers--is often called upon to come to churches and universities throughout the country...
...Chairman of the faculty committee for the Phillips Brooks House Association Buttrick advocates as much student autonomy as possible. He takes a similar "hands off" attitude toward his other work, and decries administrators who "use people as mere objects to be squeezed into blueprints." Accordingly, Buttrick's plans for the future of Memorial Church hinge on the establishment of an advisory-type committee, possibly this fall, to aid him in making decisions...