Word: rev
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Pastoral Relations Committee scouted for Dr. Harris' successor like a big-business board of directors looking for a new vice president in charge of advertising. The man they picked, after six months of winnowing and weighing, would be an asset to the advertising department of any firm. The Rev. Dr. Theodore Henry Palmquist, 53, of Los Angeles' big (some 2,400 members) Wilshire Methodist Church, has the go-getting drive and the social flair of a successful adman-which was just what he started...
Last week the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (see below) voted to ordain women, but left the final decision on the matter up to the local presbyteries. Moreover, the cause of the distaff dominae got a new boost from Britain. The Rev. Elsie Chamberlain, 45, tall, dark and handsome Congregationalist minister, was unanimously elected chairman of the Congregational Union - top job in British Congregationalism...
...highfalutin. But I just couldn't do anything other than be a minister"). She took a B.D. at King's College, London University, in 1946 was appointed first woman chaplain to the armed forces. The next year she married a Church of England priest, the Rev. John Carrington. For a while she was pastor of the Vineyard Congregational Church in Richmond, Surrey, about four miles from Hampton, where her husband is vicar, but she gave that up officially (she still preaches there) to join the interdenominational religious staff...
...Miami, 11,584 "messengers," as Southern Baptist voting delegates are called, met to represent 8,169,491 members of 29,899 churches in 30 states. They passed a record budget of $10 million for 1956 (up $800,000 over 1955) and elected the Rev. Dr. Caspar C. Warren of the First Baptist Church in Charlotte, N.C. as convention president. Under the eyes of a delegation of nine Baptists from the U.S.S.R., the convention passed a resolution to congratulate President Eisenhower for his "patient diplomatic conduct," urged a "more determined effort" at armament reduction and elimination of atomic, weapons...
...their own members, the same space could have been used for, say, a well-illustrated feature article on the problem of keeping Harvard what it is in the face of critical overcrowding, or photographic coverage of some of the outstanding visiting professors who have been here this year. The Rev George A. Buttirck's first term in Memorial Church for example, went entirely un-noticed. These are only a few suggestions. But more insight into the strengths and weaknesses of the University, and less of the Pollyanna approach that in every day in every way Harvard is growing bigger...