Word: rev
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Friday--The first freshman prefect-prefectee marriage takes place in Memorial Church, presided over by the Rev. Peter Gomes. The church is filled with 1500 cheering freshmen as the Harvard Band plays "Sexy and 17." Best man Hank Moses, dean of freshmen, says, "It kinda makes you nostalgic for, uh, college, doesn't it?" The groom says, "This is the happiest day in my life--except for the day I got into the B-School...
...Rev. Ronald F. Thiemann, 39, will be the fourth dean to head the Divinity School--Harvard's oldest graduate school--in less than a year. George E. Rupp left this summer after six years to become president of Rice University in Houston. Rupp's successor as acting dean, George W. Macrae, died this fall. John B. Carman was named acting dean after Macrae, and will continue until Thiemann arrives...
Relatives and friends who grieved for the victims could only pray that the violence in the heartland, and the despair that has incited it, would subside. In Iowa City, 1,500 mourners jammed a memorial service for Hughes, where the Rev. Henry Greiner called on elected officials to "heed the cries of those who till the soil and feed the nation." In Lone Tree, Dale and Emily Burr were buried side by side in a cemetery just a mile from their farm. The day ^ before, Richard Goody's widow turned down the offer of a military funeral for her husband...
...beginning there was Cecil B. DeMille's The Ten Commandments. Now the biggest combination of show-biz and biblical spectacle may be The Glory of Christmas--A Living Nativity, which has been staged at the Rev. Robert Schuller's Crystal Cathedral in Garden Grove, Calif., every Christmas season since 1981. This year's three-times-nightly, 75-minute re-enactment of the birth of Jesus boasts Singer Debby Boone, 29, as the Virgin Mary, plus a cast of more than 400 that includes ten flying angels, four white horses, a donkey and three camels. Boone, who is herself expecting this...
Another speaker, the Rev. Nick Carter, also criticized the effectiveness of Reagan's performance in his November meeting with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev...