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This year Bishop Burton will be 77. For more than 30 years he has toiled with his scant and scattered 5,000 parishioners. But this year he will rest. His successor, who will be consecrated bishop of the diocese on May 15, is Dr. Henry Pryor Almon Abbott of St. Chrysostom's Church, Chicago...
Last week, Dr. Mather Almon Abbott, Lawrenceville's headmaster, said that Dawes House would be rebuilt at a cost of $200,000. Already, he announced, friends and alumni of the school had donated $80,000, a quarter of which came from the Vice President...
...Died. Almon Elias Culbertson, 72, U. S. geologist, one of the first to develop the Grozny oil field in Russia; at Manhattan...
...mystery surrounding gruff, impetuous, well-loved Dr. Mather Almon Abbott's resignation as headmaster of Lawrenceville School (TIME, Feb. 21), remained a mystery. And Dr. Abbott, withdrawing his resignation, remained headmaster. Whatever it was that had prompted the resignation?an offer from another school? a quarrel with the trustees over a four-year-old medical supervision policy??was kept secret, and Dr. Abbott was kept headmaster, chiefly through action of the Lawrenceville boys. They posted a deputy to keep strangers from their grounds. They observed a self-imposed censorship of conversation. If that traditional confidant and encyclopedist of Lawrenceville...
...boys had heard nothing, even the assistant headmaster was amazed, when Headmaster Mather Almon Abbott of famed Lawrenceville (N. J.) School, was reported by President John Nixon of the Board of Trustees, to have resigned. The Rev. Mr. Nixon assigned as cause Dr. Abbott's disapproval of a four-year-old policy of medical supervision. He also mentioned "a very flattering offer . . . made Dr. Abbott by another school with strong financial backing." Dr. Abbott only said: "I love this place. ... I dare say nothing. I have no money." There was an air of mystery...