Word: austin
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...Russian," a famous juggler from the Ringling Brothers, Barnum and Bailey Circus, whom John Ringling North terms, "by far the best juggler I have ever seen," will also perform. According to Austin Mason, Jr., chairman of the committee arranging the evening, there will be several other equally well-known entertainers...
There were four other churches within two miles when Frederick William Otterbein went to North Austin as a seminary student to round up a congregation for the $13,000 bungalow chapel the synod had built on the outskirts. That was in 1920, and in September he had rounded up 51 members. Today the church has 5,577 on its rolls, the free-will offerings have passed $68,000 a year, mission contributions for 1941 will run close to $25,000, the plant is worth $300,000, the debt has been cut to $30,000, and every Sunday three services...
Perhaps more important to the success of the church is the good-neighbor policy Dr. Otterbein has fostered from the beginning. As neat brick bungalows mushroomed up in North Austin, he and his flock kept up steady personal evangelism on their own blocks. Their slogan was, "When you see a moving van, spend a nickel," referring to their pastor's request that any member who saw a moving van in his neighborhood call Dr. Otterbein so that he could go right over...
...member of North Austin Lutheran Church who could not attend the Easter services was Pastor Otterbein himself. He had a stroke in February 1940, is still unable to resume his work. His one object in life is to return, and doctors say some day he can. Only parish activity they now allow him is two pastoral visits a week. A sick man, he makes these to the sick because he can share their suffering. But though he has not conducted a service there for over a year, North Austin Lutheran's attendance has continued to grow under a succession...
...Graduate School of Arts and Sciences awards for this year are: Edward Austin fellowships to Ernst Berliner 1G and Hermann D. A. M. Noether 2G; and Thayer fellowships to Alexander G. Nickle 3G and Bernard A. Orkin...