Word: episcopalian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Wild's Sunday evening lectures form only part of a program that extends educational, social, and religious facilities to more than 3,000 Episcopalian students in the University. Located at 24 Farwell Place, the Rhinelander Foundation sponsors Tuesday afternoon teas, Sunday morning breakfasts, Sunday morning services, and various sorts of social work in local settlement houses...
...graduated from the Divinity School in 1943, joined the Air Corps during the war, and now serves as an Episcopalian minister in his own church in Worcester. Although he says his work prevents him from seeing much football, he hopes to witness the Princeton game here two weekends hence...
Milk Punch & Dubonnet. Oscar's father was Jewish, his mother Episcopalian, the faith in which he was reared. He lived in Manhattan's 125th Street, then a fairly well-to-do residential section. For a few years he lived with his maternal grandfather, a white-haired Scotsman named James Nimmo. Oscar fondly remembers rising with Grandfather Nimmo early every day and sharing the old man's milk punch, which was spiked with Scotch. Evenings there was stout for both. At 52, Oscar's digestion is perfect, his appetite enormous and he drinks little...
Then came a surprise. Said 60-year-old General Lee, with stern modesty: "I hope to give my abilities, such as they are, to the church of which I am a member." Correspondents knew that General Lee, an Episcopalian, kept a Bible on his desk and another in his briefcase, was an ardent churchgoer, had been known to preach a sermon on several occasions. They remembered that he called on Pope Pius XII several times, presumably to discuss means of smoothing Protestant-Catholic relations...
Chicago's new superintendent of schools is a genial Rotarian with a glad hand and a quick mind, who has run Kansas City's schools for the past seven years. He also heads the American Association of School Administrators. A preacher at heart, Episcopalian Herold Hunt likes to fill in for vacationing ministers (he always draws a big crowd), often preaches to his teachers, too ("Don't be a grouch, avoid the 'little God' complex"). But Kansas City teachers remember him with affection: he got more money for his teachers than any man before...