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After Pioneer Rainsford's retirement, the church's liberal, socially conscious tradition was carried on under high-church-baiting Dr. Karl Reiland,* since 1936 under solemn pacifist Dr. Elmore McKee. Last June, after ten years' service, 50-year-old Dr. McKee resigned because of "fatigue." Next month, a new rector will take over: tall (6 ft. 3 in.), bespectacled Edward Miller, 31. Born in St. Louis, he was graduated from Harvard (where he was fencing captain), studied for a year at Cambridge, then at New York's General Theological Seminary before taking his present...
...George's Episcopal Church on Manhattan's East Side, the Rev. Elmore M. McKee assailed the plan as "an example of organized paganism. . . . These men died not for things material but for indestructible values of the spirit. . . . We cannot afford to get bogged down by a misguided, obsolete and patriarchal patriotism which demands American soil for American bodies. Let the dead rather finish the work they...
With the first World War, routine instruction duties gave way to other serv- ice, and an appointment as Ensign (PC) (T) was accepted in October, 1918. The following July 1 is listed for date of commission as Lt. (jg) in the Supply Corps. After two years more Lt. McKee was given an honorable discharge, but he soon re-enlisted and was rated CSK (PA) early...
Transferred to the Fleet Naval Reserve in 1925, McKee spent five civilian years before receiving assignment to active duty with the Harvard NROTC Unit, the first class of which was bout to graduate. In 1938, the Chief was placed on the retired list of the Navy, from which he was recalled to active duty on March...
Again serving with the staff of the professor of Naval Science and Tactics here, Chief McKee was in time to help with the commissioning of the classes which had entered during his retirement, and the general NavSci office was under his supervision...