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...changing contortions. Their arms rose and fell, their fingers wiggling in concerted movement. Only sound in the church was the creaky tenor voice. When the hymn ended, the gesticulations of the half dozen people ended and the audience -So deaf-mutes-broke into spirited applause. The pastor of Cameron Methodist Episcopal Church of the Deaf, Rev. August H. Staubitz, arose. With lightning fingers he signaled his flock that they were about to behold a lecture on the Passion Play of Oberammergau, for which each of them had paid 10?. The lights went out save for one beam from a shaded...
Special services for mutes are given in Chicago by Methodist Rev. Philip J. Hasenstab and Rev. Henry S. Rutherford, who alternate in carrying their work throughout the Midwest. In San Francisco Lutheran Pastor Charles Jaetner conducts services twice a month. Jews, Catholics and Protestants in Atlanta may attend special deaf-mute services every Sunday at St. Mark's Methodist Church. In Dallas deaf-mutes meet weekly in the First Baptist Church. Mrs. Clara E. Hemphill is the leading sign language teacher of that city. Her great concern is to persuade Episcopalians to provide mute services because she believes...
...board members' friends. Last week a representative committee of St. John's 300 students issued a statement viewing President Gordon's departure with "genuine regret," declaring he had won the "support and confidence of the student body." All President-elect Woodcock, A. E. F. veteran, Methodist and bachelor, would say was: "I want to revive what we used to call the St. John's spirit, building the future of the college on character and scholarship...
...Treasury is a scientific farmer. The New Deal's lender of money is a successful promoter from Texas. But the New Deal's giver of relief is a professional giver of relief. Father Hopkins was a retail leather merchant in Sioux City and Mother Hopkins was a devout Methodist, an active member of the Iowa Home Missionary Society. Harry ("Hi"), 43, the third of their five children, takes after neither. Like his elder sister Adah (now selling insurance in Manhattan) and his elder brother (now a doctor in Tacoma), he worked his way through Grinnell College. He was also...
...Trinity-Duke's longtime ruling triumvirate - President William Preston Few, Vice President Robert Lee Flowers and Dean Wannamaker - to adjust themselves to running a big university instead of a small college. Trinity College was governed by a board of trustees two-thirds of whom were elected by Methodist church conferences, one-third by alumni. When in 1924 the late Tobaccoman James Buchanan ("Buck") Duke gave Trinity his name and some $40,000,000, the board was left untouched. But control of the Duke millions was put in the hands of a new board called the Duke Endowment. What most...