Word: oxnam
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...seminary had its own operating budget and total autonomy to hire its own staff. A decade ago, however, Drew's trustees decided that it was time to bring the rest of the university up to the academic level of the seminary; to that end, they elected Robert Fisher Oxnam, son of the late Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam, as the school's first lay president...
Formerly head of Pratt Institute, Oxnam had the trustees' approval to oversee all operations of the seminary as well as Drew's secular departments. Annoyed at their loss of control over budgets and policy, the seminary professors were furious when Oxnam vetoed a proposed faculty appointment on the ground that the salary offered the man was too high. Seminary Dean Charles W. Ranson then signed a confidential letter of complaint to the trustees-an action that Oxnam used as an excuse for firing him. Although Oxnam was backed by the trustees and by a special investigative committee appointed...
Methodist officials are understandably embarrassed by the situation, since they support Oxnam in his desire to improve the university but do not want the divinity school to lose its luster. Unfortunately, the atmosphere of distrust and discouragement at the seminary is such that there now seems to be no way to halt its decline-and Oxnam may find it difficult to hire qualified replacements for the men who have already quit...
...Methodism's leaders and has won it such scornful epithets as "a jester in the house of Wesley." When the magazine first denounced segregation, a group of Southern bishops demanded that it cease publication. One of those who came to its defense was the late Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam, who showed up at a meeting of the education board with several copies of motive under his arm. "I have read every word of these," thundered the best-known Methodist liberal of his day. "Now I am prepared to discuss it with you." Rather than tangle with the fiery Oxnam...
...Like Oxnam or McConnell, Kennedy has never been afraid to discuss political and social issues from the pulpit, but he picks his controversies with care. "A fellow that's shooting off his mouth all the time-nobody listens to him after a while," he says. In 1957 Kennedy led a fight to elect some moderates to Los Angeles' conservative-dominated school board-and as a reward found himself named to the State Board of Education...