Word: parson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...aged one to 13 and ranging in talent from piano and trumpet through the cello. The nearest piano was an old upright in tiny Whiteside Church some miles away on a dusty country road. Gerschefski went there on foot each morning to work on his ballad, repay ing the parson on Sundays for the use of the piano by playing for the congregation...
Until she was 19, Helen Maud never went to school; her father, a parson and schoolmaster, tutored her at home. She learned enough to win a scholarship at the University of London, has been leading a serenely academic life ever since...
...Parson Patrick received his first just after he had given the church a spring cleaning. "Now that you have cleaned the church," it read, "would you clean the damned filthy rotten minds of your congregation?" Patrick listened among his parishioners, soon learned that he was not the only target of the poison penman. One woman came to him and threatened to throw herself off the cliff if she got another insulting letter. A respected old villager was accused of fathering his own daughter's child. A heartbroken mother, whose baby had just died, was accused of killing the baby...
...Parson Patrick decided to bring the secret suffering into the open. One Sunday last month, when the time came to start his sermon, he told the worshipers: "Today you'll have a treat. I'll read you a sermon sent to me in the form of a letter. Some of your names are mentioned in it, but ... it's all for the best...
Charles R. Beber '51, a resident of Matthews, was the first to notice the smoke in an upstairs lavatory. With two friends, Frank C. Parson '51 and Burton N. Bromson '51, he trained an extinguisher on the spot...