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DIED. Jeannette Piccard, 86, pioneering balloonist who, along with her late husband Swiss Scientist Jean Piccard, became the first woman to probe the stratosphere in a balloon flight over Lake Erie in 1934, and who 40 years later became one of the first American women to be ordained an Episcopal priest; of cancer; in Minneapolis...
...Philadelphia last July laid public claim to their priesthood at a Eucharistic service on Reformation Sunday last week in Manhattan's interdenominational Riverside Church. Calling their deed "a celebration of women in ministry," the Rev. Carter Heyward, 29, the Rev. Alison Cheek, 47, and the Rev. Jeannette Piccard, 79, joined in consecrating three home-baked loaves of bread and wine in three ceramic goblets. Piccard, who won fame decades ago for stratospheric balloon flights with her husband Jean Piccard, pronounced absolution; and Cheek gave the solemn blessing at the service's end-both acts, like the consecration, that...
...bishops who ordained the women have since been charged with violating Episcopal canon law and will probably face church trials. What disciplinary action awaits the women is uncertain. Though a majority of bishops favor ordaining women, the church cannot approve it until the 1976 general convention at the earliest. Piccard's bishop, the Rt. Rev. Philip Mc-Nairy, who wants women to be priests, notes that "Jeannette Piccard is a woman of causes. She loves a fight. She feels strongly called to the priesthood. I understand that those who are 79 years old have to be in a hurry...
...eleven women ordained are all deacons, most of them seminary graduates, whose backgrounds vary widely. The oldest, Jeannette Piccard, 79, piloted many of the stratospheric flights of her late husband, Balloonist Jean Piccard. Marie Moorefield, 30, a graduate of Vanderbilt Divinity School and a chaplain trainee at Topeka State Hospital in Kansas, grew up as a Southern Baptist and became an Episcopalian just five years ago. Nancy Hatch Wittig, 28, who is slated to take up duties at a Morristown, N.J., parish this month, is married to a Methodist pastor...
While some scientists look toward expensive hardware for salvation, Piccard sees a very basic solution. He is convinced that as pollution gets worse, "each human being will be forced to make personal sacrifices," and that "such nonsense as planned obsolescence in manufacturing should have been banned long ago." Underdeveloped countries may still continue to raise their standard of living, he adds, but it will go down in the highly industrialized nations. "Curbing industrialization, and especially forcing down the worldwide birth rate, may seem unattainable goals," says Piccard, but "it's a matter...