Word: pike
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dean James A. Pike is like a spike-tough and sharp. Combined with tireless energy, Dean Pike's spikiness has made him, in barely twelve years of Episcopal ministry, one of the most widely heard Protestant voices in the U.S. Last week it made him a bishop-elect...
...Gothic gloom of San Francisco's Grace Cathedral house on Nob Hill, 115 clerical and 385 lay delegates elected him Bishop Coadjutor of the Diocese of California-slated to succeed Diocesan Bishop Karl Morgan Block when he retires next December. It took six ballots to do it. In Pike's favor were his age (44), moderate Low-Churchmanship and vigorous stand-taking as dean of New York City's Cathedral of St. John the Divine. Against him were his ex-Roman Catholicism, the annulment of his first marriage and the same vigorous stand-taking...
Bath Water & Baby. Oklahoma-born, Los Angeles-reared James Albert Pike was always one to stick his neck out. So uncompromising was his Catholicism that he turned down a scholarship to Harvard to go to a Catholic college-California's Jesuit University of Santa Clara. But after two years there, his faith in the Church of Rome was gone, and with it his faith in Christianity ("I threw out the baby with the bath water," he says). He switched to the University of Southern California, followed it up with Yale Law School...
...married (in an Episcopal church, though still an agnostic); the marriage lasted two years and was ecclesiastically annulled by the then bishop of Los Angeles. At 25 Lawyer Pike became one of the youngest men ever admitted to the bar of the U.S. Supreme Court. In Washington he was an attorney for the Securities & Exchange Commission, later for the U.S. Maritime Commission and the War Shipping Administration. He also taught law at George Washington University. One of his students was pretty Esther Yanovsky, who, says Pike, "got an A and the professor." They were married in 1942 -both such staunch...
...Pikes had joined the Episcopal Church, had themselves remarried at a service attended by their first child (there are now four), who was ensconced in a baby carriage in the center aisle. A few months later Pike began studying for the ministry; he was ordained the next year...