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...most famous nondenominational seminary, Union Theological, in Manhattan. Last week the board of directors elected a man who had been on campus all along: Dr. John Coleman Bennett, 61, who was dean of the faculty from 1955 until he became acting president after the retirement of Henry Pitney Van Dusen last June...
There was laughter and applause. Actually, that exchange did not truly reflect the feelings of the occasion, for when called upon to ask the evening's final question, Walter H. Wheeler Jr., chairman of Pitney-Bowes, made a statement instead: Marjolin & Co. were receiving a lot of criticism these days, but what Wheeler had seen in Brussels was the most hopeful and inspiring experience of the whole trip, and he thought that the Common Market was doing the right thing both for Europe and the world...
Walter H. Wheeler Jr., chairman, Pitney-Bowes...
parochial captivity means that churches are badly organized to reach the metropolitan masses, and it is what Theologian Henry Pitney Van Dusen thinks U.S. Christianity suffers from. (See RELIGION...
...young Presbyterian minister Henry Pitney Van Dusen wrote a congratulatory letter to his friend and mentor, Henry Sloane Coffin, newly elected president of Manhattan's Union Theological Seminary. In it, Van Dusen, a recent past president of Union's student body, innocently offered his assistance to Coffin in any matter concerning the students. Although Van Dusen had no thoughts of an academic career, Coffin with mistaken shrewdness concluded that the young cleric was fishing for a job. Later, Coffin wrote Van Dusen, urging him to take an instructorship at Union, and made the offer so warmly courteous that...