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...also possible that President Pusey will take advantage of the meetings to announce a number of University appointments, including the name of the new University preacher...
Died. The Rev. Robert Russell Wicks, 80, minister to the soul and mind of countless students as Princeton University's Dean of the Chapel from 1928 to 1947, an outspoken preacher-teacher who was known to one and all as "Pop" and was tirelessly devoted to his chosen duty, beginning at 65 a series of "retirements," first from Princeton, then from Hamilton College, Lawrenceville School, and finally in 1961 from Phillips Exeter Academy; of a stroke; in Exeter...
...position of preacher to the University has been vacant since the departure of the Rev. George A. Buttrick in June, 1960. All efforts by President Pusey to fill the position have up till now been unsuccessful...
...Theodore P. Ferris '29, rector of Trinity Church in Boston, called the job of University preacher "one of the most challenging in the country." Ferris said he had been offered the position shortly after Buttrick's departure, but that he had refused it because he wanted to remain at his Trinity Church pulpit, where he has served for 20 years...
Ferris said the job of University preacher was particularly difficult because of the delicate position of the ministry in an academic and interdenominational community...