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...deacon of Miami's First Presbyterian Church, Lee stoutly insists that there is no better rehabilitation than a stiff dose of churchgoing. To enforce his sentence, he requires each offender to write a weekly letter describing what he learned from the Sunday sermon. The effect of the preaching is sometimes questionable. One 15-year-old girl wrote what Chronicles 1:29 meant to her: "We are time watchers and punch clocks." Another boy complained: "This lesson I didn't understand at all. I did not know what he was talking about...
Their resignations, effective at the end of the acedemic year, follow the recommendations of a committee sponsored by the Congregational, Baptist, Methodist, and Presbyterian churches to evaluate their ministries at Harvard this Fall...
...Richard E. Mumma, Harvard's Presbyterian pastor, and Rev. Howard Fish, Congregational minister to the University, have resigned to open the way for a new Harvard-M.I.T. joint ministry likely to begin work next Fall...
Although his ministry has been "controversial," Mumma said, he did not imply that the evaluating committee opposed his activities. Robert K. Funkhouser, chairman of the Presbyterian board which oversees Mumma's work at Harvard, agreed with several other observers that no disapproval was involved in the committee's recommendations...
...society's brightest and busiest career girls (public relations aide to New York's Mayor John Lindsay, fund raiser for numerous charities); and Andrew Mackenzie Hay, 40, wealthy British-born importer of gourmet specialties; she for the first time, he for the second; in a Presbyterian ceremony; in Manhattan...