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These two schools are hardly pioneers. St. Albert's College in Oakland, Calif., a Dominican seminary, joined with six Protestant divinity schools in the Bay Area to create the Graduate Theological Union (TIME, Nov. 6, 1964). Last year three seminaries in Dubuque, Iowa (one Presbyterian, one Lutheran, one Catholic), joined forces with the University of Iowa school of religion to form a similar organization, the Association of Theological Faculties...
Many scholars, moreover, think that ecumenical experimentation has just begun. Dr. Lynn Leavenworth, director of theological education for the American Baptists, last November proposed a consolidation of Protestant-and even Catholic-seminary resources. "It makes no sense," he said, "to have Baptist, Methodist, Episcopal and Presbyterian seminaries. I am looking for the day when seminary graduates will no longer be headed for this or that church's work...
Music & Migrants. Also growing in popularity is a shorter-term midwinter period in which classes are suspended and entire student bodies spend a month (usually January) in wide-ranging individual research. This innovation was pioneered by Florida Presbyterian and Colby, has spread to Colgate and about 20 other colleges. The variety of projects is limitless. A group of Colgate students went to Jamaica to study tropical-island biology. A Florida Presbyterian student went to work in a migrant-labor camp...
...World Council of Churches, the unity-seeking organization to which 214 Protestant, Anglican and Orthodox bodies belong. Meeting at their new headquarters in Geneva, members of the World Council's central committee chose the Rev. Eugene Carson Blake (TIME cover, May 26, 1961), stated clerk of the United Presbyterian Church, to succeed Willem Visser 't Hooft, council chief since it was founded...
...Richard E. Mumma, Presbyterian University pastor for the Harvard community, was active in organizing the group and is on its steering committee...