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America's No. 1 Presbyterian of the year was picked last week. He is Dr. Stuart Nye Hutchison of Pittsburgh's East Liberty Church, who was elected Moderator (to serve for one year) at his church's 154th General Assembly at Milwaukee...
...Hutchison (whose middle name Nye brought him the Lafayette College nickname "Bill" he still goes by) turned 65 the day before his election, and he owes his election to the votes of the Conservative majority. He has been at East Liberty since 1921, saw it become "the most beautiful Presbyterian Church in the world" when Banker-Industrialist Richard B. Mellon (Andrew's brother) gave $4,500,000 for its soaring Gothic buildings. His congregation of 2,500 gives $160,000 a year for church causes, personally supports 14 foreign missionaries...
...said President Henry Sloane Coffin, regarding the election of the first Negro ever named to the board of a major U.S. educational institution. He is Dr. William Lloyd Imes, scholarly pastor of St. James' Church in Harlem, the third largest Presbyterian church in New York City. Union has always admitted Negro students; of its present enrollment of 311, eleven (3.5%) are Negroes...
...Buenos Aires airport, Dr. Castroviejo stepped out of the plane into an acute embarrassment, Dr. Ramon Cas-troviejo, a native of Castile, Spain, and now a citizen of the U.S., is a crack eye surgeon from Manhattan's Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center; Argentina's President Roberto Marcelino Ortiz is almost blind. The doctor's embarrassment was caused by the crowd at the airfield, who put two & two together...
...Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A...