Word: presbyterians
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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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...
...students are restless at Kentucky's Pikeville College, a small (enrollment: 1,200) Presbyterian-supported school in the heart of Appalachia. But not for the usual reasons. Oddly enough, the dissidents are protesting long-haired professors, women teachers in miniskirts, and a liberal president who wants to give students more freedom and make their education more relevant...
...Charge of the Light Brigade); and Gayle Hunnicut, 25, leggy, Texas-born starlet (P.J.), whom Hemmings "married" in an Italian chapel last year in an impromptu ceremony uncluttered by the presence of a clergyman, which he admitted was "emotional and impetuous and, we later realized, quite invalid"; in a Presbyterian ceremony; he for the second time; in Beverly Hills, Calif...
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...
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...