Word: rector
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...Ahead. Older chaplains, wiser in the ways of parish life, found readjustment less difficult but still far from easy. The rector of St. Andrew's Memorial Episcopal Church, Yonkers, N.Y., the Rev. Lynde Elliot May III, 40, entered the Navy in November 1942, served as a "flotilla chaplain" during the invasion of Southern France and elsewhere in the ETO, was discharged in November 1945. The experience as a padre he valued and would not have missed, but he was "darned glad to get back" to the tranquillity of his parish and to his own job. Ex-Chaplain May admitted...
General Douglas MacArthur got an honorary Doctor of Laws from Manila's University of Santo Tomas, whose rector acclaimed him "greater than Alexander the Great or Napoleon, man of destiny and savior of Christian civilization...
...Arthur Kinsolving was nicknamed "Tui" (Portuguese diminutive for Arthur) while his father, the Rt. Rev. Lucien Lee Kinsolving, was serving as first Episcopal Bishop of Brazil. Big Tui has served as chaplain at West Point (six years), as dean of Long Island's Cathedral of the Incarnation, as rector of Pittsburgh's Calvary Church...
Other living Kinsolving clergymen: Cousins Arthur Lee ("Little Tui"), popular youth leader and rector of Trinity Church, Princeton, N.J.; Charles J., rector of the Church of the Holy Faith, Santa Fe, N. Mex.; Walter Ovid, rector of Calvary Church, Summit, N.J.; Uncles Wythe L. and Arthur B., retired...
Please permit me to commend your current issue of TIME, especially the space and fairness with which you dealt with the life, accomplishments and death of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. For more than eight years it has been my privilege and honor to be Rector of "The President's Church" in Washington (St. Thomas'), where I have come to know him and to appreciate his sterling qualities as a man with a genius for friendship, a charm of personality, ideals of true democracy, world vision, an underlying religious spirit and a surprising knowledge of the Bible. . . . HOWARD S. WILKINSON...