Word: rector
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Died. Dr. William Norman Guthrie, 76, unorthodox former rector of Manhattan's venerable Episcopal Church of St. Mark's in-the-Bouwerie; in Washington. Appointed rector of quiet, 145-year-old St. Mark's in 1911, handsome, Scottish-born Dr. Guthrie quickly displayed a talent for religious showmanship, installed colored lights, gongs and incense, asked non-believers like Dancer Isadora Duncan to speak at services, symbolically tethered a black sheep in the churchyard. When in 1923, Dr. Guthrie put on a show of eurythmic dances in the church by six bare-legged Barnard girls, Bishop William Thomas...
...Bishop of Davenport, Iowa: Monsignor Ralph Leo Hayes, onetime Bishop of Helena. Mont., later rector of Rome's North American College (theological school for U.S. priests) until its closing...
Social Revolutionist. Ordained to the priesthood, Temple served successively as chaplain to the then Archbishop of Canterbury, headmaster of Repton School, rector of St. James's in Piccadilly, Canon of Westminster Abbey. In 1921 he was appointed Bishop of Manchester. Eight years later, at 48, he was made the youngest Archbishop of York in history...
...First. From 14 to 19, Cotty attended Cheltenham College, preparatory school, where he became "tall, strong as a horse, graceful." From there he went to Cambridge, where he read Punch, Dickens, Matthew Arnold, Tennyson and the law-and not much else. "There is a striking similarity between the Rector's humor and that of Punch in the days when he was in Britain," observes Ashburn. When Endicott graduated, he knew only that he wanted to be useful...
...young man like that landing in the midst of Boston society played havoc with the fair sex. They fell before him like ninepins." Handsome Cotty entered Lee, Higginson & Co., brokers, as a runner and clerk. Life among the trust funds soon bored him. He visited the famed, silver-tongued rector of Boston's fashionable Trinity Episcopal Church, Phillips Brooks. Their conversation...