Word: rector
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Perhaps the most extraordinary religious service of World War II was reported in last week's Churchman. It was described in a letter written to The Rev. E. Ruffin Jones, rector of St. Andrew's Church, Norfolk, Va., by a onetime William & Mary athlete, now a Marine lieutenant...
...probably stepped way out of line by taking it upon myself to conduct the holy sacrament, but I am sure that some of the men who participated, especially those who are no longer with us, and will never be able to take the sacrament again, will forgive me." Commented Rector Jones: "Fully admitting the irregularity, which to many will seem a weak word, of a layman's celebrating the Holy Communion, and other elements in the service almost as startling, I can but believe that the sacrament was as valid in the sight of God as it would have...
...graduation he was torn between music and law. He plunged into both. When a famed voice teacher, Percy Rector Stephens, encouraged him to continue his voice training in New York, he saw an even more interesting opportunity. The Professor's secretary, a gifted mezzo-soprano, Frances Eileen Hutt, of Sapulpa, Okla., was also going to New York...
...Rector Ray, 57, is a friendly Mississippi-born ex-newspaperman who gave up golf for gardening because "it is better for my waistline." He spends most of his time interviewing and advising prospective brides & grooms. Because he will not marry divorced persons, elopers, or girls under 21 who lack parental consent, he turns away some 500 couples a year. Yet in his 20-year rectorate, he has approved 50,000 weddings, performed some 25,000 of them himself...
...Persuading U.S. Steel's legendary board chairman, the late Elbert H. Gary, to pay a cool $5,000,000 for the Empire Building at Broadway and Rector Street where Big Steel had made its offices for years. Day sold Judge Gary on staying where he was by simply letting him reminisce about the steel history that had been made in the old building...