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...Norman Burdett Nash, rector of 91-year-old St. Paul's School (Concord, N.H.), looked his part. His close-cropped mustache, his energetic briskness, his ready laugh, seemed to fit the schoolmaster more than the top-rank churchman. Yet among graduates of haughty, hockey-playing St. Paul's it has been no secret that the school and Headmaster Nash have not been an ideal couple...
Social Christianity. Under the leadership of tall, dominating Dr. William S. Rainsford, rector from 1883 to 1905, St. George's became the first great "institutional" church in the U.S. Rector Rainsford knew how to get hard work as well as hard cash from the rich among his parishioners,* startled ecclesiastical mossbacks by organizing a trade school, sewing school, boys' club, men's club and summer camps under church auspices. Young clergymen coveted appointments as his assistants to learn this new technique of urban church-with-community-center. St. George's set a popular pattern...
...retirement, the church's liberal, socially conscious tradition was carried on under high-church-baiting Dr. Karl Reiland,* since 1936 under solemn pacifist Dr. Elmore McKee. Last June, after ten years' service, 50-year-old Dr. McKee resigned because of "fatigue." Next month, a new rector will take over: tall (6 ft. 3 in.), bespectacled Edward Miller, 31. Born in St. Louis, he was graduated from Harvard (where he was fencing captain), studied for a year at Cambridge, then at New York's General Theological Seminary before taking his present job as assistant rector of Christ Church...
...Holy Table. The brownstone exterior of young Rector Miller's new church matches the gloom within. Most noteworthy of its furnishings: instead of an altar, St. George's has a "Holy Table"-approachable from all sides by communicants. Adjacent to the church are three "outbuildings," two of them residences where young men & women starting careers in New York can get a room and two meals a day for $16.50 a week. The third, the parish house, teems with the activities of 17 parish organizations. One of its biggest projects: a medical clinic where two dentists, two doctors...
Chairman of American-Soviet Friendship is Rev. William Howard Melish, 36-year-old associate rector of the Protestant Episcopal Church of the Holy Trinity of Brooklyn. The Rev. Mr. Melish makes no bones about admiring the not-so-holy trinity of Marx, Lenin & Stalin. He wrote in the Communist New Masses that he was "impressed by the substantial truth of Marxist methods of social and economic analysis." He is a supporter of Manhattan's Jefferson School of Social Science, a Communist incubator. In the latest Reporter, the Council's four-page bimonthly which Rev. Mr. Melish edits...