Word: rectorate
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Illustrious men came to Kirk Bramwith for the unveiling. J. G. Groeninger, an American in the consular service, drew aside the Union Jack which covered the window. Captain the Rev. R. Whincup, the village rector, stood under the Stars & Stripes to read a message from the King. Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster Ernest Brown made a speech. General Sir Bernard L. Montgomery saluted the village spirit...
...help chaplains who return to that diocese when the war ends. The eleven Texas parsons now serving had to resign their parishes because replacements would not accept parishes on a "duration" basis. Said Bishop Clinton Simon Quin: "We are going to take care of every returning rector. We will get them a job within the Diocese. Maybe it will be a church with but 15 or 20 members, where pay is small. The fund set aside will be used to make up the difference in that pay and the amount the rector was making when he joined...
...first time in many a moon Dr. Joseph Fort Nerwton did not have to get up at 6 o'clock on weekday mornings. After eleven years the Philadelphia Episcopalian rector had given up his syndicated daily newspaper column, Everyday Religion. The flood of readers' letters that had put him to work at dawn's crack was beginning to subside...
...that his journalistic days are over, Rector Newton feels that he benefited most. Says he: "My readers taught me more than I taught them...
...Wunsch. Drafted for the sixth successive year as Black Mountain's Rector (chief but not full-time executive) is softspoken, stocky William Robert ("Bob") Wunsch. A top-flight drama teacher and coach, he is one of the mountaineers whom John Andrew Rice (TIME, Nov. 23, 1942), led in revolt from standard education a la Rollins College, Florida...