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...pioneer institutional church in the U. S. was St. George's (Episcopal) on Manhattan's Stuyvesant Square. When its most famed rector. Dr. William Stephen Rainsford, arrived in 1883 he asked and got, from a vestry of which the elder J. P. Morgan was a member, $10,000 a year to spend as he pleased on parish clubs, a summer camp, gymnasium and schoolroom. Dr. Rainsford died at 83 in 1933. Dedicated to him on his birthday last Sunday was a memorial of which he would have approved - Rainsford House, first innovation of St. George's rector...
...tall, solemnly nice-looking Yaleman who was pious in college (class of 1919) and not ashamed of it, Elmore McKee was Yale's Episcopal chaplain from 1926 to 1930, then rector of Buffalo's swank Trinity Church until St. George's called him. In Rainsford House Rector McKee, 42, has settled ten budding Manhattan "businessmen" just out of college. They will live there for a year or so, paying $15 a week for board and lodging, and in their spare time do social-service work at St. George's and in Manhattan settlement houses. A phrase...
HOLLYWOOD--Samuel Goldwyn, the movie producer, was recovering today from the shock of a Scottish collegiate prank which carried farther than its authors anticipated. Goldwyn was advised today that he had been nominated for the position of Lord Rector of Glasgow University. Careful checkups with London officials seemed to substantiate the notification. Then cable dispatches from Glasgow disclosed the Goldwyn nomination was part of the annual student fun-making which accompanies nomination of a rector. They also had nominated Haile Solassic...
...Bishop Parsons, a great but aging liberal of the Episcopal Church, had announced his intention to retire at 70 this winter, after an episcopate of 20 years, will be succeeded by Bishop Block. Chubby-chinned, Washington-born Dr. Block, who admits to being "outrageously vigorous," was for 13 years rector of St. Michael & St. George's Church in St. Louis, is a member of his church's potent National Council...
...Chicago newspaper columns, over the nom de plume "Friar Tuck," for 20 years. Lank, bushy-browed Friar Tuck is a copyreader, feature-writer and religion editor for the Sunday Herald and Examiner. He is also, under his real name of Rev. Irwin St. John Tucker, an Episcopal minister, rector for eleven years of Chicago's St. Stephen's, nicknamed "The Little Church at the End of the Road." Last week, upon the publication of Friar Tuck's latest thin volume of verse, Bishop George Craig Stewart named Rector Tucker the official poet laureate of the Chicago diocese...