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...meantime, they describe themselves as "Orthodox Anglicans." Rummage Sales. The principal dissenter is the rector of the Church of the Redeemer, the Rev. Edwin West. Canadian-born Schismatic West, a self-styled "eighth generation Anglican," was ordained to the ministry in 1945, became rector of St. Mark's in Palo Alto seven years later. High Churchman West has usually disagreed with the theological opinions of his bishop. Last winter, as part of a long-standing effort to get his parish to adopt tithing instead of rummage sales as a means of raising capital, West attacked some of his churchwomen...
...group of pro-West parishioners at St. Mark's refused to accept his resignation as final. They asked Pike for permission to leave St. Mark's and set up a new parish with West as rector. When the bishop refused, more than 100 members of the Parish-most of them Episcopalian conservatives who had little use for Pike's doctrinal views-organized a new congregation outside Episcopal jurisdiction and asked West to come back as rector. West announced his intention of giving up Episcopal orders, and accepted the call...
...summer school, called the Advanced Studies Program, is a pioneering blend of noblesse oblige and intelligent economics. For 102 years, the wealthy Episcopal bastion in Concord, N.H., shut tight each summer, sending its boys home for three months. This did not seem right to St. Paul's rector, the Rev. Matthew M. Warren, 54, who thought there must be some way to use those empty classrooms and dormitories. He decided to open them to the best young brains of rural, frugal New Hampshire, where no public high school yet offers Russian, calculus, advanced biology, chemistry or physics...
Pedagogue's Paradise. To teach St. Paul's A.S.P. students, Rector Warren has 19 summer teachers, among them faculty members from Yale, Smith and Dartmouth. It is hardly a vacation, but they enjoy compensations. As one science instructor put it, "The freedom. The equipment. Everything I've asked for I've gotten. This is a pedagogue's paradise...
...students, Rector Warren was "deathly afraid that we were creating intellectual snobs," who would find the schools they return to intolerable. But this does not seem to have happened to his 471 "graduates." Many of them had never reckoned on being able to go to college, but now find themselves sought by the most prestigious campuses. This month 39 colleges and universities sent recruiters to look over St. Paul's summer talent. Mused one youngster: "You'd think we were star football players...