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...Lind felt a special empathy for the oppressed; she attracted national attention for a series of dynamic social programs she had introduced as pastor to St. Paul's Episcopal Church in inner-city Paterson, N.J. But then a storm brewed in her backyard. Former Newark assistant bishop Walter Righter was charged with heresy for having knowingly ordained an open homosexual named Barry Stopfel...
...power-lunch at Radius and later cap the day by working it off on the squash courts at the Harvard Club. And dinner? If anywhere, it will be back in suburbia with the kids. “It is very difficult for the Somerset.” says James Righter ’58. “There are no sports, no games...The Somerset is great for retired people.” Indeed the average member of most of these clubs is in their late fifties and sixties. Years ago, former Somerset President Richard S. Humphrey...
...After voting to admit women in the wake of the licensing board decision, the Somerset Club started by offering memberships to widows of past members. As the wives of members played a large part in the club, “the changes went almost unnoticed,” says Righter, “there were always women around, women without men. The widows were always invited.” Some of the women who joined the Somerset in the last several years include the usual old New England families—Spauldings, Sargents, Storeys, Lymans, Gardners, Saltonstalls. In fact...
...been lost with the admission of women: “The chemistry hasn’t changed much. In fact, [sexual integration] has been a positive thing all the way. For men and women.” “The Tavern,” says James Righter, whose wife is a member, “is very much alive.” The plays, which now include women, “are still funny,” Greenway says...
Quick, name a euonym for REBECCA SEALFON, 13, of Brooklyn, N.Y. If you said "spelling master," you'd be right, and if you said "highly nervous and eccentric spelling master," you'd be even righter. Sealfon correctly spelled euonym (meaning: an appropriate name) to win the 1997 Scripps Howard National Spelling Bee last week. The home-schooled whiz was such a wreck, she asked to wait offstage between spelling such words as deliquesce and sufflaminate. Her final nine-round spelldown with Prem Murthy Trivedi, 11, of Howell, N.J., ended after he put an extra l in the word cortile (that...