Word: successors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Riverside's elaborate hunt for William Sloane Coffin's successor typifies the method by which most of America's 300,000 Protestant congregations, large and small, find spiritual leaders. Lay members serving on a search committee may spend a year in unpaid toil, scanning l00 dossiers, listening to sermon tapes and making covert scouting expeditions to hear preachers. At Riverside, 5,000 people were asked to submit names and 250 prospects were contacted...
...seems the Harvard Corporation will remain the oldest corporation in the Western Hemisphere, especially with all the time it takes choosing new members. Bok & Co. still haven't found a successor to Andrew Heiskell, who resigned more than a year and a half ago, and now they have to find another board member to replace Treasurer Roderick M. MacDougall '51, who died last month...
Deputy IOP Director David Runkel said he believed that a search committee would probably be formed by the end of the week to help in the search for Thornburgh's successor. Runnel, who has been acting IP director during Thornbugh's five-month absence said that the IOP's Student Advisory Committee (SAC) would have input into the search process...
...reflected on the reason for his full-spirited participation in this battle, traveling 25,000 miles, speaking at 30 rallies in 16 states and raising $10 million for the party. "You always think in this business that your policies will last," Reagan said. "About then, I remember my successor as California Governor, Jerry Brown. He went in and changed everything that I had ever done...
There was even then the unshakable feeling that Reagan had accomplished what no other President since Andrew Jackson had done: inspire enough affection for himself, and respect for his policies and presence, to anoint his successor. Jackson did it for Martin Van Buren, Reagan for George Bush...