Word: vermont
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...Vermont has 429 clergymen, of whom less than 10% are Episcopalians. Last week Vermont Episcopalians met to choose their sixth bishop, successor to Rt. Rev. Samuel Babcock Booth who died last June. In four ballots they eliminated such of the 42 Vermonters as had been nominated, went outside the State for the third successive time, elected Rev. Dr. Joseph Wilson Sutton. 54, vicar of Trinity Chapel, Manhattan. Vicar Sutton learned of his election with surprise while vacationing in Mexico...
...Vermont Dr. Sutton will not find Episcopal life much more turbulent...
Last year there were 79 Episcopal marriages, 296 burials, no ordinations for the priesthood. Vermont Episcopalians are mostly high church, hence will get along with ultra-high Dr. Sutton. Chief problem he must face is finance - how to maintain, if not spread, an extensive series of missionary chapels...
Last week it was a woman's turn to be president of the National Education Association. One candidate, Caroline Woodruff of Vermont, arrived in Denver for the N. E. A. convention with a carload of maple syrup. Another candidate's followers rolled into Denver on a noisy "Annie Carlton Woodward Special" from Massachusetts. Annie Carlton Woodward's demagogic platform: "Elect a Classroom Teacher." Candidates Woodruff, Woodward and Agnes Samuelson of Iowa settled down to a week of strategic breakfasts, luncheons, teas...
...Elected as president for one year neither Vermont's syrupy Woodruff nor Massachusetts' demagogic Woodward but a Westerner and a Superintendent, Iowa's Agnes Samuelson. A broad-beamed daughter of Swedish immigrants, Agnes Samuelson began her career 29 years ago by teaching in a rural school, while looking after six younger brothers and sisters. Spunky, capable, she wheedled a third term as Iowa's Republican State Superintendent of Public Instruction without a whimper from a Democratic State Administration...