Word: vestrymen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Assistant Rector William Howard Melish, 38, on the staff of Brooklyn Heights's red stone Church of the Holy Trinity. Young Melish's busy left-wing activities (e.g., he was chairman of the National Council of American-Soviet Friendship) had finally led Holy Trinity's vestrymen to appeal to the Bishop of Long Island for the ouster of their rector. After the court ruled, many a Holy Trinity parishioner hoped that son William would at last resign so that the bishop could reverse his decision on the well-loved father...
Holy Trinity's vestrymen have long looked askance at the sayings & doings of their ministers, Rector John Howard Melish, 74, and his son and associate rector, the Rev. William Howard Melish, 38 (TIME, May 3). Son William, a confirmed Communist-liner, is chairman of the Red-fronting National Council of American-Soviet Friendship, and has been associated with at least six other organizations listed as subversive by the Attorney General's office. His father not only tolerates his assistant's political activities, but once referred to them as "the work which the rector himself would have done...
...Consciences Demand. At last, the vestrymen decided to do something about the Melishes. They voted 9 to 1 to petition Long Island's Bishop James Pernette De Wolfe "for separation and dissolution of the pastoral relationship . . ." But spry old Rector Melish was not one to go quietly. He wrote to his congregation telling what the vestry had done...
...reply, the vestry got out another letter presenting its version of the situation. They had been "informed," said the vestrymen, that "it was the unanimous recommendation of the Bishop and the Standing Committee that . . . it would be for the best interests of the Parish and the Diocese if both the Rector and the Assistant Minister resigned...
...Holy Trinity's vestrymen have viewed young William's activities with a less approving eye. Last week they seemed to be trying to get rid of him. An informal poll of 306 of the 780-member congregation showed the parish about equally divided on the subject...