Word: wendt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Many of these parishes have come alive only after having faced up to the specter of death. The Episcopal Church of St. Stephen and the Incarnation in Washington, D.C., for example, was founded in 1928 to serve a white, prosperous neighborhood. By 1960, when Father William Wendt, a onetime fighter pilot, took over as rector, the area was 90% Negro and had the highest crime rate in the city; most of St. Stephen's old parishioners had drifted away. Persuading his remaining white communicants to stay and help him rebuild, Wendt junked the traditional parish societies-bridge clubs, ladies...
Covering the Obvious. But in the majority of cases, newspapers are not doing nearly so well as they should on the city beat. "We ought to strike off in new directions," says Lloyd Wendt, editor of Chicago's American, and a onetime city hall reporter. "Unfortunately, we're usually kept so busy following the old traditions that it's hard to get the time and people to do anything else." The old tradition consists of covering the obvious story−the speech, the meeting, the announcement−and avoiding more intricate social and economic stories that really...
...slight, energetic, hard-working man, father of four children, Reeb worked for four years at All Souls' Church in Washington, D.C., but he found parish work too limiting. "He had a great love for people and their needs," says a colleague, the Rev. William A. Wendt. "He could not have cared less about whether they were going to heaven. He cared where they were going...
...undergraduates. They are: Ford T. Johnson, Jr. 1L, Harry E. Miller 3L, Fredric R. Branfman 1GSE, Karen E. Fields '66, Elise Forbes '65, Jennifer Leaning '67, Mary R. Yarwood '65, Lee S. Hyde '65, Stephen A. Most '65, Christopher St. John '66, Alan H. Venable '66, and David A. Wendt...
...style you both owe at least a nod to the old English prayer book. The comment seems to have been inspired by the lines in the litany: "From Ghoulies, and Ghosties, and three-legged beasties, and things that go boomp in the night, Good Lord, deliver us." ALLAN W. WENDT Columbia...