Episcopal School Masters to Meet
Diocesan Press Service. October 15, 1972 [72150]
NEW YORK, N.Y. (DPS) -- A national conference of Episcopal school masters, held every third year, is expected to bring 700 administrators and teachers to the national capital November 9-11. The Rev. John Paul Carter, executive director of the National Association of Episcopal Schools, thinks the turnout will exceed the 600 who came to the triennial in San Francisco in 1969.
Internationally known figures in education and religion will take part in the three-day "conference of ideas" including Episcopal Presiding Bishop John E. Hines, Dr. C. Albert Koob, president of the National Catholic Schools Association, Dr. Edwin O. Reischauer, former ambassador to Japan and now professor of Far Eastern Studies at Harvard, and Dr. John Silbur, president of Boston University.
Among the 900 Episcopal schools comprising the membership are some of the country's most famous, including Groton, St. Paul's, Kent, Wooster, Salisbury, Hoosac, Hannah More, Cranbrook, Kemper, Breck, Shattuck, St. Andrew's, Casady, Sewanee, Lenox, and DeVeaux.
The conference will center at Mount Saint Alban, site of the National Cathedral, where facilities of two Episcopal schools will be used for broad-spectrum discussions of needs and survival problems of lower, middle, and high schools and their place in a secular society. Episcopal Schools, according to Carter, constitute the fastest growing work of the Episcopal Church and now number 950.