Committee on Location of Church Center Meets
Diocesan Press Service. February 16, 1973 [73044]
NEW YORK, N.Y. -- The Committee on Location of the Episcopal Church Center, an ad hoc committee of the Executive Council of the Episcopal Church, decided at a recent meeting to employ a consultant "to make a study of all aspects of the issue."
A committee to study the location of the national headquarters was appointed in May, 1970, "to consider whether the whole mission of the Episcopal Church could be better served by transferring its headquarters to some new location. " The Church Center is now located at 815 Second Avenue, New York City.
The original committee, chaired by Bishop Archie H. Crowley, former Suffragan Bishop of Michigan, was discharged at its own request in February, 1972, and a new committee was appointed.
The new committee has indicated that it will need $25,000 for consultant fees and $10,000 for committee expenses, the funds to come from outside the Executive Council budget.
The committee's report to Council will be made no later than September 27, 1973, at its meeting just prior to the opening of General Convention on September 29 in Louisville, Kentucky.
The members of the committee are: Philip A. Masquelette, chairman, Houston, Tex.; J. Wade Bennett, New York City; the Rev. Kenneth Cary, Pacific Palisades, Calif.; Charles M. Crump, Memphis, Tenn.; Charles L. Ritchie, Jr., Philadelphia, Pa.; the Very Rev. Dillard Robinson, Newark, N. J.; Paul M. Roca, Phoenix, Ariz.; Bishop Richard M. Trelease, Jr., Albuquerque, N.Mex.; Warren H. Turner, Jr., New York City, and Mrs. Theodore O. Wedel, Alexandria, Va.