Committee on Bi-Centennial of Nation Appointed
Diocesan Press Service. May 1, 1973 [73125]
GREENWICH, Conn. -- A 15-member Committee on the Bi-centennial of the Nation was appointed here today by the Rt. Rev. John E. Hines, Presiding Bishop, to develop plans for the participation of the Episcopal Church in the national observance in 1976.
The committee, broadly representative of the church, was authorized by the Executive Council at its September, 1972 meeting. The Council asked the Presiding Bishop to "appoint a committee to develop plans by which this Council may assist the Dioceses and members of this Church to observe the Bi-centennial of the Nation: and to formulate an appropriate strategy for participation by the Executive Council in the national observance."
Four members of the committee are members of the Executive Council: the Rt. Rev. John M. Burgess, Bishop of Massachusetts, chairman; Dr. Clifford P. Morehouse, Sarasota, Fla.; Mrs. J. Brooks Robinson, Great Falls, Mont., and the Rev. Canon Stewart Wood, Jr., Indianapolis, Ind. A fifth member, the Rev. Everett Francis, Public Affairs Officer of the Council, is staff liaison.
Other members of the committee are: Mrs. Theodore Wedel, Washington, D.C.; Mr. Hodding Carter, III, Greenville, Miss.; the Rev. Robert W. Golledge, Boston, Mass.; Mr. Dennis Sun Rhodes, Ethete, Wyo.; the Rt. Rev. John Walker, Suffragan Bishop of Washington (D.C.); the Rev. Prof. William J. Wolf, Cambridge, Mass.; the Rev. Prof. C. FitzSimons Allison, Alexandria, Va.; Mr. Avelardo Valdez, Milwaukee, Wis.: Mr. Augustus T. Graydon, Columbia, S.C., and Dr. Nelle V. Bellamy, archivist, Church Historical Society, Austin, Tex.
The Executive Council also approved last September cooperation with the Anglican Theological Review which will publish a special issue this summer on an Anglican contribution to a creative recovery of the American Tradition.