Bicentennial Resource Associate Named to Staff
Diocesan Press Service. September 13, 1974 [74233]
NEW YORK, N.Y. -- The Rev. Page S. Bigelow joined the staff of the Executive Council of the Episcopal Church on September 1 as Bicentennial Resource Associate. She will serve in this position for two years.
In this position Mrs. Bigelow will assist in coordinating and developing the Episcopal Church's program relating to the nation's bicentennial era themes.
Born in Phillipsburg, N.J., Mrs. Bigelow is a graduate of Kent Place School, Summit, N.J., and received her A.B. degree from Wells College, Aurora, N.Y. In 1974 she received her M.Div. degree from General Theological Seminary, New York City, one of the first two women graduates of the seminary.
Her father, Sylvester C. Smith, Jr., is a past president of the American Bar Association.
Mrs. Bigelow was ordained a deacon on June 8, 1974.
In 1946 she was married to William S. Bigelow of Newark, N.J., and they have a daughter, two sons, and one grandson. They make their home in Maplewood, N.J. Mr. Bigelow is an independent consultant in fuel gases in his consulting firm in Maplewood.
Her community activities have included membership in the Junior League, volunteer work in hospitals, children's theatre, recording for the blind, and welfare work.
She is a communicant of St. George's Church, Maplewood, where she has served as a church school teacher, member of the choir, and E.C.W. president.
In the Diocese of Newark, Mrs. Bigelow has been a member and officer of the E.C.W. board, a member of the liturgical commission and chairman of the research committee of that commission. She has conducted "quiet days" for the E.C.W. and parish groups in the diocese since 1970.