Foundation Awards Graduate Study Fellowships
Diocesan Press Service. February 11, 1975 [75060]
NEW YORK, N.Y. -- Eight fellowships have been awarded by The Episcopal Church Foundation for doctoral study in the 1975-1976 academic year. The grants, totaling $44,822, will enable two seniors at seminary and six recent seminary graduates to earn their doctorates before entering the Church's teaching ministry.
New fellowships were awarded to:
* Mr. Douglas H. Adamson, who will complete his senior year this spring at the Episcopal Divinity School in Cambridge, Mass., and study ethics at the Harvard Divinity School in the fall. A native of South Bend, Indiana, he is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Yale and already holds a law degree from the Harvard Law School and his doctorate in education from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Simultaneously with his divinity studies, he practises law with the firm of Elcock and Dwyer in Boston and serves as visiting professor at the Graduate School of Lowell State College. He has been Superintendent of Schools in Western Massachusetts and Central New York and, upon the completion of his graduate work, intends to serve as an ordained priest in teaching -- from a Christian perspective -- education, educational administration, the law of education and the ethics of education. He and his wife, the former Hope Weld, live in Cambridge.
* Miss Irene Lawrence, of the Diocese of California, who will commence her studies in theology and language next September at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California. After earning her B.S. in mathematics from Stanford University, she spent six years teaching religious education in high schools in Liberia and is now in her senior year at the Church Divinity School of the Pacific in Berkeley, where she was the only student to pass her comprehensive senior qualifying examination with distinction and, as a result, has designed her own curriculum this year. Miss Lawrence is the recipient of The William B. Given, Jr., Memorial Fellowship, established by the Arthur Vining Davis Foundations of Miami, Florida, in memory of the first president of The Episcopal Church Foundation. She looks forward to teaching in a college or seminary.
Six fellowships for a second or third year of doctoral study have been renewed for: the Rev. Bruce D. Chilton, Jr., of the Diocese of Long Island, at Cambridge University in England; the Rev. L. William Countryman, of the Diocese of Southern Ohio, at the University of Chicago Divinity School; the Rev. Christopher Duraisingh, of the Diocese of Dornakal in India, at the Harvard Divinity School; the Rev. M. David Eckel, of the Diocese of Western Massachusetts, at the Harvard Divinity School; the Rev. Thomas G. Goman, of the Diocese of Olympia, at the Claremont Graduate School; and Miss Alda C. Marsh, of the Diocese of Pennsylvania, at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley.
The Foundation's first fellowships for graduate study were awarded in 1964, since when 122 individual grants, totaling $520,704, have been made to young clergymen preparing themselves for teaching careers.