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Honorary Degrees Presented at Berkeley

Diocesan Press Service. November 10, 1975 [75404]

NEW HAVEN, Conn. -- Three bishops, a priest, and a woman educator were awarded Doctor of Divinity degrees from Berkeley Divinity School at Yale University at its fall convocation October 24, in the Marquand Chapel at Yale.

Helene M. Schnurbush, director of Christian education on the staff of St. Mark's Episcopal Church, New Canaan, Conn., for 18 years, was honored for her "imaginative skills, administrative genius and unswerving devotion. " She is the second woman to receive the honorary D.D. degree from Berkeley, and the third woman and the second unordained person ever selected for the Procter Fellow study program at the Episcopal Divinity School in Cambridge, Mass.

The Berkeley seminary, which is affiliated with Yale Divinity School, awarded D.D. degrees to three recently consecrated bishops of the Church, all of whom are graduates of Yale Divinity School and who were elected bishops of their dioceses within a few weeks of each other.

Bishop William H. Clark of Delaware was honored for his "concern for the ecumenical movement" and for his "efforts on behalf of refugees and other dispossessed peoples," as well as for his "unbiased and equitable view of the place of women in the Church."

Northern Michigan's Bishop William A. Dimmick was cited for his "innate yet informed sense of what is meet and right in worship " and for his "desire to alleviate injustice and suffering among all people in our nation. "

Bishop William A. Jones Jr., of Missouri was honored for his work in "dealing realistically with the urbanization of our society" and for establishing "models for training leadership in Christian education. "

The Rev. James Earle Annand, Wakefield, R. I., a retired priest, and a trustee of Berkeley, was honored for sharing "generously with your seminary your time, your wisdom and your faith. "