Priest To Do Survey
Diocesan Press Service. August 12, 1963 [XII-5]
An Episcopal priest has been appointed by the Presiding Bishop to conduct a year-long survey to determine how the church can help modernize existing health and welfare facilities in Central Africa.
Named to this new post of Research Fellow is the Rev. Richard Young of Chicago, Ill., who for the past 14 years has headed the Bishop Anderson Foundation, a medical chaplaincy program in Chicago's medical center district.
Fr. Young, who began his new assignment on July 15, will serve on the Episcopal Church's Strategic Advisory Committee to the Presiding Bishop. This committee is under the direction of the Rev. Joseph G. Moore, Ph. D., Strategic Advisory Officer of the National Council.
In this capacity, Fr. Young will conduct on-the-spot studies of hospital, public health clinic, and school health-welfare programs in three countries of Central Africa - Kenya, Uganda, and Tanganyika.
He also will confer with denominational leaders -- Anglican, Roman Catholic, Lutheran, Baptist, Muslim, and even Africa cult doctors -- to determine needs now met by them and to explore the possibility of setting up an interdenominational health- welfare program.
This $15,000 "Central Africa Research Project" (financed by an anonymous donor) will be carried out at the invitation of the Rt. Rev. Donald S. Arden, Bishop of Nyasaland, and the Rt. Rev. Francis Oliver Green-Wilkinson, Archbishop of Central Africa.