News Briefs
Diocesan Press Service. September 7, 1964 [XXIV-10]
PROCESSION, EUCHARIST CLOSE PROGRAM
The urban program which six Washington Episcopal churches administered this summer, came to a grand climax Aug. 22 with a procession through the streets of floats, bands, bishops, priests and people, traversing a mile of that part of the city chosen by the President's Board on Juvenile Delinquency to be a target area. The procession was followed by a solemn Eucharist. The summer program was designed primarily to reach and aid children at a dead end on the streets in vacation time, and hopefully through the children to reach the parents, too.
WORLD COUNCIL NAMES SMITH
The Rev. Eugene L. Smith, New York, general secretary of the overseas mission program of The Methodist Church, has been named executive secretary of the World Council of Churches in the United States.
The missionary leader will succeed the Rev. Roswell P. Barnes as head of the world organization in this country. He also will serve as executive secretary of the U.S. Conference for the World Council of Churches. The conference is made up of the Council's 30 member churches in the U.S.
PARISH ON CLOSED CIRCUIT - T.V.
Beginning August 16, the congregation of Calvary Church, Syracuse, N. Y., worshipped with the aid of closed circuit television from a small chapel. This system will be used every Sunday until early next summer when it is hoped that the new church building will be ready. Closed circuit television has often been used to accomodate overflow services, but probably never has it been used for regular worship over so long a period.
The old Calvary Church, which was gutted last November in a fire set by arsonists, was demolished to make way for the new church.
HAMILTON IS WASHINGTON CANON
WASHINGTON, D. C. -- The Very Rev. Francis B. Sayre Jr., Dean of the Washington Cathedral, has announced the election by the Cathedral Chapter of the Rev. Michael P. Hamilton, 37, as a canon of the Cathedral.
Serving in this capacity he will work closely with Dean Sayre in several fields. One of his most important responsibilities will be in the area of the Church's relationship to the world, to discern "avenues of witness in the life and the work that goes on around us. "
NEGRO CHAPLAIN AT GEORGE WASHINGTON
WASHINGTON, D. C. -- A Negro priest, the Rev. Richard C. Martin, is the new Episcopal chaplain at George Washington University. Fr. Martin went to Washington from a similar position at Pennsylvania State University.
The chaplain is a native of Philadelphia and a graduate of Penn. State and Virginia Seminary. He will serve on the staff of St. Paul's Church, K Street.