News Briefs
Diocesan Press Service. August 9, 1965 [XXXIV-14]
PRESIDING BISHOP AT POINT HOPE CELEBRATION
Presiding Bishop Hines travelled almost 4,000 miles to participate in the diamond jubilee celebration of St. Thomas. Episcopal Church in Point Hope, Alaska. The Arctic coast community is only 165 miles from Soviet Russia and cannot be reached by telephone.
During his two week visit, Bishop Hines spoke in Anchorage, Juneau, Kodiak, Fairbanks, and Fort Yukon. The Rt. Rev. William Gordon, Bishop of Alaska, accompanied Bishop Hines to Point Hope for the 75th anniversary fete, flying in "Blue Box No. 2."
CMS OFFICIAL TO SELLY OAK COLLEGES CHAIR OF MISSION
The Council of the Selly Oak Colleges has announced the appointment of the Rev. Canon Douglas Webster, M.A., Theologian-Missioner of the Church Missionary Society, to the Chair of Mission at Selly Oak Colleges, Birmingham, U.K. from Jan. 1.
The Selly Oak Chair of Mission is the only one of its kind in Britain. Canon Webster will be a member of the central staff of the Colleges with responsibility for research and teaching on the worldwide mission of the Church.
The Selly Oak Colleges are a federation of eight independent colleges representing all major non-Roman Catholic communions in Britain.
Canon Webster has already achieved an international reputation as teacher, preacher, lecturer, and author.