Washington Parish Sponsors Conference
Diocesan Press Service. September 14, 1965 [XXXV-6]
St. John's Church, Lafayette Square, will sponsor two major conferences on Church and City, during the celebration of its 50th anniversary.
The moderators at the conferences, to be held Sept. 24 and 25, will be presidential adviser Charles Horsky and Judge Oliver Gasch of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. St. John's is in central Washington.
How government is combating growing problems of crime, violence and juvenile delinquency in the nation's capital and what the churches should be and are doing to assist will be discussed by government planning heads, clergy, college students and faculty and citizens in the first conference of its kind.
Speakers will include James Symington, director of the President's Committee on Juvenile Delinquency and Youth Crime, Sterling Tucker of the Washington Urban League; the Hon. Fredrick B. Lee, chairman of United Planning organization, handling the Anti-Poverty program in Washington; Judge Skelly Wright; Father Geno Baroni, the Rev. Philip Newell, the Rev. William A. Wendt, and the Rt. Rev. Paul Moore, Jr., Suffragan Bishop of Washington.
The cornerstone of St. John's, Lafayette Square, known as "the church of the presidents, " was laid on Sept. 14, 1815. The church was completed the following year.