May 30. The Rev. Suzanne Radley Hiatt, whose memorial statue stands on our pulpit, died. See our discussion of her appreciation for Pauli Murray.
Under Rector Wm. Blaine-Wallace, Betsy Bunn served as Sr. Warden, Allen Thompson as Jr. Warden, and Bill White as Clerk of the Vestry. They hired Elaine Construction to begin restoration of the nave, sacristry, and other parts of our building damaged by fire.
Betsy Bunn, Sr. Warden 2001-2003
Dorothy A. Brown, 1963 (image credit: NQ, Boston Globe)
March 20. Dorothy Addams Brown died in Gloucester MA. She had been born on 29 May 1923 to parishioners Harriet Addams Young (1886-1952) and Lawrence Allyn Brown (1876-1937) and baptized here. She resided for many year at 434 Marlborough St. with her brother Lawrence, Jr.. She served on our vestry (1962-4 & 1969-74) and our Finance & Budget and Long-Range Planning committees. She was a generous benefactor until her death at the age of 90. She credited William Wolbach, President of the Boston Safe Deposit & Trust Co., for hiring her as a clerk in 1944, when she graduated from Vassar. She became the bank’s first woman trust officer and then Vice President. Mary Meier of The Boston Globe (May 16, 1963) wrote an article about her entitled, “Banks Rarely Give Women Key Role.” When Dottie retired as chair of the New England Group of the National Association of Bank Women in 1965, she was the only senior investment officer in the Association.
Last issue of Voices was published with a farewell letter from its editor Margo Risk.
Our vestry called The Rev. Pamela L. Werntz to be our twelfth rector.
The Rt. Rev. Gayle Harris blessed our new garden.
Brett Cook and others in Durham NC completed the installation of Face Up: Telling Stories of Community Life, which includes five murals picturing The Rev. Dr. Pauli Murray. Installed at 117 S. Buchanan Blvd. is “Soul Roots” with an inscription from Proud Shoes: “It had taken me almost a lifetime to discover that true emancipation lies in the acceptance of the whole past, in deriving strength from all my roots, in facing up to the degradation as well as the dignity of my ancestors”.
Pauli Murray Roots & Soul Mural, Durham NC
credit: Brett Cook & Pauli Murray Project
Pauli Murray, first African American woman to attend Howard U. School of Law and later a vestry member of Emmanuel, received her J.D.. For its sesquicentennial Howard is hosting a TEDx conference on 9/15/1917: Singing of a New American”: Pauli Murray’s Legacy and Justice in the 21st Century.
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July 19. Our fourth rector, The Rev. Dr. Elwood Worcester, died at the age of 78.
Hollis French, warden 1914-1940. Credit: Cleveland Museum of Art
Nov. 21. Senior Warden Hollis French died. Born in Boston in 1868, he had served as Jr. Warden 1914-1936, when he became Sr. Warden under Rector P.E. Osgood, who is pictured below with Associate Rector Arthur Silver Payzant (served 1937-1945).
The Rev. Dr. Phillips Endecott Osgood (1882-1956) & The Rev. Arthur Silver Paysant (1884-1965) in 1938.
Nathaniel W. Williams, Jr. 1946 graduation photo, English High School, Boston
Nathaniel, (second from left in image above) born in 1929, lived with his parents Rose and NWW, Sr. at 113 Poplar St., Roslindale (Boston) until 1952, according to research by Julian Bullitt, who digitized the above images and many of our archival images.
15 Sept. First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt mentioned in her diary My Day that Harriet Robeson was her guide at a convention of the American Hospital Association, which was held at Atlantic City NJ. Harriet Allen Robeson (1882-1978) compiled our centennial history in 1960. Namesake of an aunt who had died young in 1852, she was the granddaughter of our founders Andrew Robeson, Jr. (1817-1874) and Mary Allen Robeson (1819-1903).
First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt & Harriet A. Robeson at Atlantic City NJ. Photo. Fred Hess
Rosemary Dodge Hutcheson (1931-2000), 1957, Clerk of the Vestry (1971-72)
Rosemary Dodge was born in The Hague, Holland. After graduating from Wellesley College and marrying Dr. Bellenden Hutcheson in 1957, she became in 1971 our first women officer as Clerk of the Vestry.
Upon the planned retirement of The Rev. Elwood Worcester, The Rev. Dr. Benjamin Martin Washburn became rector. For more about the Washburn tenure during the Great Depression, please see the chapter on him in Emmanuel Church, 1860-1960: The First Hundred Years.
This image of “The Emmanuelists” honors men associated with the Emmanuel Movement during Worcester’s rectorship: (top row) William James, Richard C. Cabot, Joseph Hersey Pratt, Pierre Janet & (bottow row): Lyman Pierson Powell, Samuel McComb, Elwood Worcester, Isador Coriat, and Courtenay Baylor.
William & Leslie Hawthorne Lindsey on her wedding day at Emmanuel