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TO ERECT MEMORIAL
TO LATE BISHOP ADAMS
Diocesan House WILL Be Tribute, In
Addition To Monument. To Late
Churchman - -Com-
Gil" Plan Put Into Effect.

Easton. Md, May 7.-BishoI
George w. Davenport no sooner
returned from the diocesan conven
tion at Berlin than he started to pur
into effect plans adopted by thai
body. One OF the projects is the
building of a diocesan house adjoin-
ing the Cathedral here This was
approved by the convention and q
committee has been called to meet
May 6 to study the architects plans
already submitted.
The new building is to be a mem
orial to the late Bishop William
Forbes Adams and will have room
for diocesan offices, bishops office a
library, woman's auxiliary headquar-
ters. committee rooms, meeting
rooms, meeting place for the diocesan
executive council and two bedrooms
for the use of visiting clergy.
This meeting will be in addition
to the monument planned some time
ago for the grave of Bishop Adams,
and is an added tribute to the late
Bishop. The committee named for
the diocesan house is as follows:
The Rev Samuel Borden Smith,
Trappe; the Rev. ]. H. Chesley, st.
Michaels; T. Alan Goldsborough
Denton; Thomas M. Perkins, Ches-
tertown; Henry L. Constable, Elk
ton; Edwin Dashiell Cambridge;
William M. Cooper, Salisbury; Clay
ton Wright, Centreville; Dudley G.
Roe, Sudlersville; T. Hughlet Henry
and S. E. Shannahan, Easton.
A matter of interest to women is
the naming of a committee to con-
fer with the dioceses of Maryland
and Washington in the matter of
having the Vestry act amended so as
to permit women to vote for vestry-
men and delegates to the convention.
This already has been agreed to by
the Diocese of Washington, which
Easton asked to cooperate.
The committee has been named by
the Bishop as follows: Henry ].
Waters, of Princess Anne. chancellor
of the diocese: W: G: Kirbin, of
Snow Hill, and H. L. Constable, of
Elkton.
The work of the diocese hereafter
will be looked after by the Bishop
and council. composed of eight men,
bers, with the Bishop as chairman.
This council is elected partly by the
convention and partly named by the
Bishop, and is as follows; The Rev.
Charles L. Atwater, Chestertown;
the Rev. William D. Gould, Cam
bridge; the Rev. Franklin J. Bohan-
an Easton; the Rev. w. c. Marshal,
Centreville; Dudley G. Roe, Sudlers-
Vile; William M. Cooper, Salisbury;
John S. Mcdaniel, Easton, and E.
Thomas Massey Chestertown.
The convention approved the
Bishops program for organizing the
Cathedral so that it may be the CEN
ter of diocesan life. 1t will be the
intention to make it a real factor in
the forwarding of the church's work
in the diocese, with daily services
and prayers, Bible classes for adults,
training classes for church school
teachers. lectures and conferences
and study classes In mission and So
cial service.
A summer school at Ocean City
will be conducted jointly by the
Dioceses of Easton and Delaware. A
summer camp for boys and girls of
the entire diocese will be held.
The Rev. Award Chamberlain,
formerly dean of the Cathedral,
Boise, Idaho, arrived here last night
to aid the Bishop in carrying out his
program. The Rev. Mr.. Chamber
lain is the diocesan miSSiOnarV