The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-12-18
Vermont Clergyman
 Given Conn. Position
Rev Dr William F. Frazier Named Superintendent of
 32l Nutmeg State Congregational Churches

S--- ! education of their ministers, Yale college was started in 1701 at Say brook with ten ministers as its trustees; in 1716 it was moved to New Haven.
 Emigration from Connecticut helped to spread Congregational churches during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries especially into central and eastern Long Island and during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries into Ver- mont, central and western New York and then into states further west.
 Bands" of Yale divinity students were successively organized to go upon graduation into the new ter- ritory being settled in the west. They found colleges as well as churches and in several instances had a prominent part in the estab- liishment of the state educational system.
 While the Congregational churches have extended into every state, the constituency in Connecti- cut is still second in size only to that in Massachusetts; the third largest state constituency is in New York.
 The office of state superintendent is a recent development in Congre- gationaf polity. It's status has greatly increased with the reorgan- ization of the work of the national boards since 1926. In the office now centers responsibility for all phases of the denominatiOnal pro- gram within the state.
 In 1931 the general conference of the Congregational churches of Connecticut appointed a committee to draft revision of the constitu- tion and provide for a superintend- ent. Under the revision adopted at the annual meeting held Novem- Der ' and 8 at Center church, New Haven, the Missionary society of Connecticut, founded 1798, and the Fund for Ministers, pension board, become administered by the directors of the conference. Upon the retirement of the Rev Dr Sher- rod Soule, July 1, as superintend- ent of the Missionary society and of the Ministers Fund, Dr Frazier will become his successor. The name of the conference was chang ed under the revised constitution to that of the Congregational and Christian churches, similar to the name of the national body, "The General Council of the Congrega- tional and Christian Churches" :" The Christian denomination whose churches are largely in the south and middle west merged with the Congregational in 1881. The mod orator of the Connecticut confer ence for 1933-1934 is Judge Arthur F. Ells of Litchfield.
 Dr Frazier had been pastor three years at Vergennes. Vt, when he was, elected superintendent in Vermont. Previous pastorates had been held at Chester and Little Ferry, N. J. He was born at Bath, N. r., the son of a minister, and is a graduate of Oberlin college, Ohio, and Drew Theological semin- ary, Madison, N. J.. He took post graduate work in philosophy at Co., lumbia university, New York city, and received the honorary degree of doctor of divinity from Mid- dlebury3 college, Vermont.
 His work in Vermont has been marked particularly by the streng- thening of interdenominational re- lationshfps both statewide and in local communities. He is known for his progressive viewpoints in theological thought and in promo tional activities. Annual pastors conversations held under his direc- tion at Midlebury college have been characterized by their thorough and stimulating scholarship. He has served as chairman of tue na- tional promotiona1 council of the denomination and is at the present