Evening star., 1936-05-03
CATHEDRAL GROUP
SEEKS MEMBERS
1000 to Be Goal in Drive to
Provide Increased Main.
tenance Fund.

IA
new members of the National Cathe-
dral Association in the District In Or
der to increase the maintenance FUND
for current activities at Washington
Cathedral during 1886 is announced
by the Right Rev. James E. Freeman,
Bishop of Washington and president
of the Cathedral Foundation.
Lloyd B. Wilson, president OF the
Chesapeake g. Potomac Telephone Co,
and a member of the vestry of St.
Adams Parish, has accepted the gen.
eral chairmanship of the Executive
Committee for the drive. Associated
with him will be H. L. Rust, jr. as
vice chairman and chairman of the
mems unit; Mrs. Charles Warren,
chairman of the women's unit; Rich
ard w. Hynson, assistant treasurer OF
the Cathedral and chairman of the
special membership group; Canon An
son Phelps Stokes and former Under
secretary of State William R. Castle,
president of the National Cathedral
Association, representing the Cathe-
dral chapter; J. Bernard Wyckoff.
Walter B. Clarkson. Frederick M.
Bradley, Robert w. Wilson and Edwin
N. Lewis, executive secretary OF the
National Cathedral Association and
editor of The Cathedral Age.
The membership effort, with its en-
phasis on Cathedral maintenance
rather than the building program, has
the Endorsement of the Cathedral
CHAPTER and Council, which includes,
among its local members. the fol-
lowing: Very Rev. G. C. F. Bratenahl,
Rev. DR.. William L. De Vries, Right
Rev. Philip NJ Rhinelander, Rev DR..
Ze Barney T. Phillips, Rev. DR.. G.
Freeland Peter, Gen John J. Pershing,
former Ambassador Alanson B. Hough-
ton. Robert " Fleming, Corcoran
Thorn. DR.. William c. RiveS, Cole
man Jennings, Rear Admiral Cary T.
Grayson, C. F. R. Ogilby, former Sena-
tor David A. Reed, Alexander B.
Trowbridge and Gov. John Gilbert
Winant.
Team Captains.
Three of the teams under Mrs.
Warren's direction will be captalned
bv Mrs Guy D. Golf, Mrs. Lawrence
M. C. Smith and Miss Bertha Marsh.
Among the individual members OF
the women's unit who have offered to
interest their friends in the member
ship effort are Mrs. Owen j. Roberts
and Representative Edith Nourse
Rogers of Massachusetts,.
CAPTAINS of teams serving under
Rust's leadership include Otis 7.
Wingo. Greed w. Fulton, Capt. Dudley
N. Carpenter and H. Lawrence Choate,
Jointly, and Lieut.. Col. F. Granville
Munson, U. S. A., and j. Bernard
Wyckoff.
The 80 workers enlisted under Hyn-
son in the special membership group
held their first meeting Friday at the
home of Miss Mabel T. Boardman,
1901 P street, when Canon Stokes
outlined the general purpose of the
campaign.
Two major objectiveS of this effort,
which is the first local campaign in
behalf of the Cathedral since 1928,
are: First. to inform the people of the
community as to the work and needs
of the Cathedral and it's associated
institutions. Secondly, to build up the
supporting constituency of the Cathe-
dral by endeavoring to restore the
names of several hundred maintenance
subscribers who founds it necessary to
withdraw during the depression, by
asking some of the present subscribers
to increase their annual offerings and
also by enrolling new friends of the
Cathedral who have not been asked
to contribute to the maintenance fund
since they came to Washington.
AS supplementary objective the
Membership Campaign Committee
hopes also to find few donors who
may be interested in meeting specific
needs, such as funds for special
preachers, an appropriation for re-
storing the radio service from the
Cathedral. for scholarships in the
Cathedral schools and other purposes.
Minimum Goal.
The minimum goal of the campaign
Is $4,000, to be given by approximately
1000 members, exclusive of the sup
Elementary objectives. Additional
amounts are to be assigned by the
Cathedral Chapter to committees in
the National Cathedral Association in
New York, Philadelphia and other
centers with a view to raising ap-
proximately $4,000. which will as
sure balanced maintenance budget
for the Cathedral during 1886. The
local effort is planned, not as a gen.
eral city-wide campaign, but primarily
as an effort confined to members of
the Protestant Episcopal Church who
either have formerly been interested
in the Cathedral or who are believed
to be potential friends of the enter
prise.
In forming the campaign organiza-
ton for the personal solicitation of
1000 individuals, Wilson and the Ex-
ecutive Committee have enlisted the
cooperation of such existing Cathe-
dral agencies as the National Cathe-
dral School for Girls, St. Adams
School for Boys, the College of
Preachers, the volunteer Pilgrim Aides.
the Guild of Ushers. men in the Ca
thedral choir Cathedral-minded
friends who have assumed leadership
In the annual Community Chest cam
paigns and members of the Washing
ton Committee of the National Cathe-
dral Association, of which Mrs. Will
liam Holland Wilmer is chairman.
An inspirational meeting of team