Evening star., 1937-02-06
DR.. Noble C.. Powell Elected
Dean of Washingto Cathedral
Baltimore RectOrs Sc.
lection Is announced
by Bishop Freeman.
BY JAMES WALDO FAWCETT.

BY JAMES WALDO FAWCETT.
Rev. DR.. Noble c. Powell. rector Of
Emmanuel Church in Baltimore, has
been elected dean Of Washington
Cathedral and warden of the College
Of Preachers.
Following a meeting of the Cathe-
dral chapter Thursday evening. for
NAL announcement of the appointment
was authorized by Right Rev. James E.
Freeman. Bishop Of Washington, yes
terday.
"Dr. Powell" the head Of the
diocesan organization explained, docs
not come to Mount st. Alban as a
stranger. He has been associated
with the College of Preachers as
student, adviser and teacher for some
10 years. His deep and sympathetic
understanding of the Cathedral and
its allied institutions, especially the
College of Preachers. fits him in a
peculiar way to undertake the large
responsibilities that are being con-
ferred upon him.
U. Of Virginia Alumnus.
"Dr. Powell's long experience as
chaplain Of the University OF Virginia,
of which he is an alumnus, together
with his six years as rector Of one OF
the leading churches in Baltimore,
have disclosed his rare gifts as an
administrator, as a preacher and as
q leader. Among the younger men OF
the ministry, he occupies a con-
spicuous and commanding place"
In commenting on DR.. Powells ap-
pointment, Right Rev. Philip M. Rhine
lander, former Bishop Of Pennsylvania,
who has been warden Of the College OF
Preachers since it was established.
said: "Dr. Powell was a member OF
the first conference of the College OF
Preachers. which assembled in June.
1925, four years before the new build
ing was ready for use. From that
time on, he has been close and
helpful adviser of the warden, one
of a small group who has served the
college with devotion and ability.
Native Of Alabama.
The new dean and warden was born
In Lowndesboro, Ala, on october 81,
1891. His father was Benjamin S.
Powell, whose family came originally
from Virginia and were members OF
the early settlers in "the Old Do
minion." His grandfather. Seymour
Herb Powell, of English, Welsh and
Dutch ancestry, lived in Georgia,
then moved to Alabama and cleared
the timber from the land on which
the ancestral home was built. DR..
Powelrs mother, now living, was Mary
Whitman, whose family first came to
Massachusetts, and later resided for
several generations in Virginia, with
one branch moving early In the nine
teenth century to Alabama.
DR.. Powell spent his youth on the
old plantation, attended the public
schools Of Alabama and was student
for four years at the Alabama Poly
technic Institute, where he did spe-
cial work in entomology. He was an
investigator for the Department OF
Agriculture in studying the depreda-
tions of the boil weevil in Alabama. He
also did pioneer work investigating the
germ resistance of seed to various
kinds of fumigation for the destruc-
ton Of insect life.
He was graduated from the Univer-
sity Of Virginia in 1917 and from the
Virginia Theological Seminary at Alex
andria in 1920. Ordained in June,
1920, he was placed by the late Right
Rev. William Cabell Brown. then
Bishop Of Virginia, as deacon in charge
of st. Paul's Memorial Church at the
University Of Virginia in Charlottes-
vile. When he was ordained priest In
Janua 1921, he became rector OF
that church and chaplain for the