Evening star., 1943-11-24
Brilliant Speech at Recent Episcopal Convention
Focused Attention on Dean Dun, Bishop-EIect
BY JAMES WALDO FAWCETT.

EplSCOpdl CNuTCQ at cleveland won
national attention for the Very Rev
Angus Dun, but 1t was not the con-
trolling factor in bringing about his
election as Bishop of Washington.
Dean Dun's name, according to
information revealed last night, was
placed before the Nominating Com
mittee Of the Washington Diocese
well in advance of the Cleveland
gathering and his talents, training
and experience were being investi-
gated before it was known to the
public that he was to appear there
The 1943 triennial assembly was
the first General Convention to
which Dean Dun was delegated.
"One Of Great Men,"
Discussing his qualifications, WASH
ington churchmen and churchwom-
en- acquainted with Dean Dun for
many years have agreed that he Is
lone of the great men of the church
today" No individual claims credit
for nominating him, and no group
asks recognition for campaigning
for his election, but it commonly Is
understood that his active sponsors
included the Rev. DR.. Franklin j.
Bohanan, chairman of the standing
committee of the diocese; Charles
F. Wilson, chancellor of the dio-
cese: Thomas E. Robertson, a vet
eran leader among the laity, and
Mrs. r. w. McClenAhan, daughter
of the late Very Rev. Ze Barney T.
Phillips.
All these were familiar with Dean
Dun's services to religion in New
England, especially as head of the
General Theological Seminary at
Cambridge. They met him and
heard him at Cleveland and re-
turned to Washington as ardent ad-
vocates of his election to succeed the
late Right Rev. James E. Freeman
as bishop.
What inspired his adherents, how
ever, was not his eloquence nor his
scholarship so much as his deep
spirituality" The address to the
general convention was incident to
his presentation of the report of the
Commission on Approaches to Unity
before the House Of Deputies. He
announced that he sought "a visible
community of life" among Christian
people of similar traditions and
aspirations.
Bishop Tucker Approved.
The unity speech, in the judgment
Of the Washington group that heard
1t delivered, was the highest point"
of the general convention. Dean
Dun's advocates took advantage of
the opportunity to canvass the most
important leaders of the whole
church" Two lay leaders in Boston
replied, strongly praising him. The
Most Rev. Henry st. George Tucker,
presiding bishop. also was consulted
and expressed approval.
Meanwhile, the movement" in
behalf of Dean Dun spread ever
wider and wider among both clergy
and laity in Washington. 1t was
learned that he was churchman
of "the middle type-the same as
Bishop Freeman and Dean Phil
lips; a man of generous and liberal
instincts" His personal traits, 1t
was reported, included sound wis
DOM" "a salty Scot type of humor,"
great patience" "stalwart physical
and intellectual fortitude."
Likes Good Humor.
Dean Dun is "a wide reader" and
does not hold in contempt really
funny books-like Mr.. Doolsy,'
which not long ago he reread with
delight" He is fond of poetry, but
mot very much on music" His
of church architecture
and iconography is mot great" but
he is interested in stained glass,
and when he has leisure for it
"loves to put on overalls and make
things with a hammer and saw"
His major work has been with
young university men. but he like
wise is concerned about teen-age boys
and girls-and deplores the church's
neglect" of them.
The home of the Dun family at
3 Mason street, Cambridge, is a
large, comfortable, well-managed
house filled with books" Mrs. Dun,
the former Miss Catherine Whipple
Pew, is "a friendly, active person,
pretty forceful and direct, interested
in many things in constructive,
helpful way" One son. Angus, jr.,
is a clergyman, serving at Christ
Church, Cambridge, while waiting
a chance to 60 overseas as chap
lain; the other, Alan Andrews, is a
medical student, training for service
with the Army.
Dean Dun Invited Here.
If Dean Dun accepts election he
may be consecrated in Boston and
then tremendously installed at
Washington Cathedral. 1t was
learned today that Canon Theodore
o. Wedel, warden of the College of
has invited him to come
down for visit" before deciding.
Dean Dun's life began in Albany
81 years ago, where he was pre-
pared for Yale at the fine Albany
Academy. In earning his B. A. de-
gree in the class of 1914, he won the
Phi Beta Kappa key for outstanding
scholarship and also prominent
place among his classmates. His
nigh standing among Yale men was
shown three years ago when the
conferred upon him the
degree of doctor of divinity.
Going from New Haven to Cam
bridge, Mass, he took his first di-
Vinity degree at the Episcopal Theo-
logical School in 1917. Then he be-
came vicar of little St. Andrews
Church at Ayer-a position that
Immediately assumed considerable
because of the enormous
building there, now Fort
Devens,> then, as now, the great
Army post in New England.
Studied in Britain.
Because of this young clergyman's
in and sympathy with youth,
1t was natural for him to be selected
as secretary of the body called the
Commission on War and the Re-
ligious Outlook. It was also natural
that in 1920, after some study abroad
at the Universities of oxford and
Edinburgh, his theological alma