Evening star., 1946-06-03
NavyChapIain Choser
Pastor Of St. Luke's
Methodist Church
By Cospor Names
Stor Stoff Correspondent


WESTMINSTER, Md. June s.
Navy Chaplain (Capt) Howard
Lambdin, now on terminal leave
was chosen pastor of the newly
formed st. Luke's Methodist Church
for the coming year as the list OF
appointments to churches in the
Baltimore Conference of Methodist
Churches was announced last night
at the final session of the conven-
tlon's five-day meeting at Western
Maryland College. Bishop Charles
Wesley Flint of the Washington
Area, president of the Baltimore
Conference, announced the appoint
ments.
Chaplain Lambdin, who was pas
tor of Anacostia Methodist Church
here from 1923 to 1929, will serve
as minister for st. Lukes Church
into which were merged the Con-
gress Street. Mount Tabor and AID
ersgate churches. Meetings of the
newly organized church, the official
merger taking place June l, will
be held in the Mount Tabor Church
at Wisconsin and Thirty fifth street
NV, until the erection of a larger
church. This leaves one other Meth
odlst church, Dumbarton Church
In the Georgetown area. The Rev
DR.. G. c. Day, pastor of Dumbarton
Church, was returned to his charge
Tor the coming year,
Held Several Navy Posts.
Chaplain Lambdin, graduate of
Milton University and John Hop
kins and of American University
graduate school, entered the Navy
on February Is, 1941. He had been
with the Naval Reserves since 1921.
He served on the transport U. S. S.
West Point for more than two years
in both the Pacific and Atlantic be-
fore being assigned as dean of the
Naval School for Chaplains at Will
liamsburg. Va, in May, 1943. He
served there until March, 1914, being
at that time transferred to the Ma
val Receiving Station at Brooklyn
where he was In charge Of the naval
radio program, "The Navy Goes to
Church" Last February he was sent
to the naval station at Bainbridge,
Md, as senior chaplain. He was or
dained in 1912.
The Rev. Dorsey K. Sturgis, pas
tor Of Congress Street Church since
1941 and secretary of the conference
meeting this year, will become pas
tor Of Bradbury Heights Church.
The Rev. Thomas B. Ehlers, who
has been serving both Bradbury
Heights and Forrestville churches as
minister since 1887, will become
pastor of the latter church, which
was made separate charge.
The Rev. Floyd L. Morrison, pas
tor of Aldefsgate Church, was assign
ed to the pastorate at Laurel, Nd,
while the Rev. Arthur C. Day, min
lister of Mount Tabor Church, will
serve at the Mount Airy (Md)
Church. The pastor of the last
named church, the Rev. Ralph D.
Sharpe, will go to Overlea Church
at Baltimore.
The post of student pastor at
George Washington University and
the University of Maryland, voted
upon last week, will go to Army
Chaplain James T. Bard.
Three Ordained as Elders.
Three Washington ministers we're
ordained as elders at services yes
terday. They were the Rev. Don E.
Griffin, pastor of Rosedale Church;
the Rev. Ralph G. John, associate
pastor of Foundry Church, and the
Rev. Harold Hodgson, pastor of
Grace Church.
Among the special appointments
announced were the following: c.
F. Boss, jr., executive secretary of
the General Conference Commission
on World Peace; w. w. Delaplain,
executive secretary of the Confer
ence Board of Education; E. P. Fell
lenbaum, superintendent Of the I. O.
o. F. Home at Frederick, Nd: F..
r. Isaac, jr., executive secretary of
the Board of Child Care; E. C..
Powers, executive secretary of the
Maryland Bible Society; E. r.
Simms, Goodwill Industries, and H.
M. Wilson, superintendent of the
Asbury Methodist Home for the
Aged.
Other new appointments to Meth
odist churches in the Washington
area are:
Washington-West district: the
Revs. Thomas Moran, Trinity, Fred
erick; M. U. Ray, Hunting Hill, Md;
H. B. Wright, Laytonsville; Paul
Henry, Morgan; Paul Henry, Poplar
Springs; Gloyd Allis, Potomac; M.