Evening star., 1947-10-07
Leadership School
For Episcopal Women
Slated in November

A leadership training school for
Episcopal women of the Washington
diocese will be held the four Tues
days in November at St. Thomas
Episcopal Church, it was announced
today at meeting of the Women's
Auxiliary of the diocese
The gathering, attended by more
than 300 representatives of 30 Epis-
copal churches in the Washington
area, was held at Rock Greek Episco-
pal Church.
Another Episcopal meeting will get
under way tomorrow when clergy
men from many parts of the coun-
try attend the Washington Catholic
Congress of the American Church
Union of the Episcopal Church. The
meeting will continue through Thurs
day in the Church of St. Stephen
and the Incarnation, Sixteenth and
Newton streets NV.
The one-day conference Of the
Women's Auxiliary will be continued
through tonight, the evening ses-
sion being held at st. Adams
Church, starting at pm.
Benefit Tea Planned.
The proposed leadership training
school will take up such subjects as
public speaking, parliamentary pro-
cedure, program planning and quail
ity of leadership. 1t is expected that
more than $50 women from Epis-
copal churches within the WASH
tngton area will enroll.
1t was announced also that a tea
will be held October Is at the home
of Mrs. Leonard Elstad, wife of the
president of Gallaudet College, to
raise funds for the presiding bishops
fund. This fund seeks to raise
million dollars this year for relief
purposes overseas.
Mrs. Waldo Burnside. president of
the Womens Auxiliary of the
Washington diocese, appointed Mrs.
Karl Lundeliuss and Mrs. Robert
Eaves and herself to represent the
auxiliary at the meeting of the Pro-
vincal Synod on October 81 at Roa-
noke, Va.
Miss Edna Beardsley of New
York, a member of the Women's
National Auxiliary OF the Episcopal
Church, told the gathering this
morning that the denomination
churches in Brazil needed help. Miss
Bearsley, who visited these South
American churches, said the Epis-
copal churches there were small but
on a firm basis.
Methodist CIergymen Attend.
The gathering of Episcopal clergy
men tomorrow will be augmented by
group of Methodist ministers head
ed by the Rev. R. P. Marshall, presi-
dent of the Methodist Brotherhood of
st. Luke, Brookville, Fla An an
nouncement stated the Methodist
clergymen are participating in the
congress as evidence of their in
terest in the possible unity Of An
glicans and Methodists.
Feature of the two-day meeting
will be solemn high pontifical mass
at II am. Thursday in the Wash
ington Cathedral. The Right Rev.
Robert E. Campbell, former Bishop
of Liberia, will pontificate at the
mass. The sermon will be delivered
by the Right Rev. Harold M. Saw
yer, Bishop of Erie, Pa.
Episcopal bishops participating in
the procession will be the Right Rev.
Angus Dun, Bishop of Washington;
the Right Rev. S. Harrington Little,
former Bishop of Honolulu: the
Right Rev. Thomas Jenkins, former
Bishop of Nevada; the Right Rev.
Hunter Wyatt-Brown of Harrisburg,
Pa, and the Right Rev. Spence
Burton, Lord Bishop of Nassau and
the Bahama Islands.
A banquet at pm. Thursday
will bring the congress to a close.
Speaker at the banquet will be
Richardson Wright, editor of House
and Garden. William r. Castle,
former Undersecretary of State. will
be POSTMASTER.