Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-06-06
D. T.. Pastorate
Changes Made
ByMethodists
Shifts Announced
By Bishop Flint as
Conference Ends
By Cospor Nonnes
Sior Sioff Correspondent

night at the official reading o.
the appointment list for Meth.
odist ministers in the Baltimor.
Annual Conference.
The appointments for the com.
ing year were announced b.
Bishop Charles Wesley Flint Al
the final meeting of the confer.
ence's 165th session.
The pulpit at Hamline Meth.
odist Church. open as a result Of
the retirement this week of DR.
H. w. Burgan. will be filled some
time during the summer, 1t wa!
announced. DR.. Burgan was pas.
tor of Hamline Church for II
years.
At Union Methodist Church
where the Rev. s. K. Cockrel
retired this week, the charge will
be filled by the Rev. Edward
Lewis, who is coming to the pos
from Rock Creek Chapel. Mr.
Lewis is graduate of American
University and of Eliff Theo-
logical Seminary, Denver. Col
Mr.. Cockrell served at Unior
Church since 194l.
Pastors Exchanged.
The Rev. J. E. Kemp Horn
pastor of Harlem Park Church
Baltimore, was appointed as pas
tor of Epworth Church in Wash
ington, in an exchange that has
sent the Rev. James Dudley, min.
lister of Epworth Church for eight
years, to the Baltimore church
Mr.. Horn was at Harlem Parl
Church four years.
Another change was the ap-
pointment of the Rev. Wesley
Dodge, pastor Of Ridgeville Md
Church to the Rockville MD
Church. He succeeds the Rev
John w. Rosenberger, who re-
tired this week after serving al
the Rockville Church since 1887
Mr.. Rosenberger will serve as sup
ply at the Buckeystown Md
Church. Mr.. Dodge is a gradu-
ate of American University anc
Duke Theological Seminary.
The Rev. George Naylor Of
Leonardtown, Md, will be the new
pastor at Rosedale Church. Wash.
ington. He succeeds the Rev. Aller
F. Poore. who retired in 1947 from
Wilson Memorial Church and who
served as supply at Rosedalt
Church last year. The Leonard.
town charge will be filled by the
Rev. B. F. Hartley, a graduate this
year from the Baptist Seminary
at Fort Worth, Texas.
New ID. C. Area Pastors.
Among the Washington ares
churches to have new pastors Il
the Beltsville -Branchville (Md.)
Church. It will be served this veal
by the Rev. w. H. Wilson, at ont
time assistant pastor at Mount
Vernon Place Church, Washing
ton. Mr.. Wilson, an Army chap.
lain for three years, succeeds thu
Rev. G. J. Cooper. who is goinl
to the church at Smithville, Md
.Greenbelt MD Church viii
have the Rev. Russell r. Reed al
it's new pastor. Mr.. Reed. wht
served last year at the Ashton
(MdD Church. succeeds the Rev
r. w. Cooke. who goes from
Greenbelt to the West River md,
Circuit. A student at West
minister Theological Seminary
Roy Vernon. will supply the Ash.
ton church.
The Rev. George Stewart i!
coming from a church at Dubois
Pa. to serve as pastor of Trinity
Church. Frederick, Md. He sue.
ceeds the Rev. Thomas Morgan
who is going to Newmarket, Md.
Another District change wa.
the transfer of the Rev. c. c. Da.
from Dunbarton Church to Hyatts
vile Md Memorial Church
The Rev. Clarence Dawson vii
succeed Mr.. Day.
During the afternoon, memoria
services were held for six minister
who died in the past year. Amonl
those honored were DR.. Luciu
Charles Clark, former chancello
OF American University. and TIL
Rev. Howard Lambdin of Wash
ington, pastor of st. Luke Meth
odlst Church at the time of hi
death.
James Earl Perry of Lanham
Md. was one of five candidates
ordained as an elder yesterday b.
Bishop Flint.
Special appointments announced
included the reappointment of DR.
Paul F. Douglass as president O
American University, the Rev. Mil
ton B. Crist as pastor of Potoma,
Heights Community Church, ant
Ralph Gambler John. religion pro
fessor at American University.
Pastors for 1949-50 in the Wash
ington area are:
EAST DISTRICT.
District Superintendent, Fred c
Reynolds; Ager road, c. I. Wal
lace; Ashton. Roy Vernon, supply
Beltsville- Branchville. w. H. vii
son; Colesville, p. H. Groseclose
Forestville, T. H. Baker: Friend
ship, j. w. Merchant: Greenbelt
Russell Reed. supply.
Hyattsville: First, E. w. Beckett
Memorial. c. c. Day; Lanham,
z. Perry; LaPlata. r. A. Rice; Mar
win Memorial, NJ. S. Michael
Mount Rainier, c. r. Banes; Oxo
Hill. w. c. Harpold, supply; Sea
Pleasant-Tuxedo, Elmer Rene
supply.
Anac ostia-W. K. Lyons
Brightwood Park-T. B. Ehlers
Brookland-H. c. Marsh: Con
gress Heights-G. L. Conner
Douglass Memorial-F. Y. Jaggers
Epworth-J. E. K. Horn; Fir.
Church Bradbury Heights-D.
Sturgis; Gorsuch-G. H. Coppag,
ir SUNNY. Grace-H r HOdQSor