Evening star., 1954-06-07
.Methodists LIST
Nine Shifts in
Area Pastors
Assignments Made
At Conference
In Maryland
By Harry Bocos
Sfor Stoff CORRESPONDENT

The new assignments were
made at the close of the 10th
annual session of the Baltimore
Conference at Western Maryland
College. Most of the appoint
ments are effective next Sunday.
The principal changes will be
at Wesley Church. Connecticut
avenue and Jocelyn street NV,
where the Rev. C. Stanley Lowell
will be succeeded by the Rev.
K. K. Haddaway; Francis ASbury
Church, 3146 Sixteenth street
NV, where the Rev. Charles F.
Phillips will be succeeded by the
Rev. Ralph w. Sharpe. and
Lewis Memorial Church, Fourth
and Hamilton streets NV,
where the Rev. Raymond j.
Purnell will take over the pulpit
vacated by DR.. Clarence E. Wise.
Other Changes.
Other new appointments are
the Revs. William E. Smith at
University Church, College Park;
Stanley F. Knock, jr., at Green
belt Church; James L. MatheSon
at Temple Hills (Md) Church;
Henry Oh at the Korean Church;
John Walker, new associate pas
tor at Metropolitan Church, and
the Rev. Merrill brennan at
MILAN Memorial Church, for
merly Viers Mill station of the
Wheaton charge. He succeeds
the Rev. Harold Bell Wright, who
goes to Reistertown.
Mr.. Lowell is being trans
ferred to the Virginia Conference
after seven years at Wesley
Church.
His successor at Wesley, Mr..
Haddaway, has held a series of
distinguished charges in Vir-
ginia during the last 20 years.
Married, with twin sons who
graduated from Western Mary
land College in 1850, Mr.. Had
daway's most recent post was
as pastor of the Raleigh Court
Church. Roanoke. His other
posts have been in Arlington,
Harrisonburg and Charlottes-
vile.
A graduate of Johns Hopkins
University and Westminster
Theological Seminary, Mr.. Had
daway was dean of men ct
Western Maryland from 1923-25.
He will preach his first sermon
at his new church on June q.
For the next two weeks, DR. Eu-
gene Gilmore will occupy the
pulpit at Wesley.
Mr.. Sharpe comes to Francis
Asbury Church from Overlea
Church, Baltimore. In an ex-
change of pulpits, Mr.. Phillips
will replace him at Overlea. A
graduate of Wofford College and
Duke University Divinity School.
Mr.. Sharpe is married and has
a son. Is, and a daughter, IL.
From SudbrOOk Church.
Mr.. Purnell comes to Lewis
Memorial Church after seven
years as minister of the Sud-
brook (Md0 Church. A gradu-
ate of Western Maryland and
Westminster Theological Semi
nary, he is married and has no
children. DR.. Wise. whom he re-
places. retired a week ago after
SO years as a minister.
Mr.. Smith has just received
his Phi. D. from the Boston Uni
versity School of Theology Mir.
Knock, a Yale University grad
uate. has served as associate
minister of Hamline Church and
on the Methodist Commission
on Radio and Films at Nash
vile. Tenn.
Mr.. brennan is a former FBI
Investigator and a graduate of
the Westminster Seminary. The
MILAN Memorial Church, which
he will join, plans to erect it's
first building this year. Since it
was founded two years ago. it
has been meeting in the Viers
Mill Theater. The Rev. Harold
B. Wright. its first pastor, has
been transferred to Reisters-
town. Md.
Mr.. Oh is Korean who mas
served in a Korean Methodist
Church in Los Angeles since
1949.
Among several score Of young
men who were ordained as dea-
cons and elders of the church
yesterday, was Ronald A. Mil
liam, son of the Rev. j. C. Mil
liam, the late superintendent of
the Washington West District
He was admitted to the con-
ference from Boston University
Theological Seminary.
Appointments announced at the meet
Washington East District-Beltsviu.
" H iir.vnSs1; wilson sTanchville, J. R. Esaias,
" E Smith; Forestville, H. G. Burkins:
~; CleWS: F1rSt Church, HyattsVille e
Beckett; Lanham. L. M Young;
LLaplata' W. c Warner; Laurel. g.
LexinEton Park. I. R. Bowen; Mount
H%SFial; ne gFase Church. TsEona" " PsfE. ark
~ Anacostia. "; K. Lyons; Brishtwood.
Tejs cansrs:. Snisrs, HEo;Cklland, @, C.; crOm:
Douglas Memorial Harold MiisteSdn! is SdSnnFs5; Fp;
bury Aeights si stursis: dinuTc1; lewis sTss Ms.
mTortal. R. !: Purnell; McKendree. W.
Shirley, and W. v. Moore, associate:
sssTosth. assT1s R D Smith; Rhode Island
4, ,kester wilson r. Memorialw Snsnli wHsuSs E a
Otto: Ager Road. West Hyattsviiie. Md,
WasSinSton West Dissatisfaction, C
Day; Bethesda M. s. Michael; Burtons-
Vile, c. wallace; Chevy Chase, c. II. !
Richmond. end Charles Rother as
Sistant; Colesville, p. H.. Groseclose:
Epw3rth Church. Gaithersburg, N. F.
Grace. Gaithersburg. p. X. cummins,
r.; kensington. E. H. PPorter: Calvary,
g, E. Allis; Rockville, W. w. Dodge;
WoodSide, Silver Spring, J. NJ. ROGERS |
calvary, o. @. Robinson; Dumbarton
Avenue, C. L. Dawson: Eldbrooke. H. r. |
Deal; Emory. &. C. Beery; Foundry. |
FREDERICK Brown Harris and F. N. Van |
5runt, associate; Francis Asbury, r. w. |
Snarpe; Hamline, ]. A. Leatherman;
METROPOLITAN. Edward q. Latch and j. C. |
WAlkAF ASsaeiata. Tukase n M me |