Episcopal Press and News
Boone Porter Named Editor of The Living Church
Episcopal News Service. July 28, 1977 [77256]
MILWAUKEE, Wis. -- The Rev. H. Boone Porter, Jr., has been elected editor of The Living Church, to succeed the Rev. Dr. Carroll E. Simcox on Sept. 1.
A search committee -- chaired by the Rev. Dr. Dudley J. Stroup, rector of St. James the Less Church, Scarsdale, N.Y. -- presented Dr. Porter's name to the board which elected him.
Fr. Simcox announced in March his intention to resign. He will assist the new editor during the month of September.
Dr. Porter's most recent position was executive director of the Roanridge conference and retreat center in Kansas City, Mo.
The new editor was born in Louisville, Ky., in 1923 and was educated at St. Paul's School, Concord, N. H., Yale University, and Berkeley Divinity School in New Haven, Conn. He has done graduate work at General Theological Seminary in New York and at Oxford University, from which he received his doctorate in ecclesiastical history in 1954.
His teaching experience has been at Nashotah House, a theological seminary in Nashotah, Wis., and General Seminary, where he was professor of liturgies from 1960 to 1970. He is the author of a number of books, pamphlets and articles.
In 1947 he married Violet Monser of Oneonta, N. Y., and they have six children.
Dr. Simcox -- who became 65 last April -- has edited the independent weekly Episcopal Church magazine since January 1964. An outspoken, articulate and sometimes controversial churchman, Dr. Simcox said he hopes in retirement to have more time for his writing projects.
Next January Dr. Simcox and his wife Georgiana -- who has been news editor at The Living Church -- will move to Lexington, Ky., where he is scheduled to teach at the Episcopal Theological Seminary in Kentucky through the 1978-79 term.