Episcopal Press and News
News Brief
Episcopal News Service. August 6, 1981 [81220]
Marguerite Marie Myrthil Garnier, wife of the Rt. Rev. Luc A. J. Garnier, Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Haiti, died July 29 after a long illness. A requiem mass was celebrated at Holy Trinity Cathedral here on July 31. She is survived by the bishop and their five children.
Geraldine Rennie, retired Episcopal missionary to China, died at the Amsterdam Nursing Home here at the age of 99 on June 21, following several years of poor health. She went to China in 1917 and was appointed a missionary in 1920. She was stationed in Shanghai as an evangelism worker until 1932 when she returned to the United States for health reasons. Following her retirement in 1940 she made her home in New York City. She is survived by a brother, Robert Rennie.
Edward McCrady, Ph.D., 74, vice chancellor of the University of the South here from 1951 to 1971, died July 27 at a local hospital nine days after being stricken with a heart attack. A widely respected scientist, he taught at the University following his retirement as vice chancellor. He was also a violinist, portrait painter, sculptor, and translator of the classics. The Canton, Miss., native received his doctorate from the University of Pennsylvania. His wife, Edith Dowling McCrady, and three sons and a daughter survive. Presiding Bishop John M. Allin of the Episcopal Church said of him, "Dr. McCrady's life has been a witness to the important relationship between Christianity and education. His leadership in years past has set a high standard for us to follow as we continue to pursue the role of the Church in our nation's educational scene."
Julie B. Hairston, a staff writer for The News and Daily Advance of Lynchburg, Va., and an Episcopalian, has been selected as the outstanding religion reporter in the country for newspapers with a circulation of 50,000 or less. She received the 1980 Louis Cassels Memorial Award from the Religion Newswriters Association, a professional organization of more than 125 reporters who cover religion for secular newspapers, wire services and news magazines in North America. Other award winners were Richard N. Ostling of Time magazine and Lilla Ross of the Jacksonville, Fla., Times-Union, who shared the James O. Supple Memorial Award for publications of more than 50,000 circulation. The Providence, R.I., Journal-Bulletin was the recipient of the Harold Schachern Memorial Award for a religious page or supplement.
The Rev. Jerome F. Politzer, rector of St. John's Episcopal Church, Monterey, Calif., has been elected president of The Prayer Book Society. A committee has been formed by the board of directors to nominate someone to serve as full-time executive officer of the society, whose headquarters is located at the Wetherby House here. Politzer succeeds Dr. Benjamin Alexander who resigned in order to develop a religious studies program and to be professor of English at Hillsdale College in Michigan.