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Show ., ALUMNI BULLETIN of Union Theological Seminary Vol. 3 No. 3 N E W YORK CITY January, 1957 Arts • Culture • Religion-Conference Theme Dr. John Baillie To Visit Alumni Groups Alumni will have an opportunity to meet and to hear Dr. John Baillie at area meetings now being planned. Dr. Baillie is this year's Fosdick Visiting Professor. Under the terms of the professorship, the appointee spends the first semester in residence at the Seminary. During the second semester he is made available to other seminaries and for alumni gatherings throughout the country. The following schedule of dates and districts has been projected by the Alumni Office. Where a span of time is indicated a definite date has not yet been set. Jan. 30-31 Cleveland Feb. 4- 7 Boston Feb. 11 14 Washington Feb. 25-28 Richmond Mar. 11 Chicago Mar. 25-29 St. Louis Apr,-4--5-r , T^. .Berkeley Apr. 8- 9 Portland Apr. 10-11 Seattle Apr. 23 Rochester May 7- 9 Toronto In each city a Union and an Auburn alumnus have been asked to act jointly as a committee to make the arrangements. As a former member of the faculties of both seminaries, Dr. Baillie will be particularly welcome as he speaks to combined groups of alumni from coast to coast. NIEBUHR, NICHOLS, AMONG Quote - from "The Christian Century" "The whole man to whom the Word must come is not engaged toy words alone. He is more than a torain that hears; he is nerves and glands and dark mysterious energies, all more searchingly plumbed by sound and sight and color and motion than by the most hallowed syllables. So Protestants in their schools, churches, homes, journals must pay more attention to the arts for the service of the Word they can render. And we must attend them too for the service the Word can render them, not in assigning them subjects but in providing the context in which the world and all its arts and sciences count so much that every artist and scientist can work with new seriousness and integrity." BAILLIE SPEAKERS JAN. 22-24 Annual Workshop Provides Varied Program The place of music, drama and the other arts in the program of the modern church will be the theme of the Alumni Minister's Mid-winter Workshop to be held at the Seminary, Tuesday, January 22 to Thursday, January 24. Alumni May Nominate Students For Conferences Alumni are encouraged to nominate prospective attendants for the coming college conferences. Miss Elsie M. Bush, Assistant to the Dean of W o m e n will direct the College Women's Conference on February 8-10, 1957. Mr. Arthur M. Brown, Assistant Dean of Students, will conduct the College Men's Conference on March 1-3, 1957. Prospects should be college upper-classmen with an interest in the general field of church and religious vocations, but not necessarily definite in their purpose to enter the Seminary. FIVE NEW FACULTY INSTALLED At the Fall Convocation in October five men were installed as new members of Union's Faculty. They will be seen among the group above. Reading in the usual order we have, President Van Dusen, who conducted the Service; Earl A. Loomis, Jr., Prof, of Psychiatry and Religion; Dr. Fosdick, who gave the Installation Prayer; John Baillie, Fosdick Visiting Professor for 1956-57; Mr. Benjamin Strong, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Seminary; Azia Suryal Atiya, Henry W. Luce Visiting Professor of World Christianity; John L Casteel, Professor of Practical Theology and Director of Field Work; E. Martin Browne, Visiting Professor of Religious Drama. 111111111 -^^^^''Jl^W REINHOLD NIEBUHR President Charles L. Copenhaver will preside at the opening luncheon on Tuesday when Dr. Martin P. Hal-verson, Executive Director of the Department of Worship and Arts of the National Council of Churches, will introduce the program with a lecture on "Christian Faith and Contemporary Culture." Other features of the conference as announced by James N. Gettemy, Program Chairman, include two lectures by Professor James H. Nichols of the Chicago Divinity School on aReformation Theology and Protestant Worship"; a Tuesday afternoon lecture on Modern Literature by Dr. Stanley P. Hopper, Dean of the Graduate School of Drew University, which will be followed by seminars on modern poetry and the novel; Wednesday morning seminars on Church and Parish House Building and Remodelling, with concurrent program for Music School Alumni on organ construction; also round table discussions of worship materials on Wednesday afternoon. Evenings will be given over to presentation on Tuesday of a play by the Drama Workshop, and on Wednesday, a program by the School of Sacred Music. Dr. John Baillie of Edinburgh, Harry Emerson Fosdick Visiting Professor at Union Seminary this year, known to alumni as the author (Continued on page 4) Additional Leadership For Religious Drama Program The Program of Religious Drama, launched this fall under the direction of Mr. E. Martin Browne, will be strengthened by added leadership during the second semester. Winifred Ward, professor emeritus of Northwestern University and eminent authority on children's theater, will join the faculty for a series of lectures and workshops in creative dramatics for children. Other lectures and seminars will be given by John Mason Brown, noted critic and lecturer; and Norris Houghton, co-founder and director of New York's Phoenix Theater and chairman of the Commission on Drama of the National Council of Churches. Professor Robert E. Sea-ver of the Union faculty will continue to act as coordinator of the program with Mr. T o m F. Driver serving as technical director and instructor in drama. During the week of February 25th a demonstration of creative dramatics will be given under the direction of Miss Ward, primarily for the benefit of those who cannot attend the lectures or workshop. Mrs. Chouteau Chapin, professional actress formerly associated with Erwin Piscator, will direct a second production during the week of April 1st. The third and final production of the year, "The Devil to Pay," by Dorothy L. Sayers, will be performed under the direction of Professor Seaver during the week of April 29. Inquiries regarding enrollment for the morning lectures and afternoon workshop may be addressed to Professor John W , Bachman, Chairman of the Faculty Drama Committee. Bishop Gerald Kennedy Heads Summer Program At Seminary-July, 1957 Bishop Gerald Kennedy will give the Hoyt Lectures of Auburn Seminary during the first week of the Ministers' Summer Conference, July 8-12, 1957. Other leaders and lecturers for this week, and for the second week of July 15-19, are being scheduled and will be announced early in the new year. Outstanding figures of the world church will be in this country to attend the meetings of the Central Committee of the World Council of Churches. It is expected that several of them will be available for addresses at the Ministers' Conference. In addition, an inter-seminary ecumenical institute is being planned for a later period in the summer. |
