Chaplain (Major) Fred H, Heather, Chaplain (Lt. Col.) Lloyd V. Harmon, until recently Associate Secretary and Ret., at the last Department of Kansas Treasurer of The Methodist Commission on Convention held in Wichita, was elected Chaplains, is leaving Washington after Department Chaplain. He is also Chaplain eight years to become Associate Pastor of his local Post of the American Legion, of the Wilshire Methodist Church in Los also of the Third District, Department Angeles. Chaplain Heather was honored of Kansas. with a "recognition dinner", presided
over by Bishop Bromley Oxnam, before his Col, F.H. Kohloss, Executive departure for his new field of service. Secretary of the Society of American Chaplain Heather is a PERPETUAL MEMBER Military Engineers, comments: "It has of the MCA. been a long time since I have read as moving a story as that by Father Sheehy, Chaplain (Major) William F. Kautz, "Farewell to a Chaplain" in your Augustof the U.S. Army Hospital, 8169th A.U., September issue. APO 343, New York, made a tape recording "Congratulations to the author, and at AFKN in Seoul, Korea, of six morning you, on a very fine piece of writing." devotions for broadcast Mondays through
Wednesdays, and writes: "Every Wednesday Late in October the Jewish Welfare night over Station AFKN there is a five- Board announced the election of Chaplain minute period called 'Meet the Chaplain'. (Major) Morris Lieberman as the new I had the privilege of making a tape chairman of the National Jewish Welfare recording for that and I gave the Board's Commission on Chaplaincy. The listeners my idea of how to spend their new chairman is the first World War II leisure time over here by reading and Chaplain to head the Commission. studying the Bible."
Currently serving as Chaplain of
the 2nd Motor Transport and 2nd Medical
Bn., at Camp LeJeune, Chaplain (Lieut.)
Bernard N. Morris rewrites well-known Guests at National Headquarters church hymns in an effort to make them
more attractive to many young people of Chaplain John R. Strevig, Fort Baker, his 200 member Paradise Point Sunday California School. Not to do anything half-way, the Chaplain F.S. VanHolm and son, Fort Chaplain plays these lively variations Totten, New York on his trumpet. Chaplain Morris won Chaplain Augustine P. Donnelly, Fort state honors in music during his senior Sheridan, Illinois year in high school and continued his Chaplain Charles Pratt, Jr., Aberdeen music studies at Philadelphia's Hamilton Proving Grounds, Maryland SchQol of Music following his graduation. Chaplain and Mrs. Cletus E. Wilch, 28th During his three-year pastorate of the Inf. Regt., APO 176, New York Fellowship Baptist Church at Clifton, Chaplain Edwin L. Kirtley, Headquarters, New Jersey, he attended Upsala College Colorado Springs, Colorado and later became associated with the net- Chaplain and Mrs. Robert A. Kaufman, work radio program "Word of Life". A Fort Bragg, North Carolina highlight of this later work came when Chaplain John E. Peterson, Fort Bragg, he played some of his hymn variations North Carolina before 28,OOC persons at the "Word of Chaplain Andrew W. Hampton, Keesler AFB, Life" annual encampment in Madison Biloxi, Mississippi Square Garden, New York. Chaplain and Mrs. Paul R. Fine, 554th
Eng. Bn., Fort Wood, Missouri
Chaplain Newell E. Taylor, Chaplain
"Not the lack of fear, but the School, Fort Slocum, New York
capacity to ignore it, is the sign Chaplain Earl E. Wolf, The Chaplain
of courage." School, Fort Slocum, New York
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