CHAPLAIN SCHOOL; 50TH BIRTHDAY
The United States Army Chaplain School, located at Fort Hamilton, New York, celebrated its 50th anniversary on 3 March 1968. Honoring the occasion, a formal banquet was held at the Hamilton House restaurant attended by prominent military guests from the Army Chaplaincy and all branches of the Armed Forces. The Staff and Faculty, headed by Commandant Theodore Koepke and Deputy Commandant Leo Frye, were there in full force with their wives-as were students of the Basic and Advanced classes. Among other distinguished guests were General J. K. Woolnough, Comanding General, USCONARC; Ambassador Nguyen Huu-Chi, Republic of Vietnam Observer to the U.N.; Bishop William J. Moran, Auxiliary Bishop of the Military Ordinariate and former Deputy Chief of Army Chaplains; Ch (Major General) Patrick J. Ryan, USA, Retired, former Chief of Army Chaplains; and Chaplain (Major General) Francis L. Sampson, current Chief of Army Chaplains, who was the principal speaker at the banquet.
Earlier in the day, special Protestant and Catholic services Ul.S. Army Photo were held in the Post Chapel. Upon his recent departure for assignment in Europe, Ch The origin of the Chaplain School goes back to 3 March (LTC) Robert D. Wilson, was presented The Army 1918, the last year of World War I. It was opened at Fort Commendation Medal (First Oak Leaf Cluster) by Ch
(MG) Francis L. Sampson, Chief of Army Chaplais Monroe, Virginia, and was established to help civilian The ceremony shown above took place in the Ofice, clergymen who volunteered for Army service to prepare Chief of Chaplains. themselves for highly specialized ministries to men in the Army service. SUMMER WORKSHOP Deactivated after World War I, and reactivated in The 21st Annual Summer Workshop in Techniquesof 1920, between its inception and the move to its permanent Marriage and Family Counseling, will be held 5 through headquarters at Fort Hamilton, the Army Chaplain School 17 August, 1968, at The American Institute of Family carried on its growing training program at ten different Relations-located at 5287 Sunset Boulevard, Los Angeleso locations, including a stint at Harvard University. For three California. Cooperating again in the Workshop willbe years beginning in 1951, when the School was at Fort Chapman College, Orange, California, and Pepperdie Slocum, the activity was heavy as Chaplains of both the College of Los Angeles.
College of Los Angeles. Army and Air Force were trained during the Korean emergency. Later, the Air Force established its own School An outstanding twenty-one member faculty, headed by at Lackland Air Force Base in Texas, and that School is Dr. Paul Popenoe, founder of the Institute, will teach the now at Maxwell Air Force Base in Alabama. latest methods in group counseling, as well as current findings in the behaviorial sciences. In September 1962, the Chaplain School moved to its findings in the behavioral sciences.
present home at Fort Hamilton. There, the challenge to Annually, the Workshop finds persons from 50 States and train clergymen for service to God and country is a con- Canada attending: lawyers, nurses, doctors, clergymen, tinuing inspiration to its primary and unchanging mission; Armed Forces chaplains, social workers and guidance pert to provide military and specialized professional education sonnel attending. Three units of credit are available tv to Army chaplains; and to prepare, instruct and train chap- qualified participants. lains to minister to the moral, religious and spiritual needs Anyone who is interested should write to the Institute of the Army in peace and in war. immediately for further information.
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