Foundation Awards Graduate Study Fellowships
Episcopal News Service. February 2, 1978 [78024]
NEW YORK, N.Y. -- Ten fellowships, totaling $55,003, have been awarded by The Episcopal Church Foundation for doctoral study in the 1978-1979 academic year. The Foundation's Graduate Fellowship Program has provided scholarship aid since 1964 to selected seminary graduates to help them earn their doctorates before entering the Church's teaching ministry.
New fellowships were awarded to:
- Mr. Eugene Y. Lowe, Jr., of Mount Vernon, N.Y., who is a senior at Union Theological Seminary in New York City and will work for his doctorate there in the history of Christian thought. After graduating magna cum laude in 1971 from Princeton University, where he was elected the first undergraduate member of the Board of Trustees, he was employed as a child care worker and case aid at the St. Agatha Home for Children in Nanuet, N.Y., and then as Second Vice-President, Corporate Responsibility Division, of The Chase Manhattan Bank in New York City. He has also been senior warden of the Parish of Calvary, Holy Communion and St. George's in The City of New York. Mr. Lowe, who is married, is the recipient of The William B. Given, Jr., Memorial Fellowship, established by the Arthur Vining Davis Foundations of Miami, Florida, in memory of the first president of The Episcopal Church Foundation. After receiving his M. Div. in June he expects to be ordained and looks forward to combining teaching with a pastoral ministry.
- The Rev. Pamela A. Mylet, of Evanston, Ill., who is in her first year of a Ph. D. program of pastoral counseling offered jointly by Garrett-Evangelical Seminary and Northwestern University in Evanston. She received a B.A. in 1966 from the University of Chicago and her M. Div. eight years later from Seabury-Western Theological Seminary in Evanston. Since then she has had clinical pastoral education training at Children's Memorial and Grant Hospitals in Chicago and has completed a two-year residency program at Swedish Covenant Hospital, where she served as chaplain. She was ordained to the diaconate in 1974 and works as part-time assistant at St. Luke's in Evanston. She is married and hopes to do pastoral counseling in a clinical setting and to teach.
- The Rev. Robert W. Prichard, of Fairfax, Virginia, who embarked last fall on his doctoral studied in historical theology at Emory University in Atlanta. He was graduated from Princeton University in 1971 with a B.A. degree and, three years later, from Berkeley Divinity School at Yale University with an M. Div. For the next three years he served as curate at St. George's in Arlington, Virginia, where he organized ministries to the Spanish-speaking community and to the county jail. During this period he was a consultant to the General Convention's Standing Liturgical Commission and a member of the Commission on Ministry and Ecumenical Committee of the diocese. He has been named the Muntz Educational Fund Fellow, an award established in 1976 by Mr. and Mrs. Harold F. Muntz, of Sarasota, Fla. Mr. Prichard is married and the father of a son; after winning his doctorate, he looks forward to a parish ministry combined with a teaching position.
Seven fellowships for a second or third year of graduate study were renewed for: The Rev. G. Stewart Barns, of the Diocese of Massachusetts, at Boston University; the Rev. Paul C. Cochran, of the Diocese of New York, at The General Theological Seminary in New York City; the Rev. Gordon H. Duggins, of the Diocese of Liberia, at the Harvard Divinity School; the Rev. Charles C. Hefling, Jr., of the Diocese of Massachusetts, at the Harvard Divinity School; the Rev. Emmett Jarrett, of the Diocese of Long Island, at the University of London; the Rev. David R. Ruppe, of the Diocese of New York, at Union Theological Seminary; and-the Rev. William L. Sachs, of the Diocese of Virginia, at the University of Chicago.
The Rev. Mr. Ruppe has received The Eugene W. Stetson Memorial Fellowship, which was endowed two years ago by Mrs. Stetson and the members of her family in memory of her husband, a founding director of The Episcopal Church Foundation.
Since 1964 the Graduate Fellowship Program has made 149 individual fellowship grants to 62 Foundation Fellows totaling $653,300.