1 July. The Rev. David Siegenthaler arrived to serve as curate under Rector Robert Metters. When Metters retired in 1956, he served for a year as priest in charge.
Renovations of the Parish House and Sanctuary, which had cost more that $115,000, were completed.
See also Timeline post: 2021
Pauli Murray became 36 in November, 1946. Photo credit: Library of Congress; Conde Nast Publications
–Thanks to Julian Bullitt for researching these topics in our archives.
Ruth Baylies Schulze (1907-1986) by Alfred Jonniaux
Walter Cabot Baylies (1862-1936)
Walter Cabot Baylies became senior warden. He purchased the buildings at 11-13 Newbury St. for our Parish House. His wife Charlotte (Lottie) Upham, daughter of founding member George Upham, gave birth to their daughter Ruth. They resided at 5 Commonwealth Ave., which now is the Boston Center for Adult Education.
See also: Jim Cronin, “BCAE Mansion Built for Textile Merchant, The Boston Courant 13(11):1, Dec. 1, 2007.
June 26. Andrew Gray Weeks died. Having been born in Portland, Maine, in 1823 and confirmed by Dr. F. Dan Huntington, he served on our vestry (1879-82 & 1884) and as junior warden from 1885 until his death. Having become a successful merchant, Andrew was generous to our church and those less fortunate. In 1905 his sister Harriet (Mrs. Silas Reed) Anthony gave in his memory the playground for the Emmanuel Memorial House, which his widow Alice gave. She also paid for a brass memorial plaque for their son Kenneth, who fell at Givenchy, France, in 1915. 
Our Building Committee reported expending $16K to expand the seating capacity of the Church of the Ascension (our mission in the South End) to hold more that 565. Vestry member Cranmore N. Wallace (1834-1918) reported on cost overrides for the project in the Year Book of Emmanuel Church.
Fay Cottage @ 216 Elm Rd., Falmouth MA was built c1740 by David Butler. 1916 photo thanks to Woods Hole Historical Archive
A cottage overlooking the Vineyard Sound in Falmouth was provided for a summer-long series of 10-day seaside sojourns for women and children of the Church of the Ascension by Emmanuel parishioners Mr. & Mrs. Henry B. Fay. A piazza and bathhouses along its beach were constructed with Emmanuel funds. Sarah M. Gay assisted Clara M. Carter, the Diocesan Deaconess, in managing the retreat at Fay Cottage for the first of 25 years to come. See also history of Fay Farm.
Club Room at Students House, 21-23 St. James Ave.
April 19. Francis R. Allen‘s plans were approved and work began on the expansion.
Harriet Dexter Lawrence Hemenway, 1890, by John Singer Sargent. Credit: WikiCommons
Harriet Lawrence Hemenway and her cousin Minna B. Hall founded the Mass. Audubon Society. For some time they had fought against the slaughter of egrets and other birds for their plumes by organizing women to stop wearing feathered hats.
The Vestry voted to light the church by electricity.