• Pauli Murray, who was a vestry member, entered the General Theological Seminary. The Rev. Alvin L. Kershaw had helped her discern a call to ordination.

Once I admitted the call of total commitment to service in the church, it seemed that I had been pointed in this direction all my life and that my experiences were merely preparation for this calling.  In spite of my own intellectual doubts and the opposition to women’s ordination which was widespread within the Episcopal Church at the time, I took the fateful step of applying to The Rt. Rev. John Melville Burgess, Bishop of the Diocese of Massachusetts, for admission to holy orders. (Autobiography, 1989, p. 427)

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  Organ built by James Ludden, given by Priscilla Rawson Young in 1973

  4 Nov. Priscilla Rawson Young gave a portable pipe organ, built by James Ludden, which is still used for rehearsals in our Music Room.

See also:

1. Pauli Murray and Timeline entries:  1970, 1977,1985, 1989, 2012 & 2015.
2. Priscilla Young:  Timeline entries: 1909, 1939, 1942, 1971, 1994 & 2000.