ECW-NC
Episcopal Church Women in NC
Author: ECW-NC
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Mr. Taylor, of the Red Cross, was given five minutes to talk about the disaster by cyclone at Wendell, and a collection was taken for the sufferers. (Source: Minutes of Annual Meeting, 1923 Woman’s Auxiliary Annual Meeting, 11)
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The Bishop Tuttle School for young women who are preparing to enter fields of Social Service or Religious Education has been maintained for a number of years as a special project of the National Women’s Auxiliary. Our Church is the first and only Church to provide such an opportunity for training so that this school…
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An interesting feature of the day was the action taken on the resolution made through a member of the Auxiliary, by a member of the Convention. Voting against the resolution, “That we, the members of the Woman’s Auxiliary present at this annual meeting do approve of the proposition that women be eligible to vote in…
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August is the month for picnics and Home Comings in this section of the country, and our congregation Good Shepherd, Cooleemee has participated in several of them… . August in Davie and Rowan impresses one that life is just one picnic after another. And the cookery is excellent. The fame of these tables has gone…
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Our Parish had the misfortune to lose, on September 29th, 1877, one of its best members and ablest workers, Mrs. Laura Ingraham James, mother of our faithful communicant, George James. Mrs. James was a woman of many Christian attributes, also a woman of many sorrows and acquainted with grief, losing three children, who are buried…
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Charlotte’s new hospital set-up with a large Memorial Hospital combining the old St. Peter’s will at the same time perpetuate the name by means of a section in the new structure to be known as “St. Peter’s Wing,” the Rev. John L. Jackson declared to Executive Council meeting in Raleigh on September 20. His remarks…
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Aunt Nannie was superintendent, business manager, secretary, and treasurer of the school for 37 years, and the person with whom all business concerning the school was transacted. She did all the employing of school personnel; she was chief disciplinarian; and it was she who made the school the success it was. As one of her…
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July 21, 1865 – December 20, 1936 Based on an article by George Huntley III, Senior at Beaufort High School, 1960; submitted by Mamré Marsh Wilson, Historiographer, Diocese of East Carolina, 2013 Mary Anna Davis – later known by her chosen name, Nannie Pasteur Davis, or affectionately called “Aunt Nannie” – was baptized in 1865…
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The women of the Church Service League of St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Winston-Salem, want in this way to express a very real sorrow and loss in the death of Mrs. Susan Hill Steadman, and also an appreciation of her meritorious life and service as a loyal, faithful member of our organization. Her life was a…
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Miss Marshall read an interesting article on Church advertising based on the text, “Go ye into the byways & hedges & compel them to come in.” We decided to have a “Rooster Party” the following Tuesday to help on the Building Fund and to pay the 75¢ per member for St. Luke’s Hospital [Tokyo]. (Source:…