■RE Week to Feature
Eight Speakers
, Rev. Wright to Speak
At Opening Dinner
Helicons Kvaluation week will be held on campus Sunday
. I 11 Thursday beginning with a dinner at 6 p.m. in the Stu
f ‘1 c 111 l iiion. Speaker for the dinner is Rev. Paul S. Wright, pas
lorof tin- hirst Presbyterian church in Portland, who will speak
f>n "< )ne W orld or None.” i
Capper-Johnson
* *
Karlin M. Capper-Johnson is a
member of the English Society of
I'riends. He has held the position
of professor of history and inter
national relations at Lewis and
Clark college since 1951. As a lec
turer in international affairs, he
has taught at Selly Oak college,
Birmingham, England; Syracuse
university; University of Roches
ter and Carton college, Northfield
He received his B A. and M.A
> from Queen’s college, Oxford and
> va:; awarded the Davison scholar
ship to Harvard after receiving the
Cecil Peace prize and the Brooks
Bright prize m American history.
Capper-Johnson has traveled ex
tensively in Europe, meeting with
■ political leaders in Western and
Central Europe and serving as a
visiting lecturer in several Euro
pean universities. In 1935, he was
a delegate to the League of Na
tions conference on security and
peaceful exchange.
Rabbi Grafman
* * *
I * L. Elliot Grafman is the spirit
J Eunl leader of Temple Israel, Long
•degree from the University of Cin
cinatti and Juris Doctor from John
Marshall law college. He was grad
, uated from Hebrew Union college
- as Rabbi in 1924.
Rabbi Grafman served in World
War I and as chaplain in the U.S.
- army during World War II, holding
the rank of captain. He served
parishes in the East and Chicago
before taking on his present post.
He is a member of the Rotary club,
American Legion, the Chaplains
association and the Central Con
ference in American Rabbis.
Calif. He holds an A.B.
I'inner tickets arc available
through advance registfation
for the week. The tickets are
available in all living organiza
tions and are priced at $1.
A pageant entitled “America
and the World"’ will also be pre
sented at the dinner.
The remainder of the week will
be occupied by discussions and
talks with the eight representa
tives of the various faiths and
sects who will be on campus.
Most of the talks will be given
in ttie Student Union. Each day,
Monday through Thursday, a chap
el meditation led by one of the
main speakers will be held on the
second floor of Gerlinger.
Each campus living organiza
tion will hold a fireside discussion
sometime during the week with
one of the main speakers. Because
of the limited number of speakers,
living groups will be given their
choice of time for their fireside
and the speaker will be assigned
them. «
Rev. Fiorovsky
The Very Rev. Georges Florov
sky has been a priest of the Greek
Orthodox church since 1932. Eorn
in Odessa, Russia, he received his
degree from the University of
Odessa where he served as a lec
turer in philosophy.
He came to the U.S. as professor
of divinity and later dean of St.
Vladimir’s Theological seminary in
New York. He is also guest profes
sor of religion at Columbia univer
sity and adjunct professor of Union
Theologica lseminary in New York.
In the U.S., Rev. Florovsky is
the official representative of the
Economical Patriarchate (Eastern
Orthodox church) of Constanti
polc. He has lectured at Oxford
and Cambridge universities in Eng
land and several European univer
sities in addition to Harvard, Yale
and Duke in the U.S. He holds a
D.D. from St. Andrew's, Scotland,
and S.T.D. from Boston university. |
A delegate to several confer
ences on an Ecumenical order.' he '
served as a delegate to the first
assembly of the World Council of
Churches at Amsterdam in 1948
and was elected a member of the
Continuation committee, Faith and
Order commission. He has author-!
ed several publications in Russian
and English.
Florovsky was scheduled to
speak at last year’s Parliament of
World Religions but was unable
to attend when his plane was
grounded in New York.
First Two Days
Feature Dinner,
Pageant, Talks
Sunday
Introductory dinner meeting.
6 p.m.
Introduction of Program and
speakers.
Address: “One World or
None,” by Itev. Paul S. Wright
Pageant: “America and the
World
Monday
I heme—“Man in thr* Atomic
Age”
7 :.i() a.in.—Chapel meditation,
second floor Geriinger, led by
Dean Florovsky.
9-11 a.m. Addresses by Dean
Gossard, Dean Maser, Dean Flor
ovsky and Father Burger.
11 a.m.—Question period.
Noon—Luncheon honoring Dean
Florovsky and Rev. Wright
1-2 p.m.—Addresses by Rev.
Wright and Rev. Meserve.
4 p.m.—Films of religious ar
chitecture
(i p.m.—Fireside dinners and
discussions.
8 p.m.—Address by Rabbi
Grafman.
Rev. Meserve
* * *
The Rev. Harry C. Meserve is
minister of the First Unitarian
church of San Francisco. He has!
served as minister of Unitarian!
churches in Massachusetts and
New York before taking on his
present post in 1919. Rev. Meserve
is also an author, having had ar
ticles published in the Atlantic
Monthly and a recent book “Faith
in the Making." was published by
the Beacon press.
Rev. Meserve has served as a
member of the board of directors
of the Council for Civic Unity. He
is a member of the board of di
rectors of the Starr King school
for the Ministry in Berkeley.
UO Religious Week
First Held in 1938
Religious Evaluation Week has
years, but similar weeks were held
1938, called the University Christu
'1 he week held in January of 1951
Millikan as the main speaker. A
program similar to this year’s
scheduled was followed, with group
discussions anti speeches on the
subject of religion.
Last year, the week took on an
international and inter-faith air.
It was called the “Parliament of
World Religions.” Representatives
of various Eastern faiths, includ
ing Hinduism, Euddhism and the
Moslem religion, added color and
interest to the discussions, giving
many students their first chance
to hear firsthand descriptions of
these faiths. Also represented were
Roman Catholicism, Eastern Or
thodox and Protestantism.
Purpose of the week is to em
phasize the role of religion in
campus life.
Rev. Wright
* * *
The Rev. Paul S. Wright has
been pastor of the First Presbyter
ian church in Portland since 1941.
Previous to that, he served as pas
tor in North Dakota, Minneapolis, i
Minn., and Oklahoma City, Okla.
He received his B.A. from Woos
ter college, his B.D. from McCor
mich Theological seminary in Chi
cago and his Doctor of Divinity'
from Park college in Missouri in
1935.
Rev. Wright has been very active
as a member of the general coun
cil of the Presbyterian church in
the United States. He has served
as moderator for the Synod of Ore
gon. He is now a member of the '
board of Christian Education of;
the Presbyterian church, the board
of trustees of Lewis and Clark
college and the board of directors
of the Oregon Prison association, i
Clifford E. Maser
Clifford E. Maser is a member
of the Society of Friends (Quaker I
He served thirteen months in Eu
rope as a representative of the
American Friends Service commit
tee, working with refugees in Aus
«
Iria and Germany previous to'
August, 1952. Before that time,
he was chairman of the executive
board of the Oregon regional of- I
fice of the committee.
Maser graduated from Swarth
more college with an S.A.B. degree
tnd after two year’s study in Ger
nany received a Ph.D. from the
University of Cologne. He has
aught at Rollins college, Florida,
ind has been professor of business
idministration at Oregon State
-ollege since 1942. In 1948 he be
came dean of the school of busi
less and technology, a position he
lolds now. I
been held on campus the past two
previous to that time, the first in
.n Mission.
featured the noted scientist Robert
Hal C. Gossard
* * *
Hal C. Gossard has been very
actively connected with the nation*
al_ YMCA student work, serving as
secretary in the southern states
and Rocky Mountain area. He re
ceived his B.S. degree from Ohio
Northern university and his Ph.D.
from John Hopkins.
He has taught at all levels of
public instruction including col
lege and graduate level. He served
as president of New Mexico Nor
mal university and nine years
president of Easter New Mexico
university.
Gossard has served in Germany
for the past four years where he
was responsible for the education
exchange program in Wuerttem
berg-Baaen and acted as educa
tional adviser for teacher educa
tion in Germany.
Father Burger
* * *
The Rev. Matthias Burger is pro
fessor of scripture and religion and
assistant student counselor at
Mount Angel seminary. He is also
a regular week-end pastoral as
sistant in Oregon Catholic par
ishes.
Father Burger attended St. Ed
ward's Major Theological seminary
in Kenmore, Wash. He received the
degree of Licentiate in Theology
(S.T.L.) at Catholic university,
Washington. D.C., and Licentiate
n Sacred Scripture (S.S.L.) from
Pontifical Oriental and Biblical In
stitute in Rome. He also studied
at Maria-Laach Abbey in Germany
ind the University of Fribourg,
Switzerland. He is a member of
:he Order of Saint Benedict. Fath
er Burger is an occasional contrib
itor to St. Joseph’s magazine.