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McGuire Hall Dedication, May 3, 1959
Thanks to Vicki Harrison for donating the follow program from the event : [pdf-embedder url=”http://history.churchsp.org/wp-content/uploads/McGuireHallDedicationService19590503.pdf”]
The McGuire Hall Story
♦Address delivered by Carrol H. Quenzel, Senior Warden and Historiographer, at the Dedication of McGuire Hall, St. George’s Episcopal Church, on Sunday afternoon, May 3, 1959. Just who was the first teacher or pupil to voice dissatisfaction with the results of simultaneously conductmg fourteen Church School classes in one large room partitioned primarily by curtains … Read more
St. George’s Service Flag, 1918
Courtesy of Fredericksburg.com 20 November 2006 By CATHY DYSON http://www.arlingtoncemetery.net/dhknox.htm “As an intern for the National Park Service, Kati Singel uncovered a mystery when she was working on one of those glamorous projects interns tend to get. “Singel was doing inventory in the basement of the Chancellorsville Battlefield Visitor Center. She was supposed to make … Read more
Getting Started in St. George's History - 6 essential resources
Selections from several categories of our history.
McGuire served all 3 churches over the course of 45 years. He is probably the most influential of all our rectors in all phases of ministry from preaching, teaching, and outreach. Trip Wiggins, our archivist, wrote this for a Sunday school class and has been teaching classes for years
6. Tom Faulkner confronts the Vestry on race
Faulkner served St. George's for 30 years from 1946-1976. During these years racial policies were paramount, especially 1954, in the year of Brown vs. Board of Education, Faulkner was challenged by the Vestry on the role of Blacks in our service. He was able to move St. George's toward racial justice that other rectors would further
