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William E. Hooker, of New Milford, Connecticut, was a lineal descendant of the Reverend Thomas Hooker who, in 1635, led the white, Christian settlers into what became the capital city of Hartford. William Hooker was ordained to the diaconate in 1879 and to the priesthood in 1882 by Bishop Huntington. He was assigned to various parish centers in Connecticut and New York and died on May 19, 1939.

James M. L. Cooley, a layperson, was an instructor of French and Dean of Students at Shattuck School, in Fairbault, Minnesota. His father, Rev. Frank Earl Cooley (1860-1939) spent years assembling a complete collection of pictures of bishops of the Episcopal Church in America through the 1960's in two large scrapbooks. Upon his death the collection passed on to his son, James, who added to its value by including biographies, autographs, etc.

Dr. Margaret Morgan Lawrence was born in Harlem, New York and raised in Vicksburg, Mississippi. After graduating from the local all-black high school at the age of 14, she moved to Harlem to further her education at the prestigious Wadleigh High School for Girls. Two years later she graduated with a scholarship to attend Cornell University as a pre-med student.

As the only black student on campus, Lawrence was not permitted to live in the dorms, and despite graduating with a nearly perfect academic record, she was denied entrance to Cornell’s medical school. In 1940, Lawrence graduated from Columbia University’s College of Physicians and Surgeons. Three years later, she earned a master’s degree in public health from Columbia University. In 1948, she became the first African American to be certified in psychoanalysis at Columbia University’s Columbia Psychoanalytic Center.

Lawrence began her career teaching pediatrics and public health at Meharry Medical College in Nashville, Tennessee. In 1963, she became a founding member of the Harlem Family Institute, a psychoanalyst training institute. Until her retirement in 1984, she was also a professor of psychiatry at Columbia University’s College of Physicians and Surgeons. For over two decades, Lawrence served as chief of the Developmental Psychiatry Center for Infants and Young Children and their Families at Harlem Hospital Center.

Lawrence was a member of the Peace Fellowship of The Episcopal Church and the recipient of an honorary doctorate of humane letters from Berkeley Divinity School at Yale University. Her remarkable career was celebrated by one of her daughters, Dr. Sara Lawrence Lightfoot, in a 1998 biography, Balm in Gilead: Journey of a Healer.

Margaret Morgan Lawrence married Charles Radford Lawrence II on June 5, 1938, while she was in medical school, and together they had three children. She died in Massachusetts on December 4, 2019 at the age of 105.

Massey H. Shepherd, Jr. was born in Wilmington, North Carolina on March 14, 1913. He received his B.A. in 1932, and his M.A. in 1933, both from the University of South Carolina. In 1937 he received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago and in 1941 his B.D. from the Berkeley Divinity School. Shepherd was ordained deacon on March 5, 1941, and priest on September 17, 1941.

From 1937 until 1940, Shepherd was an instructor at the University of Chicago, and from 1940 until 1954, he was professor of church history at the Episcopal Theological School (ETS). While at ETS, he served as an assistant at St. John's Church, Roxbury, Massachusetts. He frequently taught at the Graduate School of Theology of the University of the South, serving as director from 1952 until 1970.

From 1954 until 1981, when he retired, Shepherd was professor of liturgics at the Church Divinity School of the Pacific. He was president of the American Church History Society in 1949, and president of the Historical Society of the Episcopal Church from 1961 until 1974. Shepherd served on numerous worship and ecumenical boards and commissions, most notably the Standing Liturgical Commission from 1947 until 1976. Of his many publications, The Oxford American Prayer Book Commentary (1950) is one of the most important. He was a major architect of the 1979 Book of Common Prayer.

Though he was born and raised in a racially segregated Southern state, Shepherd’s courtly manners and general humility in demeanor led him to demonstrate equanimity to all. Shepherd’s scholarship was recognized by his peers especially in the area of liturgics. His influence was wide owing to a prolific writing and speaking life. He preached at numerous congregations, diocesan conventions, clergy conferences, ordinations, and in the chapels of the seminaries where he taught. He wrote more than 80 books, innumerable chapters and articles, and published a great many prayers. He was one of the few American members of Christian churches to be invited to observe the Second Vatican Council of the Roman Catholic Church in the 1960s.

Massey H. Shepherd, Jr. died in Sacramento, California on February 19, 1990, at the age of 76. His ashes were interred on Signal Mountain, Tennessee beside his beloved wife Gaby.

William Baillie (Bill) Green was born on April 3, 1927. He graduated from Baylor University in 1948 with a degree in English and Greek before attending Louisville Seminary in Kentucky and Union Theological Seminary in New York. In 1955, he earned a doctorate in Philosophical Theology from the University of Edinburgh, where he completed a thesis on Paul Tillich.

Initially a Presbyterian and ordained a minister by the Presbytery of Westchester, New York, Green converted to The Episcopal Church in 1969. In 1972, he was ordained an Episcopal priest. A lifelong academic and educator, Green taught as an Associate Professor of Religion at Vassar College (1957-1966) and Professor of Theology at the Episcopal Theological Seminary of the Southwest (ETSS) (1970-1999), among other institutions. He served as Theological Consultant for Clinical Pastoral Education at Seton Hospital in Austin from 1974 to 1999 and on the Board of Examining Chaplains for The Episcopal Church from 1977 to 1994.

Green authored a number of articles on Tillich and traditional theological subjects, as well as issues of women in ministry, ordained vocation, and Anglican Christology. A collection of personal writings, Ask, Seek, Knock: Sermons and Prayers, was published at the time of his retirement from ETSS later renames the Seminary of the Southwest (SSW).

Green died on April 19, 2011 in Austin, Texas.

Born in Reigate, England in 1927 and educated at Oxford, Nigel Renton (sometimes known as Nigel Auld Lindsey Renton) emerged as a prominent lay leader in The Episcopal Church after settling in California in 1957.

Renton began his church service in the 1960s and 1970s as vestry member and Senior Warden at All Souls and Saint Mark’s in Berkeley. He soon moved into national church politics, first elected as alternate lay deputy to the 1982 General Convention and seated as a full deputy in 1985. From 1987 to 2006 he was a prominent presence in the House of Deputies, co-chairing the California deputation and earning the nickname “the Terminator” for his skill in closing debate. Between conventions, he served as a deputy to the Synod of Province VIII and, as Treasurer from 1994–1997, sat on its Executive Committee and Provincial Council.

In the Diocese of California, Renton simultaneously served as a Diocesan Convention delegate and as President of the Diocesan Council (1981-1983). He was elected to the Standing Committee for a four year term in 1990 and served as President from 1993-1994. He was appointed chair of the Diocesan Resolutions Committee in 1990, and served in that capacity until his election as Secretary of the Diocesan Convention in 1994. He filled that office from 1994-2006.

Renton’s church work centered on his passion for liturgy and the expanded role of lay participation in worship. As Chair of St. Mark’s Worship Committee, he emphasized that “liturgy is the work of the people.” For nearly three decades he shaped Episcopal services through roles on the Diocesan Liturgical Renewal Commission, the General Convention’s Legislative Committee on Prayer Book, Liturgy and Music (1991), the Associated Parishes for Liturgy and Mission, and the Association of Diocesan Liturgy and Music Commissions, which named him “Person of the Year” in 1990. He also wrote widely on worship for The Living Church, Pacific Church News, and other publications.

Nigel Renton died on January 10, 2021 in Berkeley, California.

James Milton Richardson was born in Sylvester, Georgia, on January 8, 1913. He graduated from the University of Georgia in 1934 and went on to earn a Bachelor of Divinity (1936) and Master of Arts (1942) from Emory University’s Candler School of Theology. After his ordination to the priesthood in 1939, Richardson served at multiple parishes in Atlanta before becoming Dean of Christ Church Cathedral in Houston, Texas, in 1952. After John Hines, the sitting diocesan, was elected Presiding Bishop in 1965, Richardson was chosen as the fifth Bishop of the Diocese of Texas, serving from 1965 until his death on March 24, 1980.

During his career, Richardson held numerous leadership roles, serving as a trustee for several religious and educational organizations, including Baylor College of Medicine, the Church Pension Fund, and the Episcopal Radio-TV Foundation. As Bishop of Texas, he chaired the boards of institutions such as St. Luke’s Episcopal Hospital and the Episcopal Theological Seminary of the Southwest. He also took part in an episcopal visit to Texas' sister diocese of Malawi in 1969 and assisted in hosting the 1970 General Convention in Houston.