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Charles Radford Lawrence II was a longtime Church leader, social activist, and educator. From 1948 until his retirement in 1977, he worked at Brooklyn College of the City University of New York as professor of sociology and chairman of the Department of Sociology. His active involvement in the Church began in 1952 when he became the vestryman and senior warden for Saint Paul's in Spring Valley, New York. Sixteen years later, he became the first black senior warden for New York's historic Trinity Parish.

Lawrence served as a Deputy to General Convention from 1967 to 1985, attending eight conventions. In 1976, he became the first African American, and third lay person, elected President of the House of Deputies. Two of the most controversial changes in the Church in the 20th century, the ordination of women and the adoption of the 1979 Book of Common Prayer, occurred during his presidency.

Throughout his work for the Church, Lawrence served on several committees, commissions, and boards. In 1973, he served as chairman of the House of Deputies' Special Committee on the Ordination of Women to the Priesthood and Episcopate. In 1976, he was the co-chairman of the Executive Council’s Special Advisory Committee on Church in Society. Additionally, Lawrence served on the Joint Commission on Ecumenical Relations and the General Board of Examining Chaplains. He was the recipient of honorary degrees from Virginia Theological Seminary, General Theological Seminary, and Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity School.

Lawrence’s deep concern for social justice and racial equality directed his academic and Church careers at home and abroad. He was a participant on the Anglican Consultative Council in England (1981) and in Nigeria (1984). In 1982 the Episcopal Peace Fellowship, of which he was a longtime member, awarded him the Episcopal Peace Award. He was an early advocate within The Episcopal Church for the end to South Africa's apartheid policies, and led the effort that resulted in the Church's 1985 vote to divest its portfolio of stock in firms continuing to work in South Africa.

Charles Lawrence married Margaret Morgan on June 5, 1938 and together they had three children. He II died in Pomona, NY, on April 3, 1986 at the age of 70.

John Robert Wright was born in Carbondale, Illinois on October 20, 1936. He spent his youth in that area before matriculating at the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee in 1953. He was graduated with a B.A. in 1958, and began the study of medieval history at Emory University in Atlanta from which he received an M.A. in 1959. Wright entered General Theological Seminary (GTS) shortly thereafter where he earned his M.Div. degree before entering Oxford University on a Fulbright scholarship, where he was awarded a D.Phil. in 1967.

Wright was ordained a deacon in his home Diocese of Indianapolis on June 11, 1963 and made a priest on June 29, 1964. With notable exceptions, his ministry in the church has centered around scholarship and teaching in an academic tradition with specialization in church history. Wright’s historical scholarship informed, in a compelling and influential way, The Episcopal Church's participation in three major Anglican dialogues and consultations with ecumenical partners in the Lutheran (ELCA), Orthodox, and Roman Catholic churches. His leadership and theological contributions in these areas are strongly represented. Particular note must be made of his authorship of the covenant proposal, Called to Common Mission, and the crafting of full communion with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.

Wright authored over a dozen books on medieval church history and ecumenism and nearly a hundred articles on topics ranging from the Book of Common Prayer, the nature and scope of ecclesiastical authority, the Eucharist and priesthood, Anglican tradition, and women in the ordained ministry. He exercised leadership as president of The Anglican Society and as a member of the Standing Commission on Ecumenical and Interfaith Relations. He served as Historiographer of The Episcopal Church from 2000 to 2012.

Wright died in his New York City home on January 12, 2022 at the age of 85.

Canon Edward N. West, born in Boston, served The Episcopal Church for nearly five decades, primarily at the Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine in New York. After ordination in 1934 and early service as curate and rector at Trinity Church, Ossining, New York, West became Canon Sacrist (1941) and Canon Residentiary (1943) at the Cathedral, later serving as Sub-Dean (1966) and Cathedral Master of Ceremonies (1981–1990).

West was widely recognized for his expertise in church architecture, heraldry, and religious symbolism. He chaired the New York Diocesan Commission on Church Building (1944–1981) and served as Vice Chairman of the Joint Commission on Church Architecture and Allied Arts (1948–1969), advising on renovations and designs for churches, vestments, banners, and altar ware. His most famous creation, the Compass Rose (1954), became the official emblem of the Anglican Communion and is featured in cathedrals worldwide, including Canterbury Cathedral and the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C.

A scholar of liturgy and religious art, West lectured at the General Theological Seminary, advised the General Convention’s Standing Liturgical Commission, and wrote extensively on church symbolism, liturgy, and worship. His publications include The Language of Christian Symbolism, The History of the Cross, and several meditations and essays based on Cathedral worship. A close friend of Madeline L’Engle, he inspired the character Canon Tallis in her novels. West died in New York City in 1990, and his ashes are interred beneath his Compass Rose in the Cathedral’s Great Choir.

Albert Ervine Swift was born in Claremore, Oklahoma on July 1, 1913. After graduating from the University of Oklahoma in 1935, he studied at the Episcopal Theological School in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He completed his Bachelor of Divinity degree in 1938 and later earned Doctor of Sacred Theology degrees from General Theological Seminary in 1953 and Ripon College in 1959.

Swift was ordained to the priesthood in June 1939 and began service in the China mission field. After teaching a year at St. John’s University, Shanghai, he became vicar of St. John the Evangelist in Hankow. He was also choir director at St. Paul’s Cathedral, Hankow, and an assistant at St. Hilda’s Refugee Camp, Wuchang.

Swift met Elizabeth Ann Slusser at the mission in Shanghai and married her on September 9, 1940. Due to World War Two, the Swifts moved from China to Baltimore, Maryland, where Rev. Swift became the curate of St. David’s Church. In 1943, he became assistant secretary of the National Council’s Overseas Department where he recruited new missionaries for overseas fields. He served as acting director of the department from 1947 to 1948, when he and his family traveled to the Philippine Islands on missionary service. From 1948 to 1950, he taught as a faculty member of St. Andrew’s Theological Seminary, Manila. In 1951, he served as Acting Dean of the seminary.

Swift served as a bishop both internationally and domestically. He served as the Bishop of the Missionary District of Puerto Rico from 1951 to 1965 and of the Virgin Islands from 1951 to 1963. He was the Assistant Bishop of Pennsylvania from 1965 to 1967, the Assistant Bishop of Southern Florida from 1968 to 1969, and the Assistant Bishop of Southeast Florida from 1969 to 1974. From 1972 to 1973, the Swift family lived in Honduras, where he served as Bishop-in-charge. He then served as Bishop-in-Charge of the Convocation of American Churches in Europe from 1974 to 1978.

Swift retired from active service in 1978 to Boca Raton with his wife Elizabeth to whom he was married for almost 63 years. He died there on June 21, 2003.

Frances Joseph-Gaudet, an African American woman, founded Gaudet Normal and Industrial School (New Orleans, Louisiana) in 1900. Mrs. Gaudet raised the money necessary to buy land for the school and served as its first principal.

Originally called the Gaudet Boarding School for Boys, then the Colored Industrial Home and School, it grew from a home for orphaned and disadvantaged African American children to an elementary and high school for boarders and day students.

In 1921, Mrs. Gaudet turned the school over to the Diocese of Louisiana, at which time the school came under the supervision of the American Church Institute (ACI). Gaudet developed a cooperative relationship with Dillard University, an historically black university built near the Gaudet campus in 1935. The elementary portion of Gaudet’s curriculum was discontinued by 1946, and the school then became known as Gaudet Episcopal High School. ACI continued its funding until about 1955 when the school closed and the Gaudet Episcopal Home opened in the same quarters.

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