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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.

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.

Samuel Farmar Jarvis was born on January 20, 1786, the son of the Rt. Rev. Abraham Jarvis, second Bishop of the Diocese of Connecticut. He graduated from Yale College and was ordained in 1811 before serving at St. Michael’s Church in Bloomingdale, New York, followed by St. James’ Church in New York City (1813-1820) and St. Paul’s Church in Boston (1820-1826). During this period, he earned a Doctor of Divinity degree from the University of Pennsylvania (1819) and taught Biblical Learning at the newly established General Theological Seminary (GTS) (1819-1820). In 1820, he transferred to Boston, where he served as the Rector of St. Paul’s Church.

Jarvis resigned from St. Paul’s in 1826 and spent the next nine years living in Europe, at which time he assembled his collection of fine Italian paintings. He returned to the United States in 1835 and began a professorship of Oriental Literature at Washington (Trinity) College; however, he resigned to become the Rector of Christ Church (Holy Trinity Church) in Middletown, Connecticut, in 1837. He would resign from that position in 1842.

Jarvis additionally served as Historiographer for The Episcopal Church (appointed in 1838) and wrote multiple books on the history of the church. He was a Trusteed of both Washington College and GTS and elected as a deputy to the 1844, 1847, and 1850 General Conventions. He died on March 26, 1851.

Edgar Legare Pennington, was born on January 15, 1891, in Madison, Georgia. He earned his Bachelor of Arts (1911) and Bachelor of Laws (1914) from the University of Georgia and practiced law for three years prior to serving in the United States Navy, during which time he survived the sinking of the USS President Lincoln by a German U-boat in 1918. After World War I, he pursued religious studies and was ordained in 1922. He served in multiple churches before rejoining the US Navy during World War II. He then served as Rector of St. John’s Church in Mobile, Alabama, until his death on September 10, 1951.

Pennington contributed not only to the understanding of The Episcopal Church’s history, particularly its American Colonial period, but also to the development of historical practices in The Episcopal Church. He was a co-founder of the Historical Magazine of the Protestant Episcopal Church, member of the Church Historical Society, and Historiographer of The Episcopal Church from 1949 to 1951.

Deaconess Evelyn M. Ashcroft was a missionary to China and the Philippines from 1937-1969. She taught at St. Mary's Hall in Shanghai, China from its opening in 1937 until she was transferred to the Philippines in 1951. From 1951-1952 she assisted the Sisters of St. Mary's at Sagada in the Mountain Province. From late 1952-1969 she served at Marygarth Mission of St. Michael and All Angel in Tadian, Kayan also in the Mountain Province. She retired on May 10, 1969.

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.