Scrapbooks

Containers:

Scrapbook 1

Scope and content:

U.T.S. on red front cover (Union Theological School). Includes newspaper articles, 1st Lt. Chaplain orders in the Reserve Corp of the U.S. Army (June 16, 1927), theatre programs, invitations, photographs, brochures, college receipts, newsletters from Camp Wyanoke in New Hampshire, church bulletins, ministry and teaching licenses and correspondence.Near the end of the scrapbook, there are newspaper articles about his resignation from the Cathedral of St. John Divine in New York and the resignation of Dean Howard Chandler Robbins. Includes correspondence between Bernardin and Dean Robbins, resignation letter of Bernardin from position from Choir School, resignation from position as staff assistant to Dean Robbins on December 19, 1928 and resignation letter of Dean Robbins. Newspaper articles include information about the resignations, Bernardin's role in the conflict, biographical material on Bernardin, Dean Robbins and Bishop Manning, and the conflict between the "anglo-catholic" and liberal Episcopalians. One newspaper article quotes Rev. Joseph B. Bernardin as saying, "…limited himself to the explanation that he had disagreed about the discipline with the Rev. William Dudley F. Hughes, headmaster of the preparatory boarding school…" and he resigned the second time as chief assistant to Dean Robbins "in order to save Dean Robbins any embarrassment."

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