BDS Newsletter October 2011

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Berkeley

The Episcopal Seminary at

YALE

going beyond ››

Newsletter of Berkeley Divinity School

October 2011 Vol. 3, No. 1

The Dean’s Letter

On the 40th Anniversary of Berkeley’s Full Affiliation with Yale

Berkeley’s Four Founders

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n 1966, Elizabeth Raftery published a little book entitled Berkeley’s Three Founders. Miss

In this issue: The Dean’s Letter.........................1 Graduation 2011...........................3 Summer Leadership Symposium..5 Student Summer Experiences..... 6 Charles Royce Gift...................... 8 Annual Fund Report................... 8 In Memoriam............................10 Ongoing Capital Needs............. 12

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Raftery served BDS for many years, first as secretary to the dean, later as registrar, and then as historian. She was asked by Dean Wilmer to give a Founders’ Day talk that ultimately resulted in this short history. In it, she writes, When one thinks of the founder or founders of a school or an institution, one pictures a person or group of persons who have pored over plans, gathered money from whatever sources they could find, and at last are pictured receiving a charter, turning over a piece of sod, or sealing a cornerstone, and the founding date is fixed forever. But, as in many other ways Berkeley is unique, we have three founders in three places in three centuries. In the eighteenth century, Bishop Berkeley created in the new world a seminary which, true to his philosophical theories, existed only in his mind. In the nineteenth century Bishop Williams founded the School visibly in Middletown, Connecticut. And in the twentieth century Dean Ladd established it here in New Haven. … Common to all was the vision and venture of our motto, “in illa quae ultra sunt”—into those regions which are beyond. In this, the fortieth year of our full affiliation with Yale Divinity School, I would like to propose in the spirit of Miss Raftery’s account, that it should be extended to include a fourth founder: Dean Michael Allen, whose vision it was to create this unique partnership. Dean Allen came to BDS in 1970, when the trustees had already made a decision that the School should be “closed without incident,” or if possible, that the new dean Berkeley Commencement 1971 at Christ Church, New Haven: (l-r) Dean Michael Allen, Bishop Krumm of Southern Ohio, and Elizabeth Raftery


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