illustration
- Adelaide Teague Case, first woman to serve as full-time faculty
at an
Episcopal Church seminary
Background:
The
world is in the final big battles of World War II.
Women
are serving in auxiliary branches of all armed forces and holding many
jobs formerly held by men.
Deaconess Florence
Li Tim Oi was ordained in 1944 as a priest in Hong Kong under
extraordinary
war-time conditions.
The
Episcopal Church has issued a new hymnal (1940).
The
Episcopal Church has a full-time presiding bishop.
Women
continue their parish ministries and guilds, leading in parish life and
christian education, serving at diocesan conventions and provincial
synods, publishing religious materials, teaching in church schools and
Sunday Schools, serving as domestic and foreign missionaries, joining
and founding religious orders, running hospitals and other social
service institutions, and funding the United Thank Offering and other
ministries.
Adelaide
Teague Case becomes first women appointed to a full-time faculty
position at a Church Seminary.
Lucy
Bailey is elected to serve as a lay deputy to General Convention.
But at the 1946 General Convention, she is seated and then Convention
votes to not allow women to serve as lay deputies.
Deaconesses
continue ministries and offer religious services (baptism, burial,
daily office) in remote locations.
Women
do much of the work to revamp Christian Education materials.
What would women be
doing in
the