Announcement

Miss Evelyn F. Heywood, C.S.B., who for the past more than five years has given faithful and devoted service to the movement as Associate Editor of The Christian Science Journal, the Christian Science Sentinel, and The Herald of Christian Science in its several editions, has requested that she not be reappointed to that office for the coming year. Miss Heywood desires again to make London, England, which is her field of labor as a teacher of Christian Science, her home. In accepting her resignation, this Board has conveyed to Miss Heywood its sincere appreciation for the inspiration and help which her years of service in Boston as Associate Editor have brought to the Field.

Miss Heywood has accepted election to membership on The Christian Science Board of Lectureship, and she will devote the coming year to lecturing on Christian Science in Great Britain and Ireland.

Miss Margaret Morrison, C.S., of Chicago, Illinois, has been elected to the office of Associate Editor of the periodicals, to fill the vacancy caused by Miss Heywood's resignation. Her editorials will begin with the September issues of the Journal and Sentinel.

The Christian Science Board of Directors

New Associate Editor

Miss Margaret Morrison, C.S., was born in Canada, and her public school education was received in that country. The family later removed to the United States, where she received instruction by private tutors.

Miss Morrison became a member of The Mother Church in 1913, and thereafter devoted her entire time to the healing practice of Christian Science, having previously had Primary class instruction. She has had membership in two branch churches in Chicago, Illinois, and has served in them as superintendent of Sunday school, member of the board of directors, clerk, and also as Second Reader of Seventeenth Church of Christ, Scientist, Chicago, of which church she is now a member.

In 1935 Miss Morrison was elected to The Christian Science Board of Lectureship, and as a member of that Board has lectured throughout the United States, including Alaska, in Canada, the British Isles, and on the Continent.

From 1938 to 1941 Miss Morrison served as Second Reader in The Mother Church. Following completion of this work she was, in June, 1941, re-elected to membership on the Board of Lectureship, in which activity she will serve until taking up her duties as Associate Editor.

The Christian Science Board of Directors

New President of The Mother Church

Paul Stark Seeley, C.S.B., is a native of Poughkeepsie, New York, where he prepared for college at Riverview Military Academy, later graduating from Princeton University and the Harvard Law School. He is a member of the bar in New York and Oregon, having moved to the latter state in 1909. It was while a student at Harvard University that Mr. Seeley became a member of The Mother Church.

After several years in business activity connected with the development of power and irrigation projects in the Pacific Coast states, Mr. Seeley was appointed Committee on Publication for Oregon and then began the public practice of Christian Science. Mr. Seeley in 1912 received class instruction in Christian Science. In 1915 he became First Reader of First Church of Christ, Scientist, Portland, Oregon, resigning in 1916 to serve on the Board of Lectureship of The Mother Church. Except for occasional periods when he has retired from active service as a lecturer to devote himself exclusively to the teaching and practice of Christian Science, he served on that board until 1942, when he was elected to be Associate Editor of The Christian Science Journal, Sentinel, and Herald, which office he continues to fill.

In 1919 Mr. Seeley received instruction in the Normal class of the Board of Education, and since 1920 has taught yearly a Primary class in Christian Science in Portland, Oregon.

New Readers of The Mother Church

Adair Hickman, C.S. B., attended the public schools and Robertson's Private School in Birmingham, Alabama.

Having chosen music as a profession, he pursued its study in this country and in Europe, spending a number of years on the Continent. It was there that he received his healing in Christian Science and began its study.

In 1915 Mr. Hickman became a member of The Mother Church, and in the same year received class instruction in Christian Science.

Until he entered the public practice of Christian Science in New York City in 1918, Mr. Hickman continued his work in the musical profession as a concert and church singer.

Mr. Hickman is a member of Second Church of Christ, Scientist, in that city, and has served as chairman of its board of trustees and as First Reader.

Following instruction in the Normal class of the Board of Education in 1937, Mr. Hickman became an authorized teacher of Christian Science.

In 1939 he was appointed to The Christian Science Board of Lectureship and has continued as an active member of that board until the present time, having lectured in the United States, Canada, Cuba, British West Indies, and Canal Zone.

Mrs. Helen Chaffee Elwell, C.S., of East Hebron, New Hampshire, and Boston, Massachusetts, is a native of Kansas. The preparatory years of her education were at school in New York, followed by the completion of her schooling in the city of Washington.

Christian Science first came to her family in the Philippine Islands, while her father, Lieut. Gen. Adna R. Chaffee, was Military Governor, following his command of the international forces in China during the Boxer Rebellion, and prior to his becoming Chief of Staff of the United States Army. Through convincing proofs of its healing ministry her parents became earnest students of Christian Science. These experiences satisfied Mrs. Elwell that Christian Science, as revealed by our Leader, was the reinstatement of primitive Christianity as taught and demonstrated by Christ Jesus.

Mrs. Elwell became a member of The Mother Church in 1913, receiving class instruction in the same year. She has had membership in several branch churches. Upon residing in Boston she entered the public practice of Christian Science in 1923. She was for five years Assistant Superintendent of The Mother Church Sunday School and since 1940 has served as a member of the Bible Lesson Committee.

The Christian Science Board of Lectureship

The list of lecturers elected to serve on The Christian Science Board of Lectureship during 1944-1945 is as follows:

Beck, Herbert W., C.S.B., San Francisco, California.

Biggins, Peter B., C.S.B., Seattle, Washington.

Browne, Harry C., C.S., New York City.

Campbell, Hugh Stuart, C.S.B., Chicago, Illinois.

Carney, Leonard T., C.S.B., Beverly Hills, California.

Comer, Gordon V., C.S.B., Denver, Colorado.

Davis, Will B., C.S., Chicago, Illinois.

Harsch, Paul A., C.S.B., Toledo, Ohio.

Herzog, Mrs. Anna E., C.S.B., Columbus, Ohio.

Heywood, Miss Evelyn F., C.S.B., London, England.

Hurley, Thomas E., C.S.B., Louisville, Kentucky.

Kilpatrick, William Duncan, C.S.B., Detroit, Michigan.

Lewis, B. Palmer, C.S.B., New York City.

Matters, Mrs. Margaret, C.S.B., New York City.

McCloud, Earl, C.S.B., San Antonio, Texas.

Middaugh, Miss Florence, C.S., Los Angeles, California.

Nunn, Herschel P., C.S.B., Portland, Oregon.

Peeke, Oscar Graham, C.S.B., Kansas City, Missouri.

Ross, Robert Stanley, C.S.B., New York City.

Tutt, Dr. John M., C.S.B., Kansas City, Missouri.

Verrall, Richard P., C.S., New York City.

Whitney. Arthur C., C.S., Chicago, Illinois.

George W. Martin, C.S.B., of Melbourne, Australia, has been re-elected to membership on The Christian Science Board of Lectureship to serve only in Australia and New Zealand.

Peter B. Biggins, C.S.B., whose name was included in the list of lecturers who would retire July 1, 1944, for a period of study and practice, will, as indicated above, be available to deliver lectures during the lecture year 1944-1945.

Lecturer for Australia and New Zealand

At the Annual Meeting of The Mother Church in June, 1942, two Christian Scientists residing in Australia, namely, Mrs. Aimee Holdship, C.S.B., and George W. Martin, C.S.B., were elected members of The Christian Science Board of Lectureship to serve branches of The Mother Church in that country and New Zealand. As announced in the Christian Science Sentinel of July 4, 1942, these appointments were "temporary and were made to meet the emergency arising from the war." It now appears that one lecturer can satisfactorily care for the calls for lectures in that field, and in view of present traveling conditions there, it seems advisable that a man should undertake this activity. Mr. Martin has been reelected to serve Australia and New Zealand, and Mrs. Holdship is retiring from the lecture work and will devote her entire time to the practice of Christian Science healing and her work as a teacher of Christian Science.

New Members of The Christian Science Board of Lectureship

Hugh Stuart Campbell, C.S.B., was born in El Paso, Illinois. He attended the public schools of that city and studied four years at the School of Fine Arts in the Art Institute of Chicago. Later for a number of years he directed his own school of commercial art and design.

Mr. Campbell turned to Christian Science for physical healing in 1909. He united in membership with First Church of Christ, Scientist, Wilmette, Illinois, and with The Mother Church in 1911. Mr. Campbell received Primary class instruction in 1913 and entered the public practice of Christian Science in 1915. He has served as First Reader, member of the executive board, clerk, and superintendent of the Sunday school in First Church, Wilmette. In 1923 Mr. Campbell was appointed Committee on Publication for Illinois, serving until 1935. He attended the Normal class in the Board of Education in 1928, and since that time has been an authorized teacher of Christian Science.

Gordon V. Comer, C.S.B., of Denver, Colorado, is a native of Kansas. In early boyhood his family moved to Denver, where he has since made his home. He received his education in the public schools of Kansas and Colorado, supplementing his schoolwork with private instruction in business courses and in special subjects.

In 1900 Christian Science was brought to the attention of his family through a healing which came to one of them. As a result of this healing, they became interested in Christian Science. Until 1926, Mr. Comer was in the real estate business, at which time he withdrew from business and became a Christian Science practitioner. He is a member of The Mother Church, and is a charter member of Fifth Church of Christ, Scientist, Denver. He has served his branch church in many capacities, including that of member of its board of directors, and as First Reader.

Mr. Comer was Committee on Publication for the state of Colorado from 1929 until he was called to serve as First Reader of The Mother Church from 1932 to 1935. He received Primary class instruction in 1920, and in 1934 became a teacher of Christian Science following instruction in the Normal class of that year. In October, 1942, Mr. Comer was called to Boston to serve as First Reader in The Mother Church for twenty months, filling an unexpired term.

Miss Evelyn F. Heywood, C.S.B., received her early education on the Continent, studying in Switzerland, Germany, and Italy, and at The Ladies College, Cheltenham, England.

Miss Heywood was formerly a member of the Church of England. She became a member of The Mother Church in 1908, and received Primary class instruction in 1910. From 1912 onward she gave all her time to the practice of Christian Science. In 1914 she served as First Reader for a term of three years in First Church, Bournemouth, England, and later as Committee on Publication for Hampshire, England. Since 1918 she has been a member of First Church of Christ, Scientist, London, and has served that church as chairman of the executive board, superintendent of the Sunday school, President, and in other capacities. She also served for four years on the Committee on Christian Science Houses for England, Scotland, and Wales.

Miss Heywood was a member of the Normal class of the Board of Education of The Mother Church in 1937, at which time she became an authorized teacher of Christian Science. She has returned to England each year, since her appointment as Associate Editor of the periodicals in 1939, to teach her class and hold her Association.

B. Palmer Lewis, C.S.B., of New York City, was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, but moved to Alabama when a child. He attended the Robbins School at Norfolk, Connecticut; Marion Military Institute in Alabama, and The Bingham School in North Carolina; later studying law at the University of Maryland. At one time Mr. Lewis was engaged in the banking and textile manufacturing businesses of his father in Alabama, subsequently becoming a cattleman in Montana, New Mexico, and the Northwest Territories in Canada.

In 1909 he became interested in Christian Science through his own remarkable healing; in 1911 he joined First Church of Christ, Scientist, New York City; and in 1912 became a member of The Mother Church, receiving his Primary class instruction soon thereafter. Mr. Lewis served First Church of Christ, Scientist, New York City, in many capacities, including that of First Reader and member of its board of trustees.

Since 1912 Mr. Lewis has devoted his entire time to the practice of Christian Science.

In 1931 Mr. Lewis was a member of the Normal class of the Board of Education, thereupon becoming an authorized teacher of Christian Science. Since October, 1936, Mr. Lewis has served continuously as Committee on Publication for the state of New York.

Richard P. Verrall, C.S., attended private schools and engineering school in London, England.

He went to sea for three years thereafter for the purpose of gaining experience to become a naval architect. Soon after receiving a certificate as chief engineer, he became interested in Christian Science through reading a copy of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy.

In 1894 he joined The Mother Church in Boston and First Church of Christ, Scientist, New York City, and soon thereafter entered the practice of Christian Science. In 1904 he was appointed Committee on Publication for the state of New York. In 191The became First Reader of First Church of Christ, Scientist, New York City. He has served that church as superintendent of its Sunday school and twice as chairman of its board of trustees.

Mr. Verrall has been a contributor to the Christian Science periodicals for many years.

Arthur C. Whitney, C.S., a native of North Adams, Massachusetts, received his education in the public schools of that city and at Alfred University. He started in business in Burlington, Vermont, and two years later experienced a healing through Christian Science, which caused him to devote all available time to its study. In 1913 he became a member of The Mother Church, and the following year had Primary class instruction. Shortly thereafter he helped organize Christian Science Society, Burlington, Vermont, which he served in numerous capacities, including membership on its board of directors, Sunday school superintendent, and part of a term as First Reader. In 1914 he became Committee on Publication for Vermont, and the following year entered the public practice of Christian Science. He resigned as Reader to serve as assistant to the Manager of Committees on Publication for The Mother Church.

While serving as Manager of the Literature Distribution Committee of The Mother Church he was commissioned to serve as a Christian Science Chaplain-at-Large in the United States Array, and served throughout the 1918 offensive of the Allied Armies of Belgium.

For many years since, he has devoted himself to the healing work of Christian Science. Mr. Whitney has also served as First Reader of Sixteenth Church, Chicago, and recently served a term as Sunday school superintendent in First Church, Highland Park, Illinois, of which he is now a member.