Nobre Computer Science Scholarship:
• Freya Kistner
Theta Alpha International Scholarships:
• Rachel Elphick
• Leanna Smith
Bryn Athyn College Alumni Association Scholarship – Innovation and
Leadership Award:
• Laura Clymer
Awards for participation in Academic Institutes, Conferences and
Competitions:
Colonial Williamsburg, Teacher Institute, Summer 2016:
• Lauren O’Connor
Cumberland Valley Math Modeling Contest, Shippensburg University:
• Shannah Conroy
• Phoenix Fritch
• Freya Kistner
Bryn Athyn College Career Olympics:
Cash prizes awarded to three teams of students
sower’s chapel 30th anniversary
Trish Lindsay
Both The Sower’s Chapel in Sarver, Pennsylvania, and The Sunrise Chapel in
Tucson, Arizona, celebrated the 30 th anniversary of the building of their chapel
this year. They have much in common.
Both societies had a long history in the communities in which they
took root. They were called “isolated” societies, but were immersed in their
surrounding communities. Early members of the New Church had established
these outposts in the 1920s and 1930s, which were served by ministers in
nearby societies. The Pittsburgh New Church served the Freeport Society
and the Tucson Society was served by ministers from California before the
first young minister was assigned as a resident pastor – the Rev. Douglas M.
Taylor, in 1959.
During my lifetime, I belonged to both of these New Church societies, so
I take great pleasure in reporting on the celebration of the 30 th anniversary of
the completion of building The Sower’s Chapel in the Freeport/Sarver area of
my adopted home in Pennsylvania.
The Sower’s Chapel was built after a history of patchwork worship services
that provided for the “country church” members north of Pittsburgh. The
Heilman family had lived in Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, since the
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