The St. Paul's Epistle
May 1-15, 2003
Contents
Letter From the Rector
Spring Concert
Hospitals and Clergy Visits
Celebrating Forty-Eight Years of
Ministry
SPY Ball
Altar Guild Training
David Craighead
News You Can Use
Interfaith Hospitality Network Forum
Letters to Our Troops
Dear Friends and Members of St. Paul's,
On May 18, at 10:00 a.m., we will gather together to honor and celebrate David Craighead's five decades of musical ministry to the people of St. Paul's. How blessed we have been! Week by week, year by year, we hear one of the finest organists in the nation deepen and enrich our worship. David's music has helped shape our spiritual life so that in our hearts, minds and souls, we can trust and believe in a loving and gracious God. Perhaps that is David's greatest gift to us—his personal experience of God that he shares with us through the genius of his music. If you are in doubt about God's love for us, then come and listen to the music of David Craighead.
Although David officially retires from the organ bench on August 31, he will continue to share his faithfulness and ministry gifts through praying the prayers of the people and being commissioned as a Lay Eucharistic Minister, especially for our homebound parishioners.
So join us on May 18 as we celebrate one of God's greatest gifts to us here at St. Paul's, David Craighead.
Faithfully Yours,
The Reverend Frederic Reynolds
Rector
SPRING CONCERT
FAURE'S REQUIEM St. Paul's Choir, David Fetler, conductor, with David Craighead, organist, will present Faure's Requiem on Sunday, May 4, at 5 p.m. at St. Paul's Episcopal Church, East Avenue and Westminster Road. The soloists will be baritone Derrick Smith and soprano Nancy Curtis. St. Paul's Youth Choir will sing the Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis by Vaughan Williams, and the Alleluia Choir will perform Swinging Samson by Michael Hurd. Both groups are under the direction of Laura Dunbar. Organist David Craighead will open the program with Carillon de Westminster by Vierne. The concert is free. Donations will be accepted. |
Hospitals and Clergy Visits
On April 14, 2003, new patient privacy rules went into effect at all health care institutions nationwide. These rules have enormous impact on the ability of clergy to visit parishioners in health care institutions. In short, unless you personally, or a member of your immediate family, informs us that you are in the hospital, we will not be aware of it, and we will not be able to obtain information from the institution. For example, we can no longer request information over the telephone about a person, i.e., whether he or she has been admitted or not. If a person chooses not to be listed in the patient directory, we will not be able to receive any information about that person from the institution. For example, if you choose not to be listed, even though we know that you are in the hospital, unless you tell us your room number, we won't be able to find you.
It becomes critical, therefore, that you or someone in your family let the church know that you are in the hospital, whether it is a planned event (i.e., scheduled care) or an emergency. Otherwise, we will not know of your presence and your need for prayer and support from your church community.
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The St. Paul's Episcopal Church Family David Craighead
at a Tea and Reception in the Parish Hall
St. Paul's congregation is invited to celebrate the 48-year |
SAVE THE DATE
SPY Ball
Friday May 9
St. Paul's Youth invites all fun-loving parishioners for an evening of dancing in the parish hall to tunes provided by a DJ. The fun begins at 9:00 p.m. and ends at 11:00. There will be beverages and snacks for sale. Proceeds from the event will be donated to the Heifer Project.
Altar Guild Training
There will be an Altar Guild Training Session for the Class of 2003 on Saturday, May 3, 2003 beginning at 9:00 a.m. in the Cadigan Room. The session will conclude by noon. All Altar Guild members are welcome.
David Craighead
Taken from St. Paul's Website
David Craighead was born in Strasburg, Pennsylvania, on January 24,
1924. His father was a Presbyterian minister, and he received his first
music lessons from his mother, who was an organist. At an early age he
showed great interest in music and especially his favorite instrument,
the organ.
Mr. Craighead studied for two years at the Santa Ana Junior College. His music study was with private teachers, including pianist Olga Steeb and organist Clarence Mader. At the age of eighteen, he became a pupil of Alexander McCurdy at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, where he received the Bachelor of Music degree in 1946. During his four undergraduate years, he served as organist of the Bryn Mawr Presbyterian Church. In 1944 he was accepted as a touring recitalist by Concert Management Bernard R. LaBerge, which is now Karen McFarlane Artists, making his first transcontinental tour shortly after. In his last year at the Curtis Institute, Mr. Craighead joined the faculty of the Westminster Choir College in Princeton, New Jersey.
The following September, Mr. Craighead was appointed organist at the Pasadena Presbyterian Church in California. Among his duties were bi-weekly organ recital broadcasts and the accompanying of numerous oratorios and other musical performances.
From the summer of 1948 through 1955, Mr. Craighead taught in the music department of Occidental College, Los Angeles. From 1955 until retirement in the summer of 1992 he was both Professor of Organ and Chair of the Organ Division of the Keyboard Department at the Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester, NY. At this same time he was appointed organist of St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Rochester, where he continues to serve.
Mr. Craighead has maintained a balanced career as both performer and teacher. Many of his students now hold positions in colleges and churches across the country. He has played recitals in seven national conventions of the American Guild of Organists, and at the International Congresses held in London, Philadelphia and Cambridge, England. Recognized as one of America's great organ artists, David Craighead was voted the 1983 International Performer of the Year by the New York City Chapter of the American Guild of Organists.
In June 1968, Mr. Craighead received an honorary Doctor of Music degree from Lebanon Valley College, Annville, Pennsylvania, and in 1975 was the first recipient of the Eisenhart Award for teaching excellence at the Eastman School. His most recent award has been an honorary Fellowship in the Royal College of Organists, London, England.
Mr. Craighead was married to organist Marian Reiff Craighead for 47 years. Until her death in May 1996, they presented concerts for organ duet in numerous cities nationwide, and completed a recording, The Craigheads at Asbury. The Craigheads have two children, a son James, and a daughter Elizabeth Eagan, and two grandsons, Christopher and Jeffrey Eagan.
News You Can Use
Forgotten when a meeting is scheduled? Feel out of touch when The Epistle isn't forwarded with your mail when you are away from home? Wish you or someone you know could have a large print version of The Epistle? Never fear. If you have access to a computer or WebTV you can get all that and more by visiting our web site, www.stpaulsec.org.
Introduced two years ago, the web site has been refined and made more and more user-friendly. The online version of The Epistle has been reformatted to show one article at a time (complete with photos) in an easy to read format. There are timely descriptions of future and past events, an up-to-the-minute calendar of meetings, a virtual tour of the church and descriptions of our wonderful programs for adults and our young people. Our worship schedule and special services are also posted. The web site truly reflects the many wonderful facets of our vibrant parish.
When you get a little weary from all that May gardening, please take a moment to visit us at www.stpaulsec.org and bookmark us so you can become a regular visitor. Is there a schedule you'd like to see posted? Can we make the site more helpful to you? Do we have your current email address? Please email your ideas to Wayne Reinert at wayne@stpaulsec.org. We'd love to hear from you.
Liz Cook, cookliz314@aol.com
Communications Commission
Forum on St. Paul's
Participation in the Interfaith Hospitality Network
Sunday, May 11, after the 10:00 a.m. service: Please plan on attending a forum describing our participation as one of the congregations in the Rochester Area Interfaith Hospitality Network (RAIHN). We will happily answer any questions about this program. St. Paul's Church is one of 13 planned host faith communities in the Rochester area to support a vital outreach program of providing overnight accommodations and meals to a limited number of families who have been temporarily displaced from their normal homes. There are now over 90,000 volunteers on a national basis involved in the Interfaith Hospitality Network. There are over 2,000 faith communities participating, grouped into over 100 regional organizations just like the RAIHN group here in Rochester. Here in the Rochester area, there is a critical, ongoing shortage of overnight accommodations for families, without separating the children from the parents. St. Paul's Church and the Rochester IHN have stepped forward to meet that need. Each of the host organizations in Rochester provides meals, comfort and overnight accommodations four times per year for one-week periods. Typically, after 4-6 weeks in the program, the guest family will find new permanent housing.
Here at St. Paul's, the IHN program will be one of our valuable mission projects. The actual project co-chairpersons are Doug & Gayle Hitchcock. This forum will be the kickoff to answer your questions and begin to solicit volunteers to serve as in-church hosts for our guests. We expect the first families to be our guests sometime later this year before the Advent season. Please join us to learn more about our great outreach opportunity. Additional information is available here.
Sincerely,
Gayle & Doug Hitchcock
Letters to Our Troops |
