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Stephen’s Window October 2019
Dear Parish Family and Friends Our friend Jay Sidebotham of RenewalWorks (and currently Priest-In-Charge at St. James Parish in Wil-mington, NC) always seems to have something inter-esting, engaging, or provocative in his weekly blog Monday Matters. Among the most recent is the fol-lowing series of questions:
“[W]hat do we consider important? What is worth doing? What matters? Do we even ask those questions, or do we just tackle the to-do list on auto-pilot, without thought for priority or purpose? These are questions each one of us can ask in our own spiritual journeys, where the tyranny of the urgent often suppresses the meaning of the important.” (http://renewalworks.org/2019/09/monday-matters-september-23-2019/)
Taking a cue from Jay's questions, I would like to highlight some of the important work that is emerging at St. Stephen’s in several areas that we might other-wise overlook as we get caught up in more urgent tasks. First, our Mission and Outreach Committee has identified the top three priorities for this year. We have many interests and support a variety of ministries and initiatives, but chief among those are (1) Housing for New Hope, (2) Urban Ministries of Durham, and (3) Creation Care. You can learn about each of these important partner organizations and project initiatives in the new edition of our Ministries and Fellowship Opportunities book-let from the Council of Ministries. The booklet lists contact people for each activity to help you and mem-bers of your family get involved.
Our Christian Education and Formation programs are also off to a great start. Our Director of Education and Programs, Jeremy Godwin, and the Christian Educa-tion Committee have prepared an excellent booklet to help you learn about the multitude of programs being offered this fall. Start-up Sunday on September 8 was a huge hit, and many parishioners and preschool fami-lies enjoyed our annual Parish/Preschool picnic on the playground. Among the enhancements to our facilities is a new au-dio system in the Parish Hall. As many of you know, it can be difficult to hear in that room, especially at large events. The new system was made possible by several donors to whom I am personally very grateful. It works wonderfully well, and with the addition of a “hearing loop” capability, people with hearing impair-ments can connect directly through their compatible assistive devices using the Telecoil setting. More pro-jects are planned that will make our grounds and buildings even more robust resources for ministry. Comings and Goings: Catherine Oakley, our Parish Administrator, is leaving St. Stephen’s. She has been a valued staff member, and we wish her well in her new endeavors. Sarah Minton, a second-year student at Duke Divinity School, will be with us as our semi-narian for the Academic Year 2019-2020. She hails from Florida and is looking forward to her ministry at St. Stephen’s this year. Please take the time to intro-duce yourself to her. Keep the faith. Share the joy. See you in church. Faithfully,
St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church 82 Kimberly Drive, Durham, NC 27707
From the Rector
October 2019
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From the Priest-in-Residence Youth Activities
Dear Friends,
One of the great Gospel stories occurs this month (Luke 17:11-19). Providentially it teaches us about an important fall theme: gratitude.
Ten human beings, but not really treated as human beings by society, banded together in their misery and in their des-pair. As lepers, they were required by scriptural law to live apart and even to warn others away who might unwittingly stray too close to them. It was an alienating and seemingly God-forsaken existence for them. Even in the extremely rare instance of a cure, lepers had to be inspected and certi-fied by the priests before reentering society and assuming their longed-for normal life.
When these desperate outcasts pleaded with Jesus for help, he sent them to the priests to begin this process. To their credit, they set out on this faith journey, knowing they were not healed but unsure of what might happen. When the scourge that had turned their lives upside down was mirac-ulously lifted from them on their way, their understandable preoccupation was to continue on to the priests and reclaim their former lives – their families, their homes, their work, their friends. They all ignored the source of their new life and health and rushed on single-mindedly – all, that is, ex-cept one.
One of the foreigners among them, a Samaritan – an immi-grant, if you will, could not ignore the gratitude he felt welling up in him. He “turned back, praising God with a loud voice; and he fell on his face at Jesus’ feet, giving him thanks.” Jesus admired his grateful spirit, and he sent him on his way saying, “Your faith has made you well.” There is no implication in these words that the other nine were not permanently made well, that they suffered for their in-gratitude by being re-inflicted with leprosy. They were all healed, and God’s gifts are not given so capriciously or conditionally. Jesus is simply stating here that in listening to his soul, this child of God was restored to health not only in body but also in his spirit. “Your faith has made you (fully) well.”
If we listen to that same prompting of the Spirit within us, our faith will also make us well. If we allow that welling up of gratitude for all that God daily bestows upon us to express itself in our lives, we will also come to that spiritu-al wholeness. If we recognize ourselves to be the receivers of all that we have and are and make room in our lives for expressing our praise and gratitude to God, we will be filled with even more of God’s life-giving grace and love. That is the model Jesus holds up to us in this once pitiful leprous foreigner, whose life was completely transformed by his encounter with Jesus and who has been remembered by countless generations as a model of faith and gratitude. What an example for us to follow! Faithfully,
Dear Family & Friends of the Children & Youth Program, Between Start-up Sunday and our first Integrational Sunday School, I am excited to see how well this new programming year is coming together. One aspect of this upcoming year that I am most eager to celebrate is the opportunity to ex-plore the intersection of different aspects of Christian for-mation. For example, Intergenerational Sunday School al-lows adults to participate in youth-focused Sunday School alongside their children so that when families leave church Sunday afternoon, they are well equipped to further unpack and discuss what they did that very morning. In this regard, we are able to highlight the ways in which Sunday School does not end at 10:15 am, but instead it can inform the rest of our week. Furthermore, I am transitioning into my role as acolyte di-rector which means that I am better able to draw parallels between the service of an acolyte on Sunday morning and the reflections we participate in during Sunday School. It is a goal of mine that as we work our way through "Grit and Grace: Heroic Women of the Bible", we will also take time to explore how what we learn in Sunday School intimately ties into the very nature of acolyting. For some of us, these connections are apparent. However, it can be easy to com-partmentalize the different aspects of our religious develop-ment, thereby losing sight of their synergistic nature. Over the course of this programming cycle, it is my intention to investigate how by strengthening one aspect of our faith, we subsequently strengthen other aspects of our faith. This year, it's all about making connections! Yours faithfully,
Stephanie
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Christian Education and Programming
To the St. Stephen’s family: It’s been a busy month! On August 18, we had our Back-to-School Family Service in the Chapel. During this service, we read a wonderful book, Being Me from A to Z (by Lauren Kukla), and we talked about the things that make us who we are and how we can use those qualities to help others in the upcoming school year. We also discussed how new beginnings are often a mixture of excitement and anxiety. The children were invited to write down on a card their biggest excitement and their biggest worry heading into the school year and then hang it on the “Prayer Tree” (seen to the right). Finally, we had a Blessing of the Backpacks, as a reminder that God promises to always be with us, at school and everywhere. We closed with the following prayer by St. Clare of Assisi: “Live without fear: your Creator has made you holy, has always protected you, and loves you as a mother. Go in peace to follow the good road and may God’s blessing be with you always. Amen.”
Then, on September 8, we had Start-up Sunday. First, we had a Christian Education Kick-Off event in the Parish Hall between the services. Many of our families competed in a scav-enger hunt, traveling all over our campus looking for answers to questions about the history of our parish. The Bonchick family came in first with a time of 37:47 and won a gift card to the movie theater. Folks registered for Sunday School and received information about our Christian Education programs. Since we were celebrating the Feast Day of St. Stephen (transferred), we also had “Saint Stephen At Home” Activity Kits for pick up, which in-cluded stories about our patron, coloring pages, St. Stephen prayer cards, a piggy bank craft (yes, St. Stephen is associated with piggy banks), and some other materials (see photo to the left). These kits are still available if you’d like to pick one up. The new Children’s Wel-come Table made its debut (also seen to the left). In addition to the ever-popular activity bags, This area is now home to some child-friendly liturgical aids, as well, though many adults have mentioned that they, too, have found them useful. More of these resources will be introduced as we go through the year, so be on the lookout. Our first day of Sunday School was on September 15, and since it was third Sunday, we had an intergenerational class in the Parish Hall (see picture below). We introduced the Fall
theme of parables with the Parable of the Mustard Seed and the Parable of the Leaven. We talked about how God’s king-dom grows, and each person painted their own canvas panel with themes from those parables. You can see the resulting collage pictured here and live in the Parish Hall throughout the Fall. There are many more fun things to participate in over the coming months in Christian Education, so there is still time to join us for Sunday School or any of the other activi-ties we have going on. We’d love to have you! Faithfully,
Jeremy
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Library News
Wise Words from Old Friend One reward of the Little Free Library is that you never know what book will greet you when you open the door. It could be something totally unknown or a popular best seller or an old personal favorite. Sometimes finding an old book is like finding an old friend, and that’s how it was for me when I saw Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom, a little book with the subtitle an old man, a young man, and
life’s greatest lesson. I had read the book when it was first published in 1997, when I was comfortably “middle aged.” Now I’m closer to the age Morrie was when he was diag-nosed with an incurable illness in 1994. Always a teacher, the retired Brandeis University sociology professor used his death to teach others about dying, be-cause, in his own words, “Once you know how to die, you learn how to live.” With Mitch, a former student, and with Ted Koppel of Nightline, Morrie shared bits of wisdom that transcend a particular religion or a particular life--or a par-ticular death. The bits would come in lengthy exchanges or in one or two lines, like “Forgive yourself before you die. Then forgive others.” And “Don’t let go too soon but don’t hang on too long.” Or they appeared as little stories, like the one about the little wave happily bobbing along until he sees other waves ahead of him crashing into the shore and he freaks out. But then another wave comes along and asks what’s the matter, and “The first wave says, You don’t un-derstand. We’re all going to crash! All of us waves are go-ing to be nothing! Isn’t it terrible? The second wave says, No, you don’t understand. You’re not a wave, you’re part of the ocean.”
When Mitch was a student in the 70s, Morrie was his fa-vorite teacher, but after graduation the would-be writer had gotten on the fast track to success and lost contact with his old professor. That changed suddenly when he was channel flipping and happened to hear Ted Koppel mention Morrie Schwartz and his approach to dying. Mitch wasted no time in getting to Boston for the first of what would become a series of weekly visits on Tuesdays. Over the same several months, the broadcaster was follow-ing the process with three extraordinary TV interviews with the dying professor. In the third and last one, Ted asked Morrie if he had anything else to say to his students, mean-ing all of us. Now having difficulty speaking, he respond-ed, “Be compassionate. And take responsibility for each other. If we only learned those lessons this world would be so much better a place.” Nothing earthshaking there, but the ordinariness of the words make them accessible to eve-ryone, just as Morrie himself was accessible. A small man with a big heart, he said, “Anyone can ask me anything.” And many people did. For the rest of us, there’s the book. It’s small too (192 pag-es), but it was made into a movie in 1999, topped the NY Times bestseller list in 2000, and was put on stage in 2002. It seems appropriate that it appeared this month in our Lit-tle Free Library at the same time that parishioners were being offered a workshop on the practical side of dying, Plan While You Can. I think Morrie would appreciate the coincidence.
Ellen Baer
From the Preschool Director
The preschool has a few spots available for the 2019-2020 school year. We are currently enrolling for 3 day two-year-olds and 2 day three-year-olds. Please contact the school office at 919-489-6789 for additional information.
On Wednesday, October 9 at 10:00 a.m. the Fire Truck will visit our school. Everyone is welcome!
On Friday, September 13, we celebrated Father Bob's birthday with a Popsicle Party!
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Parish News
Lay Pastoral Care If you have a prayer request for a loved one or yourself and would like to be included in the Prayer Network’s dai-ly prayers, please contact Holly Latty-Mann, Martina Gardner-Woods, Claire ([email protected]) or the Church Office. For prayers in the Sunday service’s Inter-cessions (Prayers of the People), please contact Claire, Father Bob or the Church Office. To request a Eucharistic visit or other needs for yourself or loved one, please con-tact Claire or Father Bob.
St. Stephen’s offers a New Baby Ministry devoted to wel-coming new babies and supporting parents. If you are ex-pecting a new baby or would like to be a member of the New Baby Ministry, contact Michelle Roughton at ([email protected]) for more info.
St. Stephen’s Stitchers will meet Wednesday, October 23 at 3:00 p.m. in the Davis Room. Needle crafters of all types are invited to join us. Still learning? The Stitchers will be glad to assist you. Questions, please contact Bobbie Nielsen (919-452-4751, [email protected]).
All St. Stephen’s members (and family or friends) are invited to attend the 29th Annual Farm Workers Festi-val on Sunday, October 6 from 11:00 a.m.– 7:00 p.m. This free event will be held at 2989 Easy Street, Dunn, NC to celebrate the contributions of farm workers and their families to the local community, state and coun-try. The event includes a religious service (11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.), information booths, live music and dancing, “Latino” food vendors, children’s games and free health screenings.
If you would like to support this event, you can volunteer to assist with the event (complete a volunteer form at https://bit.ly/2YnzvLa), donate supporting funds, serve as a business sponsor, or assist in organizing two soccer game fundraisers. For more information, visit the event website at https://episcopalfarmworkerministry.org/, con-tact [email protected] or call 919-805-1607. Yours in Christ, Kim Deloatch, Mission and Outreach Co-chair.
The Episcopal Center at Duke br ings representatives from the Episcopal congregations in the area to provide support for students, faculty, and staff at Duke University as well as the surrounding community. As part of the Sunday worship services, each parish provides dinner on a monthly basis. For this semester, St. Stephen’s is re-sponsible for dinner on October 20 and November 10. I am looking for those who could provide food and/or time (monetary donations are always appreciated). If you are interested in helping in anyway, please contact Kate Fagan-Solis ([email protected]).
The next First Sunday Parish Breakfast is October 6.
Acts – Paul’s Story: Father Bob is leading a bible study continuing in the Acts of the Apostles. The bible study is being repeated three times each week, Sundays at 9:15 AM, Tuesdays at 10:30 AM, and Wednesday at 5:30 PM. Continuing all three sessions will depend on attend-ance, so please let him know if you will need to miss a ses-sion at the time you prefer. We are using N. T. Wright’s book, Acts for Everyone, Part 2, which can be purchased from Amazon.com and other online sites. All sessions meet in the Davis Room. A syllabus is available by email from the church office or from Father Bob upon request.
St. Stephen’s will be hosting an Oktoberfest celebration on Saturday, October 19! More details to follow…please save the date.
Thank you: It has been a joy and pr ivilege to serve St. Stephen’s for the past (nearly) four years; and, I have treasured getting to know each of you. As I embark on new endeavors, please know that I take you with me in prayer.
With great fondness, Catherine Oakley Parish Administrator
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Music Notes
Concerts in October
On Sunday, October 27, at 4:00 p.m., the annual Frank H. Kenan Memorial Organ Recital will open the 2019-2020 season of the St. Stephen’s Concert Series. Organist Geof-frey Simon will present an eclectic program consisting of five works. First will come Marchand’s flamboyant Grand Dialogue in C, followed by Bach’s sublime Chorale-Partita on Sei gegrüsset. Contrasting works by Franck and Dello Joio then follow. Karg-Elert’s showpiece Symphonic Chorale: Jesu, meine Freide will be the concluding work.
Single tickets ($25) and season tickets ($100 for the five concerts of the season) will be available at the door. A screen at the front of the Nave and a video camera located in the balcony will allow the audience to watch Dr. Simon and his stop assistants. A reception will follow the concert. Further details, including a biography of the organist, can be found in this season’s concert series brochure.
On Friday, October 11, at 8:00 p.m., Andrew Tyson will appear on Duke’s prestigious Piano Recital Series. The concert will take place in Baldwin Auditorium on Duke’s East Campus. Featured works will be Ravel’s Miroirs (which Andrew performed brilliantly at St. Stephen’s two seasons earlier) and Schumann’s Symphonic Etudes. Rounding out the program will be the Gavote variée by Rameau and two pieces by Cécile Chaminade. Tickets can be purchased via phone at 919-684-4444 and in person at Duke University Box Office, Monday through Friday, 11:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.
Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony as Beethoven really wanted it to be done. Nicholas Kitchen has done for Bee-thoven’s 7th Symphony what he did previously for Beetho-ven’s String Quartet, Op. 127, namely, he has produced a score of the symphony with all the markings found in the composer’s manuscript of the work (22 indications for dy-namics instead of the handful found in printed scores (pp, mp , f, ff, etc.), four staccato markings rather than two, etc.). The new score of the symphony will be performed on Wednesday evening, October 30, in Jordan Hall at the New England Conservatory in Boston.
Accolades for Andrew Tyson
The Sunday Times, September 15, 2019 contains an article by Hugh Canning titled “Classical music’s most exciting rising stars,” which singles out three young artists, Andrew Tyson being one of them. This is what Mr. Canning has to say about Andrew.
“The 32-year-old American pianist garnered plaudits for his Wigmore Hall recital debut in June this year, when he played a program featuring music by Cécile Chaminade, Messiaen, Liszt, Respighi, and Chopin. His recent solo al-bum for the Alpha label displayed admirably eclectic pro-gramming skills, club-sandwiching Mompou (Palsijes — Landscapes, the album title), Schubert (A major Sonata,
D664) and Albeniz (Iberia, Book I), between four Scarlatti sonatas, including a glittering performance of Cart Tausig’s arrangement of the Capriccio, K20. His earlier discs of Chopin and Ravel/Scriabin were widely acclaimed, and he is establishing an international career, with concerto en-gagements this season in Tokyo, Vilnius, Taiwan, Palm Beach and Houston, as well as a recital tour of Switzerland. In the UK he will play Grieg’s Concerto in A minor with the Hallé in Manchester and Sheffield (Novermer) and Mo-zart’s D major Concerto, K537 in Bournemouth (January 2020). He returns to Wigmore Hall in March 2021."
The Story of Bill Scheide
At the end of my article in the September newsletter I promised to tell the remarkable story of William H. Scheide, philanthropist, Bach scholar, humanitarian, and so much more.
By way of review, we start, once again, with the 1748 Haussmann portrait of Bach, a painting valued roughly at 2.5 million dollars. For over 60 years this famous portrait was
owned by William H. Scheide. It was hung in the living room of his home in
Princeton, NJ, a room roughly 40 feet long and 25 feet wide — a room large enough to accommodate Bill’s grand piano (initially, a Steinway, but, much later, a Bösendorfer) and his two manual Holtkamp organ with its exposed pipe work. Bill Scheide died on November 14, 2014 at the age of 100. Not long before his death Sir John Eliot Gardiner, the great Bach expert and conductor, persuaded Bill to be-queath the Bach portrait to the city of Leipzig, where Bach worked for the last 20 years of his life. On June 12, 2015 the Bach portrait was presented to the city of Leipzig amid great pomp and ceremony. It is now on display in the Leip-zig Bach Museum.
In what follows we describe the fortune which Bill inherit-ed, Bill’s education and musical training, his marriages and children, the building of the Scheide library by three gener-ations of Scheides, the library’s many treasures, his found-
The unveiling of the portrait in Leipzig.
Bill Scheide at his home organ.
Bill Scheide with the Gutenberg bible.
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ing and direction of the Bach Aria Group, and finally, the amazing range of his philanthropy.
Bill’s third wife Judy [Judith McCartin Scheide] gives the following charming account of how the Scheide fortune came into being.
“Bill's money came from his grandfather, William T. [William Taylor Scheide]. William T. was born in Phil-adelphia, the son of a baker. He grew up in Titusville, in western Pennsylvania, the center of the oil industry.
There he befriended a man from Ohio by the name of John D. Rockefeller.
John D. had been a Sunday school teacher. He loved the biblical story of Joseph, who interpreted Pharaoh’s dream about seven fat cows and seven lean ones as a warning to store grain in times of plenty in order to use it in times of famine. John D. thought that there was money to be made by applying Joseph’s advice to oil. He proposed to William T., then 22, that they buy up oil, and store it, rather than develop oil wells themselves.
At first they arranged for oil to be stored in empty liquor barrels. That’s why the unit for measuring oil is a “barrel.” At first these barrels were transported in unsteady horse-drawn carts. Looking for something more stable, they switched to pipelines.
William T. was to be in charge of the pipelines that would then carry oil to the barges that would then carry it to its destinations. He would be the vice president of the compa-ny. John D. proposed they call the company “Standard Oil.”
In 1869 Standard Oil sold at 11 cents a share. William T. bought shares every month. By 1889 his holdings were worth a million dollars. He didn’t need more, retired at age 42, and began collecting books. He never went to college.”
Thus, we have not only the beginning of the Scheide for-tune, but the beginning of the Scheide library.
Bill Scheide’s father, John Hinsdale Scheide, would follow in the foot-steps of William T. He too was an executive at Standard Oil and lived in Titusville. More importantly, John inherited his father’s love of books. After graduating from Princeton in 1896, where he had
majored in history, he signifi-cantly enlarged William T.’s
collection of rare books and eventually added a wing to the family mansion to house the library. The accompanying
picture shows the Scheide House in Titusville, which was built in 1886.
Bill Scheide (or, more com-pletely, William Hurd Scheide) was born on Janu-ary 6, 1914 in Philadelphia, but grew up in Titusville, where the treasures of the ever growing Scheide library were a part of his daily life. He was the only child of John H. Scheide and Harriet Hurd, both of whom were musical. John was a pianist and Harriet was a singer. Bill began pi-ano lessons at the age of six. Later he learned to play organ and oboe.
Bill entered Princeton in 1932. At that time Princeton did not offer Music as a major, so Bill majored in History. Af-ter graduating from Princeton in 1936, he studied music as a graduate student at Columbia. Then, from 1940 to 1942, he taught musicology at Cornell.
Bill had three wives. In 1940 he married Lorna Riggs, a social activist. They had three children, Louise Scheide Marshall, Barbara, and John. Bill and Lorna separated in 1966. In 1971 Bill married Gertrude Corbin, who was nicknamed Dodo. She died of cancer in 2002. A year later Bill married Judith McCartin (Judy). In 1942 Bill inherited the family fortune upon the death of his father. Four years later he formed the Bach Aria Group and moved to Princeton, NJ shortly thereafter.
Bach had always been one of Bill’s passions. His graduate thesis at Columbia explored what happened to Bach’s mu-sic in the first century following his death. Later he pub-lished nine articles in the Bach-Jahrbuch. He was the first American to have anything published in this journal. Also, during his two years of teaching at Cornell he played oboe with a group of amateur musicians who played nothing but music by Bach.
Bach wrote about 300 cantatas of which near-ly 200 have survived. Bill felt that some of Bach’s most beautiful music was to be found in the arias and duets from the cantatas. De-spite occasional perfor-mances of the cantatas in churches, this repertoire was largely unknown by the concert-going public. So, in 1946 he founded the Bach Aria Group, consisting of four singers (soprano, alto, tenor, and bass) and five instrumen-talists (violin, flute, oboe, cello, and piano). Some of the regulars included soprano Eileen Farrell and tenor Jan Peerce, both of whom sang at the Metropolitan Opera, and
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William Taylor Scheide.
John Hinsdale Scheide.
The Scheide House.
The Bach Aria Group
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initially the instrumentalists were drawn from the NBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Toscanini. For 34 years they gave concerts which criss-crossed the country, they made recordings, and they had a weekly NBC radio show. As a high school student I heard a concert which they gave in Dayton, Ohio. Bill selected the group’s repertoire and was able to provide scores, since all 47 volumes of the Bach Gesellschaft were in the family library.
In 1959, following the death of his mother, who had contin-ued to live in Titusville, Bill moved the family library from Titusville to Princeton. This involved much more than transporting the books. Bill funded the building of an addi-tion to Princeton’s Firestone Library which REPLICATES the Titusville library. Not only were the books brought from Titusville to Princeton, but all the furnishings — the elegant wooden bookcases with their leaded glass doors, the busts of Lincoln and Washington, the stained glass win-dows, rugs, tables, etc.
Once this had been done, Bill continued to add to the items collected by his father and grandfather. The family’s col-lection, now Bill’s personal property, already contained the 1455 Gutenberg bible, acquired by Bill’s father. But by 2002 the Scheide library contained all four of the first printed bibles. As Princeton’s president noted, “Bill is only the third person in history to own all four of these bibles, a fellowship that includes King George III, who proved to be a more successful bibliophile than politician.”
In addition to the first four printed bibles, the Scheide li-brary contains a first printed copy of the Constitution, the first four folios of Shakespeare, first editions of Dante and Milton, all 18 of the pre-Lutheran German bibles, an 1856 hand written speech by Lincoln on the problems of slavery, letters of Christopher Columbus, an 1815-1816 sketchbook of Beethoven, several manuscripts of Bach cantatas, plus manuscripts of Mozart, Schubert, and Wagner, about 150 incunabula (15th century books), and an item that almost always appears in such a list: Emily Dickinson’s recipe for chocolate pudding.
In accordance with Bill’s will, the Scheide library, which has an estimated value of 300 million dollars, is now the property of Princeton University. It is the largest gift in the history of the university.
The Scheide library was by no means Bill’s only gift to Princeton. He also gave to the Firestone library a large col-lection of European legal documents, assembled by his fa-ther, that spanned the 11th to 19th Centuries, as well as a pastel drawing of Milton called Portrait of John Milton at Age Sixty-Two.
Additionally, he created the Scheide Scholars Program, which has enabled hundreds of students to attend Princeton, endowed a professorship, the Scheide Professor of Music Theory; provided most of the funds for the reconstruction of the Woolworth Center for Musical Studies, including its three story library; funded the construction of the Scheide Caldwell House, which houses a number of departments in the humanities, and supported the Princeton University Art Museum.
Princeton Theological Seminary and Westminster Choir College also benefited from Bill’s philanthropy and have buildings which bear his name.
In the early 1950’s, the future Supreme Court Justice, Thur-good Marshall, then a lawyer from the NAACP’s Legal Defense Fund (LDF), asked Bill if he would support the LDF’s work in the case Brown vs. Board of Education. Thus, it happened that Bill provided the bulk of the money that LDF would need for the 1954 U.S. Supreme Court Case that desegregated American public schools. Bill served on the LDF board for 38 years and, according to Judy, gave the organization nearly $600,000 over a period of two decades. Another telling use of Bill’s money occurred in 2008 when he paid around $200,000 for poll watchers on the lookout for race discrimination at the Florida polls.
Bill also gave generous support to Centurian Ministries, a Princeton non-profit whose mission is to free from prison individuals who were wrongly convicted and sentenced to either life imprisonment or death.
Bill Scheide was a Republican, but gave hundreds of thou-sands of dollars to Democratic causes and candidates, much of it after marrying Judy, a longtime Democratic activist. When Judy once tried to convince Bill to become a Demo-crat, he replied, “I would never do that to Mr. Lincoln.”
We close with a paragraph from an essay titled IMPACT [1993] written by Dr. Alexander McLeod, who, you may recall, babysat for Scheide’s children during the time he was at Princeton.
“I have used the word “impact” to title these words of ap-preciation and I think it is appropriate. Being around Bill Scheide is not a quiet and predictable circumstance. Not that Bill is ever noisy or erratic, but rather that his electric thoughts bounce one’s way to purposefully share with one the excitement and light of a new found or renewed insight in his ever moving mind. If one stays around Bill Scheide,
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The Scheide Library at Princeton.
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The fall clean up on Saturday, September 14, dawned warm and humid; nevertheless good progress was made along the Meditation Trail. Dick Boyd led Tom Vaughn, Cindi East-erling, Allen Fuller, and Jeff Risse in securing the land-scape timbers around the circle and back along the trail. Some of my basketball mates provided additional labor.
The drainage repairs along the west retaining wall at the Lower Memorial Garden have been completed. Mother Nature has not given us a good test yet.
Pressure washing of all the walls and walkways around the Memorial Gardens and the retaining walls and chimney around the church has been completed. Workers also pres-sure washed all the walkways leading to the church.
In the last newsletter I reported that the sewer line from the kitchen had been repaired. All flowed well for about three weeks when the water backed up into the kitchen again. This time it was discovered that the section of sewer line that runs under the concrete walkway between the Admin-istration and Education Buildings is displaced. Due to grease residue in the lines the exact displacement could not be determined. Another clump of grease was dislodged. The drains are again flowing.
We need to have the drain line “jetted” to remove the grease enough for the camera to see the condition of the pipe.We may need to consider adding a grease trap, alt-hough cleaning out the drain line every few years is proba-bly less costly. I am consulting with Durham Plumbing on these topics.
The week before pre-school started the Education Building sewer line started to back up occasionally or so it appeared. As of this writing we are investigating a broken pipe and subsequent repairs.
While Durham Plumbing was here, he cleared a blocked drain in the church basement. This drain is used for the HVAC condensate, of which there is a copious amount dur-ing the summer.
Last month I noticed a wet spot in the grass next to the church sign near the walkway from the Kimberly Road parking area. It hadn’t rained very much recently. The wet-ness dried up quickly. A couple of weeks later water was actually slowly running into the parking area, but again
stopped shortly. The next week there was even more water. The water meter for the irrigation system did show water flowing. After I shut off the water at the meter, the area has remained dry. We must have a leak in the sprinkler system that serves the boxwood planting area. This may be some-what fortuitous as I want to connect the sprinkler system to the rose garden watering system putting it on the less ex-pensive irrigation water.
Continuing with leaks: there has been a long term leak from the soffit outside the main entrance to the Narthex. It started out very slowly and appeared to be coming around the roof drain. I sealed around the drain, but a leak persist-ed. Turned out there was a second leak. The joint around the elbow of the drain line under the roof drain had a slow drip. Over time this has turned into a steady flow. The el-bow is really unreachable. I tried several fixes. A perma-nent repair would require either opening the roof around the drain or removing the tongue and groove soffit under the elbow. Either of those options being expensive and messy, I have sealed off the drain itself. There are other nearby drains to handle rain water. Still waiting for a good rain to test my fix.
The rose garden is doing well with lots of tender loving care from Susan Griffin and the Ballous. Per Witherspoon I added 10-10-10 fertilizer to each bush in late July.
Switching fertilizers last spring has eliminated much of the foreign growth in the lawns. I managed to do the fall appli-cation the morning before the alleged Dorian downpours were forecast. We did have just enough rain, I believe, to satisfy the fertilizer.
The golden rod and cone flowers donated by Robert Buer-glener are flourishing despite being transplanted at the wrong time of the year. The golden rod are starting to bloom. The cone flowers may not do likewise this year but should show off next summer.
Dorian brought us a few small limbs and branches and lots of pine needles and not very much rain.
Tim Ballou continues to weed and edge our front garden areas. He has done great work defining the garden edges which should allow me to maintain the edges.
Kevin Kelly
From the Sexton
one can count on being hit, even bombarded, by ideas and information that otherwise would never come one’s way. Al-ways sparkled with great humor, his ideas and insights create a different view and new thought on whatever the subject at hand may be. It is not just Bach and books, but a myriad of things that are forever shooting forth from his personality. It is perhaps this third element that I consider the most important gift Bill has given me: the awareness that one need never be afraid or ashamed of thinking and delving into new interests and sharing those interests with others. What a magnificent gift that is! One gets that occasionally from a teacher, probably rarely from a parent, and how exceptional it is to have received it from a friend.”
J. Kitchen
Music Notes Continued
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Dates to Remember Prayer Requests
For restoration of body and spirit:
and also for friends and family members of St. Stephen’s parishioners:
Akiko, mother of Mari Alton, fr iend of Alice and Jeanne Betsy, step-daughter of Scott Bettie Ann, sister of Carolyn Bill, fr iend of Charles Pastor Bill, fr iend of St. Stephen’s Carolyn, fr iend of Sue & Bob Cerue, mother of Paula David, fr iend of Bob Debra, fr iend of Wanda & Sue Don, fr iend of Char les Edwin, brother of Clyde Fagan-Solis family, relatives of Kate George, brother of Bob Gwendoline, mother of Wendy Iris, mother of Jeanna Jane, niece of Scott Jim, fr iend of John Jon, grandson of Scott Kathleen, fr iend of Pr iscilla & Derek Kurt, fr iend of Tom Laura, fr iend of Lucy Leslie, great-niece of Derek Lyn, mother of Becky Mary, cousin of Martina Meghan, niece/goddaughter of Nancy Newland, fr iend of Jane Peter, fr iend of Pr iscilla & Derek Pieter, fr iend of Wendy Ray, son-in-law of Mary Ann Roy, fr iend of Charles Walt, father of Julie
In the diocesan cycle of prayer:
Week of October 6: St. Mark’s, St. Timothy’s, and La Iglesia De La Guadalupana, all in Wilson.
Week of October 13: Christ’s Beloved Community, St. Anne’s, and St. Paul’s, all in Winston-Salem.
Week of October 20: St. Stephen’s and St. Timothy’s, both in Winston-Salem.
Week of October 27: Penick Village; Thompson Child & Family Focus; and Episcopal Farmworkers Ministry.
Isaac Godwin 10/1 Ginny Banks 10/3 Barbara Veasey 10/4 Betsy Elkins-Williams 10/4 The Rev. Martha Brimm 10/7 Jack Pless, Jr. 10/7 Harry Tiller 10/7 Allen Fuller, Jr, 10/11 Michelle Roughton 10/11 Allen Killam 10/13 Robert Poplin 10/13 Becky Bonchick 10/13 Tilo Alt 10/14 Janet Teer 10/14 Betty Hawkins 10/14 Nancy Ciaffone 10/14 Page Littlewood 10/15 Mary Kennett-Wheeler 10/16 Bryan Jones 10/18 Ack Thompson 10/19 Cindi Easterling 10/19 Christian Keedy 10/19 Clyde Stephens 10/20 Agnes Janoshazi 10/21 Carolyn London 10/22 Andy Miller 10/22 Thomas Preston 10/23 Carol McFadyen 10/24 Pat Serafin 10/24 Michele Hayward 10/24 Merritt Masella 10/25 Martha Kennon 10/26 Katharine Thomas 10/26 Ki Caldwell 10/27 Morgan Freel 10/31
Jennifer & Michael Brewer 10/1 Liz & Dan Gunselman 10/2 Reba & Jim Huckabee, III 10/3 Cathy & Peter Bressler 10/8 Liz & Jeremy Godwin 10/10 Angelica & Jason Kendall 10/13 Susan & Bill Aldridge, Jr. 10/16 Heather Whitson & Ben Maynor 10/16 Sydney & David Culp 10/17 Martina Gardner-Woods & Norm Woods 10/20 Katharine & John Thomas 10/22 Connie & Douglas Guild 10/25 Louane & Robert Frey 10/25 Melrose & Rob Fisher 10/27
Benji Betty M. Bill Bob Brian Bruce Carol Caroline Carter Mae
Cis Dorothy Gail Ginger Harry Harvey JoeAnne Margaret Milton
Nancy Nello Orlando Ron Ruth Susan Tom Tony
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Ministers The Seventeenth Sunday
After Pentecost October 6
The Eighteenth Sunday After Pentecost
October 13
The Nineteenth Sunday After Pentecost
October 20
The Twentieth Sunday After Pentecost
October 27
8:00 a.m.
Holy Eucharist: Rite I 8:00 a.m.
Holy Eucharist: Rite I 8:00 a.m.
Holy Eucharist: Rite I 8:00 a.m.
Holy Eucharist: Rite I
Celebrant Robert K. Kaynor Robert K. Kaynor Stephen Elkins-Williams Robert K. Kaynor
Preacher Robert K. Kaynor Robert K. Kaynor Stephen Elkins-Williams Robert K. Kaynor
Eucharistic Minister
Nancy Ciaffone Claire Doerschuk Sarah Minton Nancy Ciaffone
Reader Bobbie Nielsen Sarah Minton Ack Thompson Mary Kay Gobris
Intercessor Matt Breuer Mary Kay Gobris Jack Graham Mal Watlington
Usher(s) Debbie & Matt Breuer Linda & Chuck Cushman Amanda & Mal
Watlington Louise Pannill
10:30 a.m.
Holy Eucharist, Rite II 10:30 a.m.
Holy Eucharist, Rite II 10:30 a.m.
Holy Eucharist, Rite II 10:30 a.m.
Holy Eucharist, Rite II
Celebrant/Officiant
Robert K. Kaynor Robert K. Kaynor Robert K. Kaynor Stephen Elkins-Williams
Preacher Robert K. Kaynor Robert K. Kaynor Stephen Elkins-Williams Robert K. Kaynor
Assisting Priest
Martha Brimm Martha Brimm Stephen Elkins-Williams Robert K. Kaynor
Anointing Derek Shows Derek Shows Martha Brimm Derek Shows
Subdeacon (Server)
Jeremy Godwin Lizzie Almasy Kate Fagan-Solis Sarah Minton
Eucharistic Ministers
Sue Kaynor Pat Serafin
Bob Bullock Priscilla Shows
Sarah Minton Pat Serafin
Bob Bullock Priscilla Shows
Acolytes Elizabeth Hayward Harry Tiller Kajsa Culp Will Culp
Kajsa Culp Will Culp
Lector (1st Lesson)
Katherine Bick Sarah Minton Frank Goodwin Lucy Petruccelli
Lector (Psalm)
George Kennett Robert Renquist David Bottjen Maya Almasy
Lector (Epistle)
Elizabeth Hayward Harry Tiller Will Culp Kajsa Culp
Intercessor Drayton Virkler John Haywood Jack Watson Lori Hawkins
Ushers Sumner, Henry, and
Drayton Virkler Dick Boyd
George Kennett Dick Boyd Ian Shearer
George Kennett Jackie Pollard
Altar Guild Nancy Ciaffone
Judy White TBD TBD
Cindi Easterling Trina Orgain
Carolyn London
Greeter(s) Martina Gardner-Woods Martina Gardner-Woods Martina Gardner-Woods Martina Gardner-Woods
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Non-Profit Organization US Postage
PAID Durham, NC 27705
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St. Stephen's is a parish within the Episcopal Diocese of North Carolina, part of the world-wide Anglican Communion.
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The Rt. Rev. Samuel Rodman Bishop Diocesan
The Rt. Rev. Anne Hodges-Copple Bishop Suffragan
St. Stephen’s Staff
The Rev. Robert K. Kaynor
Rector [email protected]
The Rev. Stephen J. Elkins-Williams
Priest-in-Residence [email protected]
The Rev. Dr. Derek Shows
Priest Associate
Dr. Joseph Kitchen Music Director and Organist
Dr. Daniel Monek Choir Director
Dr. Jeremy Godwin Director of Christian Education [email protected]
Stephanie Metzen
Youth Director [email protected]
Burke Raper
Business Manager [email protected]
Susan Steel
Membership & Stewardship Coordinator [email protected]
Tamiko Sanders
Preschool Director [email protected]
Catherine Oakley
Parish Administrator [email protected]
Angelica Kendall Parish Secretary
Kevin Kelly Sexton
Clyde Stephens Parish Life and Staff Assistant
The 60th
Vestry and Officers of St. Stephen’s
Drayton Virkler, Senior Warden Michael Brewer, Junior Warden Jim Stewart, Treasurer
Bob Bullock, Assistant Treasurer Lizzie Almasy, Clerk Katherine Bick Sally Bugg
Wendy John Liz Jones Cathy Lavin Ben Maynor Lucy Petruccelli Norm Woods
St. Stephen’s Episcopal Preschool
Wednesday, October 23 from 5:30 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.
Children and families are encouraged to wear costumes. Don’t have a costume? Please don’t let that stop the fun. Come anyway.
Families are encouraged to decorate their trunks. You can find tons of ideas on Pinterest.
Families should bring treats to share. We encourage nut- free treats. However, families will be responsible for checking their children’s treats. We plan to allow families time to decorate, play games, and eat between 5:00-6:00 pm. Food will be available to purchase from a local food truck. If you have any questions, regarding this event please contact the school office at 919-489-6789 or by email at [email protected].