[Magdalen] RIP Betty Bone Schiess+

[P. Dan Brittain]

On Thu, Dec 28, 2017 at 5:28 PM, Jay Weigel <jay.weigel at gmail.com> wrote:

> Betty was my parents' next door neighbor in Syracuse.


​Betty supplied for us​ a few times at St Peter's in Cazenovia while Myrna
and I were the musicians there in the 0's.




> At the time they
> belonged to Grace Church and helped my mom get active there


​After​ leaving St Peter's, we ended up as parishioners at Grace. Several
listsibs were at Grace at one time or another.

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>
> On Thu, Dec 28, 2017 at 1:42 PM, Lynn Ronkainen <houstonklr at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > From today’s Washington Post -Betty Bone Schiess
> > Betty Bone Schiess was one of the first women ordained as an Episcopal
> > priest. Her 1974 ordination was, in the legal language of the church at
> the
> > time, “irregular.” The House of Bishops, in an emergency meeting at
> > Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport, declared the ordination invalid.
> >
> > The church changed its position on women’s ordination two years later.
> > Schiess was reordained and her sex discrimination lawsuit was dropped.
> > During her service, she was a chaplain at Syracuse University and Cornell
> > University and as rector of a church in northeast New York.
> >
> > By 1985, more than 600 women were Episcopal priests. Today, more than 40
> > percent of Episcopal priests are women. Schiess was inducted into the
> > National Women’s Hall of Fame in 1994. She died in Syracuse, N.Y., at 94.
> >
> >
> >
> > I had just married and moved to Syracuse when the first group of women
> > were “irregularly” ordained. Betty was the wife of a prominent surgeon
> > (IIRC) in Syracuse. After their vows were recognized she often filled in
> at
> > St Luke’s, our parish.
> >
> > Lynn
> >
> >
>



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