[Magdalen] Help please: Revd Gerald White

[Ian Gomersall]

Thank you Jay and David for the additional I formation, that adds lovely
colour to the story!

Now I am looking for a good quality image of him. The ones from newspapers
are helpful but not quite sharp enough.

Best wishes
Ian

On Saturday, 7 September 2019, Jay Weigel <jay.weigel at gmail.com> wrote:

> I remember him quite well, and David Strang will remember him much better
> from his days at St. Francis House in Madison. Fr. White would sub in for
> our rector at St. Andrew's in Madison during Fr. Sabin's always scheduled
> August vacation. He had a *most* impressive set of eyebrows. I would
> occasionally go with my mother (provided she could drag me out of bed early
> enough) to the 8 am service, which was always a said service anyway, and
> often found myself bemused, as a young girl, by just how fast he said it,
> as if he were in a hurry to be somewhere else, or as my kids would have
> said, "outtathere and done". He also had a rather unusual what I might call
> vocal tic which sounded like, for example, (and you have to remember this
> was being said quite fast!) "our-m-Lord-and-m-Savior-m-Jesus-m-Christ". I
> wasn't the only one who  picked  up on it, later on my brothers did too.
>
> On Sat, Sep 7, 2019 at 5:32 PM Ian Gomersall <ian.gomersall at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Not sure of that connection, Marion.
> > I do know his father was Bishop of Newfoundland.
> >
> > Ian
> >
> > *Ian Gomersall*
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Sat, 7 Sep 2019 at 22:28, Marion Thompson <marionwhitevale at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > I wonder if he is any relation of + Patrick White, who is back in
> Toronto
> > > having retired as Bishop of Bermuda within living memory.
> > >
> > > Marion, a pilgrim
> > >
> > > On Sat, Sep 7, 2019 at 4:59 PM Jo Craddock <jocraddock at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > >
> > > > I've sent Ian some clippings from the Madison newspapers about his
> > death
> > > > (1969).
> > > >
> > > > Peace,
> > > > Jo
> > > >
> > > > On 9/7/2019 3:28 PM, Brian Reid wrote:
> > > > > Born 12 Dec 1900 in Lennox, Ontario
> > > > >
> > > > > I can find no record of his death in the places that I normally
> look
> > > > > for such things.
> > > > >
> > > > > On 2019-09-07 13:04, Ian Gomersall wrote:
> > > > >> I am wondering if anyone could kindly help me.
> > > > >>
> > > > >> Rev Gerald White, a Canadian, served for a while as an assistant
> in
> > > our
> > > > >> (English) parish - in the late 1920s. His father was a Canadian
> > > > >> Bishop. He
> > > > >> himself was an accomplished ice hockey sportsman.
> > > > >>
> > > > >> He returned to America working in Canada, Bermuda and the US -
> > > > >> latterly as
> > > > >> a University Chaplain in Wisconsin.
> > > > >>
> > > > >> I am writing a short piece on him for our church. I cannot,
> however,
> > > > >> find a
> > > > >> date of death and wondered if anyone on the US side of the
> Atlantic
> > > > >> could?
> > > > >> An obituary notice would be very helpful.
> > > > >> He was born c. 1901.
> > > > >>
> > > > >> Help gratefully received, please.
> > > > >>
> > > > >> Thank you,
> > > > >>
> > > > >> Ian
> > > > >>
> > > > >>
> > > > >>>
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> >
>


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*Ian Gomersall*