For All The Saints. The Rector s Corner...

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1 For All The Saints 2018 The Rector s Corner.... Dear Friends, Yes, it s been a long winter! And, yet, now with the beginning of summer happening this month, I m already to enjoy the wonderful, warm-weather benefits of living on the Jersey Shore. If you ve been away for a while, Welcome Back! The Second Family Service was another Big Success On Sunday, May 20, during the 10:15 am service, we gathered for a very special family service on the Day of Pentecost. Our Sunday School, including children, youth, and teachers participated in the service as readers, bell-ringers, oblationers, and ushers, as well as acolytes. Since we had so much fun last year with this service we re well on our way to making it a tradition. So, stay tuned for more information about our next Family Service. Our children and youth are important members of our faith community! Honoring Graduates This month we will be honoring high-school and college graduates on Saturday and Sunday, June 23 & 24. If you are graduating this year from high school or college, please let us know by contacting the Church Office. And, congratulations to you! Summer Service In Full Swing Our Summer worship service began on the Saturday of Memorial Day weekend (May 26); and, it will continue at 5:30 pm on Saturdays through the Saturday of Labor Day Weekend (September 1) in the Memorial Garden. If the weather is inclement, we take the service indoors. With summer activities gearing-up soon, this could fit very nicely into your Summer-Saturday schedule. Come join this very exciting time of worship. All Saints Episcopal ChuChurch, Church, Lake Avenue, Bay Head, NJ Phone:

2 Page 2 Church Directories Everyone who receives blasts via their address should have received a digital copy of the Church Directory. This is a new service that will occur about every six months. So, no more waiting two years for an updated directory. Anyone who did not receive a digital copy, and would like a copy of the Church Directory, can contact the church office and receive a hard copy printed out for you and/or provide an address and have a digital copy sent to you. This is not an either/or service it is a both/and. That is, you can still request the usual hardcopy and receive a digital copy. Check Out our Website The church s website contains a lot of important and helpful information that is updated and added to regularly. Please refer to it often ( And, please remember, I am counting on seeing you in church! Blessings, Robert The Reverend Robert A. Nagy, Rector events Sat. June 2, 9, 16, 23, 30 5:30 pm Holy Garden Sun. June 3 9:00 Newcomers/Greeters Fellowship Committee Meeting Sat. June 16 11:00 am Burial Office Beppie Fischer Thurs. June 14 Flag Day Sun. June 17 Fathers Day Tues. June 19 12:00 pm Women s Guild Thurs. June 21 7:00 pm Vestry Meeting Sat. and Sun. June 23 & 24 Honor Graduates Looking Ahead: Thurs. July 26 Women s Guild Fashion Show and Luncheon Details page 6

3 Birthday Wishes.... June 6 Nancy Heidt June 9 Peter Wright June 12 Stephanie McMurray June 13 Lois Eberhart Kevin Ryan June 15 Rick Litton June 16 Evan Hewson Susan Scherler Nico Veni June 18 Chris Kyse June 21 Sheila Pardoe June 24 John Bicking June 25 Kate Cutler Maureen Mulligan June 28 Jim Doran June 30 Mark Durham Anniversary Blessings.... June 3 Anita & Anthony Domino June 9 Sherry & Jim Urner Suzanne & John Van Schoick June 10 Gail & David Kellogg June 11 Mary Jane Warendorf & John Wardell June 13 Lynne Stan Adkins June 22 Debbie & Jim Dolci June 23 Mary & Henry Ogden June 30 Mary Jo & Tom Heckman Karen & Dick Hewson United Thank Offering.... Thank you for your support of this important mission. We were pleased to present a check for $ from All Saints at the UTO Ingathering Service on Saturday, May 19 at Grace-St. Paul Episcopal Church in Mercerville. Your many thankful coins and checks will help to support programs that address human need and make a significant impact on expanding the mission and ministry of the church. This money is distributed in the form of grants that are awarded worldwide to parishes and provinces of the Anglican Communion.

4 Page 4 Church School.... Another year of Church School has come and gone! Our family service and BBQ were successes! Thank you to everyone who contributed. We wish all of our students and their families an enjoyable and safe summer. Congratulations to our 8th grade graduates, Holly Canales, Aidan McGlynn, and Andrew McLeod. We wish them all the best as they begin their high school journey. Outreach.... Cindy McGlynn Congratulations to Georgian Court University graduate and Veterans Center president, Michael Gregory. In 2014 All Saints Church learned of the need at GCU for a Veterans Center, a place where veterans could get a cup of coffee and relax with fellow vets recently arrived from overseas duty. Dr. Robin Solbach, Counseling Director at GCU, and Michael each spoke at a Sunday service and talked with parishioners at coffee hour. We have continued to raise funds to support the Veterans Center: helping set up a coffee lounge and providing taxi vouchers for medical visits to East Orange Veterans Hospital, the only veteran s hospital in NJ. (Lyons is now a long-term care facility). For 2018 our fund-raising is on hold as GCU evaluates how to make the Veterans Lounge more accessible for handicapped veterans. Best wishes to Michael and all the veterans at GCU. Women s Guild... Our May 15 meeting featured parishioner Jim Doran on the subject of therapy dogs. He spoke about how these dogs are trained in giving comfort and support to those in need. A slide show was informative and touching about these wonderful animals. The next meeting will be on June 19 at noon. It will be our last one before the summer. A covered-dish luncheon on the church s beautiful grounds will end the year. Bring your favorite dish and enjoy the afternoon with us for fun and fellowship. Everyone is welcome! Anita Domino

5 Did you know that.... For All the Saints Page 5... there once was a time in Bay Head that the annual real estate tax bill for a home one-half block from the beach was under $35? The house sat on four lots that spanned the width of the block between Main and East Avenues. The year was 1896 and the house, built in or about 1885, was known as Hall Cottage. It was the summer residence of Dr. A. Douglass Hall and his extended family, all of whom attended Sunday services at All Saints Church. Today that house looks much as it did in On September 17 of that year, Dr. Hall s daughter, Maria Emlen Hall, married Dr. William Emery Studdiford, the son of Reverend Samuel M. Studdiford. Rev. Studdiford was a retired Presbyterian minister from Princeton who used to conduct Sunday night hymn singing at a beach pavilion located at the east end of Bridge Avenue. It was Rev. Studdiford who in August 1889 conducted the first service at the newly completed Bay Head Chapel. When not in Bay Head Maria and William lived in New York City where Dr. Studdiford was on the staff at Sloane Hospital for Women. He was a leading obstetrician of his day, and taught obstetrics and gynecology at four medical schools in New York. In its role as both a research and clinical facility, the Sloane Hospital for Women pioneered many advances in the field, including the Apgar score and amniocentesis. Sloane is now part of New York-Presbyterian pediatrics within the Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital, and the name is still in use today. In April 1905 A. Douglass Hall died, leaving his Bay Head house and an adjoining lot on Howe Street to Maria. What was Hall Cottage now became Studdiford Cottage. A real estate brochure from the 1920s described it as having eight bedrooms, one bath, and a first floor toilet. Not quite up to today s standards! When Dr. Hall died he left a void in the leadership of All Saints, and it appears that Maria and William filled that void. Maria, who had been the organist and bell ringer starting with the first service in July 1889, also took over the job of treasurer, a position she held into the 1940s. In 1941, realizing the job was becoming too much for her, Maria relinquished her role as organist to Lee Bristol. She also had turned over to one of her sons the ringing of the bell years before she relinquished her seat at the organ. In May 1946 Maria passed away while in summer residence in Bay Head. William had predeceased her in 1925, and together they are buried near Maria s parents and great grandparents in the churchyard of Saint James the Less Episcopal Church in Philadelphia. They were survived by two sons William Emery, Jr. and Andrew Douglass. William went on to become a physician specializing in obstetrics and Andrew went on to become assistant vice president and a purchasing agent for the Bristol-Myers Company. Mark Durham As always, I am indebted to Ramsay Fisher who, in his history of All Saints Church from 1889 to 1989 and in his history of the Bay Head Chapel covering the same years, provided important parts of this story. I am also appreciative of the permission granted me by the current owners of the Hall-Studdiford Cottage on Howe Street to use a picture of their home in the telling of this story.

6 Page 6 Women s Guild Luncheon and Fashion Show.... The annual luncheon and fashion show will be held Thursday, July 26 at the Bay Head Yacht Club. We need lots of helpers to make this fund raiser a huge success. The ticket cost remains the same as last year $50. Please do not be hesitant in committing yourself to helping out. There is a job for everyone and we can use your help. Please contact Mary Peters, , if you are willing to help. Baskets and a sign-up list for themed raffle baskets will be available after Sunday services beginning June 10. Select your theme from our list and fill the basket with new items pertaining to the theme. Two or more people may partner on purchasing items since we would like the value of the basket to be between $75 and $100. Return the unwrapped basket by July 15. The basket committee will wrap it for the raffle. One feature we all take away from the annual All Saints Women s Guild Luncheon and Fashion Show is the ad journal. It s a useful reminder of all the many vendors who support the Guild and enable us to continue to help neighboring charities. Do you know a vendor who would like to support us with an ad? The ad prices remain the same as last year: $35 for 1/4 page, $50 for 1/2 page and $120 for full page. Please ask for the ad or send the vendor s name and phone number to Phyllis Kata ( ) or Linda Gyurko ( ). We are all looking forward to a wonderful and successful event this July and your help in collecting ads is important. Church Humor....

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